Subject: Webinar July 1 – People Power and the Pandemic

Webinar July 1 – People Power and the Pandemic

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    You won’t want to miss our final webinar in our COVID Capitalism series, People Power and the Pandemic on 1 July at 4pm CEST.

    Webinar July 1 – People Power and the Pandemic


    Dear reader,

    You won’t want to miss our final webinar in our COVID Capitalism series, People Power and the Pandemic on 1 July at 4pm CEST. Register here.



    We have brought together a unique global panel of thinkers, activists and organisers from across the globe to share their thoughts on how we can ensure this unprecedented health crisis becomes a turning point towards system change.

    The panel will look back on how a minuscule particle changed the world and why, for social movements, it has been a moment of possibility and peril. It exposed the deep flaws in neoliberal approaches to crises and health, but it has also strengthened the rising wave of draconian and authoritarian governments that has enveloped the globe. Yet despite the immense obstacles, movements have perhaps never been so active – building collective analysis, forming global alliances, and emboldened to demand transformational change. Even as the pandemic continues to rage, there has been a sudden unprecedented wave of uprisings against racism in the US, India and elsewhere.



    1 July 2020 at 4pm CEST


    Spanish interpretation will be available

    Panellists
    • Thenjiwe McHarris, Movement for Black Lives, USA
    • Hakima Abbas, Association for Women's Rights in Development, Senegal
    • Rafeef Ziadah, Palestinian performance poet/Professor at SOAS
    • Josua Mata, Secretary General, SENTRO trade union, Philippines
    • Vrinda Grover, Human rights lawyer, India

    Moderator: Hilary Wainwright, author of A New Politics from the Left (2018)


    This webinar is organised by Transnational Institute with Focus on the Global South and co-sponsored by Alternative Information Development Centre.

    Missed our latest webinar?

    Watch Walls Must Fall – Ending the politics of border militarisation here.

    This webinar explored the trajectory and globalization of border militarization and anti-migrant racism across the world, the history, ideologies and actors that have shaped it, the pillars and policies that underpin the border industrial complex, the resistance of migrants, refugees and activists, and the shifting dynamics within this pandemic.

    You can listen to the recording here.

    TNI has put together more than 16 webinars in the last 3 months, which have been very well received and listened to in 138 countries over the full series. Our favourite feedback is hearing from activists that say the webinars have given them the analysis, inspiration and understanding to deepen their own struggles and campaigns.

    We are proud to provide our webinars and research for free as a contribution to the movements and activists responding to this pandemic. However, it takes time and resources to organise these events, to research and to publish. If you would like to support us in this work, please donate here.

    Also, as we end this COVID-19 series, we are starting to make plans for new series. If you have ideas for topics and also formats for online learning that you would like to see TNI provide, please do send us your ideas by emailing us at j.graham@tni.org and nick@tni.org.

    Sincerely,

    Nick Buxton and Jess Graham

    Future Labs Coordinator/Community Builder
    Transnational Institute - putting ideas into movement since 1974

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