From: "The Center for Global Justice" <admin at globaljusticecenter.org>
The Center for Global Justice Invitation To Participate - Call For Contributions
Conference: Moving Beyond Capitalism July 29 - August 5, 2014 Center for Global Justice, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico
Where is another world happening? How do we bring capital under democratic control? What can we do now to get from here to there? Which changes are co-optable, which transformatory? How do we avoid past errors?
Capitalism is in crisis. Yet, backed by arms, it dominates and threatens humanity and the planet. Survival now means putting ourselves before profit. What economic and social practices go beyond gender, race, class divisions to unite us, and empower the many instead of enriching the few? To answer, the Center for Global Justice invites thinkers and doers from the global South and global North to bi-lingual discussions of the practical global task of "moving beyond capitalism."
We invite you to complement prophesy and hope by addressing problems of transformation, commenting on solutions, proposing new ones, and sharing organizing results.
Summaries of individual or group submissions are due by December 31, 2013; full descriptions (or papers) by April 30, 2014.
Six days of exchanges will be in San Miguel de Allende in Mexico's central highlands. In plenaries, round tables and workshops we'll examine some existing options, evaluate them in context, and end with sessions to pass on suggestions for further study and organizing. Screenings, performances, exhibits and visits to groups constructing "another world" are planned.
We will also visit local groups building "another world." To "digest" the encounter we offer 2 days in the thermal waters of the "cooperativa ejidal," Las Grutas de Tolantongo in Hidalgo state.
Themes include: the commons, economic democracy, cooperatives, solidarity economy, public banking and democratic finance, indigenous insurgencies, localization, participatory budgeting, preventing ecocide, local currencies, gender equality, alternative communications & media, 21st century socialism, steady state economies, horizontalism. Feel free to propose other themes.
Featured speakers confirmed: Gustavo Esteva (de-professionalized Mexican intellectual) Gar Alperovitz (What Then Must We Do?) David Schweickart (After Capitalism), Margaret Flowers & Kevin Zeese (Occupy activists & members of Green Shadow Cabinet) Fernando Sánchez Cuadros (Peruvian economist) Camila Piñeiro Harnecker (Cuban economist & co-op advocate)
and many more .....
Center for Global Justice (www.globaljusticecenter.org), an international network of educators and activists, is devoted to research and learning for a better world. Since 2004 it offers educational travel, lectures/film series, local solidarity economy networking & co-op workshops.
Details: Bus via Querétaro; fly to Mexico City (MEX) (4-hour enjoyable bus trip from there) or Leon (BJX) (2.5 hour trip from there); sliding scale fee; partial travel scholarships; discount hotel or free home stays; videos/books of results; simultaneous interpreting.
Please send descriptions and address queries to
admin at globaljusticecenter.org Phone in Mexico: (52) 415 150 0025 from US 347 983 5084
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