{"id":1035,"date":"2017-12-17T21:28:27","date_gmt":"2017-12-17T20:28:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.transformdanmark.dk\/?p=1035"},"modified":"2020-10-19T16:56:52","modified_gmt":"2020-10-19T15:56:52","slug":"global-and-institutional-crises-and-red-green-alternatives-conference-2018-03-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transformdanmark.dk\/?p=1035","title":{"rendered":"Global and Institutional Crises and Red-Green Alternatives – Conference 17 March 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"

How to respond to the growing systemic crisis in Europe and globally? This is a combination of multiple crises – political, social, climate and environmental – requiring systemic alternatives. System criticism is not enough. The conference is a contribution to the debate on if and how to break with the capitalist system underlying the crises and to develop red and green alternatives?<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/h1>\n

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The programme focuses on issues we have prioritized the previous years, and the public meetings we held last autumn on the fight against privatisation.<\/p>\n

In addition to the plenary session with two speeches in the morning, we have two seminars in the afternoon: One on the fight against climate change and for ecosocialism and ecofeminism; the other about our common goods, which today are under attack from capital interests and privatization, and where popular movements and pressure from below contribute to create counter-movement and alternatives, for example in the form of de-privatisation.<\/p>\n

With a good international panel, we hope to give the audience at the conference a unique opportunity to get new inspiration from the outside to the domestic debate and action.<\/p>\n

Venue: HK K\u00f8benhavn, Sven Aukens Plads 11, 2300 Copenhagen S<\/strong><\/p>\n

Price: 100 DKK, to be paid at the entrance.<\/strong>
\nThis also covers lunch and refreshments
\nRegistration: send email to kontakt@transformdanmark.dk<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Program:
\n<\/strong>\u00a0 9:30\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Registration and coffee\/tea etc.<\/span>
\n10:00\u00a0– 10:15\u00a0 Welcome
\n<\/span>10:15 – 11:00\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>Urgency of an Ecosocialist Alternative. How to fill the gaps in emissions and in consciousness?<\/strong>
\n<\/span>Daniel\u00a0Tanuro<\/span><\/strong><\/a>, Belgium, author of \u2018Green Capitalism: Why it can\u2019t work\u2019 and contributor to the book \u2018\u00d8kosocialisme \u2013 fra systemkritik til alternativ\u2019 (Solidaritet, 2015), ecosocialist and writer in La Gauche, certified\u00a0agriculturalist.
\n<\/span>There is an objective gap between the path of emissions reduction compatible with a 1.5\u00b0C temperature increase on the one hand, and the projections based on the Nationally determined contributions (NDC) on the other hand. There is also a huge subjective gap between the ecosocialist consciousness needed to break with the productivist logic of capitalism, on the one hand, and the alienated consciousness of the vast majority of the population, on the other hand. Bridging the first gap entails bridging the second. What strategy for ecosocialism?<\/em>
\nDocument<\/a>
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

11:00 – 11:45 <\/span>Alternatives to the ecological crisis, the food crises and the climate crisis<\/strong>
\n<\/span>Elizabeth Mpofu<\/span><\/strong><\/a>,<\/strong> Zimbabwe, General Coordinator of La Via Campesina International.
\nHow can we promote alternatives to the ecological, food and climate crises that we are experiencing today? Climate change crisis has led to a fall in productivity, affecting crop,\u00a0and resulted in loss\u00a0of livestock and peoples’ livelihoods especially for women and peasants,\u00a0 indigenous, pastoralists, fisher folks and mountain farmers.\u00a0Other questions that we again need\u00a0to ask are how we can convince our policy makers to promote alternatives when the policy makers collude with funders of the Green Revolution for funding. These alternatives are premised on promoting sustainable agricultural practices such as agro ecology, food sovereignty and increased usage of indigenous seeds.\u00a0How can we convince the urban consumers and younger generations to consume traditional foods? How do we promote and campaign for agro ecology that can reach out to our policy makers and other farmers?
\nArticle in “Det Ny Clart\u00e9” <\/a>– <\/span>(text)<\/a><\/p>\n

11:45 – 12:00 Break
\n<\/span>12:00 – 13:00 <\/span>Questions and debate<\/span>
\n<\/span>13:00 – 14:00\u00a0\u00a0Lunch<\/span><\/p>\n

14:00 – 16:00 <\/span>Parallel seminars <\/span><\/strong>on:
\n1) <\/span>To combat climate change \u2013 the role of ecosocialism and ecofeminism
\n<\/span> 2) <\/span>Our common goods \u2013 reclaiming public services <\/span><\/p>\n

