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Degrowth & Universal Basic Snails (UBS)
Have you ever wondered what the discussion about degrowth is actually about? In this workshop, we will explore the most important ideas of degrowth together with you and, building on this, approach the concept of Universal Basic Services (UBS). Finally, we would like to build bridges to your activist practice and consider how these concepts can be meaningfully integrated into your work.This workshop is aimed at people with different levels of knowledge.

Energy Futures; Confronting the unknowns & deep diving into Energy Democracy
Ein Raum für alle, die sich mit der Energiewende beschäftigen und darüber nachdenken - egal, ob du deine Fragen teilen möchtest, herausfinden willst, was das Energienetz ist, oder seit Jahren an Energiedemokratie arbeitest. Können wir es schaffen? Was ist der beste Weg? Sind die Lösungen bereits vorhanden? Welche Unterschiede gibt es in der Art und Weise, wie sich unsere verschiedenen politischen Realitäten verändern werden? Schließe dich TNI, Attac Österreich, dem Centre for Local Economic Strategies und den Gastivists an, um diese Fragen gemeinsam zu diskutieren - in einer Mischung aus interaktiven Übungen und kurzen Präsentationen.

Counter Cloud Clinic
This workshop looks at online digital tools in the context of the climate justice movement and asks how to create alliances between environmental activism and privacy-oriented and open-source, self-hosted community software. As movements and individuals, we need to use online tools to organize ourselves. But many digital tools fuel the dynamics of corporate, extractivist logic, contributing – by extension – to the same ecosystem we seek to criticize and destroy. In this workshop, we will first delve into the connection between the extractive clouds and climate catastrophe, and then consider what can realistically be done to free ourselves from the corporate-driven, oil-fueled online web.

The extreme right-wing between climate change denial and climate nationalism
Extreme right-wing actors either deny anthropogenic climate change or see the cause of the climate catastrophe in population growth in the Global South. These actors use different strategies depending on the target group. These include the defamation of activists as well as the anti-Semitic conspiracy narrative of a (Jewish) elite operating in secret. At the same time, anti-democratic forces are trying to win over wind power opponents with arguments of nature and species protection. The workshop presents (extreme) right-wing actors and their positions in the field of climate and energy policy and shows a solidary counter-perspective.

Performative city walk on coloniality and white innocence in Vienna
Petz Haselmayer (Walter Xenia Ego) and Marcela Torres Heredia set out in search of traces of Vienna's colonial past. The special focus is on how the colonial history of Vienna and Austria is interwoven with white supremacy and coloniality using specific local examples. Monuments, street names and city history are taken up and brought into relation with today in order to offer opportunities, for example, to unlearn whiteness and to empower through the history of resistance.

Intersections of Resistance: Stories of Struggle and Solidarity
At the opening panel we embark on a journey of resistance, bringing together voices from various struggles: anticapitalist movements against gas projects, fights for peace amidst war, battles against extractivism and racism. Climate justice serves as our common ground, but we go further, integrating feminist insights to tackle poverty, war, and exploitation. As we begin, remember, this is just the beginning—a prelude to the rich tapestry of workshops, panels, and stories waiting to unfold in the coming days. Together, let's amplify the stories that must be told, forging solidarity in our collective quest for a just and equitable world.

Empowering Change through Socialisation: Activist Struggles for a Just Energy System
Socialisation is gaining momentum as a strategy for socio-ecological transformation, particularly in Europe where activist groups advocate for its implementation in various economic sectors. Recently, there has been increased focus on socialising the energy sector due to its high emissions and foundational role in the economy. In this panel discussion, activists and campaigners from across Europe will discuss key questions on energy sector socialisation. We will, for instance, debate the effectiveness of expropriating large energy producers versus broader industry socialisation, how to involve those most affected by current energy systems and how to strike a balance between local and centralised energy production. Representatives from RWE&Co. enteignen (GER), Observatoire des multinationales (FR), ATTAC (AT), and the Transnational Institute (UK) will participate. The discussion will be followed by a 30-min open Q&A.

Roots of Resistance: African Voices on Environmental Activism
This panel discussion brings together African Climate justice activists to share their experiences and challenges in combating fossil fuel projects across Africa. Through a rich dialogue, the panelists will explore the landscape of climate activism on the continent, discussing the gaps, opportunities, and ongoing challenges they face in their quest for an Africa that is not locked into a fossil future.

