Please note: This talk will be conducted entirely in Spanish.

During this live broadcast from San Juan, and as part of as part of Beta-Local’s residency at ISCP, Marina Sitrin will initiate a discussion by sharing stories from a number of recent horizontal movements from around world, where people look to one another for power and transformation. Through self-organization, these movements not only resist but also create alternative ways of being and living. Examples include struggles to defend the earth in Argentina−such as the recent victory against Monsanto and the mining companies in La Rioja−to the recuperation of workplaces in Latin America and Europe and the creation of alternative forms of health care in Greece. The discussion will be based on Sitrin’s experiences and collaborations with these movements.

Marina Sitrin is an activist, writer, militant and dreamer. She is the author of Horizontalism: Voices of Popular Power in Argentina, Everyday Revolutions: Horizontalism and Autonomy in Argentina and the co-author of They Can’t Represent US: Reinventing Democracy from Greece to Occupy. Her writing and activism focuses on movements that organize, grounded in forms of social organization such as autogestión, horizontalidad, prefigurative politics and affective social relationships.