English-speaking trans support group meets the third Tuesday of every month in Andrými (Bergþórugata 20, 101 Reykjavík) 7-10 PM.
Do you want to share your experiences or to find out information about trans related healthcare, information resources or legal processes here in Iceland? Do you want to find support to organise a trans specific event? Would you simply like to relax and have a casual chatty evening and drink tea without the pressure of misgendering and cissexist assumptions? Come to the meeting!
Tea, coffee, zines & revolution.
This is an unprofessional trans-organised group intended for trans and questioning individuals* of all ages, not (cis) family members or allies.
*This means that trans women, non-binary/genderfluid people, trans men, and people questioning their gender identities of all ages are all very welcome! The group is not intended exclusively for foreigners but English is the main language of communication because trans people not fluent in Icelandic are already disadvantaged in accessing care and community support. Of course, if everyone present feels confident speaking Icelandic, the meeting can also be in Icelandic.
The structure of the meetings and discussions is very free and based on everyone’s preferences and needs. If you have an idea you’d like to discuss or any questions related to the support group, please don’t hesitate to send me an e-mail at transsupportgrouprvk@riseup.net.
Name + pronoun tags are available. Washrooms in the space are gender-neutral. The event is meant to be accessible to people with various levels of fluency in English. The entire house is booked for as much privacy as possible.
FB event here. Note: Comments and the event itself is public, but the participant list isn’t visible. It seems like your facebook friends might be able to see you’re going/interested though!
Andrými space is unfortunately currently not accessible (we are working on improving that as soon as possible). There is a step before the garden gate and then 5 steps leading to the main entrance, each 17 cm high, door widths in the building vary between 50 cm (upstairs washroom door) and 80 cm (entrance door), and the washrooms are so far only on the upper floor and in the basement. The door to the meeting room is 75 cm wide (as most doors in the building).
The meeting is held on the second floor, but can be moved downstairs in case it’s easier to access for someone, just let me know in advance! It is always possible to leave the room anytime, and there is a quiet room just next door. There are both soft, quite low, sofas and chairs to sit on. Andrymi has water, tea, and coffee for everyone.
GUIDING PRINCIPLES
– Privacy.
What is said in the room stays in the room. We should not to assume that others go by the same name/pronouns/identity outside the group. We don’t take photos during the meetings.
– Mindfulness that everyone’s journey is different.
There is no hierarchy of being “more genuine” or “more trans,” and our journeys as well as goals and aspirations can be very different. We should always try to speak from personal experience (“I feel…,” “I am affected by…”) instead of speaking on behalf of others.
– Inclusivity.
I want to offer support for as much of the trans umbrella as possible. Trans women, trans men, gender fluid, gender queer, non-binary, dual/multi gender, and those questioning their gender identity – and anyone else seeking support for gender identity. Intersex people who identify as trans are especially welcome!
It’s always really nice and empowering to speak to other trans people and spend time together – this event is meant to make you feel more confident and calmer, not the opposite! Feel free to e-mail me if you have any questions/concerns/anything else that would help you to come to the meetings.
An introduction to feminist self-defense (a talk and a short training). No previous experience necessary!
Gender based violence is a prevailing form of oppression towards women and queer people alike (although there are fundamental differences in the way women and queer-identified people get attacked).
Slagtog is a queer-feminist collective which has for a goal to train feminist self-defence.
We reject the idea that practicing self-defence means taking the responsibility away from the perpetrators of violence. It is not the responsibility of the attacked to stop or prevent an aggression, but that doesn’t mean we are not capable to or shouldn’t try to defend ourselves when it comes to it.
We believe that the repeated propaganda about our own powerlessness and incapability to defend ourselves is a patriarchal schema that society uses to keep us from resisting.
And for those of us who do resist, society doesn’t hesitate use its law to deem us guilty of violence.
Accessibility of Andrými:
There is a step before the garden gate and then 5 steps leading to the main entrance, each 17 cm high, door widths in the building vary between 50 cm (upstairs washroom door) and 80 cm (entrance door).
The bathrooms are so far only on the upper floor and in the basement. The door to the meeting room is 75 cm wide (as most other doors in the building). There is no bathroom on the ground floor.
Both washrooms in the building are gender neutral. The event takes place downstairs.
Queers Without Borders: Action Meeting [Icelandic below]
Post-parade, pre-party. Create the Pride you want to see.
