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Pirate Care / Valeria Graziano and Tomislav Medak

Apr 9
Episode 1826: Pirate Care / Valeria Graziano and Tomislav Medak
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Different systems of care have emerged out of practices of caring for each other and struggling for that capacity to care to be expanded. Our interest in pirate care, we understand that there are systems of care that these days are being dismantled and that growing parts of the population are being denied the right to care that are essential to their survival. In response to that condition a number of initiatives of various sorts have emerged across the world to defy forms of exclusion and provide that necessary care for those who might not be citizens of a certain nation or who might not be able to pay up whatever markets are asking them to or do not have the family structure to support them in situations need.

Valeria Graziano, Marcell Mars and Tomislav Medak discuss their book, Pirate Care: Acts Against the Criminalization of Solidarity. "The Moment of Truth" with Jeff Dorchen and "Rotten History" by Renaldo Migaldi both follow the interview.

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Tomislav Medak

Tomislav Medak is a commons and disability activist and an independent researcher with a focus on technology, environmental crisis and degrowth transition. He’s a member of the green-left party Možemo! (HR). With Marcell Mars and a community of friends in Zagreb he founded Multimedia Institute/MAMA, since 2000 a hub for cultural and political organizing. Together they have co-edited Public Library and Guerrilla Open Access. He lives in Zagreb. Croatia.

 

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Valeria Graziano

Valeria Graziano is a cultural theorist and organizer. Along with Marcell Mars and Tomislav Medak she is the convenor of the Pirate Care Syllabus project. She has contributed to a number of collectives, including Precarious Workers Brigade, the Radical Education Forum, Boycott Workfare and the Women Strike UK. She is the co-author of Rebelling with Care: Exploring Open Technologies for Commoning Healthcare and she lives in Rijeka, Croatia.