Organising for a Planet on Fire I

The urgency of the intersecting crises tearing through our world shapes how we act in response.

The idea that 'time is running out' necessarily comes to inform the kind of collective action we take, especially with regards to the climate crisis. It also informs our blind spots.

What do we still have time to do?

What can we never afford to neglect in our calls for urgent action? In this event, held as COP26 draws to a close in Glasgow, we'll explore the difficult challenges of organising for climate justice in the shadow of COVID-19, as the climate crisis escalates.

How do we act with the urgency required, and the thoroughness the problem demands? What kind of tactics and forms of organising are needed? How do we dismantle fossil capitalism, not with more capitalism, but in movements of genuine solidarity across the world? What can different movements learn from each other?

As part of this panel, we'll hear from climate activist and scholar Andreas Malm, author of How to Blow Up a Pipeline and White Skin, Black Fuel, as well as Jen Deerinwater founder of Crushing Colonialism and Two-Spirit citizen of the Cherokee Nation.

Check out the second part of this far-reaching discussion in Organising for a Planet on Fire 2 as well as our Activism and Organising book list.