[unomada-info] Barcelona Hub-meeting, 15th-18th september

[Infos de la Universidad Nomada]

Dear friends and mates,
 
For those of us who have experienced 15M movement firsthand, last weeks
have been intense. Our daily life has been happily colonized by radical
and diffuse political practices, which has been capable of initiating
the debate and showing the advanced state of decomposition of
representative politics and its servility to economic interests. 
 
Today, new mobilizations are occurring in many places which continue
with the long fall of fighting and struggle against austerity policies
and the later spring of revolts in
blossom in Iceland and the Mediterranean shores.
 
Next autumn, lots of real conflicts will cross the world. Attempts to
stop radical and democratic movements in the Arab world, and the
sanction of austerity policies in Europe, are the closest examples to
us. But we know they are not the only ones. We are experiencing together
an attack to global society which targets existence as to make it
precarious in the name of a very restricted and dominant elite
interests.
 
In the European frame, all these austerity and cutting policies directly
affect the foundations of different forms of the European welfare state,
which in spite of their differences are the result of many previous
struggles. The rights we currently enjoy were not granted by the
dominant political class throughout the time. It was social movements,
as the proletarian, which achieved the incorporation of a more human and
fair perspective of society through mobilizations and other actions.
Nobody has given us anything for free; we cannot tolerate anyone to
snatch the political and social conquests accomplished so far. We have a
historical
legacy to defend together.
 
Because of these reasons, we are working, from the different DRY
(Democracia Real Ya!) nodes, on the global mobilization on October 15th
against austerity policies and to build real democratic practices from
the bottom up. We would like October 15th to be a territory, inhabited
and shared by many people, colectively built, where we can denounce the
crisis of power and start building concrete alternatives against
material conditions and precariousness of lifestyles. 
 
We consider this to be done through meeting and debate among multiple
networks, social movements and processes, which are challenging power
arrogance in this common struggle cycle. That is why we propose building
up a meeting together  from 15th to 18th September. A kind of Hub
Meeting where we can talk about this cycle of mobilizations and find
possible connection, collaboration and convergence joints between the
struggles in which we are taking part.
 
Because of all above stated, we offer, from Barcelona, to provide the
necessary infrastructure which  allow us to carry out the meeting and
therefore to be able to share analysis, perspectives and strategies to
design together a long fall against a global power which each and every
day seems, in our opinion, closer to its own twilight.
 
The different networks, groups and movements, which want to take part in
this meeting, will be also able to organize parallel and autonomous
meetings everyday. They will have access to the necessary logistic means
as places to gather and accommodation, etc (yet to determine)
  
To make the set-up of this meeting the most collective possible, we
suggest that you use, as a shared space, the group “15S Hub meeting”:
https://red.democraciarealya.es/pg/groups/59275/15s-hub-meeting/
 
To access this tool you must first log on at
https://red.democraciarealya.es/  and join the “I” team where the “15S
Hub meeting” subgroup is enabled.
 
As a first way to organize preparatory work, we suggest the following
categories: Participating Groups and Networks; Contents; Working
Methodology; Logistics and Calendar.
 
Participating Groups and Netwroks:      a list of participants with a
brief introduction.
Contents: collecting proposals of workshops and issues threads.
Methodology: proposal and discussion of working methodologies with the
tool online and  for the meeting itself.
Calendar: organization of days and times of the meeting.
Logistics: available and necessary resources to carry out the activities
and their management.
 
If you are interested in participating, we’ll appreciate if you can send
us an email to 15ShubMeeting en gmail.com in order to construct a list of
participants (and their networks) and to planify the resources that we
need.

Hoping to meet you in Barcelona, and on the net,
Best wishes,

DRY Barcelona
DRY appears in January 2011 as a citizen mobilization platforms
coordinator within a context influenced by the silent Icelandic
revolution, the Arab spring and the European mobilizations cycle against
austerity policies, which are being implemented as an excuse for their
necessity in the context of the current economic and financial crisis,
which affects all of us. In this frame, DRY called for a first
demonstration last May 15th (15M) to denounce that “we are not
merchandise in bankers and politicians hands”. With this mobilization,
the precarious ones -workers, students, pensioners, inmigrants...- and
different social groups took politics back from the violence of Capital.
DRY has actively participated in the “#acampadas” (campsites) movement.
DRY supports and actively works on the building up of mobilizations on
October 15th on a global level.

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