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International Conference - Lille, France (3-5 July 2019)

Envisioning the Economy of the Future, and the Future of Political Economy

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Migrant Struggle, Anarchist Resistance and Controlled Chaos in Greece
Ernest Larsen  1@  , Sherry Millner  2@  
1 : writer: The Trial Before the Trial
2 : Professor of Media Culture, College of Staten Island, New York

This talk/ screening, will examine the value of anarchist practices such as direct action, reciprocity (or solidarity), autonomous forms of organization and assembly, and tactical illegalism in support of migrant struggles in Thessaloniki, a city located on the Balkan route, in eastern Greece. Since 2009, our involvement, primarily with the anarchist migrant support group Clandestina, has led to radical cultural production across a considerable array of platforms.

In July 2016 we (Ernie Larsen and Sherry Millner) conducted outdoor screenings of short-form radical experimental films at the (unsanctioned) No Border encampment on the campus of Aristotle University where about 2000 anti-authoritarian migrants and activists engaged in 12 days of protest, education, and cultural exchange. Within this context, we will screen How Animals and Plants Live, a 26-minute video essay that concentrates on the physical, social and affective consequences of the government's violent eviction of migrants and their supporters from the self-organized squat Orfanotrofeio in late July 2016, just two days after the NO Border events.



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