Message from Heike Schaumberg ([log in to unmask])

Please find attached the almost complete program of the international conference on autogestion (workers' self-organisation) this time hosted by workers occupying their factory Fralib in Marseille in France. To find out more about them, read here, sorry it's in French (http://fr.euronews.com/2014/01/03/fralib-trois-ans-de-lutte-ouvriere-contre-le-geant-unilever/) . Please note that this is not the final program and changes to the speakers' list might still occur.

As the program attached states, this "first regional conference in Europe, entitled "The workers economy", will take place on 31 January and 2 February in the Fralib factory, occupied by its workers in defence of their jobs. This conference is a continuation of the international annual conference that has taken place so far since 2007, initiated by the experiences of the workers' recovered enterprises and other movements for workers' autogestion in Latin America" (more details can be found here: http://www.recuperadasdoc.com.ar/). It was generated by a cross-disciplinary team of academics and students within the Facultad Abierta (convened by the anthropologist Andrés Ruggeri), an extra-curricular program of the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina. The conference brings together activists, workers, scholars and students committed with these workers' struggles. It has widened in scope since as it has been held in different places across Latin America and thus incorporates a variety of experiences of autogestion. As the crisis is advancing in Europe, the conference will take place for the first time in Europe and hosted appropriately by the Fralib workers. It will be multi-lingual with available translations. However, if you are fluent in more than one language and would like to collaborate with translations during the event, then I urge you to get in touch with the organiser, Andrés Ruggeri ([log in to unmask]). 

Otherwise, if you wish to attend this exciting event, please register online, and state, if you require accommodation, which is available within the factory : https://docs.google.com/ spreadsheet/ccc?key= 0Ao6Vifu2io2zdG9QM2NiUEdkOVZsN UUyM2c0cHRaQVE&usp=drive_web# gid=0

IMPORTANT: If you are sending union or other workers'/ social movement solidarity delegations, please let me know, or directly contact Andrés([log in to unmask]) to include it appropriately in the program and facilitate any necessary arrangements accordingly. Please bring this to the attention of any of your contacts who might be genuinely and appropriately interested in this event.

With best wishes, 

Heike

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Dr. Heike Schaumberg, 
Honorary Research Fellow in Social Anthropology,
Faculty of Social Sciences
University of Manchester, UK






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