London Mining Network will be at The World Transformed with our friends War on Want this year. On 9 October we’ll be co-hosting the panel Resisting Green Colonialism: Learning From Resistance Movements Globally. If you’re attending the festival, join us on Monday 9 October at 16:30 in the Black-E Main Space.
The green energy transition being advanced by imperialist states is an agenda for green colonialism, with sacrifice zones and the intensified plunder of land, labour and resources. Across the South communities are resisting and uniting behind clear demands for an alternative. Our panelists will present a vision for an ecosocial energy transition that delivers climate reparations, minimises the mining of transition minerals, and dismantles imperialist trade relations. The event will be a space to explore how movements in the UK can build power in solidarity with these demands.
Speakers
Vasna Ramasar is a South African scholar-activist at Lund University in Sweden and a core group member of the Global Tapestry of Alternatives. She is also on the steering group for Women Against Destructive Extractivism in Africa, Collective against environmental racism in Denmark and Post Extractive Futures Collective.
Sebastian Ordoñez Muñoz is Senior Programmes Officer at War on Want and Advisor at London Mining Network. He works closely with grassroots and frontline social movements, developing justice-oriented approaches to our social and ecological crises. Sebastian helps to coordinate the Global Green New Deal Project.
Gustavo Garcia Lopez is an engaged scholar, educator, and apprentice organizer, from the islands of Puerto Rico. He has transdisciplinary social-environmental sciences training, combining political ecology and environmental policy and planning, with decolonial and Latin American and Caribbean studies.
Diana Salazar is the Latin America Coordinator for London Mining Network. She has years of experience working with mining-affected communities.
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SOURCE: https://londonminingnetwork.org/2023/09/resisting-green-colonialism/
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