Cyklopen trappar upp! 13 – 14/9 2008

Some seminars and workshops are ready, others on their way. This program will be updated so keep an eye on it!

Friday 7/9/07

19.00 Inauguration

20.00 Party (No alcohol and no age limit)

Bands and DJ Crew: Skalicious (ska), Dorlene Love (folkpunk), Elenette (pop), Radical love crew

Saturday 8/9/07

10.00 Kulturkampanjen welcomes us to Cyklopen and talk about their struggle to get an autonomous space for politics and culture. A pilot movie about this journey will be shown.

11.00 Autonomous spaces: Report back from free zones and house occupations. Activists from Copenhagen, Helsinki, Allaktivitetshuset in Malmö and The Cowley Club, Brighton, UK will be there.

11.00 Swarm communication, communication guerrilla and media activism: How to move from information to action? An open discussion with short introductions and presentations by Indymedia, Tjärhovsplan.se, Krigsmaskinen & Motkraft.

11.00 Graffiti: A workshop. Graffiti artists from Upplands-Väsby show us the way.

12.00 The Sweden democrats into parliament? Mattias Gardell introduces an open discussion about antiracist strategies and experiences from earlier campaigns.

12.00 Report back from Oaxaca. Anna-Reetta Korhonen and Laura Böök talk about and show pictures from the uprising in 2006. In English.

14.00 Kvinnopolitiskt forum talks about class struggle feminism, presents current and future projects and invites all women to organise with them.

14.00 Perspectives on a sustainable society. Rikard Warlenius (Arbetaren), Jan Wiklund (Alternativ Stad) and Marcus Vildir (Det vildväxande kollektivet) discuss commonalities and differences.

16.00 Activist trauma & recovery: Taking care of each other is part of the resistance. Martin Shaw from Activist Trauma UK talks about his own experiences and how we can prepare ourselves and deal with trauma for a long term and sustainable activism. In English.

16.00 What do you do? Workshop in workplace activism outside the unions and union activism. SAC och Vår Makt.

16.00 Songs of struggle and slogan workshop. Learn classics or make up new ones.

18.00 Refugees anew. Shora Esmailan talks about the situation in Lebanon and Palestine.

18.00 With a fist in the pocket. About Class.

18.00 Nonviolent anarchism. Ideas, history and practical experiences from social movements in Germany and France. Lou Marin (Graswurzelrevolution). In English.

19.00 Autonomous spaces: Time for further discussions.

21.00 Party (18 years and you must sign up in advance)

Bands and DJ Crews: DJ Koffe (punk), Max Peezay (grime), Compas (ska), Våld (punk), Strula med Siri (pop), Traffic crew (drum’n'bass)

Sunday 9/9/07

12.00 What can we learn from the resistance against the Dennis reform? Josefin Hasselberg and Sara Woldegiorgis (Alternativ stad, previously active in Social Ekologisk Aktion) share their experiences from the Swedish road protest movement in the 90s.

12.00 Theatre of the oppressed. Through different exercises and finally a play exploring oppression on a personal level. Milla Ahola

13.00 Labour and environmental struggles in Chile. Cristián Alarcon talks about and shows a film regarding the struggle of union activists and indigenous people against multinational companies (including Scandinavian companies) in Southern Chile.

13.00 Can it get any worse? About repression and resistance. Erik Wijk begins and Ingen Människa är Illegal (No one is Illegal) talks about their work with people who are hidden and without papers and against deportations.

15.00 The swarm and the five fingers: Experiences from summit protests. Mathias Wåg

15.00 Klimax: How environmental activism became hot.

16.00 Report back from Climate Camp UK. Martin Shaw talks about the action camp outside Heathrow, London.

16.00 Ahead of the European Social Forum in Malmö, Sweden, 2008. Josefin Peterson

17.00 Activists from the landless workers movement (MST) and the movement of homeless workers (Sem Teto) talk about their struggle in Brazil.

18.00 Evaluation and Escalation.

19.00 Pirate cinema.

The whole weekend.

There will be activities for children.

The kitchen will serve excellent organic vegan food and fika (coffee and tea).
Several bookshops and distros will be there: Bokhandeln INFO, Det vildväxande kollektivet, Djurrättsalliansen, Ingen Människa är Illegal, Kvinnopolitiskt Forum, Kåkbladet, Lady Kabash, Roh-nin, Stuck, Yelah.

Thanks to: ABF and Kulturföreningen Tellus.