Insights into the Don't Gas Africa Movement: A Learning Workshop
During the workshop, participants engage in a series of informative sessions and discussions, delving into the detrimental impacts of gas projects on local communities, ecosystems, and the global climate. The speakers will present case studies illustrating the adverse effects of gas extraction and processing, highlighting the environmental degradation and social injustices that often accompany such projects. The workshop also serves as a platform for sharing successful strategies and tactics used in various parts of Africa. Interactive sessions will be encouraged and idea exchange, fostering a sense of solidarity and shared purpose among participants.

Gas drilling in the Kalkalpen National Park region in Upper Austria - how profits for speculators are thwarting nature conservation and actions to combat climate change.
From species-rich flower meadows, the value of a national park region, measures against climate change and a speculative business with gas: Gas drilling project in the Kalkalpen National Park region in Upper Austria. Introduction to the problem areas surrounding natural gas.
This session will start with an introduction to the main issues surrounding fossil natural gas, including a brief look at the EU level and the connection to infrastructure and hydrogen. The main part of the session is a presentation of the plans for gas drilling in Molln / Upper Austria, right next to a nature reserve in the Kalkalpen National Park region, and how nature conservation is being jeopardised in the process. The previous activities of the citizens' initiative Pro Natur Steyrtal and other NGOs will be presented. This will be followed by a discussion on the possibilities for civil society to take action against such projects and how the initiative in question can be supported.

Shifting Tides: Mobilizing Transatlantic Resistance Against the Liquified Gas Nightmare & Fossil Fuel Capitalism Injustice
Successes and challenges of the German Climate Alliance LNG and importance of the growing transatlantic anti-LNG network - why environmental racism and structural human rights violations are embedded in the long polluting supply chain of LNG

Reflecting on and learning from over 5 years of German resistance against LNG and over one year of successful transatlantic anti-LNG coordination - how powerful personal stories and transboundary collaboration along very concrete supply chains make the difference and give us hope in our joint fight.

Debt, colonialism and climate action
Let's explore how debt, which is a modern tool of colonialism, continues to keep the Global South in a state of poverty and hindering development. It's a blackmailing instrument that fuels destruction, ecocide and genocide. Discover how debt cancellation can unlock real climate action. Join our panel to delve into solutions for a fair and just transition.

Out of isolation! - Care and queerfeminist utopias
In this workshop, we want to talk to each other about how care work is organised in our everyday lives. What do we love about it? What do we want to change (structurally)? How can we think about our care practices in a larger and utopian way? Based on selected texts, we will discuss existing care practices and revolutionary ideas on how we want to live together and care for each other. Let's go on feminist strike!

How do we stop Neptung Deep?
Neptun Deep is an offshore gas extraction project in Romania lead By OMV-Petrom, company which is half owned by the Romanian State. They expect to extract 100 bcm of fossil gas over the course of the next 20 years, and potentially Hungary and Austria will receive some of the gas.
We would like to explore the project from different angles:

• Environmental impact
• Discourses of the far-right, geopolitics and international relations
• Finance, insurance

The push for new gas and hydrogen: the corporate agenda behind the European Gas Conference
Two years on from the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the corporate push for gas infrastructure continues at full speed, continuing to enjoy the support of governments and EU institutions. The European Gas Conference is key to this. A brief glance at the agenda reveals industry’s push to expand the LNG market, increase gas production in Europe and abroad under the guise of “energy security”, and use hydrogen and the energy transition as a trojan horse for more fossil fuel extractivism and “hydrogen ready” fossil infrastructure. Great for corporate profits, a disaster for climate justice.

We will explore how the corporate gas agenda interconnects with the corporate hydrogen agenda, the push for new gas pipelines and LNG terminals across Europe and its impacts in Europe and other countries. We will look into some of the key gas corporations meeting next door in Vienna, the main lobby groups they are part of, the corporate capture of EU energy policy and next steps for a grass-roots response.

Socialisation as a path to a more just and ecological future: an introductory workshop
Socialisation strives to shape the economy democratically and decouple it from profit interests. This makes it a promising strategy for a needs-based, socially just and ecologically sustainable transformation of supply systems. In view of this potential, we would like to offer an introduction to the topic in our workshop. In the first part, we will discuss fundamental questions such as the distinction between socialisation and nationalisation as well as the prerequisites for the socially and ecologically transformative potential of socialisation. In the second part, we will then use four concrete examples to develop different forms of socialisation. No prior knowledge is necessary for participation.

Life at the centre – transformative strategies for resistance
In this workshop we want to discuss hegemonical and necropolitical discourses and forms of neoliberalism and right-wing ideology, that appropriate our subjectivity and oppress it. As we are asked to re-appropriate "our right to exist and the right to life in its essence as a creative force" (Suely Rolnik), we are looking for everyday practices that serve as answers and driving forces for collective action. Through writing and movement exercises, we want to explore the following question: What strategies of resistance can we draw from our bodies, our imagination, our outrage and our affection?