An informal meeting exploring injustice and violence against queer people in Iceland and discussing various ways how to draw attention to it. Bodily violence against intersex children, financial inaccessibility of HRT for many low-income people (especially youth), and deportations of queer asylum seekers are a few examples of such issues.
Come share your experiences and ideas. All radically-minded queers and non-queer accomplices are welcome. Invite your friends here
The meeting is an independently-organised grassroots event, not backed up by any one collective, but rather a few individuals.
Accessibility of Andrými:
Andrými is currently not accessible to wheelchairs, and challenging to access for people who have difficulties going up steps. THE EVENT CAN BE MOVED ELSEWHERE if anyone would like to take part but cannot due to inaccessibility: please let us know on blue1211(at)riseup.net as soon as possible and we will find an alternative space.
There is a step before the garden gate and then 5 steps leading to the main entrance, each 17 cm high, door widths in the building vary between 50 cm (upstairs washroom door) and 80 cm (entrance door).
The washrooms are so far only on the upper floor and in the basement. The door to the meeting room is 75 cm wide (as most other doors in the building). The event takes place on the ground floor. There is no bathroom on the ground floor.
Both washrooms in the building are gender neutral. Name and pronoun tags will be available. The meeting takes place in English unless all participants feel comfortable using Icelandic.
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Hinsegin án landmæra: róttækur fundur
Óformlegur róttækur fundur áætlaður til að ræða um óréttlæti og ofbeldi gegn hinsegin fólki á Íslandi og sérstaklega um mismundandi leiðir sem gætu verið notaðar til að vekja athygli. T.d. líkamlegt ofbeldi gegn intersex börnum, að hormónar eru ekki fjárhagslega aðgengilegir fyrir alla og brottvísanir hinsegin umsækjenda um alþjóðlega vernd.
Upplýsingar um aðgengi í Andrými:
Andrými er því miður ekki aðgengilegt fyrir hjólastóla í augnablikinu en ef þú ætlar að koma en húsið er óaðgengilegt fyrir þig, skrifaðu okkur á blue1211(hjá)riseup.net og við finnum annan stað fyrir fundinn.
Það er eitt þrep við hliðið að garðinum og svo fimm þrep sem leiða upp að aðalinngangi. Hvert þrep er 17sm hátt. Breidd dyra í húsinu er á milli 50sm (dyr að baðherberginu á efri hæð) og 80sm (aðaldyrnar). Dyrnar að fundarherberginu eru 75sm á breidd eins og flestar aðrar dyr í húsinu. Baðherbergin eru einungis á efri hæð og í kjallara eins og er. Fundurinn á sér stað á jarðhæð.
Bæði baðherbergin eru kynlaus. Nafna- og fornafnaskilti verða til staðar. Fundurinn er á ensku nema ef öll geta og vilja tala íslensku.
the origen and the meaning of the term. From Bookchin to Ocalan
examples: Rojava
examples: zapatistas
– exemples we can find in western countries?
Discusion of a common bases of what it means in the context of the meeting?
The politics of libertarian municipalism
What is the State ???
Accessibility: Andrými is highly unaccessible for people with disabilities. The group organising offers that if there is anyone willing to join with specific disability they will do their best to work around the accessibility issue with personal assistance.
15.30- 17.30 h Contents 3 how to build processes of democratic confederalism
how we build it in one region where still nothing like that exist?
This would include to think together about a process where we are building a new system/meaning a new arquitecture of agreements/laws in a territory ruled by a nation/state, (include Route of power)
We have to include the use of strategical desobedience, the hack of legal systems to protect our process, etc.
Dual power theories should be included in this discusion,
The politics of libertarian municipalism
Building community where community no longer exists – everything in democratic confederalism extends from the basic layer. Community ties -> Political community -> Assemblies -> Taking local power -> Confederation -> Dual power.
The role of the revolutionary organisation – democratic confederalism fails without it. Which would be the adaptation of this kind of organization in western countries?
Revolutionary practice – thinking about how our means must be the same as our ends.
Avoiding co-optation by the State
The importance of political education How to acheive popular political education? Without it, the movement will fail, as we have been taught by examples in the US.
