Past events

Rethinking labour in an age of networks and movements

May 2013
Amsterdam
Netherlands

Networked Labour seminar is supported by Networked Politics, Transform! Europe, Transnational Institute and IGOPNet and will be held in Amsterdam between 7 and 9 May 2013. The objective of the seminar is to enhance the ongoing debate on the relationship between the changing nature of capitalist mode of production, emerging new social forces and political actors, and the new alternative ways of political participation by these actors. Overall focus will be on the impact of the internet and informatics on labour, value creation, and production processes and emerging radical communities as new or renewed political agency.

Land Grabbing: insights from Romania

April 2013
Amsterdam
Netherlands

Attila Szocs, who monitors large scale agricultural land purchases in Romania, and Dan Cismas, a biodynamic farmer and co-president of the EcoRuralis peasant association, tour European capitals and cities to highlight, debate and raise public awareness on the social, environmental and economic impact of large scale land acquisition by both, foreign and national companies.

 

Climate Space

March 2013
Tunisia

World Social Forum 2013

March 2013
Tunis
Tunisia

Defending and Celebrating People’s ‘Dignity’

Foro Internacional

March 2013
Cali
Colombia

Foro Alternativas a la Privatización de las Empresas Estatales de Servicios Públicos y telecomuncaciones en America Latina.

 

BITs that bite into budgets: Will the European Parliament let private lawyers decide?

February 2013
Brussels
Belgium

A public discussion of civil society with MEPs, Council & Commission to discuss the Financial Responsibility Regulation and the future EU Investment Policy.

Intersectoral approaches to health

January 2013
Santiago
Chile

Daniel Chavez will bring his expertise on power and energy to speak to how intersectoral approaches can be used to bring together unlikely allies and address power inequities, particularly in the context of privatization of municipal services.

Fifth ‘Critical Environmental Studies Colloquium’

December 2012
The Hague
Netherlands

Daniel Chavez talks about “State‐Owned Enterprises in the Provision of Public Services and in Industrial Policy” at this colloquium on 'green economy'

The Green Economy and financialisation of nature

December 2012
Amsterdam
Netherlands

 

 

TNI/RWE public talk

3 december 2012

20:00-22:00

CREA Amsterdam

Nieuwe Achtergracht 170

Alternative Regionalisms and Struggles for Community

November 2012

"The U.S.-Mexican border es una herida abierta (is an open wound) where the third world grates against the first and bleeds". Gloria Anzaldúa