[WSMDiscuss] [climate justice now!] Fwd: TNI Webinar series no 6, Wednesday May 13 : A Global Green New Deal & COVID-19

Sat May 9 05:27:12 CEST 2020

Dear Jai
I feel that the webinars also features a lot of global north talking and as
if we in the global south have to listen. The problem starts with the
timings of the webinar, geared towards mostly the global north audience.
Starts around 7.30 pm in Asia/India. I don't think many people in the
global north will listen to a webinar around that time in their own time
zone. The divide is still clear, though may be on an unconscious level.

Regards
Souparna

On Fri, 8 May 2020 at 21:27, Jai Sen <jai.sen at cacim.net> wrote:

> Friday, May 8, 2020
>
> *Viruses in movement…, Climate in movement…, Ideas in movement...*
>
> [Here’s the announcement of TNI (the Transnational Institute)’s sixth
> session in its webinar series, this coming Wednesday.  (In case you missed
> any of the earlier ones, they were recorded and you can listen to them off
> the TNI website @ https://www.tni.org/en/webinars.)
>
> [Two small points : What is interesting for me to note that whereas the
> TNI series started off by saying ‘*Building an internationalist response*’,
> this phrase – and focus - seems to have (been ?) dropped off, which I find
> disappointing.  Maybe it’s because it seemed to someone that it’s ‘obvious’
> to everyone that ‘This is of course what it’s all about’ – but I’m not at
> all sure that it’s that obvious – or that this is happening.  Frankly, from
> my experience of listening in to what I think is my fair share of webinars
> – not only the TNI series, also the newer ‘Global Dialogue’ series (where
> TNI is a partner), and the Global Justice Now series, among others -, I'm
> getting increasingly concerned that they are all morphing into earnest
> analysis and discussion sessions – undoubtedly very interesting and
> informative, but lacking that edge towards the hard questions… : Of what on
> earth is to be done ?  And of how we can build consensus.  In other words,
> of engaging directly with the political…  (I of course don’t mean in a
> prescriptive way, but to open and interrogate the issue, and including in
> terms of humankind’s relationship with Mother Earth.)  Does anyone else
> feel that this is what these otherwise very valuable webinars must now move
> to ?
>
> [And second, and directly in relation to this, I feel that there is –
> again, an overall observation – all too little engagement with the issue of
> *power, and both of power-to and power over; and of daring to imagine...
> As I see it, it’s simply no longer enough to talk only about what ‘the
> problems’ are, and what ‘others’ are doing (and doing wrong)…
>
> [In short, I anyway am hopeful that this webinar will be willing to dare
> to take this turn; otherwise, I’m seriously worried that we’re once again
> going to be lost just in ‘talking’… which is, I’m afraid, a serious problem
> with so many of ‘us’, who have relatively comfortable lives and too little
> skin in the game :
>
> TNI Webinar series no 6, Wednesday May 13 :
>
> *A Global Green New Deal & COVID-19*
>
> TNI (Transnational Institute), co-sponsored by AIDC (Alternative
> Information & Development Centre), South Africa, Focus on the Global
> South/Asia, and Institute for Political Ecology
>
>             In hope
>
> JS
>
> fwd
>
> Begin forwarded message:
>
> *From: *"Transnational Institute" <news at tnimail.org>
> *Subject: **Webinar 13 May: A Global Green New Deal & COVID-19*
> *Date: *May 8, 2020 at 8:12:38 AM EDT
> *To: *"Jai" <jai.sen at cacim.net>
> *Reply-To: *news at tnimail.org
>
> For next week we invite you to join the sixth webinar in our series on May
> 13 and our live broadcast Future Beyond Shell Presents: Future Beyond
> Crises on May 16.
> Webinar 13 May: A Global Green New Deal
>
> <https://app.getresponse.com/click.html?x=a62b&lc=SGFIS6&mc=Ci&s=ZfVbkb&u=Stcs4&z=EhH5hng&>
>
> Dear TNI supporter,
>
> We hope you have been able to attend one of our recent popular Wednesday
> webinars
> <https://app.getresponse.com/click.html?x=a62b&lc=SGFIzj&mc=Ci&s=ZfVbkb&u=Stcs4&z=EG0pyqF&>.
> We have been encouraged by the thousands of activists attending from more
> than 80 countries. This week TNI took a one week break and cosponsored a