18 – 21 workshops 2 **
* Process meetings will be run as it was a long assembly distributed in different periods of 2 hours. We are adding topics to the general discusion and will control the times during the meetings. Introduction: The short process until this preliminary meeting what this space is aiming to become, how should be organized, ( delegation and decision taking methods ), who should be part of it, (can we all agree in the same vision?), how do we collaborate with other existing, initiatives/processes which share similiar visions?- whilst avoiding cooptation. goals and roadmap in one year. a main event for june/july 2020 ?
– The World Social Forum of Transformative Economies will be happening at the end of June of 2020 so we need to think strategically on whether and how we want to collaborate with them and take this into account when setting the date of the bigger meeting (would be happy to facilitate this discussion).
– perhaps our main event in 2020 could be distributed by continents, making possible to reduce travel impact a and expand the participation to much more people, more bottom up, in coherence with democratic confederalism
** Workshops meetings
A workshop is a small group meeting which could have different reasons:-
– to explain a specific knowledge or experience
– to discuss and develop a proposal to be presented later in plenary
– to discuss a topic with much more detail than in plenary.
– to train in specific habilities.
– …..
A workshop needs one person or collective responsible of it.
In general the workshops will be offline or online, any physical participant or online participant could propose one at least the day before, and invite others to join.
The agenda will be updated daily with the info about the workshops and how to access them.
Accessibility: Andrými is highly unaccessible for people with disabilities. The group organising offers that if there is anyone willing to join with specific disability they will do their best to work around the accessibility issue with personal assistance.
Accessibility: Andrými is highly unaccessible for people with disabilities. The group organising offers that if there is anyone willing to join with specific disability they will do their best to work around the accessibility issue with personal assistance.
09.30-11.30 Process 2 *
12-14 h Contents 4 equalities and democratic confederalism
– issues of inequality
– gender equality
– rights of minorities
– micropowers dinamics
Means and ends – building liberatory movements (removing discrimination/oppression from our movement)
Understanding fascism
Radical democracy and empowered communities – the first defence against fascism.
18 – 20h workshops 3 **
* Process meetings will be run as it was a long assembly distributed in different periods of 2 hours. We are adding topics to the general discusion and will control the times during the meetings. Introduction: The short process until this preliminary meeting what this space is aiming to become, how should be organized, ( delegation and decision taking methods ), who should be part of it, (can we all agree in the same vision?), how do we collaborate with other existing, initiatives/processes which share similiar visions?- whilst avoiding cooptation. goals and roadmap in one year. a main event for june/july 2020 ?
– The World Social Forum of Transformative Economies will be happening at the end of June of 2020 so we need to think strategically on whether and how we want to collaborate with them and take this into account when setting the date of the bigger meeting (would be happy to facilitate this discussion).
– perhaps our main event in 2020 could be distributed by continents, making possible to reduce travel impact a and expand the participation to much more people, more bottom up, in coherence with democratic confederalism
** Workshops meetings
A workshop is a small group meeting which could have different reasons:-
– to explain a specific knowledge or experience
– to discuss and develop a proposal to be presented later in plenary
– to discuss a topic with much more detail than in plenary.
– to train in specific habilities.
– …..
A workshop needs one person or collective responsible of it.
In general the workshops will be offline or online, any physical participant or online participant could propose one at least the day before, and invite others to join.
The agenda will be updated daily with the info about the workshops and how to access them.
Accessibility: Andrými is highly unaccessible for people with disabilities. The group organising offers that if there is anyone willing to join with specific disability they will do their best to work around the accessibility issue with personal assistance.
10:00 – 12:00 Process 3 *
14h-16h Contents 5 economy and democratic confederalism
How do you run a democratic confederalist economy?
how digital economy can be integrated in geography based democratic confederalist economy
collective models of economy and private market economy could convive in confederalist economy?
A moral economy from a libertarian municipalism perspective – the importance of building alternative economy, without which the movement will fail; the potentials and dangers of cooperatives; against traditional socialist ideas of the economy.
The false answer of ‘green capitalism’
economic disobedience in the context of dual power building
17 – 19h workshops 4 **
* Process meetings will be run as it was a long assembly distributed in different periods of 2 hours. We are adding topics to the general discusion and will control the times during the meetings. Introduction: The short process until this preliminary meeting what this space is aiming to become, how should be organized, ( delegation and decision taking methods ), who should be part of it, (can we all agree in the same vision?), how do we collaborate with other existing, initiatives/processes which share similiar visions?- whilst avoiding cooptation. goals and roadmap in one year. a main event for june/july 2020 ?
