<div dir="auto"><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Alessandra Pomarico</strong> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:alessandrapomarico@gmail.com">alessandrapomarico@gmail.com</a>></span><br>Date: Fri, Apr 28, 2023, 4:02 AM<br>Subject: tomorrow a conversation on Ecological transition: how, for whom, and at whose expenses?<br>To: silvia federici <<a href="mailto:dinavalli@aol.com">dinavalli@aol.com</a>>, Liliana Buitrago <<a href="mailto:lilib17@gmail.com">lilib17@gmail.com</a>>, Francisca Fernández Droguett <<a href="mailto:franciscadroguett@gmail.com">franciscadroguett@gmail.com</a>>, Hibist Kassa <<a href="mailto:hibkasa@gmail.com">hibkasa@gmail.com</a>><br></div><br><br><div dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr" style="text-align:center;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></p><p style="text-align:center;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><b><font size="4">Saturday 29th </font></b></p><p style="text-align:center;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><b><font size="4">9.30 am EST </font></b><span style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:18px;font-weight:600;background-color:rgba(182,230,145,0.15)">15:30 CET</span><span style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:18px;background-color:rgba(182,230,145,0.15)"> 19:00 IST </span></p><p style="text-align:center;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></p><p style="text-align:center;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="https://tinyurl.com/rec3mississippi" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing:border-box;text-decoration-line:none;background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0.5);color:rgb(221,189,141);font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:14px" target="_blank"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:bold">JOIN ON ZOOM (MISSISSIPPI ROOM)</span></a> (click here) </p><p style="text-align:center;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></p><p style="text-align:center;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"></p><div style="text-align:center"><img src="cid:ii_lh0av6y10" alt="PHOTO-2023-04-23-06-21-57.jpg" width="472" height="472" style="text-align:start"></div><div style="text-align:center"><span style="text-align:justify;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(32,33,36);font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The decarbonization of the rich, which is market-based and export-oriented, depends on a new phase of environmental despoliation of the Global South, which affects the lives of millions of women, men, and children, not to mention non-human life. Women, especially from agrarian societies, are amongst the most impacted (from the </span><a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfl_OW5eY_lZNABezGBhsbL3fy2xPOSpB0qwifkjnkA0B6y1A/viewform?vc=0&c=0&w=1&flr=0" style="text-align:justify;text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Manifesto for an Ecosocial Energy Transition from the Peoples of the South</span></a><span style="text-align:justify;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(32,33,36);font-weight:700;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> )</span></div><div style="text-align:center"><span style="color:rgb(32,33,36);font-family:Arial;font-size:12pt;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></div><div style="text-align:left"><span style="color:rgb(32,33,36);font-family:Arial;font-size:12pt;white-space:pre-wrap">The current model of ecological transition is inscribed in the same exploitative, colonial, patriarchal paradigm of late capitalism, ready to sacrifice life on the planet for the gain and power of the very few. How to think and act for a truly </span><i style="color:rgb(32,33,36);font-family:Arial;font-size:12pt;white-space:pre-wrap">just </i><span style="color:rgb(32,33,36);font-family:Arial;font-size:12pt;white-space:pre-wrap">transition that protects life in all its forms against extractive neoliberal forces at work today? What are the strategies and tactics of eco-feminists, popular, community, and territorial feminisms emerging today in those territories that are the most affected by the so-called ‘ecological’ transition? </span></div><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="text-align:left;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(33,33,33);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">As a basis for our conversation, we will discuss some of the points highlighted in the </span><a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfl_OW5eY_lZNABezGBhsbL3fy2xPOSpB0qwifkjnkA0B6y1A/viewform?vc=0&c=0&w=1&flr=0" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Manifesto for an Ecosocial Energy Transition from the Peoples of the South</span></a><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(32,33,36);font-weight:700;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> * </span><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(33,33,33);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">an important document that illustrates the dynamics at stake and how they impact people in different territories. We highly suggest reading and circulating it</span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">!</span><br></p><p dir="ltr" style="text-align:left;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></p><p dir="ltr" style="text-align:left;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, sans-serif">with </font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="text-align:left;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="background-color:transparent;white-space:pre-wrap"><b>Liliana Buitrago: </b>Ecofeminist, </span>artivist, <span style="background-color:transparent;white-space:pre-wrap">part of the Political Ecology Observatory of Venezuela. Magister in Linguistics with works in critical discourse studies, social movements, and eco-territorial fe</span><span style="background-color:transparent;white-space:pre-wrap">minisms. She is part of the Ecosocial and Intercultural Pact of the South, the World Assembly for the Amazon, and the Latin American and Caribbean Platform for Climate Justice.</span><br></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="text-align:left;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><b><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="text-align:left;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b>Francisca Fernández Droguet</b>: Anthropologist, activist in the Movement for Water and Territories-MAT and the Higher Campesino School of Curaco de Vélez, Chiloé. She has a PhD in American Studies, with research on Andean studies, gender and ethnicity, socio-environmental conflicts, and participatory methodologies.