At Space for Change, 12 sentences were agreed on that summed up what we were trying to achieve.
- Empowering, supporting and amplifying local struggles based on their needs and wishes.
- Using a diversity of tactics.
- Holding events that use collective creativity and encourage free expression.
- Promoting environmental issues, sustainability and climate justice.
- Challenging the cuts agenda.
- Promoting radical solutions.
- Being flexible to accomodate arising issues and respond within capacity.
- Organisng events schedule with and around local groups/campaigns.
- Travelling as light as possible.
- A framework to ensure sustainability.
- Outreaching to activist networks.
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do we take anti-authoritarianism, consensus-based, non-hierarchical organising as a given? i personally feel it’d be nice to have something here about that, but that could just be me… |
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Check out criteria for events for that kind of thing. |
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Do we take on CC’s 4 main aims, the only thing that has held solid and widely supported in CC. DA Not every event would have to contain all 4, but as a whole they could remain as principles. In retrospect ’movement building is a bit unclear, I guess in the early days people meant CC by the movement, in effect it has been the broader radical movement, perhaps we could amend it? |
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