– The World Social Forum of Transformative Economies will be happening at the end of June of 2020 so we need to think strategically on whether and how we want to collaborate with them and take this into account when setting the date of the bigger meeting (would be happy to facilitate this discussion).
– perhaps our main event in 2020 could be distributed by continents, making possible to reduce travel impact a and expand the participation to much more people, more bottom up, in coherence with democratic confederalism
** Workshops meetings
A workshop is a small group meeting which could have different reasons:-
– to explain a specific knowledge or experience
– to discuss and develop a proposal to be presented later in plenary
– to discuss a topic with much more detail than in plenary.
– to train in specific habilities.
– …..
A workshop needs one person or collective responsible of it.
In general the workshops will be offline or online, any physical participant or online participant could propose one at least the day before, and invite others to join.
The agenda will be updated daily with the info about the workshops and how to access them.
Accessibility: Andrými is highly unaccessible for people with disabilities. The group organising offers that if there is anyone willing to join with specific disability they will do their best to work around the accessibility issue with personal assistance.
10 – 12 Process 5 *
14h-16h Contents 7 global issues and democratic confederalism
how to influence global institutions from bottom up democratic systems
how to make diplomacy without borders
line 9: development and human rights paradigm.
The need for internationalism.
Is there a need to create a dialogue between philosophical/spiritual/pschological discourses on the notion of wellbeing and justice articulated across time and space; How can eastern ad westen wisdom/indeginous and non indigious wisdom tradisions brught to bear on notions of democratic confederalism!
17 – 19h workshops 5 **
* Process meetings will be run as it was a long assembly distributed in different periods of 2 hours. We are adding topics to the general discusion and will control the times during the meetings. Introduction: The short process until this preliminary meeting what this space is aiming to become, how should be organized, ( delegation and decision taking methods ), who should be part of it, (can we all agree in the same vision?), how do we collaborate with other existing, initiatives/processes which share similiar visions?- whilst avoiding cooptation. goals and roadmap in one year. a main event for june/july 2020 ?
– The World Social Forum of Transformative Economies will be happening at the end of June of 2020 so we need to think strategically on whether and how we want to collaborate with them and take this into account when setting the date of the bigger meeting (would be happy to facilitate this discussion).
– perhaps our main event in 2020 could be distributed by continents, making possible to reduce travel impact a and expand the participation to much more people, more bottom up, in coherence with democratic confederalism
** Workshops meetings
A workshop is a small group meeting which could have different reasons:-
– to explain a specific knowledge or experience
– to discuss and develop a proposal to be presented later in plenary
– to discuss a topic with much more detail than in plenary.
– to train in specific habilities.
– …..
A workshop needs one person or collective responsible of it.
In general the workshops will be offline or online, any physical participant or online participant could propose one at least the day before, and invite others to join.
The agenda will be updated daily with the info about the workshops and how to access them.
Accessibility: Andrými is highly unaccessible for people with disabilities. The group organising offers that if there is anyone willing to join with specific disability they will do their best to work around the accessibility issue with personal assistance.
Friday 13 september morning
10-13 Process 6 and conclusions. *
* Process meetings will be run as it was a long assembly distributed in different periods of 2 hours. We are adding topics to the general discusion and will control the times during the meetings. Introduction: The short process until this preliminary meeting what this space is aiming to become, how should be organized, ( delegation and decision taking methods ), who should be part of it, (can we all agree in the same vision?), how do we collaborate with other existing, initiatives/processes which share similiar visions?- whilst avoiding cooptation. goals and roadmap in one year. a main event for june/july 2020 ?
– The World Social Forum of Transformative Economies will be happening at the end of June of 2020 so we need to think strategically on whether and how we want to collaborate with them and take this into account when setting the date of the bigger meeting (would be happy to facilitate this discussion).
– perhaps our main event in 2020 could be distributed by continents, making possible to reduce travel impact a and expand the participation to much more people, more bottom up, in coherence with democratic confederalism
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Reykjavik Cultural Cypher meeting closed meeting.
English-speaking trans support group meets the third Tuesday of every month in Andrými (Bergþórugata 20, 101 Reykjavík) 7-10 PM.