> webinar organised by Rosa Luxemburg Foundation and TRANSFORM - *With
> everything up for grabs: The Green New Deal(s) the world needs now* which
> featured Mike Davis and Maude Barlow. Listen to the recording  here
> <https://app.getresponse.com/click.html?x=a62b&lc=SGFIwV&mc=Ci&s=ZfVbkb&u=Stcs4&z=EJAZBIs&>
> .
>
> On 13 May, we invite you to join the sixth webinar in our series. The
> webinar on *Wednesday 13 May 16:00 CET* focusses on a *Global Green New
> Deal* and features Richard Kozul-Wright (UNCTAD) and activists from
> across the globe leading the struggle for a just transition in the wake of
> the Coronavirus pandemic. (Live interpretation into Spanish available)
>
> The webinar will explore the opportunities and challenges of this moment
> for a transformational shift towards climate justice. It will most of all
> explore what a truly global climate justice programme would look like – one
> that centers the needs of those who will suffer the most from the
> consequences of climate change - and who are also those disproportionately
> affected by COVID-19.
>
> Make sure you register
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>
> *Panellists:*
>
>    - *Richard Kozul-Wright*, Director of the Division on Globalization
>    and Development Strategies at the United Nations Conference on Trade and
>    Development, author of Transforming Economies: Making Industrial Policy
>    Work for Growth, Jobs and Development
>    - *Karin Nansen*, chair of Friends of the Earth International,
>    founding member of REDES – Friends of the Earth Uruguay
>    - *Asad Rehman*, Executive Director of War on Want. Former Head of
>    International Climate, FOE
>
>
> *The webinar is organised by TNI and co-sponsored by Alternative
> Information & Development Centre(AIDC), Focus on the Global
> South and Institute for Political Ecology*
>
> Future Beyond Shell Presents: Future Beyond Crises
>
> In addition, we are happy to invite you to our live broadcast Future
> Beyond Shell Presents: Future Beyond Crises
> <https://app.getresponse.com/click.html?x=a62b&lc=SGFIyN&mc=Ci&s=ZfVbkb&u=Stcs4&z=EIHqwMi&>
>  on *Saturday, May 16 19:30 CET*. This online event is organised in
> cooperation with Climate Liberation Bloc (CLuB), Code Rood, Gastivists, and
> Shell Must Fall.
>
> <https://app.getresponse.com/click.html?x=a62b&lc=SGFIyN&mc=Ci&s=ZfVbkb&u=Stcs4&z=EV2dwzI&>
>
> The planet is and has been in crisis. In crises, in fact, as no issue is
> isolated. Lives, livelihoods, land, and nature are sacrificed for corporate
> profit. And while corporate multinationals like Shell are scrambling to
> profit from crises, and governments bend to their demands, we must ask
> ourselves: which future do we want to bail out?
>
> How can we support communities, social movements, sectors, and industries
> to move towards the future we want? A future beyond crises.
>
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> *Program:*
>
>    - Musical introduction (19:20)
>    - Welcome & opening speech (19:30)
>    Speaker: Suzanne Dhaliwal (No Tar Sands UK)
>    - Panel 1: The crises we know - How do current crises intersect and
>    how is this affecting impacted communities and sectors? (19:50)
>    Speakers: Suzanne Dhaliwal (No Tar Sands UK), Ilham Root (JA!
>    Mozambique), Laurie van Der Burg (Oil Change International)
>    - Musical intermezzo (20:30)
>    - Panel 2: What Is Needed - How to transition from the fossil empires
>    of the past to the decolonial energy democracies of the future? (20:40)
>    Speakers: Meera Ghani (Ecolise), Tatiana Garavito (Wretched of the
>    Earth), Suzanne Jeffery (Campaign Against Climate Change)
>    - Closing musical performance (21:35)
>
>
> Next to fantastic speakers we are looking forward to musical contributions
> by artists: Pravini, The Sounds of Climate Justice as well as a graphic
> harvesting performance by Willemijn Lambert. What more is needed for a
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> ____________________________
>
> Jai Sen
>
> Independent researcher, editor; Senior Fellow at the School of
> International Development and Globalisation Studies at the University of
> Ottawa
>
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