see: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=228692007173174">https://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=228692007173174</a><br><br><div><h2 class="uiHeaderTitle">15-18S Hub Meeting</h2></div><div class="clearfix">
<div class="mbs uiHeaderSubTitle lfloat fsm fwn fcg">by
<a href="https://www.facebook.com/QuoDLiBeTaT">Quod LiBe Tat</a> on
Monday, August 1, 2011 at 7:04pm</div></div><div class="mbl notesBlogText clearfix"><div><p>Dear
friends and mates,</p><p> </p><p>For those of us who have experienced
15M movement firsthand, last weeks have been intense. Our daily life has
been happily colonized by radical and diffuse political practices,
which has been capable of initiating the debate and showing the advanced
state of decomposition of representative politics and its servility to
economic interests.</p><p> </p><p>Today, new mobilizations are occurring
in many places which continue with the long fall of fighting and
struggle against austerity policies and the later spring of revolts in</p><p>blossom
in Iceland and the Mediterranean shores.</p><p> </p><p>Next autumn,
lots of real conflicts will cross the world. Attempts to stop radical
and democratic movements in the Arab world, and the sanction of
austerity policies in Europe, are the closest examples to us. But we
know they are not the only ones. We are experiencing together an attack
to global society which targets existence as to make it precarious in
the name of a very restricted and dominant elite interests.</p><p> </p><p>In
the European frame, all these austerity and cutting policies directly
affect the foundations of different forms of the European welfare state,
which in spite of their differences are the result of many previous
struggles. The rights we currently enjoy were not granted by the
dominant political class throughout the time. It was social movements,
as the proletarian, which achieved the incorporation of a more human and
fair perspective of society through mobilizations and other actions.
Nobody has given us anything for free; we cannot tolerate anyone to
snatch the political and social conquests accomplished so far. We have a
historical</p><p>legacy to defend together.</p><p> </p><p>Because of
these reasons, we are working, from the different DRY (Democracia Real
Ya!) nodes, on the global mobilization on October 15th against austerity
policies and to build real democratic practices from the bottom up. We
would like October 15th to be a territory, inhabited and shared by many
people, colectively built, where we can denounce the crisis of power and
start building concrete alternatives against material conditions and
precariousness of lifestyles.</p><p> </p><p>We consider this to be done
through meeting and debate among multiple networks, social movements and
processes, which are challenging power arrogance in this common
struggle cycle. That is why we propose building up a meeting together
from 15th to 18th September. A kind of Hub Meeting where we can talk
about this cycle of mobilizations and find possible connection,
collaboration and convergence joints between the struggles in which we
are taking part.</p><p> </p><p>Because of all above stated, we offer,
from Barcelona, to provide the necessary infrastructure which allow us
to carry out the meeting and therefore to be able to share analysis,
perspectives and strategies to design together a long fall against a
global power which each and every day seems, in our opinion, closer to
its own twilight.</p><p> </p><p>The different networks, groups and
movements, which want to take part in this meeting, will be also able to
organize parallel and autonomous meetings everyday. They will have
access to the necessary logistic means as places to gather and
accommodation, etc (yet to determine)</p><p> </p><p>To make the set-up
of this meeting the most collective possible, we suggest that you use,
as a shared space, the group “15S Hub meeting”:</p><p><a href="https://red.democraciarealya.es/pg/groups/59275/15s-hub-meeting/">https://red.democraciarealya.es/pg/groups/59275/15s-hub-meeting/</a></p><p> </p><p>To
access this tool you must first log on at
<a href="https://red.democraciarealya.es/">https://red.democraciarealya.es/</a> and join the “I” team where the “15S
Hub meeting” subgroup is enabled.</p><p> </p><p>As a first way to
organize preparatory work, we suggest the following categories:
Participating Groups and Networks; Contents; Working Methodology;
Logistics and Calendar.</p><p> </p><p>Participating Groups and
Netwroks: a list of participants with a brief introduction.</p><p>Contents:
collecting proposals of workshops and issues threads.</p><p>Methodology:
proposal and discussion of working methodologies with the tool online
and for the meeting itself.</p><p>Calendar: organization of days and
times of the meeting.</p><p>Logistics: available and necessary resources
to carry out the activities and their management.</p><p> </p><p>If you
are interested in participating, we’ll appreciate if you can send us an
email to <a href="mailto:15ShubMeeting@gmail.com">15ShubMeeting@gmail.com</a> in order to construct a list of
participants (and their networks) and to planify the resources that we
need.</p><p>Hoping to meet you in Barcelona, and on the net,</p><p> </p><p>Best
wishes,</p><p>DRY Barcelona</p><p> </p><p>DRY appears in January 2011
as a citizen mobilization platforms coordinator within a context
influenced by the silent Icelandic revolution, the Arab spring and the
European mobilizations cycle against austerity policies, which are being
implemented as an excuse for their necessity in the context of the
current economic and financial crisis, which affects all of us. In this
frame, DRY called for a first demonstration last May 15th (15M) to
denounce that “we are not merchandise in bankers and politicians hands”.
With this mobilization, the precarious ones -workers, students,
pensioners, inmigrants...- and different social groups took politics
back from the violence of Capital. DRY has actively participated in the
“#acampadas” (campsites) movement. DRY supports and actively works on
the building up of mobilizations on October 15th on a global level.</p></div></div><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>P2P Foundation: <a href="http://p2pfoundation.net" target="_blank">http://p2pfoundation.net</a> - <a href="http://blog.p2pfoundation.net" target="_blank">http://blog.p2pfoundation.net</a> <br>
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