Mariana Rodrigues
Mariana Rodrigues is a Gen Z born in Portugal. She is an organizer and a trainer for social movements, with experience in international networks, with a strong taste for team building and for revolutionary intersectional approaches. She is optimistic and frustrated with the state of the world, a master in improvisation, and much more of a doer than a writer.
Mariana joined the student movement as an organizer and leader while in college and has been active in social struggles since 2017. Starting by getting involved in Amnesty International at national and international levels as well as in non-formal education organizations and campaigns, she gradually got drawn into grassroots organizations, including the LGBTI movement, the fight against international free trade agreements and environmentalism. In 2019 she got involved in Extinction Rebellion, and later in Climáximo, where she continues her militancy.
Since 2019, Mariana organized dozens of direct actions and mass actions at national and international level, facilitated and led coordination spaces for the climate justice movement at European and global level – By 2020 We Rise Up, the Glasgow Agreement and the Earth Social Conference – an led the campaign against fossil gas in Portugal. She is a trainer and organizer, with experience in a variety of areas such as communication, outreach, finance, action and well-being.
Sinan Eden
Sinan Eden is a millenial born in Turkey. He lives in Portugal since 2011 and has a PhD in Mathematics. He is an organizer and trainer, with a strong taste for theory and for dialectics. He is not reading as much as he’d like to, and he has probably been to too many meetings.
Sinan has been involved in the student movement in Turkey, anti-austerity movement in Portugal, and the climate movement in both countries since 2007. He participated in NGOs, in orthodox-Marxist political parties, in unorthodox-Marxist political parties, in grassroots collectives, in anarchist groups. In all these organizations, he has been involved in the strategy discussions and the organizational aspects. He is the author of the book “Iklim Krizi ve Yaptirmamak” (published in Turkish in 2015, can be loosely translated as The Climate Crisis and Not Letting Them Do).
Since 2014, most of his militancy has been in or through Climáximo. He has done most of the international networking, including facilitating international spaces (International Ecosocialist Encounters, the Global Climate Jobs campaign, the By 2020 We Rise Up campaign). He is a facilitator, strategy trainer, an action coordinator, a legal support team coordinator and a mobilization coordinator, among other things.
Sinan Eden
Sinan Eden is a millenial born in Turkey. He lives in Portugal since 2011 and has a PhD in Mathematics. He is an organizer and trainer, with a strong taste for theory and for dialectics. He is not reading as much as he’d like to, and he has probably been to too many meetings.
Sinan has been involved in the student movement in Turkey, anti-austerity movement in Portugal, and the climate movement in both countries since 2007. He participated in NGOs, in orthodox-Marxist political parties, in unorthodox-Marxist political parties, in grassroots collectives, in anarchist groups. In all these organizations, he has been involved in the strategy discussions and the organizational aspects. He is the author of the book “Iklim Krizi ve Yaptirmamak” (published in Turkish in 2015, can be loosely translated as The Climate Crisis and Not Letting Them Do).
Since 2014, most of his militancy has been in or through Climáximo. He has done most of the international networking, including facilitating international spaces (International Ecosocialist Encounters, the Global Climate Jobs campaign, the By 2020 We Rise Up campaign). He is a facilitator, strategy trainer, an action coordinator, a legal support team coordinator and a mobilization coordinator, among other things.