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PRESS RELEASE May 2 2013
Collettivo Prezzemolo introduces:
It's Capitalism, Stupid!
The Festival of the Other Europe
Florence, Italy 3-12 May 2013
The Collettivo Prezzemolo (researchers and workers at the European Institute University) in co-
operation with a wide array of Florence’s political and civil society movements will hold a series
of public initiatives on Europe in this period of economic crisis and austerity.
To coincide with the State of the Union conference in Florence, the Collettivo Prezzemolo will
organise a week of debate on Europe, and call for the urgent realisation of a truly equitable,
alternative to today’s Europe. While in Florence’s municipal buildings, the European Union
bureaucrats and oligarchs celebrate the European wide socially devastation of their own
engineering; the movements of Florence will advance a horizontal debate on an alternative
Europe. A Europe characterised by solidarity and democracy, respect for labour rights, committed
anti-fascism, defence of the environment, the protection of collective goods, peace and co-
operation.
The solution to the crisis can be only brought about by a radical change of Europe’s political
imagination. A transformative process of shared reflections and the collective organisation of all
the social, political, cultural and economic actors committed to dismantling the structures of the
futile barbarism of austerity. In light of this, the week of debate and reflections will engage with
the various issues that have been part of Europe’s ongoing political and economic crisis,
questioning the political institutions, and socio-economic structures underlying the crisis.
The events will take place from Friday the 3rd until Sunday the 12th of May, including morning and
evening presentations, across Florence and at the EUI itself. The initiatives will include the
participation of a wide number of guests; intellectuals, activists, Italian and international
researchers in collaboration with the Collettivo Prezzemolo and the movements of Florence in
order to collectively reflect on the crisis in Europe, discuss the resistance to austerity and to
outline the potential route to the realisation of another Europe.
Please find a programme detailing all the initiatives, attached.

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Lorenzo Zamponi (3389438080)
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3. It's Capitalism, Stupid!
Festival dell'altra Europa
Who Watches The Watchmen?
Protest Policing and Surveillance in the EU Crisis
3 Maggio, 10.30 (English)
IUE (Sala Europa, Villa Schifanoia)
Via Boccaccio 121
Prof. Donatella della Porta (IUE)
Prof. Gary T. Marx (MIT)
Dr. Vittorio Sergi (Università di Urbino)
La Democrazia Oltre Il Capitalismo?
Presentazione del libro di Lorenzo Cini
“Società civile e democrazia radicale”
6 Maggio, 17.00 (Italiano)
Facoltá di Scienze Politiche,
Universitá di Firenze (Novoli)
Prof. Gianluca Bonaiuti (Universitá di Firenze)
Dr. Matteo Albanese (Universitá di Lisbona)
A seguire proiezione del documentario sul movimento
anti-austerità greco: “Utopia on the Horizon”
di J.Roos e L. Oikonomakis (2012)
Nationalism in the Era of Austerity
The crisis and the revival of Nations
7 Maggio, 10.30 (English)
IUE (Sala Emeroteca, Badia Fiesolana)
Via de’ Roccettini 9
Dr. Adriano Cirulli – UniNettuno
Ignasi Bea – Candidatura d'Unitat Popular
Gàbor Halmai – Central European University
Joan Sebastià Colomer – Endavant
Out of the Crisis
Capitalism and its Alternatives
8 Maggio, 10.30 (English)
IUE (Sala Teatro, Badia Fiesolana)
Via de’ Roccettini 9
Tommaso Fattori (Spazi Liberati)
Prof. Don Kalb (CEU, Budapest)
Andrea Fumagalli (Università di Pavia)
Oltre la Crisi
Il Capitalismo e le sue Alternative
8 Maggio 18:30 (English / Italiano)
Piazza Tasso - Firenze
(In collaborazione con Spazi Liberati)
Prof. Marco Revelli (Uni. Piemonte Orientale)
Prof. Ugo Mattei (Universitá di Torino)
Dr. Aidan Regan (EUI)
Prof. Don Kalb (CEU, Budapest)
Giuseppe Allegri (Basic Income Network)
VIO.ME: Fabbrica Occupata
Incontro con operai greci
12 Maggio, 18.00 (Italiano)
CPA Fi-Sud
Via Villamagna 27/a
(In collaborazione con CPA-FiSud, K100F, ColPol)
Makis Anagnostou (rappresentante sindacale)
Yannis Ieropoulos