1st Libertarian Encounter: Anarchism and the Social Movements

Invitation and Programme

From 8-11 December 2008, the Organização Resistência Libertária (ORL - Libertarian Resistance Organization) will be hosting the 1st Libertarian Encounter in Fortaleza (north-eastern Brazil). The event will see the participation of members of anarchist political organizations from various Brazilian cities, militants from the social movements, sympathisers and the curious. Through this initiative, he hope to create a space for exchanging experiences and methodologies between people who are involved in developing ideas and concrete forms in the anti-capitalist struggle from a libertarian perspective. [Português]

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1st Libertarian Encounter: Anarchism & Social Movements

From 8-11 December 2008, the Organização Resistência Libertária (ORL - Libertarian Resistance Organization) will be hosting the 1st Libertarian Encounter in Fortaleza (north-eastern Brazil). The event will see the participation of members of anarchist political organizations from various Brazilian cities, militants from the social movements, sympathisers and the curious. Through this initiative, he hope to create a space for exchanging experiences and methodologies between people who are involved in developing ideas and concrete forms in the anti-capitalist struggle from a libertarian perspective.

There will be four days of workshops, debates, discussions, lectures, exhibitions, cultural activities and informal meetings around themes such as social anarchism, libertarian education, independent media, homeless and housing movements, social ecology, the student movement, libertarian organization, ethnic resistance, the anti-capitalist struggle and more.

We believe that the anti-capitalist struggle can only make important and long-lasting advances if its social roots and dimensions are continually widened. Therefore, we think that anarchism must be present inside the social struggles and at their service, encouraging autonomy, direct action, combativity and direct democracy. This insertion must in no way seek to manage the struggles or submit them to particular interests, but instead contribute in such a way that they can go beyond their immediate demands and take on a libertarian, revolutionary nature seeking to overthrow capitalist society.

We invite everyone to participate in this occasion for meeting and getting to know each other, so that we can join forces and make longer, stronger steps towards developing and building opportunities for organization and struggle with an anti-capitalist, libertarian perspective.

The great are only great because we are on our knees! Rise up!!

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Programme

Monday 8 December

4.00pm - Welcoming invitees and participants

6.00pm - Opening

6.30pm - Debate: Social Anarchism and Building Counterpower, with Felipe Corrêa (Federação Anarquista do Rio de Janeiro – FARJ) and Mateus Júnior (Magão) (ORL)
Venue: Pátio da História – UFC

Tuesday 9 December

9.00am - Workshops and video showings*

2.00pm - Roundtable: The Workers' Movement and the Anarchist Press, with Adelaide Gonçalves (Universidade Federal do Ceará - UFC) and Rogério Nascimento (Universidade Federal de Campina Grande – UFCG)
Venue: Auditório da História – UFC

6.30pm - Debate: Anarchism and the Social Movements, with Alexandre Samis (FARJ/Movimento dos Trabalhadores Desempregados - MTD) and Victor Pereira (ORL/Movimento estudantil da UFC)
Venue: Pátio da História – UFC.

Wednesday 10 December

9.00am - Workshops and video showings*

2.00pm - Roundtable: Libertarian Pedagogy and Anarchist Education in Brazil, with José Damiro de Moraes (Universidade Federal dos Vales do Jequitinhonha e Mucuri - UFVJM) and Sandro Soares (UFC)
Venue: Auditório da História - UFC

6.30pm - Debate: Anarchism and the Student Movement, with Henrique Bezerra (Coletivo Anarquista Zumbi dos Palmares - CAZP/Movimento estudantil da UFAL), Patrícia Pinheiro and Thiago Roniere (ORL/Movimento estudantil da UFC)
Venue: Pátio da História – UFC

Thursday 11 December

9.00am - Workshops and video showings*

2.00pm - Roundtable: History and Historical Writing on Anarchism in Brazil, with Alexandre Samis (UFF/GEA-NEC), Allyson Bruno (Universidade Estadual do Ceará – UECE) and Carlo Romani (UFC)
Venue: Auditório da História – UFC

6.30pm - Debate: Indigenous Struggles Against the Advance of Capitalism in Ceará, with João Paulo Vieira (Historian/ORL) and Representatives of the indigenous communities of Ceará
Venue: Pátio da História – UFC

9.00pm - Closing and socializing

Workshops confirmed:
Wen-do / João Pessoa (female self-defence)
Projeto Ciclovida (ecological action in the field)
Grupo de Capoeira Angola Pelourinho (workshop on Angolan capoeira)

* More workshops, statements, exhibitions and video showings will be announced later.

Proposals for workshops etc. can be emailed to encontrolibertario@gmail.com before 28 November.

During the event, the following books and publications will be launched:

"Os Enganadores"
"A Política da Internacional"
"Aonde Ir e o Que Fazer"
Mikhail Bakunin
Co-publication by Imaginário and Faísca Publicações Libertárias

"A Idéia dos Sovietes"
Pano Vassilev
Co-publication by Imaginário and Faísca Publicações Libertárias

"A Concepção Libertária da Transformação Social Revolucionária"
Rudolf de Jong
Published by Faísca Publicações Libertárias

"The Organização Resistência Libertária Manifesto"

"Declaration of Principles of the Organização Resistência Libertária"

"Semente Libertária"
(Newspaper of the ORL)

For more information:
http://encontrolibertario.blogspot.com

Registration and more information at:
encontrolibertario@gmail.com

1st Libertarian Encounter: Anarchism and the Social Movements

from 8 to 11 December 2008

Venue: Centro de Humanidades II da UFC, Av. da Universidade, 2700 – Fortaleza (Ceará).

Organized by: Organização Resistência Libertária
With the assistance of:
Universidade Federal do Ceará
Federação Anarquista do Rio de Janeiro
Faísca Publicações Libertárias

Translation by FdCA-International Relations Office