<synthesis> Reclaiming the means of re/production as the means of sustainable climate production?

[Krystian Woznicki]

Hi INC-folks,

What is the ecological dimension of work? What common interests do 
workers’ and environmental movements have and what does it mean to join 
forces? How can we reclaim the means of re/production as the means of 
sustainable climate production? These are some of the key questions 
explored by the “Allied Grounds” project in 2023.

More than 80 activists and researchers were invited to share their 
thoughts on these questions in the form of video talks, projects, and 
essays. Check out all the materials on the “Allied Grounds” project 
website: https://berlinergazette.de/projects/allied-grounds/

Throughout the year, we published 46 essays from 22 countries, now 
organized into the following sections: Working People in Movement, Rural 
Worker Struggles, Alliances of the Exploited, Resisting Green Capital, 
Collective Agency?, Reimagining Work, Post-Growth Pathways, Just 
Transition from Below, and Ecological Unionism.

In the context of the autumn conference we recorded video talks by 
Jennifer Kamau, Harsha Walia, Florin Poenaru, Brett Neilson, Dario 
Azzellini, Svjetlana Nedimović, Francesca Gabbriellini, Paola 
Imperatore, and Lorenzo Feltrin. At the conference, we facilitated the 
collaborative production of five collective projects on the following 
topics: Eco-Internationalism, Jobs vs. Nature, Working-Class 
Environmentalism, (Un)Working Balkans, and Eco-Fascism.

More results from the conference are available on “Allied Grounds” 
website (https://berlinergazette.de/projects/allied-grounds/), which 
serves as a permanent, open-access resource platform and, ultimately, a 
veritable archive of resistance and toolbox of critical knowledge and 
practices for activists and scholars alike. If you are interested in 
republishing any of it, just let us know! We are happy to share.

Thank you to all of you who have participated in this truly enriching 
exploration and have contributed to the creation of this rich body of 
resources. And thank you to everyone who has and will continue to spread 
the word about our activities. It is in this "organic" way that we will 
move beyond the silos of the algorithm-driven social media "public sphere".

And in case you missed it, check out the conference report 
(https://transversal.at/blog/we-must-find-a-common-language), now 
available in Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian, Bulgarian, Dutch, English, 
French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian, and Spanish. More 
translations, including Turkish, are in the works.

In solidarity,

Krystian (for the BG team)

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BG - Berliner Gazette - since 1999 - https://berlinergazette.de

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Allied Grounds: Connecting Climate and Labor Struggles
BG Project 2023 w/ Texts, Video Talks, Projects + more
https://berlinergazette.de/projects/allied-grounds

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After Extractivism: Challenging the Ecological-Economic Complex
BG Project 2022 w/ Video Talks, Projects, Texts + more
https://after-extractivism.berlinergazette.de

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