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We are an international grassroots collective operating sociocratically. We advocate for #Degrowth #Wellbeing #Decolonisation. Join us via link.

Joined October 2022
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CALL FOR SIGNATURES! Degrowthers of the World, Unite: A Proposal for Degrowth Academics, Activists, and Practitioners to Join Forces as Equals @jasonhickel @JKSteinberger @timparrique @g_kallis @R_Degrowth @Prof_FSultana @safbf Please add your name here: docs.google.com/document/d/1…
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Read this essential critique by @ER_Roberts_ of the academic #degrowth movement & the 'working class' workingclassclimatealliance.… @jasonhickel @g_kallis @ecodenker
The edited transcript from my talk is up: "I have severe ethical concerns about attempting to bolster working class support for it [degrowth]. Currently, rather than serving to emancipate the working class... our social class is being de-emancipated." workingclassclimatealliance.…
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Feb 26, green growth vs degrowth debate at University of Toronto. Come and cheer for degrowth! 🎉 💚 🌍 Registration link: t.ly/OMlF9
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60,000 Americans live in illegal settlements in the West Bank, built on land stolen from Palestinians. Another 100,000 live in occupied East Jerusalem, in homes stolen from Palestinians. theguardian.com/world/2023/d…
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New paper finds that 38-59% of GDP in the USA is "wasted" (along with billions of tons of carbon), in that better human development outcomes could be achieved without it. nature.com/articles/s41599-0…
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BREAKING: Every single country in the world, except the US and Israel, has voted at the UN to condemn the US blockade on Cuba. Ukraine abstained from the vote. For the 31st straight year, the world overwhelmingly opposes the US's ongoing war on Cuba.
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“The only democracy in the Middle East” is currently suspending members of gov and arresting citizens who criticize the government.
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"Do you have a plan for what you will do if the ground invasion begins?" @GhassanAbuSitt1: "We will stay with our patients and defend our patients right to life... if the Israelis decide to commit genocide, then that is on the international community who saw this coming"
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A crucial angle to (re)building community [after capitalism] is forging a web of mutual dependability.
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Degrowth must reverse all that, even if it may appear at first unnatural, awkward, or counter to human nature. Specifically, within degrowth we should try to **mutually need each other**.
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A convivial quid pro quo sort of approach. I will do this for you, you can do this for me. Give away for free, receive for free: tools, things, food, knowledge, skills, time.
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Twenty-six Special Rapporteurs of the UN Human Rights Council have called on the international community "to address the root causes of the current conflict, including the 56-year-old occupation and the annexation pursued by Israel." ohchr.org/en/press-releases/…
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