Marina Sitrin: Pregnancy and Fashion – Don’t “Look Like Me”

Pregnancy has been the one area that remained generally untouched by superficial beauty and fashion judgments

Marina Sitrin: “If We Can Stop Monsanto, We Can Change The World”

A conversation with Vanessa Satoris from The Malvinas Assembly in Argentina

Marina Sitrin: Education as Commons: Bachilleratos Populares in Argentina

Participants reflect that the self organized nature of the schools is directly connected to the horizontal and assembly based movements that came out of the popular rebellion of December 2001

Marina Sitrin: Solidarity and Accompaniment

From recuperated workplaces to defense of the land

Marina Sitrin: Argentina: Societies in Movement or Politics as Usual?

Another reality of Argentina is one of social movements that are creating alternatives from below with a horizontalist model of organizing

Marina Sitrin: Beyond Cops, Courts and Jails

People around the world have been trying to resolve issues without the courts, police or jails

Marina Sitrin: Societies in Movement – Preventing Evictions

Movements around the world are fighting for the right to housing, and challenging private property and banks

Marina Sitrin: Direct Action to Survive in Detroit

So, while the government of the US goes along with policies that mirror Israel at war with an entire people, We, the people of the United States, led by Detroit, are joining our sisters and brothers from Greece and Spain, creating real democracy and showing that real power is from below

Marina Sitrin: Today’s ‘Righteous’ Defenders of Refugees in Germany

What prompted me to write this however, was not the fear and anger I have been feeling, but the bravery shown in the face of such fear

Marina Sitrin: Connecting the Occupy Movements and the Spanish May 15th Movement

We write this letter as participants in the movements, and as an invitation to a conversation. We hope to raise questions about how we continue to deepen and transform the new social relationships and processes we have begun … to open the discussion towards a common horizon. The evictions and threats to the physical Occupations Read more…