Dear fellow travellers through utopia
We are beginning to research a new project and were wondering whether
you could help. Basically we would like to make a nomadic socially
engaged art project that involves a tour of Europe visiting a range
of creative alternatives to capitalist ways of everyday living (with
the view of maybe creating a map/ installation/ book / film / whatever
form will be most exciting... not sure yet) We want to visit lots of
different examples of all sizes, nature, spirit (not just communal
living experiments but also micro models of economics, education,
love, Power, food, information, transportation etc).
We feel that too often European anticapitalists' visions "what we are
FOR" come from far away - the occupied factories of Argentina,
Autonomous municipalities of Chiapas, The Brazilian landless movement
etc... and rarely do we talk about models on our own doorstep, less
exotic but maybe just as inspiring .. We feel that by focusing on
these geographically and somewhat culturally distant models we have
maybe ignored many of the more local ones. We would like the project to
make some of the inspiring European experiments more visible to both
ourselves and a wider public..
This is where you come in.... We know that you have either lived in ,
visited, written about or passed through in some way some of these
alternative experiments in everyday life in Europe . They might be
intentional communities, radical education schemes, wild agricultural
projects, inventive transport ideas , fabulous free spaces of some
sort. We would love to know what are the models of another way of
living that made your heart beat because they allowed you to glimpse
another world and to know that it was possible to slip out of the
"comfortable" clutches of capitalism forever?
If you could share your top 5 ? or 3 ? or how ever many you have with
us it would be absolutely brilliant... It'd allow us to make sure that
we don't stupidly pass by a great thing just because we did not know
about it....
Thanks ever so much in advance
yours
JJ and ISA xx
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WE ARE EVERYWHERE: THE IRRESISTIBLE RISE OF GLOBAL ANTICAPITALISM
edited by : Notes from Nowhere
published by VERSO and available in most bookshops and online
"This is the first book to truly capture and embody the exuberant
creativity
and radical intellect of the protest movements" Naomi Klein
"an authentic document of revolution" The Times
www.weareeverywhere.org
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