When: 4.08 - 10.08
Where: Freie Feldlage, Harzgerode, Germany
Once again, this year we come together with friends and allies from the climate and social justice movements — those fighting at the intersections of anti-capitalism, anti-racism, feminism, anti-fascism, Indigenous sovereignty, and workers' struggles.
Join us in the forests of East Germany for seven days of resistance, renewal, and reimagination. In this temporary community, we co-create spaces for critical, embodied, transformative and playful education around post-growth cultures and practices. We’ll not only explore the many dimensions of post-growth but embody them—through collective care, common strategizing, radical solidarity and rest. Expect mind-tickling conversations, hands-on workshops, roundtables, art, music and performances that inebriate the senses, alongside nourishing food we cook and share together.
The rise of far-right globalization criticism requires a new role for the Degrowth movement. ‘Progressive De-Globalization‘ could be the counter-project that is urgently needed. After the German and Austrian elections, it becomes clear once more that the rise of the new far-right is not a temporary phenomenon. Neither the difficult Brexit negotiations nor the missteps of Donald Trump are sto...
What's harder? Raising 46.000 Euros in short time or at last starting a big debate about the future of a fossil fuel-dependent region? For the organizing team of the Degrowth Summer School, both were great challenges... Christopher Laumanns reports. With a little help from our friends: how we filled a financial open cast mine... Ten days before the start of the Summer School, which took place...
Europe is exhausted. It is exhausted after long years of what is labeled as the Eurozone crisis. It is exhausted after years of economic success and – now – prolonged years of political failure. Every single attempt of deepening the political union of Europe after the enactment of the Maastricht Treaty in 1993 and the [...]
