Eur@action HUB project : Florence 2002

On the ESF there is also room for self organized initiatives. The Eur@action HUB project is such an autonomous project. Titles of workshops are 'reclaim the media', 'disobedience and desertation to global war', 'euro social activism', 'social activism', 'laboratory of knowledges',

The creation of the Hub space is happening in a decentralized and self menaged way; choosing an open path, cooperative and poliphonic is the challenge of the method we followed in the preparation virtually through the Hub web site. Now that people from Florence identified and got a space where we can create Hub, it's up to us to materialize it keeping the same spirit and methods. To avoid any centralization, we need to start a mechanism that allow a real and diffuse partecipation to the common project. We need the active contribution from everyone that's partecipating in the process. We will immagine and create inside the common space single spaces and creative practices that meet and cooperate one with the other. This means get to Florence with your tool kits, with the necessary means for this temporary area of knowledge sharing and creation: banners and communicative materials, paints and tools to create other tools on the spot,computers,papers and stickers, costumes, music instruments, red wine and good food....This is part of our daily practice: cooperation, interaction, creation bring everything you might need to free the space you immagine and desire!

In search for Space
Let's open a convergence Space
Let's displace Florence

Eur@ction HUB: satellite experimentation lab for media+social activism
6-10 november 2002, Florence

HUB is oxygen, not carbon dioxide. Hub wants to be fresh, unpolluted air that freely diffuses across allegiances, practices, methods. Hub creates space for moments and sites of cooperation, experimentation, creation, and action.

HUB is a trail where different paths cross, a space opening up other dimensions, a site enabling free access to cross-breed and socialize information, knowledge, and express muliplicity of forms, attitudes, ways, experiences of media and social activism.

HUB exists insofar as it materializes in the liberation of a metropolitan public space; it is an area of time, land, imagination emerging from the temporary networking and interconnection of various subjects, individual and collective.

HUB is born out of sharing a method based on
decentralization, consensus decision-making, transparence and public communication of practices and decisions

HUB is a journey taken by individuals participating in groups, collectives, networks across Europe and the planet, such as:
Indymedia, Intergalactika, Chainworkers, Las Agencias, Yomango, Movimiento de Resistencia Global de Catalunya, Comunicaccio, Laboratorio Desobediente (Spain), Universidad Nomada, Colectivo de Solidaridad con Chiapas, Dinero Gratis, Ninguna persona es ilegal, Apprentice Agitators for a Global Resistance Network (France) etc., etc.

HUB is not charted onto predetermined political terrains, is not listed on the bad guys/good guys records, is neither within nor without the ESF

HUB is a work in progress. It grows as people post new ideas and proposals on the website http://www.inventati.org/hub

HUB is:
- Mediacenter, a space for digital media experimentation.
- Laboratorio Intergalactika, a place to compare and experiment with new forms of action and organizing.
- Cocktail Block, mobile unit of festive alchemy, nutrient and proteic-tactic actions.
- Space Jamming, cultural clogging and détournement, net art, subvertising
- esa (Euro Social Activism) Lab, to set up connections, campaigns, strengthen social networks, develop common paths of conflict and liberation across the EU
- Tango Argentino, a lab of daily subversion inspired by Argentina's self-government and direct action practices.
- Lab on Social Knowledge, discussion panels to democratize access to education and information, research and study, by designing social investigations and radical cartographies.
- Reclaim the money, welfare activism and social debate on generalized, guaranteed basic income.
- Reclaim the media, creation of independent media and grassroots media infrastructures to be accessed from below and in a communal way, to protest, sabotage, and campaign on the official media.

HUB wants to affirm new social and communication rights.
HUB is an area for creation and free enjoyment of goods and
techniques.

Europa, october 2002

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Eur@action HUB project : Florence 2002

by Europa (posted by lize) Tuesday, Nov. 05, 2002 at 3:31 PM