Structural racism and the need for economic autonomy as ways to build climate resilience.
On June 19, 2022 La Casa dels Futurs organized a full day session with more than 120 participants to build understanding around the intersection of structural racism and the need for economic autonomy as ways to build climate resilience. This full-day session highlighted the work of Top Manta (Barcelona): an african-immigrant led clothing line and union, and Cooperation Jackson (Mississippi, USA): a cooperativist and municipalist climate justice project for black liberation and self-determination in the “Deep South”.
These groups shared how their own work on building alternative and circular economies creates resilience and capacity for self-determination, and allows them to better respond to emergencies. Both groups highlighted how their productive infrastructure and self-organization allowed them to become fast-responders to meeting the basic needs of their communities during the outbreak of COVID-19, at the same time that it works towards creating pre-figurative and post-capitalist economies. The event also included storytelling by Czarina Golda Musni – a Philippina human rights lawyer – who presented her work in defending indigenous communities rights to economic and political autonomy and a musical performance by Cesar Galarza – an indigenous musical and environmental defender from the Pueblo Nasa in Colombia – who useses traditional song-forms as a tools for cultural self-determination and indigenous resistance.
