Join us this NYC Climate Week for our Climate Convergence event! The event will open at 5pm with an Indigenous Danza ceremony and free food followed by interactive workshop from 6-8pm EST where participants will be introduced to the revolutionary concept of "dual power organizing" as a way to build climate power, strengthen mutual aid organizing, and build the type of community infrastructure we need to survive climate change.
🗓 Wednesday, Saturday 20th
🕧 5-8pm EST
📍The New School's Lang Café (65 West 11th Street)
ABOUT THE DANZA CEREMONY
Cemanahuac is the unity between the Eagle (North America), Condor (South America) and Quetzal (Medo America). Our danzantes are from these places and will be sharing prayer with the attendees at the Climate Convergence through dance to honor generations to come (youth), ancestors (the stories of our families), the land, and its protectors (community organizers and members -- you!).
ABOUT THE WORKSHOP
With every passing year, NYC Climate Week takes on added urgency. The climate crisis is already here, but many residents don't feel like they are equipped with the tools, survival skills or political power to fight for climate justice and protect themselves when another disaster hits.
What does it mean to truly build community power? What types of community care infrastructure does our movement need to build in order to sustain our organizing + overall climate survival?
In examining these questions, Start:Empowerment and Climate Mobilization Network are organizing Climate Survival: Visioning The Next Era of Our Movement as part of the 2023 Climate Convergence.
Join us to explore what dual power organizing is (understanding that the relationship between state/capitalism and oppressed peoples can never be reconciled) and discuss the need to shift from a climate emergency and crisis mindset in our movement to a climate survival focus. We will also consider how we can build mutual aid/community/disaster preparedness infrastructure needs within our work to support mass direct action and build anti-capitalist ways of living to support people through crises and uprisings that are being accelerated by the climate crisis.
This session will also shift power in several ways and invites participants and participating groups to engage after the session in collective learning, organizing, and movement building towards shared climate survival strategies.
Walk away with strategies and solutions to keep yourself and your community safe during disasters by building a shared collective narrative and equipping yourself with the organizing tools to plug into your organizing homes and make your organizing more powerful.