[P2P-F] Public event with Brazilian philosopher Euclides André Mance

[george dafermos]

Dear friends and colleagues,

For those of us based in Athens (Greece), there is a very interesting
public event on Friday with Brazilian philosopher Euclides André Mance, who
is known for connecting the free software world with the principles of
solidarity economy <https://stallman.org/solidarity-economy.html>. I am
sending you the invitation:

Public event with Brazilian philosopher and popular educator, Euclides
André Mance, Friday 12 June, 19.00 p.m at the Greek Archeologists Union in
Athens.

*“If for many it is only a utopia, an ever-receding horizon of hope, for
millions of others solidarity economy is a way of working, producing,
commercialising, consuming and exchanging values. It is a way of satisfying
individual and personal needs in the interest of the welfare of all. It is
the material base of the network revolution.”* E.M

According to the Federal University of Pelotas, in 2014 1.5 million
Brazilians are working, full or part time, in 19,708 cooperatives of the
solidarity economy. The significant growth of solidarity economy
initiatives and social movements during the 1990s coincides with the
enormous economic and social consequences of the debt crisis that the
country faced. In 2002, Lula's government significantly strengthens
employment and invests in social policies, resulting in the weakening of
solidarity economy as an alternative way-out. Since 2010, with social
inequalities persisting, this socio-economic movement is regrouping,
getting better organized and fights not only for policy change but also for
a radical design of a new economic model.

*Images from the future?*

*On Friday 12 June, at 19:00, at the garden of the Greek Archeologists
Union (Ermou 134, Athens) we will be discussing with Euclides André Mance **on
the experience of Brazil and the rest of Latin America, the need to develop
cooperative networks and the economy of liberation*. After the talk, we
will continue with music and Brazilian cocktails.

*Euclides André Mance* is a Brazilian philosopher, one of the main
theorists of solidarity economy and philosophy of liberation in Latin
America. He worked as popular educator in the 90s and has authored many
articles and books, such as “The Revolution of the Networks”, in which he
examines how solidarity and cooperative networks could form connections
that could drive economy, politics and culture towards building the
material base for new, post-capitalist societies.

In this latest book, “Constellation Solidarius” (Dec 2008), Mance deals
with the systemic ruptures of capitalism and describes how we can take
advantage of them under the logic of solidarity economy.

Since 1999 he supports the creation of solidarity networks and is a member
of Brazil's Peoples Network of Solidarity Economy
<http://base.d-p-h.info/pt/fiches/dph/fiche-dph-6724.html> and of Solidarius
<http://www.solidarius.com.br>.
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