Organizing collective action for degrowth

Building Alliances:

• Building Alliances with environmental and social conflicts actors and seed degrowth there.

• Link up with democracy NGOs.

• Link between Researchers and Activists.

• Storytelling: develop a positive narrative.

• Fight against specific instances of capitalist expansion into new environments and fight for the good life with people in those regions.

• Think/act beyond the state and the institutions.

• Articulate/Bridge movements through alliance building and campaigning on “key issues”.

Knowledge Management:

• Trainings for locals and in school (how to change).

• Support and link communities of practice using online collaboration and network tools.

• Establish translation infrastructure for Degrowth community.

• Learning from mistakes and share lessons learned.

• Exchange of success stories and best practices.

Offline social structure: National and local:

• International network of degrowth movements rooted in the territory.

• Extend Italian experience internationally.

• Linking national and local degrowth movements and initiatives.

• Creating degrowth “hubs” / relays.

Ideas for Action:

• Collective and direct action of dissent with the old system: “Conflictive Actions Strategy” of Occupy and Civil disobedience against

  • fossil industries

  • weapon industries

  • agro-industries

• Organize a vote about investment protection (part of TTIP, CETA, TISA) for the different countries EU, USA, Canada.

Here you can find the results of the GAP at the Degrowth Conference 2010 in Barcelona that are particularly relevant for this working group. More.