Category Archives: Networks

CALL FOR WORKSHOPS AND PARTICIPANTS – 8-9 June, London

Posted on April 29, 2013 by

From the uprising in northern Africa to the assemblies in Spain, followed by the spreading of Occupy, new social movements have sprung up all over the world. Our structures, ways of organising and tactics are still in their embryonic form: working through experimentations and learning from the inevitable difficulties. … Continue reading →

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Into the Fire – The Hidden Victims of Austerity | embed it on your website or blog

Posted on April 21, 2013 by

Into the Fire is up! Here’s the link you can use to embed Into the Fire on your website or blog: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMOnuD0SQJs&cc_load_policy=1 Into the Fire is being crowd-released today: All over the internet people areembedding Into the Fire on their website or blog. … Continue reading →

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The European Spring 2013 – A New Beginning? | Transnational Institute

Posted on April 3, 2013 by

27 March 2013, by Sol Trumbo Vila The European Spring’s Days of Action, that targeted the EU Summit and its austerity agenda, provides important lessons on how to develop alliances between trade unions, grassroots movements and civil society organisations. This article … Continue reading →

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At World Social Forum: Unity and Dissent Within Global Movements

Posted on April 3, 2013 by

from the opening March of the World Social Forum in Tunisia. (Photo: Jordan Flaherty) An estimated 50,000 people from 5,000 organizations in 127 countries spanning five continents participated in the World Social Forum in Tunisia over the past week. By … Continue reading →

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Tunis: A tale of two World Social Forums | via Mariangela

Posted on April 2, 2013 by

by Nick Dearden The WSF needs updating for a post-Arab Spring, post-Indignado world, writes Nick Dearden. The problems and the possibilities were both on show in Tunisia The Tunisian World Social Forum has been the most energetic, lively, youthful forum held … Continue reading →

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Occupy the WSF | Spanish Revolution

Posted on March 31, 2013 by

In #globalrevolution on 31 March 2013 at 13:09 Global Square 2013 Tunis, photo via @CaseyJAldridge Dear people, In 1999 the counter-globalisation movement burst onto the streets at the WTO conference in Seattle. Two years later, in Porto Alegre, the movement began to organize its own … Continue reading →

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Declaration of the Social Movements Assembly – World Social Forum 2013 29 March 2013, Tunisia [En, Ar, Fr, Es]

Posted on March 30, 2013 by

(English) As the Social Movements Assembly of the World Social Forum of Tunisia, 2013, we are gathered here to affirm the fundamental contribution of peoples of Maghreb-Mashrek (from North Africa to the Middle East), in the construction of human civilization. We … Continue reading →

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Networked Solidarity workshop by GlobalSquare (Occupy the World Social Forum) initiative

Posted on March 22, 2013 by

Dear comrades, Global Square initiative (global-square.net) has been preparing a space in and around the World Social Forum in Tunis in order to exchange, share and reflect on our recent experiences in horizontal grass roots uprisings / movements, among ourselves as … Continue reading →

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Sharing Commons Spring Barcelona March 2013

Posted on March 6, 2013 by

Promotional poster Sharing commons sprint. Barcelona. March 20th & 21st 2013. In occasion of Michel Bauwens (P2P Foundation) visit to Barcelona. Brought to you collaboratively by OuiShare, IGOP – UAB & Spanish Chapter of Open Knowledge Foundation, with the support of BCN The … Continue reading →

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Support the Global Square gathering of grassroots activists in Tunis!

Posted on March 6, 2013 by

Several participants of social movements have been lately meeting each other at different spaces during 2012 like Agora99 in Madrid,  Firenze 10+10 in Florence. In Florence we have organized an assembly on the city streets that managed to strengthen the … Continue reading →

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Tunisia’s revolution annexed by Serge Halimi

Posted on March 6, 2013 by

Almost everyone in Tunisia believes that the benefits of the revolution are in danger. Perhaps from a “secular” opposition that refuses to admit that the conservative An-Nahda Islamists were the clear winners in the National Constituent Assembly elections in October 2011. … Continue reading →

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For a Europe of the people, against the European Union of the Markets’

Posted on March 5, 2013 by

15M assemblies and other groups and social organiza­tions prepare the week of struggle The week of struggle will take place from the 11th until the 17th of March in Madrid and other Spanish cities and the rest of Europe, with … Continue reading →

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We The People of Europe vs. Capital State Partnerships… Join Us!

Posted on February 26, 2013 by

A call for action against the EU Spring Summit 13 and 14 March 2013 in Brussels Click here to see the Call for Action in multiple languages ‘For a European Spring’ is a call for actions, strikes and demonstrations all over … Continue reading →

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Them vs. Us: the Gaze & Compañeros of the Word (SupMarcos, Greg Ruggiero)

Posted on February 25, 2013 by

February 21, 2013 Them vs. Us: the Gaze To Look and Communicate by SUBCOMANDANTE MARCOS  “ … the passage to humanity today is called ‘rebellion’…” I’m going to tell you something very secret, but don’t go spreading it around…or, go … Continue reading →

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Call for Action: Blockupy Frankfurt! Resistance in the Heart of the European Crisis Regime May 31 and June 1, 2013

Posted on February 24, 2013 by

Again we* call for European days of protest in Frankfurt on the Main against the crisis regime of the European Union. On May 31 and June 1, 2013, we want to carry the resistance against the policies of impoverishment of government … Continue reading →

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Global Square in Tunis 2013 – Video

Posted on February 24, 2013 by

GlobalSquare is a series of online and physical meetings and assemblies whose participants and organisers are individuals linked to the 15M, Occupy, student movements, Yo Soy 132, T’harrek, Idle No More, VIA22 as well as other grassroots and horizontal movements. … Continue reading →

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Global Unionism: The Peer-to-Peer Model | New Unionism Network

Posted on February 20, 2013 by

The transnationalisation of production, along with the rise of global supply chains, informalisation, financialisation, and connecting of world markets through informationalisation have all hit hard on workers. It seems to have become impossible to overcome the resulting divisions among working … Continue reading →

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Networked solidarity? An open workshop during the WSF in Tunis on the interactions between labour, NGOs, political groups and the squares

Posted on February 20, 2013 by

Public Group on Global Square website to prepare the workshop General objective of the workshop is to evaluate the recent experiences of networking and solidarity between, on the one hand, the horizontal square movements, free information movements, student movements, indigenous movements … Continue reading →

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Madrid Joins in and Calls for a European week of mobilization (11-17 March 2013): EUROPE FOR THE PEOPLE, NOT FOR THE MARKETPLACE

Posted on February 13, 2013 by

MANIFESTO – EUROPE FOR THE PEOPLE, NOT FOR THE MARKETPLACE in Spanish We stand in defence of a Europe that sets fundamental rights above the interests of the marketplace. We stand for a new model created by citizens through a … Continue reading →

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GlobalSqaure – Grassroots towards, around and beyond the WSF

Posted on February 7, 2013 by

GlobalSquare is a series of online and physical meetings and assemblies whose participants and organisers are individuals linked to the 15M, Occupy, Student Movements, Yo Soy 132!, Tharek, Idle No More!, VIA22 as well as other movements. Our objective is … Continue reading →

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