Constructing narratives for change / Learning from the Zapatistas

Jorge is an independent PhD candidate in Linguistics at the University of Leiden. His research is focused on the strategic use of argumentative language in communiqués issued by groups in Mexico claiming and justify radical actions. He works writing about gift economy and non-markets societies. He's the co-founder of the former SMX Collective and co-developed the campaign _Money Laundering Kills_. Among his interests are propaganda, gift economy, autonomy and autonomous spaces, and cooperativism. As a hobby, he bakes bread.

Poet & Social Critic | Human Rights Activist | Founder Soul Rebel Movement | Founder Nederland Wordt Beter | Kick-Out Zwarte Piet

Harriet Bergman practices her civil disobedience as a part of artist collective Fossil Free Culture NL and horizontally organised mass action group Code Rood. She writes fiction and is part of the Feminist Alcoholic Society. Her PhD project at the University of Antwerp is about political emotions and social movements.