Social movements worldwide today increasingly emphasize the connection between social and ecological issues, and calls for direct democracy and decentralisation. The Kurdish revolution in particular is awaking our imaginary, demonstrating that building a revolutionary society that resonates with the principles of social ecology is possible and happening.
Friday August 28, 17:00-19:30, Patras Social Center:
The legacy of Murray Bookchin
- Dan Chodorkoff (Marshfield): Social Ecology, and Utopia in a time of Crisis
- Chaia Heller (Leverett Station): Enter the Alter-Left: Periodizing the Historical Moment of Democratic Confederalism (Skype presentation)
Saturday August 29, 14:00 – 15:30, Patras Social Center:
Workshop: Social movements and radical democracy – how do we exchange experiences and practices of participatory democracy? International gathering 2016? (Facilitator: Malin Widehammar)
Saturday August 29, 15:45 – 17:15, Patras Social Center:
Roundtable discussion: Social Ecology in Practice
- Joam Evans Pim (Lousame): A Libertarian Municipalist Agenda in Action: the Case of Lousame, Galiza (Skype presentation)
- Dan Chodorkoff (Marshfield): Living in a Directly Democratic Community
- Matthew Little (London): Sortition, Oligarchy and personality disorder
Sunday August 30, 17:30 – 18:30, Patras Social Center:
Workshop: Social Ecology and the Kurdish Question – What can we learn and how can we support the Rojava revolution? (Facilitator: Federico Venturini)
Read the full program here