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Alternative Libertaire is a French libertarian communist organisation founded in 1991, part of the anarcho-communist tradition and the anti-authoritarian workers’ movement as it has existed since the First International. They’re for a politics based on direct action by oppressed classes and social groups with the aim of revolutionary anti-capitalist workers’ control. Today, Alternative Libertaire is developing it’s political action on two fronts : -The building of an alliance of social movements, to give political weight to the politics of the people against the institutionalised left. – The building of a libertarian communist current which fuels and is fuelled by the activities of the social movements. AL publishes a monthly magazine, books, booklets and films and actively participates in a variety of social movements. Representative of the Alternative Libertaire at B-Fest will be Clément Garnier.
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/
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CrimethInc., also known as CWC, began operating as an anarchist collective in 1996. CrimethInc. is an anonymous tag, a means of constructing dynamic networks of support and communication within the anarchist movement. CWC asserts that it has no platform or ideology except that which could be generalized from the similarities between the beliefs and goals of the individuals who choose to get involved. The active participants of CrimethInc. describe it as a mindset and a way of life first and foremost, rather than as an organization per se. Its main goal is to inspire people to take more active control of their own lives, becoming producers of culture and history instead of passive consumers. CrimethInc. have published books, articles, posters, zines, released records, organized national campaigns against globalization and representative democracy, toured with multimedia performance art or hardcore anarcho-punk musical ensembles.
http://www.crimethinc.com/
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David Rolfe Graeber (born 12 February 1961) is an American anthropologist and anarchist who currently holds the position of Reader in Social Anthropology at Goldsmiths, University of London. He was an associate professor of anthropology at Yale university, although Yale controversially declined to rehire him for his political views, and his term there ended in June 2007. Graeber has a history of social and political activism, including his role in protests against the World Economic Forum in New York City (2002) and membership in the labor union Industrial Workers of the World. He haw written numerous books and has done extensive anthropological work in Madagascar, writing his doctoral thesis (“The Disastrous Ordeal of 1987: Memory and Violence in Rural Madagascar”) on the continuing social division between the descendants of nobles and the descendants of former slaves.
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Robin Hahnel is a radical economist and political activist. He is Professor Emeritus at American University in Washington, D.C. where he taught in the Department of Economics from 1976 – 2008. Currently he is a visiting professor at Lewis & Clark College, while he has also served as a visiting professor or economist in Cuba, Peru and England.
Politically he considers himself a proud product of the New Left and is sympathetic to libertarian socialism. He has been active in many social movements and organizations over forty years, beginning with the Harvard and MIT Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) and the anti-Vietnam war movement in the 1960s, more recently with the Southern Maryland Greens and the Movement for Global Justice in Washington, D.C., and currently with Jobs With Justice and the Coalition for a Livable Future.
He also is participated in the organization of the Econvergence, the Northwest Gathering on the Economic and Environmental Crises holded last year in Portland, Oregon.
His most recent book is Economic Justice and Democracy. He is co-author with Michael Albert of The Political Economy of Participatory Economics.
http://www.robinhahnel.org
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Richard Matthew Stallman is a software developer and software freedom activist. In 1983 he announced the project to develop the GNU operating system, meant to be entirely free software, and has been the project’s leader ever since. With that announcement Stallman also launched the Free Software Movement. In October 1985 he started the Free Software Foundation.
Since the mid-1990s, Stallman has spent most of his time in political advocacy for free software, and spreading the ethical ideas of the movement, as well as campaigning against both software patents and dangerous extension of copyright laws.
Stallman pioneered the concept of copyleft (a general method for making a program (or other work) free, and requiring all modified and extended versions of the program to be free as well.), and is the main author of the GNU General Public License, the most widely used free software license.
Stallman gives speeches frequently about free software and related topics such as the dangers of software patends, the copyrights and the communities during the digital age.
http://stallman.org
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Michael Hardt is an American literary theorist and political philosopher perhaps best known for Empire, written with Antonio Negri and published in 2000. He was born in Washington, D.C. He has studied engineering and during the 1970s energy crisis, he began to take an interest in alternative energy sources.
In 1983, he moved to Seattle to study comparative literature at the University of Washington. While there, he received an M.A. in 1986 and his PhD in 1990.
Michael Hardt’s recent writings deal primarily with the political, legal, economic, and social aspects of globalization. In his books with Antonio Negri he has analyzed the functioning of the current global power structure (Empire, 2000) and the possible democratic alternatives to that structure (Multitude, 2004). Many of his seminars focus on the work of important figures in the history of critical theory and political theory, such as Marx, Jefferson, Gramsci, Foucault, Deleuze, and Guattari. He also works on modern Italian literature and culture.