<br></font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="text-align:left;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></p><p dir="ltr" style="text-align:left;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b style="color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap">Silvia Federici, </b><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap">feminist activist, writer, political theorist, and Professor Emerita at Hofstra University. Part of the International Feminist Collective, which launched the campaign Wages for Housework internationally, she is also a co-founder of the Committee for Academic Freedom for Africa, </span>of Midnight<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap"> Notes Collective, and the Radical Philosophy Association (RPA) anti-death penalty project. Among her widely circulated works are Wages Against Housework(1975), Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation (2004), Witches, Witch-Hunting, and Women (2018), Revolution at Point Zero: Housework, Reproduction, and Feminist Struggle (2012), Re-enchanting the World: Feminism and the Politics of the Commons (2018), and her recent Beyond the Periphery of the Skin: Rethinking, Remaking, Reclaiming the Body in Contemporary Capitalism (2020).</span><br></font></p><font face="arial, sans-serif"><div style="text-align:left"><br></div></font><p dir="ltr" style="text-align:left;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Dr <b>Hibist Kassa</b> i</span><span style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">s a </span><span style="color:rgb(33,33,33)">Fellow </span><span style="color:rgb(33,33,33);white-space:pre-wrap">o</span><span style="color:rgb(33,33,33);white-space:pre-wrap">f the Centre for African Studies and attached to the Chair of Land Reform and Democracy in South Africa at the University of Cape Town, and Policy Interface Fellow at the </span>Insitute<span style="color:rgb(33,33,33);white-space:pre-wrap">. Hibist has spent fourteen years developing an understanding of African political economy from the vantage point of the feminist movement in Ghana, and later, globally. She was a member of the Executive Committee of Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era (DAWN). She was also a postdoctoral fellow at the Southern Centre for Inequality Studies (SCIS) at the University of Witwatersrand.</span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="text-align:left;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(33,33,33);white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></font></p><font face="arial, sans-serif"><div style="text-align:left"><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;color:rgb(33,33,33);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><b>Alessandra Pomarico</b> is an independent curator, researcher, and educator working at the intersection of arts, pedagogy, </span><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> and community. Co-founder of </span><a href="http://www.fhu.art/" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,255);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Free Home Universit</span></a><font color="#0000ff"><u>y,</u></font><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;color:rgb(33,33,33);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> the trans-local </span><a href="https://ecoversities.org/" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,255);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Ecoversities Alliance</span></a><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;color:rgb(33,33,33);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, Alessandra’s research currently focuses on ecologies of knowledge, care, and relational epistemologies. Recent projects include </span><a href="http://www.fireflyfrequencies.org/" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,255);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">firefly frequencies</span></a><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;color:rgb(33,33,33);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> radio, M.E.D.U.S.E (Mediterranean Ecofeminist, Decolonial Union for Self-Education) the </span><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">School of the We</span><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;color:rgb(33,33,33);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, The New Alphabet School #Commoning; #Healing. Editor at </span><a href="http://www.artseverywhere.ca/" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,255);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">artseverywhere</span></a><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;color:rgb(33,33,33);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> she curated the volume </span><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Pedagogies Otherwise</span><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;color:rgb(33,33,33);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> (Ecoversities Publications, 2018), co-edited </span><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">What’s there to learn</span><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;color:rgb(33,33,33);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> (Publication Studio Guelph, 2018) and </span><a href="https://www.archivebooks.org/resonating-with-zapatismo" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,255);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">When the Roots Start Moving: Resonating with Zapatismo</span></a><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;color:rgb(33,33,33);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> (Archive Books 2021)</span><br></div><div style="text-align:left"><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;color:rgb(33,33,33);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></div><div style="text-align:left"><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;color:rgb(33,33,33);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></div><div style="text-align:left"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">looking forward to thinking and imagining different futures </span><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> together </span></font></div></font><font face="arial, sans-serif"><div style="text-align:left"><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font color="#000000">forgive cross- posting, warm hugs </font></span></div><div style="text-align:left"><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font color="#000000">alessandra</font><font color="#ff0000"> </font></span></div></font><p dir="ltr" style="text-align:left;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></p></div>
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