[D66] New World Summit: Stateless Democracy

[J.N.]

stream:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dS8SfRTbFU

Gepland voor 30 jan. 2016

All times CET (Central European Time) UTC/GMT +1 hour

Block I: History of Stateless Democracy
----
13:00–13:10 Welcome
13:10–13:20 Introduction and procedures by facilitator Joost Jongerden
13:20–14:00 Dilek Öcalan (Peoples’ Demo- cratic Party (HDP), Turkey)
14:00–14:10 Response by Jodi Dean (politi- cal theorist and writer)
14:10–14:20 Response by Sadet Karabulut (Socialist Party (SP)
14:20–14:55 Plenary discussion
14:55–15:00 Closing words by Joost Jongerden

15:00–16:00 Lunch break

Block II: Stateless Democracy and Self-Defense
----
16:00–16:10 Welcome and procedures by facilitator Vincent W. J. van Gerven
16:10–16:30 Lecture by Salih Muslim (Democratic Union Party (PYD)
16:30–16:40 Response by Leila Khaled (PFLP)
16:40–16:50 Response by Jennifer McCann (Sinn Féin, Ireland)
16:50–17:40 First reflection by Gorka Elejabarrieta (Sortu, Basque Country)
17:40–17:45 Closing words by Vincent W. J. van Gerven Oei

17:45–18:15 Break

Block III: Stateless Democracy as Transnational Revolution
----
18:15–18:25 Welcome and procedures by facilitator Radha D’Souza
18:25–18:45 Lecture by Dilar Dirik (Kurdish Women’s Movement, Kurdistan)
18:45–18:55 Response by Mireia Vehí and Quim Arrufat (CUP), Catalunya)
18:55–19:05 Response by Angela Dimi- trakaki
19:05–19:55 First reflection by Karim Abdian (Congress of Nation- 
alities for a Federal Iran, Iran)
19:55–20:00 Closing words by Radha D’Souza



On 01/30/2016 09:20 AM, J.N.  wrote:
> http://newworldsummit.eu/
>
> stream:
> https://youtu.be/eACkH3xJQ_0
>
> 29 – 31 January 2016
> Aula Utrecht University, Utrecht (NL)
>
> The New World Summit, in collaboration with BAK, basis voor actuele
> kunst, Utrecht University, Utrecht; Centraal Museum, Utrecht; and the
> Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization, Brussels/The Hague,
> presents New World Summit: Stateless Democracy. This is the sixth summit
> organized by the New World Summit, dedicated to constructing
> “alternative parliaments” for stateless political organizations that
> find themselves excluded from democratic processes.
>
> New World Summit: Stateless Democracy is a three-day assembly that
> explores the possibilities of uncoupling the practice of democracy from
> the construct of the nation-state. Core speakers are representatives of
> the Kurdish revolutionary movement, which in 2012 declared Rojava, the
> northern part of Syria an autonomous “stateless democracy” based on
> principles of self-governance, gender-equality, and communal economy.
>
> The summit takes place at a time of rising ultranationalism, the
> strengthening of the War on Terror, and the emergence of the so-called
> Islamic State, resulting in nation-states declaring martial law,
> increasing their surveillance apparatus, and enforcing political
> exclusion in the name of “defending democracy.” In response, this summit
> brings together stateless and autonomist movements from all over the
> world to explore the potential of stateless democracy as a
> transnationalist paradigm that opposes state oppression in all forms,
> and to invest in a new emancipatory politics of the 21st century.
>
> For this sixth summit a temporary parliament is built in the aula of
> Utrecht University. It was on this site that the Union of Utrecht was
> signed in 1579, which was to become one of the foundations of the Dutch
> state. The parliament is thus also a historical intervention, reaching
> back to the very origins of the Dutch state to engage its alternative in
> the form of stateless democracy: a space to confront our current crisis
> and occupy the imaginary of a new, common world.
> Program:
>
> Day I: Failed Democracy.
> 29.01.2016, 7-10 PM
>
> Contributors include: Nancy Hollander (legal representative of Chelsea
> Manning and Mohamedou Ould Slahi); Birgitta Jónsdóttir (Pirate Party
> Iceland). Chaired by Maria Hlavajova (director BAK, basis voor actuele
> kunst, Utrecht)
>
> Day II: Stateless Democracy!
> 30.01.2016, 1-8 PM
>
> Contributors include: Amina Osse (representative Democratic Union Party,
> PYD, Rojava); Dilar Dirik (Kurdish Women’s Movement); Quim Arrufat
> (Popular Unity Candidacy, CUP, Catalunya); Jodi Dean (political theorist
> and writer); Leila Khaled (Popular Liberation Front of Palestine, PLFP);
> Jennifer McCann (Sinn Féin, Ireland); Ilena Saturay (National Democratic
> Movement of the Philippines). Chaired by: Joost Jongerden (academic and
> writer); Vincent W. J. van Gerven Oei (writer); Sana Soleiman Elmansouri
> (World Amazigh Congress)
>
> Day III: Future Democracy?
> 31.01.2016, 1-8 PM
>
> Contributors include: Richard Bell (artist, Aboriginal Tent Embassy);
> Emory Douglas (artist, former Cultural Minister Black Panther Party);
> Meike Nack (The Foundation of Free Women, Weqfa, Rojava); Suthaharan
> Nadarajah (Tamil Eelam); Simon P. Sapioper (Republic of West-Papua);
> Vivian Ziherl (Frontier Imaginaries); refugee collective We Are Here;
> Barcelona en Comú. Chaired by: Jolle Demmers (academic, Center for
> Conflict Studies); Radha D’Souza (academic and activist); Chris
> Keulemans (writer and journalist)
> _______________________________________________
> D66 mailing list
> D66 at tuxtown.net
> http://www.tuxtown.net/mailman/listinfo/d66