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by RADIOCITTA' PESCARA
Sunday, Jan. 14, 2001 at 3:46 AM
radiocitta@urla.com 0039 85 42 19 770 pescara italy
This is an invitation to all the people who took part physically and/or spiritually in the mobilizations and debates started in recent months in Seattle, Praga, Nizza,
Milan, Ancona, Genoa, Naples and Bologna, as well as to all the people who look with growing interest towards the rise of a new movement against neoliberism.
error"Cantieri": a workshop on "NEW ECONOMY / NEW RIGHTS" debating the proposal of "social wage" and/or the right of "citizenship income". Pescara, ITALY, February 10-11, 2001.
This is an invitation to all the people who took part physically and/or spiritually in the mobilizations and debates started in recent months in Seattle, Praga, Nizza, Milan, Ancona, Genoa, Naples and Bologna, as well as to all the people who look with growing interest towards the rise of a new movement against neoliberism. We do not have defined assumptions, only the urge to fully analyze and comprehend present and future possibilities of the current capitalistic development. The "Cantieri", (as we defined it last summer when it was organized for the first time by CARTA in Naples) is going to be an open workshop. The "Cantieri" has the main objective of promoting action as well as cooperation between the different forces antagonizing the new phase of the capitalistic development. Indeed, last June in Naples, we sought to further the analysis on critical themes such as the "working/non working" issue, as well as on the right to a "citizenship income", as a trigger to build cohesion amongst the different components of labor. As we have said, we do not have a predefined thesis. On the contrary we are set to promote a non hierarchical and non dogmatic debate, as well as spontaneous networking between the different components of the antagonistic movement, in order to sort out more effective strategies that will make a powerful impact on our times. Our starting hypothesis is the call for a "social wage". Again, this is a proposal not a dogma. An additional/alternative starting point is the need for a "citizenship income". No matter where we start, the rapid crushing of what has been called by some the "diamond of labor" imposes an urgent modernization of our analysis. By using an "investigative" approach we aim to sort out different proposals on the issues of income redistribution, as well as fully identify the multiform expression of labor today. Investigation includes consideration on confrontational approaches, the forms that the struggle must assume, and on the planning of practical areas of "autonomous sociality". We will not focus exclusively, on the analysis of the "traditional workplace". On the contrary we will, more broadly, focus on the system as a whole, the "social factory" in which we live as a result of the impetuous development of a global network; a "social factory" fed by migratory fluxes, and that is constantly remodeling the functions and the organization of the state, as well as redefining the boundaries of our collective imagination and ideology. However, we do not want to talk only about movements, we want the movements to speak. Our investigation will consist of personal communications, in dept theoretical analyses and debates by the experts and investigators that so far have carefully studied these processes. However, this process will be mixed with the direct voices from movements in France and Italy, that in recent years have produced great analysis as well as praxis on issues such as "working/non working" and the right to "citizenship income". Our ambition is to put together a common platform of demands and economic policies that, by assembling multiple forces, will constitute a critical mass strong enough to gain credibility and authority. We think that a "minimal" (and definitely legitimate) goal of income redistribution is not in contradiction with additional goals such as the reduction of working hours, the creation of autonomous economical practices and the further development of a "services economy". We call this goal "minimal" as we recognize that no revolution is needed to pursue it. However, we know as well, that this "minimal" goal strongly antagonizes the intellectual dictatorship of contemporary "unidimensional thinking" that imposes flexibility, temporary employment and "behind close doors" negotiations. This goal can be pursued HERE and NOW and at every level. We can pursue it locally, at municipal level, focusing the struggle on the rights to transportation, food, education, and local management of federal funds as well as by actively supporting the struggles of temporary and unemployed workers. At the national level we can act by pushing the legislation in favor of strong tax reform and social security. Finally at the European level we can pursue it by antagonizing the absurd parameters set by the "Stability Pact" or, as we did in Nizza, challenging the ambiguous "right to work" proposed by the "Charter of Rights". Finally, we invite all of you to participate in this two day "CANTIERI", in Pescara, as a social occasion to promote, reinforce and stimulate mutual curiosities as well as fruitful acquaintances.
To join: radiocitta@urla.com
Next news on: www.urla.com/consapevolezza http://www.carta.org/cantieri/Pescara/001221.htm www.ilmanifesto.it
Maurizio Acerbo, segretario regionale PRC Abruzzo Lorenzo Calamosca, coordinatore Radio Citta' Pescara Rivista DeriveApprodi Marco Revelli, storico ricercatore Franco Berardi Bifo, saggista, agitatore culturale Beppe Caccia, Centri sociali del Nord Est Luca Casarini, Centri sociali del Nord Est Daniele Farina, Centro sociale Leoncavallo Andrea Fumagalli, economista Isidoro Mortellaro, ordinario di Storia delle Istituzioni Europee Paolo Cacciari, segretario regionale PRC Veneto Loris Campetti, Carla Casalini, Fulvio Perini, Il Manifesto Peppe De Cristofaro, coordinatore nazionale Giovani Comunisti Marco Gelmini, dipartimento inchiesta del PRC Paolo Ferrero, direzione nazionale PRC Gigi Malabarba, Sin Cobas Marino Severini, musicista GANG Gigi Sullo, direttore CARTA Redazione di CARTA Vittorio Agnoletto. Presidente LILA Franco Russo, Forum Ambientalista Giorgio Riolo, Punto Rosso Milano Italo Di Sabato, segretario regionale PRC Molise Paolo Iafrate, Movimento nazionale di lotta LSU Titti De Simone, presidente Arcilesbica Sergio Sinigaglia, Cantieri sociali Marche Andrea De Bonis, spazio sociale Filorosso Cosenza Claudio Dionesalvi, Radio Ciroma Cosenza Giovanni Russo Spena, senatore PRC Enrico Fletzer, Radio K Bologna Paolo Cognini, Centri sociali centro est Enza Amici, Ya Basta Marche Mimmo Porcaro, saggista Giovanni Mazzetti, economista Giuseppe Di Lello, europarlamentare PRC Papi Bronzini, giurista Domenico Jervolino, assessore cultura comune di Napoli
www.urla.com/consapevolezza
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by Paul Daly
Sunday, Jan. 14, 2001 at 5:54 PM
pauldaly@altavista.com
I guess "income redistribution", "citizenship income" and "social wages" are all terms loosely synonymous with the English expression: Money for nothing.
Another phrasing of it is:
Other people's money.
And, I mean, hey, that's cool if you can get it.
Except for one thing. Didn't anyone ever teach y'all that's its just Wrong to expect other people to take care of you?
Or are "self reliance" and "individual responsibility" just industrial-technical dictatorial social constructs engendered for the purpose of redirecting our collective imagination away from true social actualization (or some other jargon laden psuedo-intellectual tripe)?
Just wondering.
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by Here's one for Mussolina
Sunday, Jan. 14, 2001 at 6:11 PM
Yeah... what about that?
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