Do you want to share your experiences or to find out information about trans related healthcare, information resources or legal processes here in Iceland? Do you want to find support to organise a trans specific event? Would you simply like to relax and have a casual chatty evening and drink tea without the pressure of misgendering and cissexist assumptions? Come to the meeting!
Tea, coffee, zines & revolution.
This is an unprofessional trans-organised group intended for trans and questioning individuals* of all ages, not (cis) family members or allies.
*This means that trans women, non-binary/genderfluid people, trans men, and people questioning their gender identities of all ages are all very welcome! The group is not intended exclusively for foreigners but English is the main language of communication because trans people not fluent in Icelandic are already disadvantaged in accessing care and community support. Of course, if everyone present feels confident speaking Icelandic, the meeting can also be in Icelandic.
The structure of the meetings and discussions is very free and based on everyone’s preferences and needs. If you have an idea you’d like to discuss or any questions related to the support group, please don’t hesitate to send me an e-mail at transsupportgrouprvk@riseup.net.
Name + pronoun tags are available. Washrooms in the space are gender-neutral. The event is meant to be accessible to people with various levels of fluency in English. The entire house is booked for as much privacy as possible.
FB event here. Note: Comments and the event itself is public, but the participant list isn’t visible. It seems like your facebook friends might be able to see you’re going/interested though!
Andrými space is unfortunately currently not accessible (we are working on improving that as soon as possible). There is a step before the garden gate and then 5 steps leading to the main entrance, each 17 cm high, door widths in the building vary between 50 cm (upstairs washroom door) and 80 cm (entrance door), and the washrooms are so far only on the upper floor and in the basement. The door to the meeting room is 75 cm wide (as most doors in the building).
The meeting is held on the second floor, but can be moved downstairs in case it’s easier to access for someone, just let me know in advance! It is always possible to leave the room anytime, and there is a quiet room just next door. There are both soft, quite low, sofas and chairs to sit on. Andrymi has water, tea, and coffee for everyone.
GUIDING PRINCIPLES
– Privacy.
What is said in the room stays in the room. We should not to assume that others go by the same name/pronouns/identity outside the group. We don’t take photos during the meetings.
– Mindfulness that everyone’s journey is different.
There is no hierarchy of being “more genuine” or “more trans,” and our journeys as well as goals and aspirations can be very different. We should always try to speak from personal experience (“I feel…,” “I am affected by…”) instead of speaking on behalf of others.
– Inclusivity.
I want to offer support for as much of the trans umbrella as possible. Trans women, trans men, gender fluid, gender queer, non-binary, dual/multi gender, and those questioning their gender identity – and anyone else seeking support for gender identity. Intersex people who identify as trans are especially welcome!
It’s always really nice and empowering to speak to other trans people and spend time together – this event is meant to make you feel more confident and calmer, not the opposite! Feel free to e-mail me if you have any questions/concerns/anything else that would help you to come to the meetings.
**THIS EVENT IS CLOSED TO CIS MEN**
Hinsegin gegn kúgun // Queers Against Oppression
An introduction to feminist self-defense (a talk and a short training). No previous experience necessary!
Gender based violence is a prevailing form of oppression towards women and queer people alike (although there are fundamental differences in the way women and queer-identified people get attacked).
Slagtog is a queer-feminist collective which has for a goal to train feminist self-defence.
We reject the idea that practicing self-defence means taking the responsibility away from the perpetrators of violence. It is not the responsibility of the attacked to stop or prevent an aggression, but that doesn’t mean we are not capable to or shouldn’t try to defend ourselves when it comes to it.
We believe that the repeated propaganda about our own powerlessness and incapability to defend ourselves is a patriarchal schema that society uses to keep us from resisting.
And for those of us who do resist, society doesn’t hesitate use its law to deem us guilty of violence.
Accessibility of Andrými:
There is a step before the garden gate and then 5 steps leading to the main entrance, each 17 cm high, door widths in the building vary between 50 cm (upstairs washroom door) and 80 cm (entrance door).
The bathrooms are so far only on the upper floor and in the basement. The door to the meeting room is 75 cm wide (as most other doors in the building). There is no bathroom on the ground floor.
Both washrooms in the building are gender neutral. The event takes place downstairs.
Queers Without Borders: Action Meeting [Icelandic below]
Post-parade, pre-party. Create the Pride you want to see.
