3th European meeting 12-14 April ,Milano

Third Euro-Mediterranean Meeting of Workers’ Economy

12-14 April 2019

Recovered Factory RiMaflow, Trezzano sul Naviglio (Milan), Italy

                    Program of thematic groups

 

Friday 12 April

From 9am: welcome/visit to the recovered factory RiMaflow

11am: meeting of the organizing group

12am-1.30pm: Lunch

2pm: Opening of the Meeting (coordinated by RiMaflow and the International Network)

3-5pm: First Plenary Session:

Working men and women of all countries…: self-management, conflict-oriented mutualism, trade unionism with a “multifaceted settlement”, solidarity without borders

6-8pm – Parallel Workshops

Workshop 1 – Agroecology, relationships between rural and urban movements

Workshop 2 – Social reproduction in the self-managed experiences and in the trade union activity

Workshop 3 – Recover the “public”, as a necessary right for life, in the direction of an ecofeminist economy (coordinated by CGT, Spain)

Workshop 4 – Labour and race: chains of exploitation and experiences of solidarity and mutual aid

Workshop 5 – Self-managed productions and distribution

8.30pm: Dinner, Conviviality

10pm: Meeting of the organizing group

Saturday 13 April

8-9.30am: breakfast

10-12.30am: Second plenary session: Self-managed labour, recovered factories, self-managed farms, workers’ collectives

1-2.30pm: lunch

3-5pm: Parallel workshops

Workshop 1 – Conflict-oriented mutualism, trade unionism with a “multifaceted settlement”

Workshop 2 – How to Build an Ecology of Solidarity Economy (coordinated by the Solidarity Economy Facilitation Group, Hungary)

Workshop 3 – Practices of welfare reconstruction from below (coordinated by Commonfare, E.U.)

Workshop 4 – Economic autonomy and paths of exit from gender violence

Workshop 5 – Self-managed productions and distribution

5.30-8pm – Third plenary session: Agroecology, environmental struggles, relationships among rural and urban movements

8.30pm: Dinner

9.30pm: Music and concert, with the street brass bands: Banda degli Ottoni a scoppio, FONC, Fanfare Invisible…

Sunday 14 April

8-9.30 am: breakfast

10am – 1pm: Closing plenary session

10-11am: Reports of the workshops

11am-1pm: Conclusions and proposals

Afternoon (for anyone interested): visit to the recovered factory RiMaflow and to the Libera Masseria di Cisliano (confiscated from organised crime).

SUMMARY OF THE SUGGESTION

The administration of historical and civilization monuments as common goods by the society itself

The historical monuments consist a common cultural heritage and consequently they belong to all citizens who have the responsibility but also the need to protect them and even to take advantage of them in favor of the common interest.

However the capitalism treats the historical monuments too as well as all the peoples’ creations as merchandises and it tries to gain profits out of them in any means. The state, which consists a servant of the big enterprises, grants the history and civilization monuments to individuals for profit-making exploitation, insulting in this way the moral standing of humanity as a total.

We the people know however that the monuments our ancestors created consist the common heritage of all of us and we shall not only not allow their concession to individuals, but we are also decided to protect and administer them ourselves.

The Alternative Action (Enallaktiki Drasi) and the Coalition for the Historical Monuments together with volunteer scientists have created in many areas citizens’ collectivities which work in common so as to:

a) Identify the historical monuments, small or big, important or unimportant and record them.

b) Make known the local history of each area to all citizens.

c) Start a substantial dialogue among the citizens in each municipality and in every neighborhood aiming at protecting the history and civilization monuments on the one hand and on the other hand at making the local history known to all locals but being known and admired by the visitors too.

In this way a real cooperation of people may begin independently of any ideological or other differences they may have. This cooperation aims at making citizens cooperate in the administration of the historical monuments so that they contribute to their protection and optimum use by the society, excluding any possibility of profit exploitation.

                                                                                             18/3/2019

Makis Stavrou, Historian

Enallaktiki Drasi (Alternative Action) www.enallaktiki-drasi.gr  

Association  for the Monuments of History and Civilization

www.sybraxiistorikamnimeia.blogspot.com,

Greece