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Keny Arkana Born in Argentina in 1983, she spent her childhood in Marseilles and began writing lyrics and poetry at 13. French rapper Keny Arkana was a member of the politically charged hip-hop collective «La Rage Du Peuple» (The Rage of the People), a group with strong ties to the growing French alter-globalization social movement, which advocates democracy, economic justice, environmental protection, and human rights over material reward. In «Entre Ciment et Belle Etoile» (Between Cement And Beautiful Star), released in 2006, Keny express her Utopias, convictions, anger, and her doubts and delivers to us a disc with her image: feet on ground, and eyes towards the sky. Αrkana’s most famous song «La Rage» was written one year afterwards the revolt in the suburbs of Paris (2005). For Keny Arkana, any rage is constructive, the fight is never an end in itself, and the dispute is inseparable from introspection.
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Iraq Veterans Against the War Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW) was founded by Iraq war veterans in July 2004 at the annual convention of Veterans for Peace (VFP) in Boston to give a voice to the large number of active duty service people and veterans who are against this war, but are under various pressures to remain silent. From its inception, IVAW has called for: – Immediate withdrawal of all occupying forces in Iraq; -Reparations for the human and structural damages Iraq has suffered, and stopping the corporate pillaging of Iraq so that their people can control their own lives and future; – Full benefits, adequate healthcare (including mental health), and other supports for returning servicemen and women. IVAW members speak in communities and to the media about their experiences and the realities of the Iraq war. Also, IVAW supports all those resisting the war, including Conscientious Objectors.
Harry Halpin is a researcher at the University of Edinburgh, studying the intersection between philosophy and computers. Currently he is working on collective intelligence and social media, and previously he has been heavily involved in Indymedia and solidarity committees against political repression. He often contributed articles about the movement, climate change, and cybernetics to various books and publications such as “Turbulence: Ideas for Movement” and “Minds and Machines”.
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Barucha Calamity Peller Barucha Calamity Peller is a writer and photographer based in San Francisco. For years she has worked within and reported on Mexican social movements. Her photographs and analysis have been widely distributed through alternative media outlets such as CounterPunch and the Independent Media Center. Calamity reported from Lebanon during the 2006 Israeli-Lebanon war just before entering Oaxaca. She is known for getting herself into very dangerous situations and then escaping with photographs that depict both old women and young anarcho-punks fighting for peace and justice in the streets. Peller asserts that 2006 uprising in Oaxaca could not have been reported from the safety of a hotel room, but only from the barricades themselves.
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FOTIS TERZAKIS. Independent writer and essayist.
Born 1959 in Patras, Greece, has studied cinema in Athens and participated in seminar-research on extended fields of Human Arts (philosophy, political psychology, psychanalysis, social anthropology and religious studies). Since 2005 he has founded the Centre of Transcultural Studies, where he teaches philosophy, comparative religion and aesthetics.
He has been involved in publications as editor of book-series on relevant fields, and has been regularly writing book-reviews in newspapers like Eleftherotypia, Kathimerini and Avgi.
Working also as a translator, he has translated into Greek ––among other writers–– John Dewey, Rudolf Bultmann, Julius Evola, Mikhail Bakhtin, Theodor W. Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Martin Jay, Susan Buck-Morss, Karen Armstrong, Regina M. Schwartz, Peter Kingsley, Robert Layton, Edward E. Said, Bruno Latour, Anthony Wilden, Ronald D. Laing, Timothy Leary, Alan Watts, Theodore Roszak and Stanislav Grof.http://fotisterzakis.gr/
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SHIP TO GAZA
“Ship to Gaza” is an initiative, part of an international expedition of ships and passengers from many different countries, to sail to the Gaza Strip in spring 2010 carrying aids and supplies to the heroic people of Palestine.
They support the right of the Palestinian people to live in liberty in their homeland and to resistance in all its forms in order to liberate their country from the Israeli occupation.They demand the end of Israeli occupation of Palestine, the lifting of the land, air and sea blockade of Gaza, the release of Palestinian political prisoners from Israeli jails and the return of the Palestinian refugees to their homeland.
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Action
The newspaper «ΔΡΑΣΗ» (ACTION) is a bimonthly fighting newspaper of reason and action, that is distributed free of charge in labour and social spaces and is addressed in the all world of work. The operation of «ΔΡΑΣΗ» is based on the open assemblies of direct democracy, where each one interested is called to participate and to contribute in this undertaking. The objective of this newspaper is to contribute in the growth of a multiform emancipated worker’s movement and to constitue a voice of direct expression of experiences and communication, an open step of factual forms of solidarity and coiling for the auto-organisation, the solidarity, the direct democracy, supporting the working and social assemblies of base and the direct collective resistance and action.
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Occupy California