An informal meeting exploring injustice and violence against queer people in Iceland and discussing various ways how to draw attention to it. Bodily violence against intersex children, financial inaccessibility of HRT for many low-income people (especially youth), and deportations of queer asylum seekers are a few examples of such issues.
Come share your experiences and ideas. All radically-minded queers and non-queer accomplices are welcome. Invite your friends here
The meeting is an independently-organised grassroots event, not backed up by any one collective, but rather a few individuals.
Accessibility of Andrými:
Andrými is currently not accessible to wheelchairs, and challenging to access for people who have difficulties going up steps. THE EVENT CAN BE MOVED ELSEWHERE if anyone would like to take part but cannot due to inaccessibility: please let us know on blue1211(at)riseup.net as soon as possible and we will find an alternative space.
There is a step before the garden gate and then 5 steps leading to the main entrance, each 17 cm high, door widths in the building vary between 50 cm (upstairs washroom door) and 80 cm (entrance door).
The washrooms are so far only on the upper floor and in the basement. The door to the meeting room is 75 cm wide (as most other doors in the building). The event takes place on the ground floor. There is no bathroom on the ground floor.
Both washrooms in the building are gender neutral. Name and pronoun tags will be available. The meeting takes place in English unless all participants feel comfortable using Icelandic.
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Hinsegin án landmæra: róttækur fundur
Óformlegur róttækur fundur áætlaður til að ræða um óréttlæti og ofbeldi gegn hinsegin fólki á Íslandi og sérstaklega um mismundandi leiðir sem gætu verið notaðar til að vekja athygli. T.d. líkamlegt ofbeldi gegn intersex börnum, að hormónar eru ekki fjárhagslega aðgengilegir fyrir alla og brottvísanir hinsegin umsækjenda um alþjóðlega vernd.
Upplýsingar um aðgengi í Andrými:
Andrými er því miður ekki aðgengilegt fyrir hjólastóla í augnablikinu en ef þú ætlar að koma en húsið er óaðgengilegt fyrir þig, skrifaðu okkur á blue1211(hjá)riseup.net og við finnum annan stað fyrir fundinn.
Það er eitt þrep við hliðið að garðinum og svo fimm þrep sem leiða upp að aðalinngangi. Hvert þrep er 17sm hátt. Breidd dyra í húsinu er á milli 50sm (dyr að baðherberginu á efri hæð) og 80sm (aðaldyrnar). Dyrnar að fundarherberginu eru 75sm á breidd eins og flestar aðrar dyr í húsinu. Baðherbergin eru einungis á efri hæð og í kjallara eins og er. Fundurinn á sér stað á jarðhæð.
Bæði baðherbergin eru kynlaus. Nafna- og fornafnaskilti verða til staðar. Fundurinn er á ensku nema ef öll geta og vilja tala íslensku.
https://democraticconfederalism.earth/meeting-program/
15h Introduction and presentations.
17h Contents 1: democratic confederalism. concepts, definitions
What we understand by democratic confederalism
the origen and the meaning of the term. From Bookchin to Ocalan
examples: Rojava
examples: zapatistas
– exemples we can find in western countries?
Discusion of a common bases of what it means in the context of the meeting?
The politics of libertarian municipalism
What is the State ???
Accessibility: Andrými is highly unaccessible for people with disabilities. The group organising offers that if there is anyone willing to join with specific disability they will do their best to work around the accessibility issue with personal assistance.
https://democraticconfederalism.earth/meeting-program/
10h – 12h Process 1 *
15.30- 17.30 h Contents 3 how to build processes of democratic confederalism
how we build it in one region where still nothing like that exist?
This would include to think together about a process where we are building a new system/meaning a new arquitecture of agreements/laws in a territory ruled by a nation/state, (include Route of power)
We have to include the use of strategical desobedience, the hack of legal systems to protect our process, etc.
Dual power theories should be included in this discusion,
The politics of libertarian municipalism
Building community where community no longer exists – everything in democratic confederalism extends from the basic layer. Community ties -> Political community -> Assemblies -> Taking local power -> Confederation -> Dual power.
The role of the revolutionary organisation – democratic confederalism fails without it. Which would be the adaptation of this kind of organization in western countries?
Revolutionary practice – thinking about how our means must be the same as our ends.
Avoiding co-optation by the State
The importance of political education How to acheive popular political education? Without it, the movement will fail, as we have been taught by examples in the US.
