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System change, climate deadlines, and filling the ambition gap in our movements
With a globalized capitalist system to dismantle under tight deadlines dictated by climate emergency, we need an ever-more consequential attitude: How do we envision social change taking place? What transformative strategies are adequate for such a change? What kind of strategy and organization do we need to achieve that transformation?
This webinar is about building a movement that can have a chance to change everything and building it before everything changes.
3 April - 17:00 UTC - Online
Speakers
Onur Yılmaz, coming from a background of electrical engineering and physics, is involed in the socialist movement since he stepped into organised life by joining the student movement before the Gezi uprising, studied climate and energy politics. Since 2020, he has been part of Polen Ecology Collective with an organizer role, continues to follow international aspects of revolutionary politics.
Lachlan is the Strategic Lead at Humanity Project and sits in the Core Team for Assemble UK. He previously organised in the climate civil resistance space for Just Stop Oil and now focuses on building democratic political alternatives in the form of popular assemblies. Over the past few years he has attended and facilitated dozens of these around the UK. Lachlan is interested in revolutionary strategy, movement ecology and alternative governance models and ways to build dual power to counter the current political system. He spends time pondering the present moment we are organising in and successful examples of revolutionary struggle where communities have liberated themselves across the globe.
Moderator: Matilde Alvim is a climate justice activist based in Lisbon. She was co-founder and organizer of the Fridays for Future strikes in Portugal in 2019, as well as organizer of the “End Fossil: Occupy!” movement between 2022 and early 2024 at both national and international level. For the past year, she has been more active in Climáximo. In her free time, she is an anthropologist.
Brief summary
In this webinar, focused on the third proposition of the book “All In: Revolutionary Theory to Stop Climate Collapse,” we emphasized the need for a ruptural approach to address climate change and the importance of building revolutionary parties and movements.
The speakers explored how to envision deep social change, what transformative strategies are adequate for urgent system change, and what kind of organization is needed to achieve this transformation. The discussion emphasized the need for a ruptural approach, arguing that inside-the-system plans are not compatible with the urgency of climate deadlines, and outside-the-system approaches are not sufficient for organizing global power. The speakers stressed the importance of creating a movement ecosystem that agrees on a rupture model of transformation to meet the tight climate deadlines, such as achieving zero carbon emissions in the Global North by 2030.
You can watch all the webinars HERE
This webinar is part of a serie of webinars to dive deeper into the main statements in the book All In. They were designed to get inputs from activists, organizers and researchers who are actively working on each subject.
You can watch all of them here: https://www.youtube.com/@book-all-in-now/playlists