This year Extinction Rebellion became an unmissable phenomenon, since the ‘April uprising’ in the UK, during which they occupied several central London locations for up to 3 weeks, employing strategies of mass arrests (and keen marketing on the streets and via social media). Founded as an offshoot of social justice organisation Rising Up!, XR are… Continue reading (In and out of) XR
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Klima Streik Berlin 29 November 2019
Some impressions of the Fridays For Future Klima Streik in Berlin, 29 November 2019, with the BLACK EARTH BIPoC Environmental & Climate Justice Kollektiv Berlin.
‘Colonial Patterns of Erasure’, XR Camp Berlin.
As representatives of a Berlin-based BIPoC climate justice collective Paula and I developed a workshop for the Extinction Rebellion camp. The input considered a still operating five-hundred year old mine site in Bolivia, Potosí, that is also a Wak’a Earth being and entity. As a ‘bridge of silver’ that connects Latin America and Europe, we… Continue reading ‘Colonial Patterns of Erasure’, XR Camp Berlin.
Seed Screening, The Floating Berlin.
A screening of Water is Life (2018), a campaign documentary by Seed Indigenous Climate Justice Network at the Floating University Berlin in conjunction with Gastivists Berlin. The screening was followed by an input to connect Berlin to the Northern Territory, Australia via the burgeoning global liquid natural gas (LNG) infrastructure. In the EU gas has… Continue reading Seed Screening, The Floating Berlin.
BIPoC at The Floating Berlin
Some images from the gathering and screening of Black Indigenous and People of Colour (BIPoC) at The Floating University Berlin, 5 August 2019.
Mapping Race, Climate and Intesectional Justice, The Floating Berlin
Workshop input at the Floating University Berlin. In an informal setting participants were invited to ‘bring to the table’ their thoughts, ideas and experiences to unpack and discuss concepts such as ‘environmental racism’, ‘Racial Capitalocene’, ‘Climate Debt’ and ‘Climate Apartheid’.