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Weaving Alternatives to Polycrises:
The Global Tapestry of Alternatives
The Global Tapestry of Alternatives (GTA) is an initiative seeking to create solidarity networks and strategic alliances amongst all radical alternatives on local, regional and global levels. It locates itself in or helps initiate interactions among alternatives to the destructive hegemonic system. GTA is about creating spaces of collaboration and exchange, in order to learn about and from each other, critically but constructively challenge each other, offer active solidarity to each other whenever needed, interweave the initiatives in common actions, and give them visibility to inspire other people to create their own initiatives. It could facilitate people seeking transformative change going further along existing paths or forging new ones that strengthen alternatives wherever they are, hopefully eventually converging into a critical mass of alternative ways that can support the conditions for the radical systemic changes we need.
The GTA has been participating at the Degrowth conferences since 2016 and would like to continue building synergies, collaborations, dialogues and exchanges around systemic alternatives. Through this session, we intend to share GTA’s objectives, build connections, have critical dialogue and build connections. As a non-academic session, we invite all conference participants interested in the weaving together of radical alternatives to join us in an interactive session. We will begin with a short presentation of the GTA and voices of some the weavers. This will be followed by a discussion and reflection session where all participants contribute to building ideas collective for the global tapestry of alternatives process.
Info
Day:
2023-09-01
Start time:
12:00
Duration:
01:30
Room:
ZV-8-7
Type:
Non-academic Session
Theme:
Hegemonic worldviews and degrowth horizon