From Fossil Gas to Hydrogen: Neocolonial energy expansion
This workshop will dive into the basics of hydrogen and move quickly to why the hydrogen boom is part of a greenwashed, neocolonial agenda. You will hear the voices from people fighting hydrogen projects in the global south and we connect their stories to the fight against large hydrogen infrastructure projects in Europe - namely the South H2 Corridor between Italy, Austria and Germany and H2Med between Portugal, Spain, France and Germany.

Learn how hydrogen has turned into a cash-cow for fossil fuel companies, including those meeting at the European Gas Conference and how the big EU hydrogen import plans threaten communities in DR Congo, Chile, Namibia and many other countries.

World (dis)order - An analysis of the global political situation
The last few years have seen a massive escalation of tensions and global conflicts. War and external isolation and increasingly authoritarian state apparatuses are above all the result of intensified competition between the various powers and capital factions in the battle for dominance of the global markets. What are the causes of the conflicts and what are the interests of the various players? What role does the issue of controlling fossil fuel reserves and transport routes play in current and future wars? And how can we find ways out of war and crisis?

Less Talk More Emergency: United for Climate Justice.
United for Climate Justice is a European platform formed by several Extinction Rebellion, Fridays for Future, Last Generation and more which organize together under a very simple demand: Ending All Fossil Subsidies in Europe with Social Justice.
We will Mass Mobilize for a big disruptive action targeting the EU Institutions, as well as mobilize nationally all over Europe. We will be setting the deadlines for our demands, and from there onward, we will Scale-up.
Another key goal is to build Binding People’s Assemblies, since, as we have seen, party politics are unable to make the deep systemic changes we urgently need if we want to avoid the Climate and Social Collapse.
Come to our session so we can organize, unite and act against the Collapse.

The Climate Justice and the 2024 elections - the Triangle Project
2024 will be the year with the most elections ever. In theory, more than half of the world's population will be able to vote in national or regional elections. This happens while there's a massive decline of confidence in democracy, a spike in the power and hegemony of the far-right and its discourse. This is burying climate action while the climate crisis escalates ever further. The climate justice movement needs to take advantage of the electoral period to expose and refuse the polarisation between Greenwashed Capitalism on one side and Denialism/It's too expensive on the other. It is crucial that the movement takes advantage of the hegemony opening that elections entail to use the political earthquake happening by intervening in the main stage of communication and opening the window to what is not being said in the debate: we need system change now to be able to stop climate breakdown, through emergency programs of fossil phaseout, just transition and disruption. The Triangle Project proposes to do that.

Workers Justice & Climate Justice: How do we build connections?
Climate Justice requires the full participation of communities and working people. Attempting to phase out fossil fuels and develop alternative sectors without involving fossil industry workers, strengthening labour organising in renewables, and prioritising the creation of decent and dignified work will only create deeper inequalities and new injustices. Today, the cost of living crisis is at the forefront of peoples' minds and driving a new wave of workers' mobilisation. We must push back against right-wing capture of this struggle, which frames the present crisis as a result of environmental policies. This can only be achieved by close collaboration between climate justice and labour movements, proposing solutions that meet the needs of working people and the planet.

Shifting Power - A documentary by Dont' Gas Africa
"Shifting Power" is an evocative documentary that delves into the lives of five unique individuals from various regions across Africa. This film intimately portrays their personal stories, interwoven with the relentless challenges and remarkable triumphs they face in combating the climate crisis—a crisis not of their making.
Each character in "Shifting Power" leads us with courage and an unyielding spirit, revealing the profound impact of their efforts in working with and educating their communities. From navigating daily hardships to spearheading grassroots movements, these individuals are not merely survivors but beacons of hope and agents of change.
Activists from 'Don't Gas Africa' will be present at the conference.