Seminar 1: To combat climate change \u2013 the role of ecosocialism and ecofeminism<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Ecofeminist views to\u00a0confront the Anthropocene
\n<\/span>Yayo Herrero<\/a>,<\/span><\/strong> Spain, Anthropologist, Director of FUHEM, Ecologistas en Acci\u00f3n
\n<\/span>Humanity has reached the twenty-first century facing the material foundations that sustain life. This war against life is manifested in a systemic crisis (ecological, economic and social) that generates a deepening of the inequalities between people in all the axes of domination (class, gender, age, origin, etc.).<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/em>The eco-dependence and interdependence are constitutive features of the human essence, but the notions of production, development and welfare have been built ignoring the insertion of the human species in a nature that has limits and hiding the vulnerability of human life.<\/em>
\n Ecofeminism can help to shape a different perspective that gives light to invisible and undervalued aspects, but unavoidable if you want to start a transition before a more than likely collapse<\/em>.<\/span>
\nDocument – in Spanish<\/a>
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

The role of labour in the fight against climate change
\n<\/span><\/strong>Asbj\u00f8rn Wahl<\/strong>,<\/span><\/a> Norway, author and trade unionist, director of the Campaign for the Welfare state
\n<\/span>Action to combat climate change will require major societal transformation. We have most of what is required in terms of technology, knowledge and competence to avert a climate disaster. What we lack is the social power to translate words into action. The role of organized labour will therefore be decisive. The climate struggle will have to be unified with the social struggle.
\nPresentation<\/a>
\n<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Seminar 2:\u00a0<\/span>Our common goods \u2013 resisting privatization; reclaiming public services<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Left politics and Commons-movements in Europe
\n<\/span>Birgit Daiber, <\/span><\/a><\/strong>Germany,<\/span> author and publisher, Transform commons working group, <\/span>The Common-Good-of-Humanity-Network<\/span>
\nThe impressive and rich diversity of commons initiatives all over the world can be seen as acts of resistance against exploitation of nature and people, or more specific: against <\/em><\/span>the continuous and ever-growing greed of reactionary politics and capital for privatisation of natural resources.<\/span> <\/em>It\u2019s time to discuss strategies on European level: Commons as one dimension of initiatives to reclaim a social, ecological and democratic Europe.
\nDocument<\/a><\/em> <\/span><\/p>\n

Our common goods \u2013 reclaiming public services
\n<\/span>Wanda Wyporska<\/a>, <\/span><\/strong>Britain, Executive Director at The Equality Trust, campaigning organization working for greater equality
\nAccess to and provision of public services play a key role in inequality, whether reducing or increasing the gaps in society. How the fragmentation of education, health and social security is affecting the UK and those who deliver these services.<\/em>
\n<\/span>The Equality Trust was launched in 2009 by Bill Kerry, Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett after the publishing of \u201cThe Spirit Level \u2013 Why Equality is Better for Everyone\u201d (In Danish: \u201cLighed \u2013 Hvorfor alle klarer sig bedre i mere lige samfund\u201d).
\n<\/span><\/em>Presentation<\/span><\/em><\/a> – Article in “Det Ny Clart\u00e9”<\/a> – (text)<\/a><\/p>\n

Earth Incorporated: The impacts of trade and privatisation on nature
\n<\/span>Nanna Langevad\u00a0Clifforth<\/span><\/a><\/strong>, Denmark, NOAH \u2013 Friends of the Earth Denmark
\nNature, biodiversity and ecosystem functions are increasingly included in trade agreements as well as turned into aims of financialisation and off-setting with severe environmental and social consequences<\/em>.
\nPresentation<\/em><\/a>
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

16:00 – 16:15 Coffee break
\n<\/span>16:15 – 17:00 <\/span>Workshops and networking
\n<\/span>The intention is to make workshops around each of the topics of the talks of the conference, and possibly build working groups\u00a0for ongoing work on these issues.<\/p>\n

17:00 – 18:00 <\/span>Concluding debate in plenary between the speakers of the conference and the participants on the main topics of the day<\/span>.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/a> Organizers:\u00a0<\/strong> Transform!Danmark in cooperation with transform!europe, Enhedslisten\/the Red-Green Alliance, Afrika Kontakt, Solidaritet, Det Ny Clart\u00e9, DiEM25-Copenhagen, Milj\u00f8bev\u00e6gelsen NOAH (Friends of the Earth Denmark) and others.<\/span>
\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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