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.
Makis
Stavrou, Historian
Enallaktiki
Drasi (Alternative Action) www.enallaktiki-drasi.gr
Association for the Monuments of History and Civilization
Greece