Earth Social Conference - COP is broken. It's time to get real.
COP is broken. The UN summits continue to push the bounds of absurdity and leading us to collapse. In 2024, the 29th criminal summit of COP is going to happen again, this time in Azerbaijan, and once more it will be lead by the fossil industry magnates.
What are we, as a movement, going to do about it? What is your organization going to do about it?
Last year, during the criminal summit in Dubai, the first Earth Social Conference (ESC) happened in Casanare, in Colombia. The call out to boycott COP had more than a hundred groups and individuals signing. The Conference in Colombia gathered dozens of climate-realist organizations from different parts of the world who got together due to the need of boycotting COP, making it clear that institutions won't save us, and taking away political legitimacy from the ones guilty for the ongoing climate and social collapse. Instead we got together to build our own alternative space of coordination and organization for the climate justice movement.
In this session, we want to have an honest conversation about what got us there together in the first place: the analysis that COP is broken and that these summits continue to push the bounds of absurdity and leading us to collapse; and that the movement needs to apply the emergency brake to avoid earth system collapse and refuse to participate in processes of trading empty promises.
We'll present the outcomes of the conference in Colombia - including the physical boycotting of COP30 in Brazil-, and wish to have an honest discussion about what next steps to take as to move forward, at a larger and more ambitious scale, this political process.
In 2023, dozens of organizations chose to participate in a people-powered summit and build our own plans, not legitimizing nor waiting for institutions. In 2024, COP will happen again. What are we, as climate realists, going to do about it?

Clown-Activist Workshop
This workshop moves between activism, intervention and (clown) performance. It offers a diverse set of performative and activist exercises with which participants can find their own path to clowning. The motto is “Your clown is as individual as you are”, so there are no limitations except your own imagination. The workshop is open to everyone, no previous experience is necessary. The workshop will be held in German or English depending on the needs of the participants.

When the firewall crumbles: Is the left ready to act?
Inspired by large anti-fascist demonstrations in Germany, around 80,000 people gathered in front of the Austrian parliament in Vienna on 26 January under the slogan "Defend democracy". Since then, people have also taken to the streets in other Austrian cities. On the day of the panel discussion, demonstrators form a human firewall around the Federal Chancellery under the same slogan. Following this, we ask ourselves: How do we need to organise ourselves to prevent the firewall from crumbling in the short, medium and long term? What separates us in our movements and what is needed to gain influence on the streets, in parliament and in people's daily lives?

Talking about Israel and Palestine: Against polarisation after October 7th
In recent months, we have seen how the brutal escalation of the conflict in Israel and Palestine is driving us apart - whether in our groups, in our cities or at international conferences. We are often unable to even make the war discussable. Perspectives are hardened against each other. This dialogue event is intended to contribute to building mutual understanding. Together we want to ask ourselves - as activists from different contexts and as the 'transnational left' - how we can work against polarisation.

Voices from the frontlines against fossil gas exports (LNG) from the US, Africa and Canada - Europe’s Role in the World’s biggest build out of fossil fuels
Across the world, people are fighting the devastating impacts of global LNG trade. LNG (Liquified ‘Natural’ Gas) is fossil gas cooled down to be transported on ships across the oceans. Europe drastically increased the volumes of LNG it imports, but there is often little information about the harms that this gas is inflicting on communities, the environment and our planet’s climate all across the supply chain. This panel provides the opportunity to hear first-hand information from frontline community leaders in Africa, the US and Canada fighting the unneeded, harmful LNG boom.

Strategy & Movement Building Space: A space for grassroot activists to discuss political analysis, points of intervention and transnational coordination against the gas industrial complex and beyond!
Die Allianz-Arbeitsgruppe der BlockGas-Allianz lädt Graswurzel-Aktivist*innen zu einem Tag der Diskussion über Strategien gegen den gasindustriellen Komplex und darüber hinaus ein. Wie können wir effektiv intervenieren, um die Macht zu verändern? Wie können wir transnational handeln und unsere Ressourcen international bündeln? Lasst  uns gemeinsam diskutieren und Strategien entwickeln! More Info

Extractivism reloaded: Connecting struggles in South America and Europe
The current geopolitical race between the EU, US and China to lead the transition towards a highly armed clean-tech capitalism, is gaining full speed. Since the outbreak of the Ukraine war and growing tensions with China, the EU has become increasingly aware of its high dependency on the import of raw materials and processed inputs for its clean-tech, green energy, digitization and military. With different trade-related instruments and new legislation, the EU seeks to enforce the supply of resources for European corporations, oftentimes from resource-rich countries in the Global South but also from within Europe. In this session, we will introduce these new policies, the actors behind this push, hear voices from South America and Europe that fight Lithium extraction, and discuss further strategies for our movements.

Truth-Telling: Human Rights Violations and Climate Destruction in Canada
People think of Canada as a climate leader and peace keepers. Little does the world know that Canada is not only home to disturbing human rights violations, intensive climate destruction, and dehumanising efforts for land defenders but it is not just the companies but the Canadian government that has approved violent policing efforts on Indigenous communities. 6 proposed LNG projects are pushing forward, one a carbon bomb, with various pipelines without the consent from all Indigenous communities. It is time to speak the truth and call for global solidarity to help bring about social and climate justice for a better future and to protect the beauty of so-called Canada. 

