The Crisis of Everything Everywhere — Day 6
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A midwinter retreat, a modular molecular seminar with Everyone
Day 6
Direct Democracy
The sixth day will be focused on organizing some discussions and a potential workshop around the idea and practice of direct democracy. This event is organized with the Direct Democracy working group. We will attempt to construct a space to imagine what this term can mean, what kinds of practices it implies, and how these movements may experiment further and retain a critical relation to what this term/notion implies.
3-5PM
We will host a workshop which will put into play techniques from the Theater of the Oppressed to explore together dynamics of bureaucracy, hierarchy, and concentration of power which impedes the ability of individuals or groups to act, to do, to practice or implement things for themselves, horizontally and not imposed.
5:30-7 PM
Open space for non-programmed discussion
7:30-12:30PM
Some prepratory questions for a discussion:
Question 1: What creates bureaucracy and hierarchy within our forms of organizing, and is it possible to avoid it?
Question 2: What are the various ways of praxis of direct democracy that arise autonomously of existing historical and political structures today?
Question 3: Can direct democracy as an open process and an act of assembly become a turning point to address and participate in anti-capitalist, anti-state struggles and issues of solidarity?
[This meeting turned into a 5 hour discussion about the limits and potentials for experimenting with forms of direct democracy]