The World Conference for Climate Justice (We participate and disseminate )
The World Conference for Climate Justice (Milan 12-15 October 2023) SOURCE: Alex Foti of Effimera.
We participate and disseminate
The World Congress for Climate Justice (WCCJ – October 12-15, 2023) was born during the terrible drought of last summer. As Italian, Belgian and German activists contemplated the dried river basins of Po, Loire, Rhine, they met in Berlin and vowed to do something to assemble the forces of resistance to fossil capital and provide a way to achieve a synthesis between the various tendencies of radical climate activism across the world. Thus the idea of a world congress of ecological anticapitalism started to take flesh, and when the fascistically neoliberal Meloni government took power, the choice fell on Milano, because the city had held the largest climate strike in the world on September 27, 2019 and continues to oppose racism and homophobia in a country and a continent where nationalist xenophobia is rearing its ugly head.
In the second largest Italian city we have assembled an organizing committee with the city’s Centri Sociali and Ultima Generazione, Ecologia Politica, Comitato Acqua, Off Topic, XR, FFF, and other student collectives and discussion groups, which regularly meets at Piano Terra, a squatted space in the Isola neighborhood. We have met several times during these months and the program of the world congress has recently been published (wccj.online). It’s important to stress that it will be a congress with delegations of gender-parity delegates from many countries and regions of the world who will discuss and deliberate on crucial issues awaiting the climate justice movement in the next months. This is no forum, but a congress where 200+ delegates will reach decisions on campaigns, buzzwords, tactics, strategies, projects to dismantle fossil capitalism, in Thematic and Plenary Assemblies. We intend also to promote frank and fertile ideological debate on the main strands of green anticapitalism (e.g. Bookchin and social ecology, Malm/Saito and eco-marxism, ZAD and eco-anarchism, Hallam and climate disobedience). You can read the program to understand what the main topics of discussion will be, here let me highlight the basic structure of the 4-day World Congress for Climate Justice. Thursday: artivist and subvertising workshops, press conference and welcome aperitivo. Friday 13, climate horror demo in the morning in the streets of Milano and specialized seminars in the afternoon at State U. Saturday 14, the big thematic assemblies. Sunday 15 final plenary and farewell lunch at Leoncavallo, Italy’s first (and largest) social center. All delegates will be fed and accommodated by the organization and we’ll cover their travel costs. To give a simple idea of what all this seeks to achieve, we are forming the First Internationale of climate anticapitalism. Like the Transnational Social Strike assembly said as it endorsed the Milano World Congress for Clilmate Justice in Frankfurt, the overarching aim is to constitute the radical faction of the global climate movement. We want to federate diverse revolutionary movements and philosophies, including ecotransfeminism, autonomous marxism, anarchism, post-colonialism, ecosocialism, to build counterpower so large we can finally destroy fossil lobbies and defeat the rule of digital capital on Earth. Just Stop Oil, Luetzerath, Sainte-Soline, End Fossil portend a new wave of climate justice activism, and the WCCJ is there to make sure there is synergy and solidarity among the main forces that mean to overthrow fossil capitalism and the governments that abet ecocide. Although there can be disagreement over violent vs. non-violent tactics, we think there is enough political will and repertoire overlapping to converge on common strategies that are scalable to the level of the threat our communities are facing now and for the foreseeable future. So no matter if you’re pink, red, black or green, ask your climate justice movement to join the congress and come to Milano as a delegate. We’ll be working and partying hard, and that’s a promise. Neoliberalism is fading across the world, let’s make sure it kicks the bucket and that a post-capitalist future that is livable for the precarious masses of the South and North of the planet can be attained. SOURCE: Alex Foti of Effimera.
We participate and disseminate
The World Congress for Climate Justice (WCCJ – October 12-15, 2023) was born during the terrible drought of last summer. As Italian, Belgian and German activists contemplated the dried river basins of Po, Loire, Rhine, they met in Berlin and vowed to do something to assemble the forces of resistance to fossil capital and provide a way to achieve a synthesis between the various tendencies of radical climate activism across the world. Thus the idea of a world congress of ecological anticapitalism started to take flesh, and when the fascistically neoliberal Meloni government took power, the choice fell on Milano, because the city had held the largest climate strike in the world on September 27, 2019 and continues to oppose racism and homophobia in a country and a continent where nationalist xenophobia is rearing its ugly head.
In the second largest Italian city we have assembled an organizing committee with the city’s Centri Sociali and Ultima Generazione, Ecologia Politica, Comitato Acqua, Off Topic, XR, FFF, and other student collectives and discussion groups, which regularly meets at Piano Terra, a squatted space in the Isola neighborhood. We have met several times during these months and the program of the world congress has recently been published (wccj.online). It’s important to stress that it will be a congress with delegations of gender-parity delegates from many countries and regions of the world who will discuss and deliberate on crucial issues awaiting the climate justice movement in the next months. This is no forum, but a congress where 200+ delegates will reach decisions on campaigns, buzzwords, tactics, strategies, projects to dismantle fossil capitalism, in Thematic and Plenary Assemblies. We intend also to promote frank and fertile ideological debate on the main strands of green anticapitalism (e.g. Bookchin and social ecology, Malm/Saito and eco-marxism, ZAD and eco-anarchism, Hallam and climate disobedience). You can read the program to understand what the main topics of discussion will be, here let me highlight the basic structure of the 4-day World Congress for Climate Justice. Thursday: artivist and subvertising workshops, press conference and welcome aperitivo. Friday 13, climate horror demo in the morning in the streets of Milano and specialized seminars in the afternoon at State U. Saturday 14, the big thematic assemblies. Sunday 15 final plenary and farewell lunch at Leoncavallo, Italy’s first (and largest) social center. All delegates will be fed and accommodated by the organization and we’ll cover their travel costs. To give a simple idea of what all this seeks to achieve, we are forming the First Internationale of climate anticapitalism. Like the Transnational Social Strike assembly said as it endorsed the Milano World Congress for Clilmate Justice in Frankfurt, the overarching aim is to constitute the radical faction of the global climate movement. We want to federate diverse revolutionary movements and philosophies, including ecotransfeminism, autonomous marxism, anarchism, post-colonialism, ecosocialism, to build counterpower so large we can finally destroy fossil lobbies and defeat the rule of digital capital on Earth. Just Stop Oil, Luetzerath, Sainte-Soline, End Fossil portend a new wave of climate justice activism, and the WCCJ is there to make sure there is synergy and solidarity among the main forces that mean to overthrow fossil capitalism and the governments that abet ecocide. Although there can be disagreement over violent vs. non-violent tactics, we think there is enough political will and repertoire overlapping to converge on common strategies that are scalable to the level of the threat our communities are facing now and for the foreseeable future. So no matter if you’re pink, red, black or green, ask your climate justice movement to join the congress and come to Milano as a delegate. We’ll be working and partying hard, and that’s a promise. Neoliberalism is fading across the world, let’s make sure it kicks the bucket and that a post-capitalist future that is livable for the precarious masses of the South and North of the planet can be attained. SOURCE: Alex Foti of Effimera.