18 – 21 workshops 2 **
* Process meetings will be run as it was a long assembly distributed in different periods of 2 hours. We are adding topics to the general discusion and will control the times during the meetings. Introduction: The short process until this preliminary meeting what this space is aiming to become, how should be organized, ( delegation and decision taking methods ), who should be part of it, (can we all agree in the same vision?), how do we collaborate with other existing, initiatives/processes which share similiar visions?- whilst avoiding cooptation. goals and roadmap in one year. a main event for june/july 2020 ?
– The World Social Forum of Transformative Economies will be happening at the end of June of 2020 so we need to think strategically on whether and how we want to collaborate with them and take this into account when setting the date of the bigger meeting (would be happy to facilitate this discussion).
– perhaps our main event in 2020 could be distributed by continents, making possible to reduce travel impact a and expand the participation to much more people, more bottom up, in coherence with democratic confederalism
** Workshops meetings
A workshop is a small group meeting which could have different reasons:-
– to explain a specific knowledge or experience
– to discuss and develop a proposal to be presented later in plenary
– to discuss a topic with much more detail than in plenary.
– to train in specific habilities.
– …..
A workshop needs one person or collective responsible of it.
In general the workshops will be offline or online, any physical participant or online participant could propose one at least the day before, and invite others to join.
The agenda will be updated daily with the info about the workshops and how to access them.
Accessibility: Andrými is highly unaccessible for people with disabilities. The group organising offers that if there is anyone willing to join with specific disability they will do their best to work around the accessibility issue with personal assistance.
https://democraticconfederalism.earth/meeting-program/
Accessibility: Andrými is highly unaccessible for people with disabilities. The group organising offers that if there is anyone willing to join with specific disability they will do their best to work around the accessibility issue with personal assistance.
09.30-11.30 Process 2 *
12-14 h Contents 4 equalities and democratic confederalism
– issues of inequality
– gender equality
– rights of minorities
– micropowers dinamics
Means and ends – building liberatory movements (removing discrimination/oppression from our movement)
Understanding fascism
Radical democracy and empowered communities – the first defence against fascism.
18 – 20h workshops 3 **
* Process meetings will be run as it was a long assembly distributed in different periods of 2 hours. We are adding topics to the general discusion and will control the times during the meetings. Introduction: The short process until this preliminary meeting what this space is aiming to become, how should be organized, ( delegation and decision taking methods ), who should be part of it, (can we all agree in the same vision?), how do we collaborate with other existing, initiatives/processes which share similiar visions?- whilst avoiding cooptation. goals and roadmap in one year. a main event for june/july 2020 ?
– The World Social Forum of Transformative Economies will be happening at the end of June of 2020 so we need to think strategically on whether and how we want to collaborate with them and take this into account when setting the date of the bigger meeting (would be happy to facilitate this discussion).
– perhaps our main event in 2020 could be distributed by continents, making possible to reduce travel impact a and expand the participation to much more people, more bottom up, in coherence with democratic confederalism
** Workshops meetings
A workshop is a small group meeting which could have different reasons:-
– to explain a specific knowledge or experience
– to discuss and develop a proposal to be presented later in plenary
– to discuss a topic with much more detail than in plenary.
– to train in specific habilities.
– …..
A workshop needs one person or collective responsible of it.
In general the workshops will be offline or online, any physical participant or online participant could propose one at least the day before, and invite others to join.
The agenda will be updated daily with the info about the workshops and how to access them.
https://democraticconfederalism.earth/meeting-program/
Accessibility: Andrými is highly unaccessible for people with disabilities. The group organising offers that if there is anyone willing to join with specific disability they will do their best to work around the accessibility issue with personal assistance.
10:00 – 12:00 Process 3 *
14h-16h Contents 5 economy and democratic confederalism
How do you run a democratic confederalist economy?
how digital economy can be integrated in geography based democratic confederalist economy
collective models of economy and private market economy could convive in confederalist economy?
A moral economy from a libertarian municipalism perspective – the importance of building alternative economy, without which the movement will fail; the potentials and dangers of cooperatives; against traditional socialist ideas of the economy.
The false answer of ‘green capitalism’
economic disobedience in the context of dual power building
17 – 19h workshops 4 **
* Process meetings will be run as it was a long assembly distributed in different periods of 2 hours. We are adding topics to the general discusion and will control the times during the meetings. Introduction: The short process until this preliminary meeting what this space is aiming to become, how should be organized, ( delegation and decision taking methods ), who should be part of it, (can we all agree in the same vision?), how do we collaborate with other existing, initiatives/processes which share similiar visions?- whilst avoiding cooptation. goals and roadmap in one year. a main event for june/july 2020 ?
