To Fear Dystopia or To Build Utopia
by pasifik
on 2012-05-31
at 20:41
While We Were Sleeping: From Dystopia to Global Awakening
Prof. Lauren Langman from Loyola University speaks about the dystopia of social movements. 12-minute video
Social activist from Pennsylvania,Carl Davidson, speaks about the need to coordinate Occupy Movement, labour unions, and the masses. 7-minute video
Prof. Jackie Smith from the University of Pittsburgh speaks enthusiastically about Occupy movements and other social forums. 9-minute video
Prof. Jay smith, from Athabasca University, speaks about Horizontality or participatory democracy. 18 minute raw video
Prof. Manfred Steger researches on the social movements’ need to develop a coherent, alternative political system if they want to be effective.
13 minute video
Prof. Paul James, figuratively speaking, says that social movements have hit the wall, and that people on Main Street need to build alternative systems of services and trade which are independent from Wall Street and independent from the current system of representative democracy.15 minute video
Prof. Jerry Harris, from DeVry University in Chicago, speaks about Dystopia and Democracy: Power and the Transnational Capitalist Class.
14 minute video
Prof. William Carroll, from the University of Victoria, speaks about Alternative Policy Groups and Global Civil society: Networks and Discourses of Counter-Hegemony
13 minut video