The Emergency Committee for Rojava organises on Tuesday, December 17th at 5pm EST the end of the year session of their ongoing study group series Radical Ecology and the Rojava Revolution. This will be a special conversation hosted by Movement Generation Justice and Ecology Project, the relationships between climate change, 'just transition', and social transformation will be discussed in the context of Rojava / North-East Syria.
In preparation, they recommend reading MG’s groundbreaking zine: From Banks and Tanks to Cooperation and Caring: A Strategic Framework for a Just Transition.
If progressives want to fight the movement against so-called ‘gender ideology’, they need to break with neoliberalism The number of newly elected Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) who oppose women’s reproductive rights, gender equality, sexuality education, same sex marriage and the Council of Europe Convention on Violence Against Women (Istanbul Convention) stands at around 30 per...
Call for participation On 7 and 8 July 2017, the Leaders of the Group of 20 (G20) will meet in Hamburg. This self-styled club of 19 of the most powerful economies in the world and the EU claims to fight global crises. However, reality reveals a different picture: The G20 defends a system that exacerbates social disparities instead of leading policies against deprivation and hunger and...
Although growth-critique is currently in vogue and degrowth is mentioned favorably even by the pope in his most recent encyclical, there is as yet almost no scientific research on degrowth as a social movement. We can now present the first empirical findings on the character of this movement, based on a survey we did at the 2014 Degrowth-Conference in Leipzig, in which 814 conference participa...