Why peace needs organized women? - World women's confederalism
World Women's Confederalism is an organizing proposal of the Kurdish women's freedom movement. It aims to unite women's struggles while preserving their autonomy. In the workshop, we will discuss the possibilities and the historical necessity of realizing the women's revolution. We will look at the developments of the women's movement in Kurdistan on an ideological, organizational, structural, political and social level. Examples are the introduction of Jineolojî, the establishment of co-chairmanship and the confederal organization of the women's movement.

Palestine and the Eastern Mediterranean: Fossil gas, Corporations and colonial systematic oppression
The workshop will be a space to share all useful infos to understand the context of the energy boom in the Eastern Mediterranean: the private companies and investors who are betting on gas. We will also share the links between “gas fossil royalties” and wars, militarisation and human rights violations, with European complicity. The gas business in the East-Med is a neo-colonial development ground and Palestine is central to understanding this, in fact the more European (and US) support has risen, the more destructive capacity has increased.

“May contain traces of fossil gas and neocolonial dependencies”: Unpacking the industrial fossil-fueled food system
In this workshop, we invite you to detect the traces of fossil gas and neocolonialism in our food. You will have the opportunity to get a glimpse into the global industrial food system, with a particular focus on corporate control and the myriad of problems around synthetic nitrogen fertilizers (SNF). Did you know SNF were basically fossil gas in another form? We will focus on a product - SNF - and one company - Yara, a Norwegian chemical company with an admirable reputation. Are SNF really needed to "feed the world" as Yara preaches? In which ways does the fertilizer industry exert power over the global food system and secure its profits? What are its ties with the fossil gas industry? In which ways are neocolonial structures generated, reproduced and reinforced through fertilizers? With the help an interactive investigative game we will team up to find an answer to all these questions.

“Business as usual” with a war criminal: Russian fossil fuels in Austria and Europe
We want to discuss on the enormous amount of money that Austria and European countries still pays Russia for gas and other fossil fuels. How the fossil fuel money reinforce Putin’s regime, lets Russia continue destroying Ukraine, lets Kremlin continue crimes against russian citizens. We also want to put a a spotlight on the colonial background of the extraction of “Russian” fossil fuels out of indigenous lands and national republics and how the industry really works.

Communications Solidarity in Resisting Fossil Gas
At a time of climate emergency, saying that any given year is a crucial moment is nearly a cliché. Yet, in 2024, the outcome of the European Parliament elections would set the course for Europe’s energy and climate policy, and it comes at a time where European democracy is essentially on life support. What’s more, the following year is when the world, and certainly Europe, must peak emissions if we are to have a chance of averting the worst climate disasters. In light of these, what role for communications – the public dimension of the fossil gas resistance?

How to stop the money flow into the LNG sector?
In this presentation, we will look into the role of commercial banks in financing LNG build-out and operations, we will talk about some of the most harmful LNG projects in the United States and Europe, and make an effort to showcase their financial backers. Then we will talk about the ways civil society can pressure banks into ceasing financing and even divesting from such projects.

The female (*) face of extractivism in Abya Yala (Latin America). Cyanotypes as an archive of resistance
As the starting point for the horizontal exchange, we take up the resistance struggles of the women(*) in Abya Yala and refer to epistemologies of the South that oppose extractivism, i.e. colonialism, such as Francia Márquez and Macarena Valdés. We invite Nibaldo Vargas Arias, Chilean refugee since 1974 and spokesperson for justice in the Macarena Valdés murder case, as a dialogue partner. In the second part of the exchange, we will expand a collective archive of resistance through the photographic technique of the cyanotype.

Organizing Energy as a Universal Basic Service
The energy crisis means energy poverty for millions of people across Europe. More and more people can no longer afford to keep their homes warm and obtain sufficient energy to participate in society. While the crisis is hitting millions hard, energy companies are making record profits and dependence on fossil fuels remains. Against this backdrop, the question arises as to what form equitable access to energy can take that both secures the basic need for energy and at the same time frees us from dependence on gas, coal and oil.
In the workshop "Energy as a basic need", we will look at approaches that pursue precisely this goal: ensuring universal access to energy and guaranteeing the basic need for energy. Basic energy security could provide everyone with a socially necessary basic contingent of energy, while excessive consumption becomes progressively more expensive. Our workshop will discuss various models for a basic energy entitlement and intermediate steps along the way. Linked to this is the question of how we can remove energy from the market in order to produce and distribute it in the public interest.

We invite you to discuss with us what a fair and sustainable energy supply could look like and what strategies we can pursue to achieve this goal.