1st international meeting: "Workers’ Economy: Self-Management and Distribution of Wealth"

Open University Programme

FACULTY OF LETTERS, UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES

Some of the areas were:

Capitalist economy, self-managed economy, social economy or socialization of economy, problems workers face in their struggle against global capitalism.

Some of the panelists were:

Matt Hern (Simon Fraser University, Canada), Joshua Stephens (Brighter Days workers collective, Fernández Ana María / Borakievich Sandra (Faculty of Psycology-UBA), Celia Guevara (Instituto Gino Germani, Faculty of Social Sciences, UBA), Sonia Alvarez (UMASS, USA), Graciela Di Marco (Universidad de San Martín), Flavio Chedid (Brazil, UFRJ), Bob Stone (Center for Global Justice); Derrick Naidoo (South Africa, IIS); Mladen Jakopovich (Socialist Party of Bosnia and Croatia); Luis Guerra Chacón (Universidad de La Habana, Cuba); Peter Ranis (CUNY, USA), Henrique Taham Novaes (UNICAMP).

Interpretation was English-Spanish both ways. Mobile translation equipment was made available to facilitate simultaneous interpreting. However, consecutive interpreting was also required.

Babel members worked professionally and committedly, receiving warm demonstrations of gratitude from the forum organizers, panelists and audience. We are truly pleased to have been able to prove that despite the extremely difficult state (status?) of the network, Babels is still standing and working for a possible world.

Cheers to all the network members from Argentina.

Babels-AR