Alternative forms of popular organization
Ciudad Migrante
Network for communalism
We are two groups with different theoretical and practical backgrounds that have a common focus: alternative forms of grassroots organizing. We will discuss different ideas and practices to exchange with other collectives in the audience and inspire each other.
In our discussion, we would like to stimulate a debate between the two organizations that will enable us to develop new forms of grassroots organization. The idea is that each collective reports: What is the theoretical framework we rely on, and how did we arrive at it? How do we apply this theoretical framework in our political practice?
Key questions
- How does the capitalist system affect our forms of organization?
- What role should people play in solving social problems?
- What role does territory play in our political work?
- What obstacles do we encounter in our political practice?
- How can our everyday practice be seen as part of the general struggle for a new and better society?
- Specifically, how can we imagine forms of self-help that not only fill gaps in the retreating neoliberal welfare state, but also develop an independent alternative social project?
- How can solidarity networks use gaps to expand spaces of self-governance where our collective power grows, which challenges the dominant system "from below"?
- How can this be applied to the territorial and organizational context of the city?
- What is the relationship between the grassroots organizations and the work in the existing political institutions?
Fri 6:02 - 0:00 Kiezraum
Workshop
