DETAILS:
Event by
Siemenpuu, WSF Virtual 2021 and 3 others
Online:
us02web.zoom.us
Friday,
January 29, 2021
Price:
Free · Duration: 5 hr
Public · Anyone on or off Facebook
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SUMMARY:
UTC 13 -
14:45
Major
Panel: CLIMATE EMERGENCY AND SPECIES EXTINCTION. RESIST! CONSTRUCT! CELEBRATE!
UTC 15 -
16:45
FOUR (4)
PARALLEL SESSIONS
UTC 17 –
18 ASSEMBLY FOR SOCIAL, PEACE AND ENVIRONMENTAL MOVEMENTS
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ASSEMBLY FOR SOCIAL, PEACE AND ENVIRONMENTAL
MOVEMENTS
The purpose of the Ecology, Climate, and the
Environment thematic space within the World Social Forum aims to exchange
experiences from different parts of the world to see how the environmental
struggles can be part of a system change. It begins with an intercontinental
dialogue in which the two current issues of climate emergency and species
extinction are discussed together. This is followed by four parallel sessions,
which end with a subsequent self-organized assembly where the results of the
various sessions during the day and a pre-started declaration process lead to
proposals for a joint action plan for continued cooperation between popular
movements to change the system and stop environmental destruction.
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FULL PROGRAMME:
UTC 13 - 14.45
MAJOR PANEL:
CLIMATE EMERGENCY AND SPECIES EXTINCTION.
RESIST! CONSTRUCT! CELEBRATE!
Intercontinental dialogue from a systems change
perspective
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86746954026
Translation into English, French, Chinese,
Portuguese, Spanish
Co-chairs:
* Arci Pasanen, Sweden, Transition Network
* Franco Agusto, Argentina, Global Tapestry of
Alternatives
Speakers:
* Ariel Saleh, Australia, Ecofeminist and
Global Tapestry of Alternatives
* Lau Khi Chi, China, Global University for
Sustainability
* Soumya Dutta, India, South Asian People's
Action on Climate Crisis, SAPACC
* Patrick Bond, South Africa, Activist and
Professor
* Nnimmo Bassey, Nigeria, Health of Mother
Earth Foundation, President of Friends of the Earth International 2008 - 2012.
* Blanca Chanchosa, Ecuador, the indigenous
organization CONAIE
How should society act in a time of acute
danger to the world environment? We live in a time where wildlife is dwindling.
They are concentrated in smaller areas by industrialized agriculture and
forestry expansion. This reduces biodiversity with the risk of recurring
pandemics. This is happening at the same time as global warming of the climate,
which has led to an emergency. It could have been prevented with the right
action when the issue came up on the international agenda thirty years ago.
Instead, we got conventions both on climate and biodiversity, which were
decided during the UN Conference on Environment and Development in Rio in 1992,
which postponed the problems to the future. How can popular movements that want
to do something about the climate emergency and species extinction work
together locally and internationally to turn the tide?
This major panel on Ecology, Climate and
Environment is organized by the self-constituted thematic Working Group of the
WSF 2021 Facilitating Group. Contact: wsf-2021-ecology@riseup.net
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UTC 15 -16:45
FOUR PARALLEL SESSIONS:
Parallel session 1:
SYSTEM CHANGE NOT CLIMATE CHANGE!
Translation: will be later announced
Co-chairs:
* Amos Wallgren, Finland, Extinction Rebellion
* NN, UK, COP26 Coalition tbc
Speakers:
* Archana Soreng, India, National Adivasi
Alliance
* Thomas Mourey, Belgium, Young Friends of the
Earth Europe
* Ayakha Melithafa, South Africa, African
Climate Alliance
* Varshini Prakash, USA, Sunrise Movement tbc
* Vanessa Nakate, Uganda, Fridays for Future
tbc
* NN, Philippines, Climate Justice Cluster -
Asia People's Forum tbc
The climate movement is facing a crossroads.
After great successes with school strikes in all parts of the world and
disruptive actions to draw attention to the climate emergency, the question is
how to proceed? In Europe, the climate movement has begun to take action
against EU agricultural policy while demanding the fulfillment of the Paris Agreement.
The Covid19 pandemic highlights the importance of stopping species extinction
posed worldwide by climate activists. More and more people are also beginning
to question the military rearmament that takes resources from the social and
ecological transformation of society that is needed. How do young climate
activists view the current situation and continued work for system change not
climate change? How can cooperation with other popular movements be developed?
