NYC: Two Autonomist Events This Week

Here are two announcements for autonomist events in NYC this week: a release party a book by Felix Guattari and Antonio Negri book, and a screening and discussion with members of the San Precario Network.

New Lines of Alliance, New Spaces of Liberty Release December 1st @7PM at Bluestockings Books, 172 Allen Street (between Stanton and Rivington), New York.

At the dawn of the 1980s, in the wake of the defeat of the autonomous movements of the 1970s, Felix Guattari and Antonio Negri embarked on an extraordinary collaboration to rescue communism from its own disrepute: to rethink categories of economic analysis and political organization. Today we find ourselves in a situation where such a rethinking is needed more than ever.

Come join us for a celebration of the re-release of an expanded version of this classic text. Discussion and commentary with Jim Fleming, Alexander Galloway, Stevphen Shukaitis, and Miriam Tola.

San Precario Network Screening + Discussion
Sunday December 5th @ 16 Beaver – 7PM
16 Beaver Street 4th floor, NYC

Over the past fifteen years the idea of precarity has emerged as a key area of social conflict and political organizing. But what is precarity, and what does a focus on it mean for political organizing and social movements? Come join us for an evening of discussion with members of the San Precario network on the politics of precarious labor and what they could mean for US based movements and campaigns.

The San Precario network is an Italian group of activists, collectives, social centers and workers that is one of the main organizers of the Milan EuroMayDay Parade. They will be presenting materials from their campaigns and work.

Born in 2001 the Italian MayDay has become the most attended May Day demonstration in Europe: 120,000 people took the streets of Milan and danced until dawn in 2010 under the slogan ?Precarious of the world, let?s fight!? Since 2004 San Precario is the patron saint of precarious European workers. The San Precario Network is devoted to defend the workers rights but we also strive to imagine a new set of rights, a new welfare that matches the needs and lives of this precarious generation. Born within the Italian social centers movement, our collective provides legal support, tactical help and social-media skills, as well as brand subverting and political theorizing.

Our more recent campaigns are: Cash & Crash, a series of actions against evil companies wallets and brands; Welfare for Life! A campaign to guarantee fix income and free access to services; the Etats-General of Precarity, a general assembly of Italian and European movements which will be held in October; and of course, the EuroMayDay Parade.

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