VERY INTERESTING SERIES OF WORKSHOPS AND DISCUSSIONS AT QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY, LONDON.
SELF ORGANISING II :: THE ECONOMY
Friday April 1st, 5-8 pm
Lock Keepers Cottage, QMUL, London E14NS no. 33 on the map
From cooperatives to social enterprises, between state funding, self funding, alternative economies and charity dependence. Authorship, redistribution of resource, production of value and co-production.
For resources, see the special issue of Affinities on The New Cooperativism
Sion Whellens (Calverts Coop, London)
Siôn Whellens was a contributing editor at Anarchy Magazine, and active with London Workers Group, Workers Playtime and the anti-party and autonomist communist left in London in the late 1970s and 1980's. He co-published a bi-weekly newsletter, the Picket Bulletin, during the long Wapping printers' lockout of 1986, dedicated to creating an effective communication tool for grassroots activists. Since 1983 he has worked with Calverts, a collective-type worker co-operative of graphic designers and printers, and in the wider worker co-operative milieu. He is an elected member of the Worker Co-operative Council and a director of Co-operatives UK (http://www.uk.coop). Siôn is interested in exploring the conflicts and potentials of workers’ self-expression, self-organisation and self-management under capitalism, and understanding how the development of our day-to-day activity can contribute to the emergence of a new social economy.
Toni Prug (QMUL, London)
http://www.gcommons.org/ http://hackthestate.org/
Marcel Mars (Jan van Eyck Academy, Maastricht)
http://kiberkomunist.posterous.com/41479850
Matt Zimmerman (Debian/Ubuntu, London)
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Next Encounter:
Friday May 6th
Self-organization and community
External dynamics, political discourse and outreach. The role of the organizer when working with constituencies. Issues of politicization, outreach, involvement, negotiation.
Doina Petrescu (Atelier d'Architecture Autogérée, Paris)
http://www.urbantactics.org/
Jane Wills (QMUL, London)
http://www.citizensuk.org/campaigns/living-wage-campaign/
Venue: Lock Keepers Cottage, QMUL, London E14NS no. 33 on the map
Time: 5pm-7pm