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Parallel session 2:
THE ENVIRONMENTAL STRUGGLE IN RURAL AREAS AND
SYSTEM CHANGE
(UTC 15 - 16:45)
Translation: will be later announced
Co-chairs:
* Ellie Cijvat, Sweden, Friends of the Earth
* NN, Via Campesina tbc
Speakers:
* Ulka Mahajan, India, leading force in the
ongoing peasant protests
* Vasna Ramasar, South Africa, Global Tapestry
of Alternatives
* György Droppa, Hungary, Danube Circle and
Prague Spring 2
* David Bennet, Sweden, Byakademin (Village
Academy) tbc
* Elizabeth Mpofu, Zimbabwe, Via Campesina tbc
* NN Chiapas tbc
Looting of nature and land grabbing from the
local population threatens the cohesion of our societies and the future of the
world. The transfer of rural wealth to a few large companies and banks in the
big cities takes from those who work on the fields, in the forest and on the
sea and gives to the already rich. Conflicts escalate as the state is used
against resistence to the looting. By various means, companies and authorities
try to silence opinion, which has increasingly happened with open violence in
many countries. A system change is needed that can create power for the rural
population over the resources that are the material basis for their lives. What
is needed is an equal social, cultural and economic relationship with the urban
population. Alternatives such as local forest management, agroecology and food
sovereignty can unite urban and rural residents in the protection of healthy
food and biological diversity. How can environmental struggle in various issues
in rural areas contribute to a system change that leads to a sustainable
society?
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Parallel session 3:
THE ENVIRONMENTAL STRUGGLE IN THE CITY AND
SYSTEM CHANGE
(UTC 15 - 16:45)
Translation: English, Spanish, additional might
be later announced
Co-chairs:
* Miguel Valencia, Mexico, System Change Not
Climate Change and Ecomunidades
* Eva Nikell, Sweden, Citizens' Corona
Commission
Speakers:
* Gustavo Romero, Mexico, Habitat International
* Akriti Bhatia, India, People's Association of
Grassroot Action
* Mariam Nordmark, Sweden, Tensta Green
Iniative tbc
* Sean Sweeney, USA, Trade Unions for Energy
Democracy, TUED tbc
* Sherelee Odayar, South Africa, South Durban
Community Environmental Alliance tbc
Privatization of urban life accelerates
segregation that makes it difficult for a just transition to a sustainable
society. Common public spaces that give everyone access to a dignified life
will be closed down and replaced by policing and other authoritarian methods.
Therefore, the right to the city needs to be recaptured, healthy workplaces and
residential areas where everyone can get housing defended and access to energy
and water democratized. Short-term profit interests cannot be allowed to poison
those who work in the factories or the surroundings. Public space and urban
planning must put human interests at the center and safeguard local civil
society and local producers and shops against global monopoly companies. An
escalation of authoritarian exercise of power and generous support to large
corporations has taken place during the Covid19 pandemic. Small businesses and
employees on temporary contracts are disadvantaged. Urban life risks being
further impoverished in favor of a culture where people become consumers
instead of citizens. Centralization is increasing, and with it the need for
transport when what is needed are cities with town districts where everything
can be reached within walking and cycling distance and public transport displaces
the need for a private car in urban areas. How can this urban environmental
struggle in various issues contribute to a system change that leads to a
sustainable society?
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Parallel session 4:
LOCAL AND GLOBAL STRUGGLE TO SAVE THE PLANET
(UTC 15 - 16:45)
Translation: English and Portuguese, additional
might be later announced
Co-chairs:
* Marcela Escribano, Canada, Alternatives
* Dorothy Guerrero, UK, Global Justice Now! Tbc
Speakers:
* Juliana Grosa, Brazil, Nature's Popular Forum
- Núcleo Bahia
* Tord Björk, Sweden, Friends of the Earth
* Meera Sanghamitra, India, National Alliance
of People's Movement
* Renier Braun, Germany, International Peace
Bureau IPB tbc
* Lidy Nacpil, Philippines, Asia Pacific
Movement on Debt and Development tbc
Awareness of the link between emissions in
nature and human health arose when the anti-atom bomb movement investigated the
presence of strontium 90 in baby teeth. Shortly afterwards, Rachel Carson
highlighted how emissions of toxins in nature silenced bird life and through
metabolism also reached humans. The modern concept of environment thus arose
through an interconnection between nature and health. This at the same time as
humanity, for the first time in its history, faced the possibility of
extinction. Today, a nuclear war remains the most immediate threat to human
survival, while an accelerating species extinction and global warming have
emerged. How should these seemingly abstract global threats be connected to the
daily lives of human beings around the world? The environmental struggle must
ultimately rest on the interest of those who work with people, machines, in the
field, in the forest and with fishing. How can we connect the common interest
in safeguarding a planet that enables future generations to live a good life
with the interests we have in our daily life as common human beings in
solidarity?
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UTC 17 - 18
ASSEMBLY FOR SOCIAL, PEACE AND ENVIRONMENTAL
MOVEMENTS
Self-organized activity organized by System
change not climate change, Mexico, Prague Spring 2, SiemenpuU, Vasudhaiva
Kutumbakam, UNITED for Intercultural Action
Translation: English, Spanish, additional might
be later announced
Co-chairs:
* Marko Ulvila, Finland, Finland Social Forum,
Siemenpuu and Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam
* Neringa Tumenaite, Lithuania, UNITED for
Intercultural Action
Reports from the environmental theme day's
various sessions
Report from the declaration process
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