Please share far and wide! Daniel Jadue is a former activist mayor of Recoleta, the immigrant district of Santiago, Chile. During his term, he implemented many radical municipalist reforms including setting up a people's university, libraries, and pharmacies that sold medication at cost. Sadly, he's the victim of a rightwing attack on his people's pharmacies and has been incarcerated since June 2024. He is currently under house arrest. You can read more about his case at the Corbyn project and the international solidarity campaign. The goals of this teach-in are to bring attention to the radical municipalist initiatives Jadue implemented in Recoleta during his term, to bring attention to his unjust detention and incarceration, and to rally the global municipalist movement behind his case for freedom. Date: Saturday, October 19th 2024 Time: 4:00 to 6:00 PM PDT/6:00 to 8:00 PM CDT/7:00 - 9:00 PM EDT Locations: The panel will be by Zoom with two viewing parties in Los Angeles and New York City. RSVP for the online panel or viewing party at https://solidarityresearch.org VIEWING PARTY LOCATIONS: Los Angeles, CA: Eastside Cafe, 5469 Huntington Dr N, Los Angeles, CA 90032 New York City, NY: The Word Is Change, 368 Tompkins Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11216 SPEAKERS: RODRIGO HURTADO, Universidad Abierto de Recoleta DAVID LEGGE, People's Health Movement LUCIA MORALE, Barcelona en Comu and Fearless Cities Network TBA, People's Pharmacies TBA, Lawyer for Daniel Jadue FACILITATORS: GIANPAOLO BAIOCCHI, Urban Democracy Lab at New York University ROMINA GREEN RIOJA, Washington and Lee University HOSTS: Solidarity Research Center North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA) CONTACT: Yvonne Yen Liu at [email protected] or Heather Gies at [email protected] for more information. BIOGRAPHIES: GIANPAOLO BAIOCCHI is a professor of individualized studies and sociology and is the founding director of the Urban Democracy Lab, a center that currently works with more than a dozen housing rights organizations in the US and abroad on visioning plausible alternatives to market-based housing. A Brazilian-born and New York City-based engaged scholar, his work has helped inspire and support progressive policy and legislation in the US and abroad. Gianpaolo earned his PhD in sociology in 2001 from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, specializing in critical theory, urban sociology, and political sociology. He is the author or co-author of seven books, two edited volumes, and more than fifty academic articles and book chapters. He regularly writes in public-facing outlets, and has published in outlets like the New York Times, Dissent, NACLA Report on the Americas, and Boston Review. His latest book, Housing is a Social Good (University of Chicago Press), with H. Jacob Carlson, explores how market-based thinking came to dominate housing debates in the US and how this trend can be reversed. Their work on the Social Housing Development Authority has been influential in advocacy circles. Gianpaolo is also one of the founders of the Participatory Budgeting Project and is recognized as a leading expert on implementations of participatory democracy and co-governance. RODRIGO HURTADO is the Executive Director of the Universidad Abierto de Recoleta (People’s University of Recoleta), established by Daniel Jadue in 2018. Hurtado has over 20 years of experience in education. He started in the Technological Innovation Program of the Ministry of Economy, then continued in the Continuing Education Program at the University of Chile’s philosophy department, where he worked for 10 years in distance learning programs. Before arriving at UAR, he was part of the Bicentennial Project at the Juan Gomez Millas Campus. DAVID LEGGE originally trained as a physician but has worked mainly in health services and public health since the early 1980s, including program management, research and teaching. From the mid 1990s to the 2010s he taught health policy, health systems and public health at La Trobe University in Australia. He has a strong interest in the political economy of health and the comparative study of health systems, including an extended program of teaching and research in health policy and management in China. Since 1994 David has been active in the International People's Health Council, which was one of the eight founding organisations of the People's Health Movement in December 2000. He has been active in PHM since the first People's Health Assembly in Savar in 2000, including participating in IPHU courses, WHO Watch (and the Tracker), Global Health Watch, the Trade and Health Circle and the Advisory Council. LUCIA MORALE is advisor to the Spanish Minister of Culture on gender equality and democratic memory. She is a lawyer and holds a Master's degree in Gender Studies and Equality Policies and a Master's degree in Criminalistics. She has worked in the Barcelona City Council in the areas of public security and feminism when Barcelona en comú won the mayoralty with Ada Colau. She has also worked in human rights organisations both in Spain and Argentina. She has been a member of the coordinator of Barcelona en comú and is currently a member of the board of trustees of the Sentit Comu Foundation. ROMINA GREEN RIOJA is Assistant Professor in Latin American history at Washington and Lee University. She is a scholar of gender and race of modern Chile and Argentina. Her book manuscript To Govern is to Educate: Modeling Racial Education in Modern Chile (1879-1920) explores the relationship between state education, immigration policies, and settler-colonialism, demonstrating how those institutions and policies contributed to structural racism and the social marginalization of the Indigenous Mapuche. She also researches and writes about the feminist movement in Chile and Argentina. SOLIDARITY RESEARCH CENTER is a worker self-directed nonprofit founded almost a decade ago. We build solidarity economy ecosystems through data science, story-based strategy, and action research. We work at the intersection of racial justice and solidarity economies Our projects include the Municipalism Learning Series, Los Angeles for All, and Regional Solidarity Economies. Sign up for our mailing list to be apprised of future offerings. And, please support our work if you have the resources. 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