<a href="http://www.resistancecomesfirst.gr/" target="_blank"><b>http://www.resistancecomesfirst.gr/</b></a><div class="gmail_quote"><p>In December 2008, an unprecedented revolt erupted all over Greece.
Months of creative unrest and experimentation with alternative forms of
organization and new forms of life. In the occupations of public spaces,
in the new unionism and in the everyday forms of public protest,
strategic alliances were formed between a multitude of social actors. As
a result, new and unprecedented forms of struggle were invented and
practiced.</p>
<p>A year later, Greece was pronounced “a state in debt crisis” on the
verge of bankruptcy. Dramatic cuts in public spending and aggressive
re-structuring policies were introduced as emergency measures, while
intense and extensive policing has been attacking all forms of protest
and dissidence and is deemed necessary in order to safeguard public
order.</p>
<p>The state of a permanent economic crisis is not a uniquely “Greek”
predicament, but represents yet one more episode in the crisis of the
neoliberal state and of the capitalist organisation of production. The
ensuing aggressive attacks on social welfare and workers’ rights emerge
as a common structural condition in the whole of the European South.
This condition calls for new collective responses and the invention of
new forms of creative resistances that will spread across borders.</p>
<p>Following our desire for collective action across borders, we are
organizing a two day meeting that will bring together social movement
activists and thinkers from South Europe to discuss ways of reinventing
the micropolitics of everyday life through new forms of political and
economic organization and networking.</p>
<p>The meeting will take place in Athens and will include:</p>
<p>- An <b>open discussions with interventions by collectivities</b> on new forms of resistance that have emerged since the December revolt</p>
<p>- The meeting will include <b>interventions by</b> <b>Antonio
Negri, Sandro Mezzadra, Gigi Roggero, Andrea Fumagalli, Vassilis Tsianos,
Dina Vaiou, Juan Domingo Sanchez, Zeleia Grigoriou, Maria Karamessini,
Akis Gavriilidis, Stavros Stavridis, Illias Marmaras, Daphne Dragona,
Nelli Kambouri, Pavlos Hatzopoulos, Dimitris Parsanoglou<br></b></p>
<p>- A general assembly discussing new strategies of resistance and new collective responses across borders to the crisis.</p>
<p><b>The meeting will take place in Athens, on Saturday – Sunday 16-17 October 2010</b></p>
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