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The Charter of Lampedusa – From 31st January to 2nd February 2014
Lampedusa island– Mediterranean meeting
16 / 12 / 2013
On the 3rd October 2013, a few miles from the island of Lampedusa,
368 women, men and children lost their lives in their attempt to reach
Europe.
A few days later and in the same waters, the sea swallowed hundreds of people coming from Syria.These are just some of the thousands of victims of Europe’s frontiers: about twenty thousand in the last twenty-five years. ...
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Commons & constituent power: notes from the social movements and the struggles in Italy
References cited and phrases obtained from texts of Saki Bailey, Ugo Mattei, Antonio Negri, Michael Hardt, Sandro Mezzadra, Paolo Virno, Balakrishnan Rajagopa, Naomi Klein, Dyer-Witheford, Wolgang Streeck, David Harvey.
7 / 11 / 2013
IntroductionCommons
are not a general purpose umbrella, but a
milestone that enables the development of a radical perspective on
social, juridical, and political matters.
The separation between natural (often materials) and artificial
(often immaterial) commons have resulted in the creation of
conceptual taxonomies of commons and ‘common goods' and it is a
trap for building ...
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For a European common-wealth
An agenda of struggles for a European movement against the Troika
1 / 11 / 2013
Italian Version The
management of the structural crisis of finance capitalism in Europe
entered a new phase, prepared by the events of the last months, and
trigged by the outcome of political elections in the German
Bundestag. But also the reset of the Letta 2.0 government in Italy
bears the same signs. The clearest signal lays in the programmatic
issue which stands right at ...
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Back from Rome: in movement in Europe
Real social movements, material conflicts, European-and-Mediterranean spaces.
20 / 10 / 2013
Saturday October 19th, several tens of thousands people (estimated around 70.000) partecipated a huge national demonstration in Rome, promoted by movements for housing rights and for the commons, social centers, independent trade unions and precarious workers, against austerity policies and Troika governance, for a new Welfare and a basic income. During the march, despite ...
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Tutti sull’Isola – Let’s meet up on the island to write the Lampedusa Chart
19 / 10 / 2013
Throughout the years Lampedusa has been used to feed the fears of
invasion, while the reasons and the stories of those thousands of women
and men who migrate fleeing wars and injustices had been deliberately
ignored.After last Thursday’s carnage, a wide debate –
unthinkable until a few days ago - has been opened, also thanks to the
appeal for the opening of a ...
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