The event lays in the past. We will publish some of the content soon. An online Workshop with Payal Parekh.
Content Short
This online workshop will discuss how a shift towards mutual aid, cooperative networks for collective action to meet the needs of a community for common benefit, could be indispensable for withstanding climate disasters justly. It would likely also strengthen solidarity and accountability within society. But what could this look like?
This interactive session will explore the concept of mutual aid by drawing from examples globally and how the concept can be applied within the European context through a decolonial and anti-racist lens.
Join us for this critical discussion!
The Workshop is for educators, facilitators, community organizers and all who are interested in that topic.
Place / Date
The event will took place Wednesday 18th of June, from 4:30pm to 8:30pm CET om ZOOM.
Facilitator(s)
Payal Parekh has been working to protect people and the planet since she was 19 in her native India, United States and now in Switzerland, where she resides. She holds a Ph.D. in climate science and ocean chemistry from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.
Payal Parekh is an activist with the science to back it up. After leaving scientific research, she has worked in leadership positions at a number of international environmental NGOs, while staying active in grassroots movements on the ground. Her unique experiences have shaped how she works and her political vision. She believes strongly in collective action and designs campaigns that draw heavily on organizing, mobilizing and mass actions.
Payal Parekh also believes that movements can only grow if we meet people where they are at and speak and write in a way that is not speaking to the converted.
Jayda Sauseng is part of the Skills4Crisis project team. Their main task is networking and establishing international cooperation for the partner organisation Humus, as well as organizing the skills share event Tipping Points.
About the project
The ‘Skills for Crisis’ project acknowledges that ecological tipping points, social collapse and multiple crises have been reached. They will be and already are our reality. The world as we know it is coming to an end. Embracing this thought, faces us as individuals, but also our communities with questions, feelings and processes, forcing us to leave our known ground of “solving” and “saving”.
Together we want to explore what civil society organisations, our communities and social movements need in order to react and act in Solidarity to crises. We want to learn from the past, support healing in the present and shape the way we enter the future.
For one year, we will collect and discuss existing knowledge and practices about crises and develop workshops based on five streams of thoughts.
Stream of Thought
Facing Extreme Weather is one of the 5 Streams of Thoughts we are following throughout the project. The Illustrations show a crisis and its Solidarity alternative. Drawing by Fine / Educat Kollektiv.
