Transnational Worker Organizing Summit – »Syndicat!«
16.-20.11.2022, Theater Bremen (Invitation Only)Join our public programme at the Transnational Workers' Organizing Summit featuring migrant workers, climate justice organizers, anti-racist organizers, theorists, and educators from political movements and trade unions from Bremen and all over Europe!
Workers are rising across the planet, as for us the climate crisis is a transnational class struggle which is hitting working people first and foremost. As a matter of survival migrant, climate, racial and workers’ justice groups are organizing themselves everyday to pool their capacities and resources to change the course of history and resist the inhumane conditions we live in. They build organizations, movements and campaigns capable of fighting for transnational climate justice, decent green jobs, ecological housing, decolonial education systems, universal healthcare …
Because if it’s not workers organizing the social, ecological and political transformation we need, the current economic system will literally destroy the ecological systems upon which our lives depend – as it already does for many of us. It’s not as it is often claimed that working-class people do not care. They care very much. What they lack are the democratic rights and powers to care as they would like to.
How can we build a powerful transnational ecology of movements based on the local struggles and issues we face?
And how can we ecologize our struggles in order to build the power which allows us to have control over our lives, workplaces, and futures, and to care for ourselves, our communities, and the planet as we would like to?
During the Transnational Workers’ Organizing Summit under the title »Syndicat!«, taking place in Bremen, as part of the »Between Land and Sea« Festival, as a community of 50 migrant workers, climate justice organizers, and anti-racist activists as well as trainers, artists, and theorists from across Europe we will meet in Bremen for four days of non-public discussions, training sessions, and a public transnational assembly of workers’ solidarity, as well as an inspiring programme of theater and dance performances, exhibitions, and films, to build new transnational bridges between workers’, migrant, and climate justice struggles.
In addition to the non-public sessions, there will also be a public “Transnational Assembly of Workers’ Solidarity: Towards Ecological Syndicalism!” to which everyone is warmly invited.
Partners
Transnational European Assemblies
With the Support of
European Union
Guerrilla Foundation
Kulturstiftung des Bundes
About Between Land and Sea Festival
A coastline, a border between land and sea, can either frame a piece of land or a sea, depending on the direction of view. Accordingly, it connects Palermo rather with Bremen or with Tunis. Depending on the perspective, port cities are either gateways to the world or bottlenecks. Migration and commodity flows are shaped or disrupted by border regimes, sanctions, pandemics, blocked ports, transverse cargo ships or striking workers. Between Land and Sea Festival is a cultural and political program in and focused on Bremen, Palermo and Tunis.
A look along coastlines and global migration routes and supply chains. Following events in Palermo (2021) and Tunis (2022), Theater Bremen will present performances, dance, an exhibition, videos, documentaries and feature films, as well as workshops and debates in cooperation with local partners from November 14 to 20, 2022. The festival gathers international artists, academics and activists and asks how the struggles for a fair economy, migration and climate justice can be connected.
The non-public Syndicat! summit, inviting migrant and refugee workers, climate justice activists, community organizers and trade unionists from across Europe, provides a space for cross-border exchange, sharing best practice skills and strategizing for transnational alliances. How can the struggles for decent work, the right to asylum and climate justice be connected?
Learn more about the festival programme: https://theaterbremen.de/de_DE/between-land-and-sea
About the School of Transnational Organizing
European Alternatives' Berlin Hub is running the »School of Transnational Organizing«. A grassroots school where everyday people, social movement builders, trade union organizers, migrant workers, climate justice activists, community artists as well as marginalized communities meet to learn the tools and skills to master the lost art of organizing solidarity and together shape the landscape of what we think is possible.
We create brave spaces involving different people: allowing us to overcome the deep sense of powerlessness many of us share and enabling people "to turn the resources they have into the power they need to make the change they want" (Marshall Ganz). With a wide community of trainers, facilitators, and educators, we inspire, train, and support new popular pioneers, organisations, and movements to lead more hopeful, more joyful, and more powerful struggles in their countries, cities, and communities.
Learn more: www.transnationalorganizing.eu
Join our Progressive Community of Transnationalists
Are you a progressive activist, worker, academic, organizer, or artist? Are you part of a grassroots initiative, civil society organisation or social movement? Across borders, citizens in communities and cities build a new world of solidarity and justice.
Join us: www.transnationalorganizing.eu/join