Date: Sun, 22 Jun 1997 13:43:40 -0400 From: Joe McIntire <mcintire-AT-aug.com> Subject: Re: info Dear Monty et al: Thanks for the info re sub-mesas. In yours you referred to www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/3849/gatehrdx.html. The correct url is http ..../gatherdx.html For the benefit of all, I attach below the list of mesas and sub-mesas: 1. Neoliberal economics against humanity. Our lives beyond economics. 1.a. work and production media : concept, acces, unemployment, precarity, technological change and unemployment, productivism, economical agreements and our economies, etc., 1.b. creation of conditions for a life with dignity : home, health, social state, etc. 1.c Alternatives economies : fair trade, self management, economies without money, cooperation, 1.d Ways of life beyond the market : reapporpiation, new self organised movements, etc. 2) Our world and their world. 2.a Globalization and new differences: Relationship between the N-W-E-S., new geometrics with space for our worlds, international agreements, the single mind that does not want spaces for freedom, the lies of the democracy in the "global village", the western consumer, origins of hunger and poverty, the war scenes, the death business, solidarity and cooperation, NGOs. Other ways of globalisation. 2.b Folks and identities. Old and new problems : nationalism, self determination, excluded or compliant, indigenous folks, etc. 2.c Human mobility or forced destiny : immigration, borders, refuggies, internal migration, etc. 3) Struggles for culture, education and information. 3.a Culture: each of our worlds is a necessary contribution and unique to the culture of everyone; global culture, multiculture or cultural imperalism? The resistence to the art and the art of resistence , culture as a tool of domination, the rescue of collective memories, etc. 3.b Education : a way to create freedom . Education to form better people rather than to form productive resources. Education: system domestication or a tool of freedom? Childhood colonisation, the learning process as a learning of participation and creation, experiences of free-education, the wisdom of folks forgotten by neoliberal civilisation, etc 3.c Information : they also want to own our personal details. Information and power, media concentration, technology and knowledge, the global society of information a paradigm that leaves us without access to information, new ways of creating a two tier society; etc. 4) The woman and her struggles / The struggle against patriarchary. (final contents to be discussed in a Womens Gathering - Vienna May '97) 5) Struggles for Earth and Ecology 5.a, Land and rural areas. The point: peasant extermination. 5.b Property and struggles for the land. 5.c Land devastation. 5.d New technologies : nature as a machine programmed to serve world elites. 5.e Ecology as a business. 5.f Consuming and toxic rubbish 5.g Dirty and enviroment destroying energies 5.h Climatic changes and desertification 5.i. Water distribution, is it fair 5.j Cruelty to animals, animal liberation, etc. 6) Against any form of exclusion 6.a The segregationof children and old people. 6.b Prisoners and the ideology of guilt. 6.c Social prisoners and prisoners of conscience 6.d The exclusion of sexual diversity 6.e Undervaluing of disabled people and people with chronic illness. Peace Joe. --- from list aut-op-sy-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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