– The World Social Forum of Transformative Economies will be happening at the end of June of 2020 so we need to think strategically on whether and how we want to collaborate with them and take this into account when setting the date of the bigger meeting (would be happy to facilitate this discussion).
– perhaps our main event in 2020 could be distributed by continents, making possible to reduce travel impact a and expand the participation to much more people, more bottom up, in coherence with democratic confederalism
** Workshops meetings
A workshop is a small group meeting which could have different reasons:-
– to explain a specific knowledge or experience
– to discuss and develop a proposal to be presented later in plenary
– to discuss a topic with much more detail than in plenary.
– to train in specific habilities.
– …..
A workshop needs one person or collective responsible of it.
In general the workshops will be offline or online, any physical participant or online participant could propose one at least the day before, and invite others to join.
The agenda will be updated daily with the info about the workshops and how to access them.
https://democraticconfederalism.earth/meeting-program/
Accessibility: Andrými is highly unaccessible for people with disabilities. The group organising offers that if there is anyone willing to join with specific disability they will do their best to work around the accessibility issue with personal assistance.
10 – 12 Process 5 *
14h-16h Contents 7 global issues and democratic confederalism
how to influence global institutions from bottom up democratic systems
how to make diplomacy without borders
line 9: development and human rights paradigm.
The need for internationalism.
Is there a need to create a dialogue between philosophical/spiritual/pschological discourses on the notion of wellbeing and justice articulated across time and space; How can eastern ad westen wisdom/indeginous and non indigious wisdom tradisions brught to bear on notions of democratic confederalism!
17 – 19h workshops 5 **
* Process meetings will be run as it was a long assembly distributed in different periods of 2 hours. We are adding topics to the general discusion and will control the times during the meetings. Introduction: The short process until this preliminary meeting what this space is aiming to become, how should be organized, ( delegation and decision taking methods ), who should be part of it, (can we all agree in the same vision?), how do we collaborate with other existing, initiatives/processes which share similiar visions?- whilst avoiding cooptation. goals and roadmap in one year. a main event for june/july 2020 ?
– The World Social Forum of Transformative Economies will be happening at the end of June of 2020 so we need to think strategically on whether and how we want to collaborate with them and take this into account when setting the date of the bigger meeting (would be happy to facilitate this discussion).
– perhaps our main event in 2020 could be distributed by continents, making possible to reduce travel impact a and expand the participation to much more people, more bottom up, in coherence with democratic confederalism
** Workshops meetings
A workshop is a small group meeting which could have different reasons:-
– to explain a specific knowledge or experience
– to discuss and develop a proposal to be presented later in plenary
– to discuss a topic with much more detail than in plenary.
– to train in specific habilities.
– …..
A workshop needs one person or collective responsible of it.
In general the workshops will be offline or online, any physical participant or online participant could propose one at least the day before, and invite others to join.
The agenda will be updated daily with the info about the workshops and how to access them.
https://democraticconfederalism.earth/meeting-program/
Accessibility: Andrými is highly unaccessible for people with disabilities. The group organising offers that if there is anyone willing to join with specific disability they will do their best to work around the accessibility issue with personal assistance.
Friday 13 september morning
10-13 Process 6 and conclusions. *
* Process meetings will be run as it was a long assembly distributed in different periods of 2 hours. We are adding topics to the general discusion and will control the times during the meetings. Introduction: The short process until this preliminary meeting what this space is aiming to become, how should be organized, ( delegation and decision taking methods ), who should be part of it, (can we all agree in the same vision?), how do we collaborate with other existing, initiatives/processes which share similiar visions?- whilst avoiding cooptation. goals and roadmap in one year. a main event for june/july 2020 ?
– The World Social Forum of Transformative Economies will be happening at the end of June of 2020 so we need to think strategically on whether and how we want to collaborate with them and take this into account when setting the date of the bigger meeting (would be happy to facilitate this discussion).
– perhaps our main event in 2020 could be distributed by continents, making possible to reduce travel impact a and expand the participation to much more people, more bottom up, in coherence with democratic confederalism
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