Location: To be determined ---- followed by a party at DIRA to 20h ---- Thank you for
sharing this invitation to your networks. You are also invited to view-es in your local
student associations, community groups, cooperatives, schools, unions and popular
assembly! ---- Event Description ---- The Libertarian Communist Union (UCL) wishes to
invite you to a Public Forum that will focus on direct democracy. We offer a wide space
for reflection to share and think freely about the different experiences of collective
power that have been experienced, particularly in the context of social turmoil
surrounding the student strike. In recent months, many-Artists are those who have lived
and experienced a new approach to organizing and collective decision making. We believe it
is time to look back on these experiences to fuel our visions for the construction of a
comprehensive proposal on the issue of power.
This event will be an opportunity to address the criticisms of the current democratic
structures and to reflect on experiences in activist circles . We also hope to have the
opportunity to understand these issues through a reflection on direct democracy as a mode
of organization of an entire society.
The day will take the form of an open forum . To provide food for thought and stimulate
discussion, we will produce a list of reflection. To this end, we invite your
participation in the drafting .
Call for Papers
We wish to gather texts in a book discussion at maximum 100 pages . To fill it, we need a
lot of texts, including yours! objective is to collect thoughts, suggestions and
experiences to facilitate the sharing at the forum.
Texts can take various forms . For example, there may be an essay, a presentation type of
journalism, a fiction or a more academic style text. Poems and pictures are also welcome.
If it is a reflective long it is preferable that it be based on concrete examples of
events experienced rather than imaginary scenarios.
The texts should be between 200 and 2000 words . To facilitate the installation
specifications, we also thank you kindly send your text format . doc (Word or Open Office)
recorded the title text and well put your name at the beginning of the document if you
want it be published . We also ask you to preface your text a short abstract (100 words +
or-) . The deadline is at midnight December 15, 2012 . Thank you to send your documents to
the following address: ucl@causecommune.net
The text will be inserted into the book thinking that will be distributed over the
Internet in PDF and printed for February 16. If you wish, you can also publish your text
in anonymity . Simply specify in your email when sending. If you are also interested es to
submit your thoughts through an oral presentation, please let us know.
Forum Schedule
10:00 a.m. to 12:00: Critique of current forms of democracy
12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m.: Lunch Break Distribution of food (vegetarian and omnivorous)
voluntary contribution to
1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.: Experiences of direct democracy. Atelier choice
A) Democracy in the spring maple (Autonomous Popular Assemblies, affinity groups, student
movement)
B) Democracy in associative structures (trade unions, community groups, cooperative movement)
3:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.: Direct Democracy, a project of society?
20h: Party at DIRA
Welcome to you all!
For more information:
http://nefacmtl.blogspot.ca/2012/11/for ... amedi.html
http://www.causecommune.net/
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