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A Global Week of Action is a week when people across the world take action with a common goal, set of targets, and with shared demands, storytelling and visual identity. This document builds on the learnings from the Insure Our Future Global Week of Action. It is written based on experiences from this context, though there will be lots of relevance for those working in different contexts.
In The Commons Library you can find detailed information on how to plan a Global Week of Action:
The Social Strike Game is a group strategy game that’s fun for everyone. It’s an opportunity to use your imagination to figure out the ways an array of different groups and resources in a city/area can co-ordinate to develop social struggle, build community, deal with crises, respond to significant events, and smash capitalism.
Plan C has developed this fantastic, joyful and strategic game so we can all play it in our groups! Thanks Plan C!
The commons library is not so much a tool itself, but much more than that! A vast collection of theoretical background materials, tools for varying needs and desires and a great source of inspiration. You’ll find anything from materials helping you to build your Theory of Change to learning more about how to create a campaign!
Across the globe, the far right is on the rise. What can we learn from latin american experiences? This workshop series* hosted by Centro Educacion Popular Lohana Berkins and co-hosted by Movement Hub, focuses on the struggles in Latin America in order to help inspire social movements in Germany and Europe.
6.11, 6pm – The New Right-Wing Movements: A Breakdown (Las nuevas derechas: radiografia)
Input by: Miguel Urban. Author of Trumpism and ex-member of European Parliament
13.11, 6pm – Brazil: The Struggles Against Bolsonaro (Las luchas contra Bolsonaro)
Input: Vanessa Dourado. Activist in PSOL and now is active in ATTAC Argentina
20.11., 6pm – Colombia: Defeating the Oldest Right-Wing in the Continent (Colombia: Derrotando a la derecha mas antigua del continente) Input: Diego Turmeque. Activist in land politics for peace. He does political work with farmers in Colombia.
27.11., 6pm Cuba: Confronting Conservative Fundamentalism (Cuba, confrontando con el fundamentalismo) Input: Ricardo Santiago. Was active in Martin Luther King Center in Cuba.
All sessions will take place online. Register below to receive the access link.
*The workshops will be in English and Spanish with simultane translation (Workshop en ingles y español con traducción simultanea)
Place: online
6., 13., 20. and 27. November 2024
Time: 6pm
Are you part of an activist group and involved in public relations work? Would you like to exchange tools and strategies across movements?
Movement Hub, wort.wechsel and Aktivistinnen Agentur are teaming up to host a workshop weekend, where the following questions will be discussed:
The weekend is aimed at activists from different movement contexts: e.g. anti-fascism, anti-racism, climate, right to the city, health and agriculture. We are happy to welcome people with different levels of experience in the field of public relations.
Unfortunately, only up to 25-30 people can participate. We would like to ensure that a diversity of movement perspectives are represented at the meeting. Therefore, registration is not first come first serve. We will contact you after the registration deadline to let you know if we can confirm your participation. To ensure that as many groups as possible can participate, it would be good if each group registers a maximum of 1-2 delegates.
The Event will take place in Hannover (Tagungshaus Gleisdreieck)
Registration deadline: 01. April 2024
The key to understanding the nature of the life and work of the migrants in Europe is to analyse the dependency links that have consolidated through decades of plundering of common property, financial speculation and indebtedness intheir territories of origin. Understanding the forced nature of these migrations does not only allow us to analyse the reasoning behind these long, hurried, uncertain and hopeful journeys. It also gives us the tools to understand the forms of work and lifestyles in these newfound homes and the relationships that persist with the families and homes in their country of origin.
Authors: María José Gordillo, Darío Farcy und Mariano Feliz.
These broschures are a cooperation between CEP Lohana Berkins and Movement Hub.
When and where is the workshop?
Language: English with German whispered translation
Who is this workshop for? The workshop is open to everyone! It could be useful for people in the tenant movement, climate justice movement, before state elections or used in completely different contexts. You can certainly think of examples from your own struggles and campaigns.
Our speaker Laura comes from Green New Deal UK and brings a lot of experience and stories to the tactics.
Berlin | Frankfurt
28.01.23 | 29.01.23
Bewegungsschule has developed learning materials on the function of action in organizing using the example of resistance committees in Sudan: A case study with associated method description and a handout and. So you can use the material directly. For more background information, listen to the interview with Muzna Alhaj.
1-to-1 conversations are part of the toolkit of all organizers. There are different 1-to-1 conversations. This handout from the Bewegungsschule contains a guideline for an approximately 45-minute personal conversation between a more active person (organizer) and a less active person.
The Phase5 collective has published a reader with methods to support groups, initiatives and alliances in the joint development of strategies. Behind this is a feminist claim: As many as possible should be involved in the formulation of longer-term plans, so that all the different perspectives become visible, disputable and decidable.