Image source: Nick Night on Unsplash
We are excited to invite you to the Online Degrowth Movement Assembly, a space for collective reflection, exchange, and action-oriented discussions to strengthen the degrowth movement.
Date: April 22nd and April 24th
Time: 3:00–6:00 PM UTC each day
Place: Online
Languages: English. Spanish-speaking groups if volunteers are available.
This two-day assembly will focus on:
- Degrowth in practice through policy interventions and place-based experiences
- Supporting place-based and decentralised organising for Degrowth
- Networking and collective empowerment
- Presentation of IDN’s work and circles (brief overview)
- Group discussions on key topics (theory and practice, personal and organisational challenges, cultural transformation)
- Special session: Degrowth and decolonial perspectives
Closing reflections, evaluation and next steps
- Degrowth in practice, movements, and actions worldwide: Moving towards collaborative projects (activism, policy, events, communication)
- Creative visioning exercise: The future of degrowth conferences
- Closing reflections, evaluation and next steps
This assembly serves as a starting point for deeper conversations and actions that will inform the Onsite Degrowth Movement Assembly in Oslo, right before the ISEE-Degrowth Conference, and continue to evolve throughout the year, both within and beyond the International Ddegrowth Network.
In solidarity,
The Organising Team
Degrowth advocates for a general slowdown and large emissions reductions, minus the pandemic and social distress. The coronavirus (covid-19) has caused upheaval across the world, deaths of the most vulnerable, closed borders, financial market crashes, curfews and controls on group gatherings, and many more devastating effects. Despite observations that pollution and emissions have red...
Linda Schneider reflects on Geoengineering Monitor about a workshop on geoengineering from a degrowth and climate justice perspective at Degrowth Summer School in Rhineland, Germany: http://www.geoengineeringmonitor.org/2017/09/workshop-geoengineering-from-a-degrowth-and-climate-justice-perspective/ Geoengineering Monitor aims to be a timely source for information and critical perspect...
Why a social-ecological transformation is impossible without changing the deep structures of our economy Opening a newspaper or listening to the radio news exposes us to a flood of catastrophic messages: devastating droughts, failing states, terrorist attacks, and financial crashes. You can look at all those incidents as unconnected singular phenomena, which is exactly what the common presenta...
