Category: ecosoc5-events

Na próxima quinta-feira, às 17h no Café Piolho, teremos mais uma sessão sobre Ecossocialismo.
Vamos falar sobre transição energética, ecofeminismo e ativismo climático.

Ecosocialism needs to be feminist. But how can we achieve this and what does this mean to the question of who will be the agents of the revolution we need?

On this webinar, we will have a conversation, counting with the special participation of Júlia Martí, Nina López, Selma James and Stefania Barca to start talking about who is currently doing the work required to fulfil our needs related to subsistence and care, and how this reproductive class relates to the more traditional sense of working class.

This will initiate the conversation on the session we will have in Lisbon on the Ecosocialist Encounters, where we will also talk about how the ecofeminists can organize towards the ecosocialist revolution: what works and what doesn’t? What else should we try?

Join us in thinking about an ecofeminist working class, one that can truly encompass the marginalized majority of labor on earth, and which gives priority to the kind of work needed to resist and survive in a burning world and to build a different society centered on life and care.”

Link to register: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYkcO-hqTwuGtO7j7y3x21gR5Jf8mVk9x5z

Languages: only English

Speakers:

Júlia Martí,
Nina López,
Selma James,
Stefania Barca

17 January, 2 pm UTC

On this webinar previous to the ecosocialist encounters, we will talk about the youth movement and the political scenario after the climate mobilizations that took place all over the world. We want to talk about what to do with the outrageous insignificant institutional response that the youth climate mobilizations of 2019 received; and we want to understand how the organizers feel about this.

We aim to initiate the discussion we will have on the “youth movement: radical and ecosocialist” session we will have in Lisbon, on the ecosocialist encounters.

Link to registration: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0scu6sqD8oHNzGCD8IXInKcuDNo3DyPfCL

Languages: English and French

Moderators: Rita Silva (Bloco de Esquerda) and Robert Mwesigye (Kibengo Youth Care Activists)

Speakers:

Disha Ravi (FFF India);
Maria Reyes (FFF Mexico);
Mitzi Tan (YACAP); and
Patience Nabukalu (FFF Uganda)

11 January, 2 pm UTC

Organized by: Global Ecosocialist Network

Speakers: Jess Spear,John Molyneux, Michael Löwy

Zoom registration link: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_YiQZDKl7QhSMClN50hKHxw

Language: English

Description:

This webinar will make the basic case for ecosocialism.

It will argue that capitalism, based on production for profit, is inherently incapable of stopping catastrophic climate change or resolving the wider environmental crisis.

Capitalism, driven to relentless economic growth and an ever widening metabolic rift between humans and nature has become the enemy of life on earth.

It must be replaced by a new sustainable ecosocialist society committed not only to the abolition of private property in the means of production and the abolition of exploitation but to the establishment of a fundamentally new society based on a harmonious, cooperative relationship with the natural world.

The webinar will also explain the role the Global Ecosocialist Network plays in the movement for system change  through the international exchange , discussion and dissemination of ecosocialist ideas.

13^th of January, 2PM UTC

Organized by: Polen Ekoloji

Moderator: Ibrahim Erok

Speakers: Sultan Gülsün and Güney Işıkara

Zoom registration link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMpc-GgqzwiH9OM7U2hD0kAH7KkF541PWz8

Language: English only

Description:

Contrast between capitalism and ecosocialism in the context of ecological and social crisis:

The commodification of nature, unlimited accumulation of capital, exploitation of labor, and nature accompanying competition undermine the foundations of a sustainable future. Thus, it puts the earth’s ecosystem on which all living things interact at risk. The deep and systemic threat we face demands a systemic change. Ecosocialism offers a radical alternative that prioritizes social and ecological well-being. Reaching the connections between the exploitation of labor and the exploitation of nature, this idea opposes reformist market-based solutions because the capitalist production system that feeds on profit maximization is incompatible with societal equality and sustainability of nature.

Ecosocialism discussions from degrowth perspective:

Questioning capitalist growth is vital today to expose its destructive character as well as the fact that it comes at the expense of working people’s living standards. Moreover, a planned and coordinated degrowth of energy consumption (and output) in advanced countries in the short- to medium-run is necessary at least to avoid runaway climate change.

However, its corollary is not degrowth, but turning the issues of “growth/degrowth of what?”, “at what cost?”, “under which circumstances?” into political questions. The sublation of the economic and the political is implied in the self-governance of the working people. This does not require institutionalizing degrowth, which can become as socially blind as capitalist growth.

On 21-23 January 2021, we are hosting the 5th International Ecosocialist Encounters in Lisbon. We will talk about our vision of ecosocialism, how to build it, and who will build it.

Are you interested?

Wanna know more?

Would you be interested in getting involved in the preparations?

While most of the work is done in Portuguese, in fact most of the content of the Encounters will be in English and so there’s a lot of space for you to help out. Register here for the online meeting on January 9th, Sunday, at 21h00: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMsduChqzMqGN2l3xefXbabggVC3Sh6elHR

On the People’s Summit organized by COP26 Coalition, we will be in Glasgow with Andreas Malm, João Camargo, Maria Reyes and Mitzi Tan, talking about the three main questions that will guide the 5th International Ecosocialist Encounters Encounters that will happen in Lisbon, from the 21st to the 23rd of January: how will we achieve ecosocialism? Who will do it? Where do we want to go and how do we envision the ecosocialist alternative?

Join us in Glasgow, on the Tent of The Landing Hub!

Register at: https://cop26coalition.org/peoples-summit/

International Ecosocialist Encounters Website: https://www.alterecosoc.org

8 November 2021, Monday

16:15 – 17:45

The Landing Hub, Glasgow, United Kingdom