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Everyday Revolutions

Horizontalism and Autonomy in Argentina

By: Marina A. Sitrin

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Everyday Revolutions

Horizontalism and Autonomy in Argentina

By: Marina A. Sitrin

In the wake of the global financial crisis, new forms of social organization are beginning to take shape. Disparate groups of people are coming together in order to resist corporate globalization and seek a more positive way forward. These movements are not based on hierarchy; rather than looking to those in power to solve their problems, participants are looking to one another. In certain countries in the West, this has been demonstrated by the recent and remarkable rise of the Occupy movement. But in Argentina, such radical transformations have been taking place for years. Marina Sitrin tells the story of how regular people changed their country and inspired others across the world. Reflecting on new forms of social organization, such as horizontalism and autogestión, as well as alternative conceptions of value and power, Marina Sitrin shows how an economic crisis spurred a people's rebellion; how factory workers and medical clinic technicians are running their workplaces themselves, without bosses; how people have taken over land to build homes, raise livestock, grow crops, and build schools, creating their own art and media in the process. Daring and groundbreaking, Sitrin shows how the experiences of the autonomous movements in Argentina can help answer the question of how to turn a rupture into a revolution.

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274

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1780320523

ISBN 13

9781780320526

Occupying Language

The Secret Rendezvous with History and the Present

By: Marina Sitrin,Dario Azzellini

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Occupying Language

The Secret Rendezvous with History and the Present

By: Marina Sitrin,Dario Azzellini

An exploration of how key terms and words from other movements can help shift consciousness and connect communities of struggle

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122

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Zuccotti Park Press

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1884519091

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9781884519093

They Can't Represent Us!

Reinventing Democracy From Greece To Occupy

By: Marina Sitrin,Dario Azzellini

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They Can't Represent Us!

Reinventing Democracy From Greece To Occupy

By: Marina Sitrin,Dario Azzellini

Mass protest movements in disparate places such as Greece, Argentina, and the United States ultimately share an agenda—to raise the question of what democracy should mean. These horizontalist movements, including Occupy, exercise and claim participatory democracy as the ground of revolutionary social change today. Written by two international activist intellectuals and based on extensive interviews with movement participants in Spain, Venezuela, Argentina, across the United States, and elsewhere, this book is an expansive portrait of the assemblies, direct democracy forums, and organizational forms championed by the new movements, as well as an analytical history of direct and participatory democracy from ancient Athens to Zuccotti Park. The new movements put forward the idea that liberal democracy is not democratic, nor was it ever.

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