Hi nettimers!
What is the ecological dimension of work? What common interests do
workers’ and environmental movements have and what does it mean for our
movements to join forces? How can we reclaim the means of
(re-)production and transform them into means of sustainable climate
(re-)production?
The “Allied Grounds” project created a space for more than 80 activists
and researchers to share their thoughts on these issues in the form of
video talks, projects, and essays. Check out all the materials on the
“Allied Grounds” project website (
https://berlinergazette.de/projects/allied-grounds ). A veritable
archive of resistance and toolbox of critical knowledge and practices
for activists and scholars alike, the project website serves as a
permanent, open-access resource platform. All materials are available
under a Creative Commons license. We are not only happy to share, but in
fact actively dedicated to foster the knowledge commons. So, let us know
if you are interested in republishing any of it!
*Assembling the toolbox for sustainable climate (re-)production*
Throughout the year, we published 46 essays from 22 countries, now
organized into the following sections: Working People in Movement, Rural
Worker Struggles, Alliances of the Exploited, Resisting Green Capital,
Collective Agency?, Reimagining Work, Post-Growth Pathways, Just
Transition from Below, and Ecological Unionism. In the context of our
autumn conference we recorded video talks by Jennifer Kamau, Harsha
Walia, Florin Poenaru, Brett Neilson, Dario Azzellini, Svjetlana
Nedimović, Francesca Gabbriellini/Paola Imperatore, and Lorenzo Feltrin.
At the conference, we facilitated the collaborative production of
collective projects on the following topics: Eco-Internationalism, Jobs
vs. Nature, Working-Class Environmentalism, (Un)Working Balkans, and
Anti-Eco-Fascism. Other outcomes from the conference, including audio
recordings of the evening panels, are also available on “Allied Grounds”
website (https://berlinergazette.de/projects/allied-grounds/).
In case you missed it, check out the conference report
(https://transversal.at/blog/we-must-find-a-common-language), now
available in Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian, Bulgarian, Dutch, English,
French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian, and Spanish. More
translations, including Turkish, are in the works.
*Joining forces, moving ahead*
Thank you to all of you who have participated in this truly enriching
exploration and have contributed to the creation of the “Allied Grounds”
project. And thank you to everyone who has and will continue to spread
the word about our activities. It is in this “organic” way that we will
move beyond the silos of the algorithm-driven social media “public sphere.”
We will continue our exploration of political ecology issues in 2024 as
part of the “Kin City” project – the 25th anniversary project of the BG,
by the way – focusing on the city as a nexus of struggles against the
ecological-economic violence unleashed by colonial-capitalist
expansionism. More on that soon.
In solidarity,
Krystian (for the BG team)
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BG - Berliner Gazette - since 1999 -https://berlinergazette.de
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Allied Grounds: Connecting Climate and Labor Struggles
BG Project 2023 w/ Texts, Video Talks, Projects + more
https://berlinergazette.de/projects/allied-grounds
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After Extractivism: Challenging the Ecological-Economic Complex
BG Project 2022 w/ Video Talks, Projects, Texts + more
https://after-extractivism.berlinergazette.de
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