World Congress for Climate Justice
Milano, October 12-15, 2023
Since 2019, Milano has been one of the epicenters of the European climate movement. In a country now ruled by former fascists, Milano stands out for voting to the left and defending its antifa and queer identity against the Meloni government, heavily biased in favor of the fossil lobby and against environmental causes. It is here that from the city’s autonomist movement (centri sociali) the idea was born to hold a world congress of climate justice activists and intellectuals to plot the end of fossil capitalism.
In conjunction with activists from Liège and Berlin, as well as Bologna and Turin, an international call was launched to invite radical climate movements to Milano from October 12 to October 15, for four days of workshops, discussions and deliberations on the best ideas and strategies for climate justice movements in the North and South of the planet. Climate activists from Bologna, Rome, Frankfurt, London, Kampala, New York, Stockholm, Lisbon, and many other cities have already endorsed the call, while preparations are ongoing in the city under the Duomo to finish the program of the Congress (it will be released on April 15) and get all the political and logistical support to bring the world of anticapitalist ecology to Milano.
Ultima Generazione, Ecologia Politica, XR Milano, Piano Terra/Off Topic, ARI – Associazione Rurale Italiana, Comitato Acqua Milano, Institute of Radical Imagination, and many other collectives sit on the organizing committee that is periodically meeting to advance preparation works. Thursday October 12 will open with artivist workshops and a decolonial aperitivo. Friday 13 will be devoted to climate protest and specialized seminars on crucial issues for global warming, from the latest IPCC synthesis report to loss and damage at COP, from migrations to pipeline projects like EACOP, food sovereignty and agroecology, the sixth extinction and antispeciesism, etc.
Saturday October 14 will be entirely devoted to thematic and plenary assemblies on direct action movements vs fossil capitalism, ecotransfeminism and intersectional strategy, eco-marxism and green anarchy, petrofeudalism and war, green unionism and the energy transition, and more.
The organization will provide free food and accommodation to all delegates, and will cover travel costs, in particular for the climate activists coming to the Congress from Africa and the Americas.
MEDIA CONTACTS
Alex Foti alex.foti@gmail.com
Caterina Orsenigo caterina_89@yahoo.it
Davide Frigoli davide.frigoli@gmail.com
FOR HEADS OF DELEGATIONS + DELEGATES:
delegationsegretariat.wccj@gmail.com
THE CALL (in EN, ES, FR, IT, DE)
https://sites.google.com/view/wccj/call?authuser=0
SOCIAL MEDIA
https://www.facebook.com/klimattiva
https://instagram.com/wccj2023/
https://t.me/+t57dA04zrp9jMDRi (int’l chat)
https://t.me/WCCJnews (broadcast channel)
