Autumn Gathering 2024: 1-3 Nov in Grassina, near Florence/IT
Save the dates, come join us! Programme forthcoming
We’re excited to announce the dates and location of our next annual in person gathering! We’ll be meeting from November 1-3 at the Casa del Popolo in Grassina, near Florence/IT. To discuss and liaise, talk strategy, celebrate the Italian launch of our ‘Transforming Agriculture’ book, and learn with key comrades from agroecological, syndicalist and other struggles in the Region. We’ll have two full days of discussions and workshops, and a final day of excursion to occupied farmlands and factories. Detailed programme forthcoming. Sign up now!
Farming and its Others, and Other Ways of Farming
A new text by Common Ecologies’ Earthcare Strand
Why are so many farmers raging against the conditions of food production, and not against the drivers of the crisis in agriculture? Who aren’t we seeing? What other farmers, and ways of farming, should we look to for alternatives? Drawing on insights from our allies from peasant, agroecological, agri-syndicalist, migrant and feminist farming movements, from across Europe, we wrote this text to shed some light on the crisis of agriculture, its neoliberal and right-wing capture, and the struggles we really need to look to.
Towards Eco-Social Curricula: Learning, Teaching & Getting Organized when the World is on Fire
Jan – Sept 2024: express interest now!
Launching new strand and process! Are you a parent, teacher or student who thinks the socio-ecological crisis urgently needs to be addressed in schools? We invite you to join a process of collective conversations, learning and scheming about eco-social curricula in education (primary, secondary and university alike). Between January and September 2024 we’ll be running the pilot phase of this multi-year project, in cooperation with different partners. Join us and sign up now!
Online launch: Transforming Agriculture and Beyond – the book & poster [ENG/ES]
Join us for an online launch of this toolkit, with simultaneous translation into Spanish! With the participation of collectives and allies: get to know these amazing materials, hear about our process, think with us about how we’ll activate those materials!
Lanzamos nuestro libro y poster de tácticas de transformación agroecológica, con traducción simultánea al castellano! Con la participación de varios colectivos y aliadxs: sumaros! Para conocer a esas bellas herramientas, conocer el proceso y pensar con nosotres cómo activar ese tipo de herramientas!
Farmers protests: where do we stand? An online conversation across (parts of) Europe
22 February 2024, 19-21h, online
An online event with organized farmers and researchers from Nos Plantamos (ES), ABL (DE), Area de Agroecología de Ecologistas en Acción (ES), Association A4 (FR), Mondeggi Bene Commune (IT), Root and Branch Collective (IR/UK).
Transforming Agriculture and Beyond – the Book
written & edited by the Common Ecologies Earthcare Strand
This collectively made book is a compendium of tactics and tools for agreocological transition, gleaned from different struggles at the forefront of socio-ecological change in Europe. It presents 13 broad tactical approaches and 5 legal-organizational models for transformation and justice in the world of agriculture and beyond, as well as plenty of tools. Designed for print at home!
Building Agroecological Struggles – the Poster
illustrated by Amanda Priebe in collaboration with Common Ecologies
A poster celebrating lively and interconnected movements and infrastructures. This A2 poster goes with our book Transforming Agriculture and Beyond and contains links to Earthcare Fieldcast episodes with stories of the initiatives featured on the poster and in the book. It’s a pedagogical tool as much as a beautiful object for walls and noticeboards. Email us if you would like print copies!
Autumn Gathering: building a school for movement
Oct 27-28 2023, Vienna (and partially online)
It’s time to gather and think and scheme together! This autumn we’ll meet in Vienna to launch our exciting new working strands through a series of debates, presentations and workshops – calling on all friends and allies to join us, to stake out what we can build in common. Check the programme and register here.
New seasons, new people, new strands, new plans!
coming slowly and soon
We’re growing, extending and deepening our work! We go slow because we aim to go far – soon you’ll find us updating our website, and launch new projects, courses and events here. Stay tuned and sign up to our newsletter to make sure to get our latest news.
Tactics for Agroecological Transition: course for collectives
Feb-March 2023
Check out our course with collectives, co-ops and platforms that work with specific tactics & tools for Agroecological Transition! This is a course for mutual learning, networking and strategizing between collective actors in the movements for food sovereignty, climate justice, migrant rights and beyond – generating a compendium of key tactics. For groups only, but we welcome newly formed groups!
Tactics for Agroecological Transition: public events online
Feb-March 2023
Join our public event series to discuss key tactics and stakes for Agroecological Transition, learning from groups, co-ops, activists and researchers that accompany our course for collectives. We will not only discuss why agri-transition is key for our collective survival and socioecological justice, but also map out pathways for facilitating transformation.
Towards Agroecological Futures – a Manual
Out now! A manual for facilitating agroecological transitions, by Daniel López García and Guillem Tendero Acín. Step by step inspiration for facilitating agroecological processes in rural and urban contexts. Translated and abridged from Spanish for our course on Agroecological Transition. Read and download it here!
Summer Gathering 2022
August 26+27 2022, Berlin+online
Join our gathering to discuss movement learning, the knowledges, platforms and spaces we need! In Berlin as well as online, we meet to shape Common Ecologies and strengthen our webs of alliance and collaboration, and learn from key movement school referents.
Our Video Channel is up!
Check out our new playlists: Toolkit&Methods and Forces of Reproduction Course Videos for shorter and longer bits of learning materials and debate
English translation just out
We’re very excited to present an English translation of Pastora Filigrana’s ‘From Farm-Work to Care-Work: Towards a Feminist and Anti-Racist Syndicalism‘!
Channeling the forces of reproduction
April-June 2022
Key practices & concepts for feminist social-ecological transformation, building alliances across agriculture, labour and climate justice. Why earthcare matters for us all, with key activists and thinkers from Europe and Latin America
Climate and the social question
June-July 2022
How we pivot to climate in housing, labour and energy organizing. A strategic workshop to build alliances and forge new proposals and debates
The Earthcare Fieldcast
The Spadework Podcast
