Activist-researcher, writer and ecofeminist, Maria Mies is one of the world’s original thinkers. Combined memoir and political tract, “The Village and the World,” packs in seventy-seven years of militant living: from the peasant origins of German village childhood to the world of the Indian subcontinent, from international campaigns to groundbreaking theory and feminist organizing.  Silvia Federici, autonomist feminist thinker and close collaborator, will present on behalf of Mies, connecting issues of her life and times to urgent political questions of the day.

Maria Mies’ achievements include developing groundbreaking praxis and theory around the concept of “housewifisation”, the violence of colonisation and profound writings about ecofeminism. She fights the Multilateral Agreement of Investment, she fights the General Agreement on Trade in Services, she fights against the patenting of life and tackles reproductive and genetic engineering as well as food security, but she never gives up hope that there is an alternative to present day injustice and exploitation; that “the good life” is possible. Her books include Patriarchy and Accumulation on a World Stage

Silvia Federici is a scholar, teacher, and internationally renowned activist of autonomist feminist Marxist tradition. She is the author of Caliban and the Witch and editor of several books including Enduring Western Civilization: The Construction of the Concept of Western Civilization and Its Others.

Team Colors is a national militant research collective. Their approach has developed from involvement in community organizing projects, resistance activities and radical research efforts for more than a decade.  Their forthcoming pamphlet “Radical Community Organizing to Make a Revolution Possible” will be available for sale at the event.