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We came together at the Assembly through our shared understanding that we have a crisis-ridden corporate and globalised food system that is responsible for worsening social, health and climate challenges, and which is coinciding with increasing state failure in relation to regulating our food regime and ensuring much needed agrarian transformation. Climate shocks are already impacting negatively on our food system with volatile food prices, droughts, heavy rainfall and flooding. This necessitates advancing food sovereignty to ensure our food and water needs are not compromised and ordinary citizens have the means to meet food production and consumption needs on their terms in the midst of the climate crisis.
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*Join us for a University of Johannesburg webinar, in person at the Dept of Sociology, 6th floor, C Ring, UJ Auckland Park campus or online us06web.zoom.us/j/4607104147*![]()
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*Transformative Politics and Planetary Care from Below*![]()
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Wednesday, March 11, 3-5pm![]()
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with Vishwas Satgar, Michelle Williams and Patrick Bond![]()
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At a time of multiple unjust wars, rising fascist political power, extreme financial and energy-industry volatility, and worsening ecocide, what are the most hopeful visions and actions arising from leading progressive forces doing – and will they inform South African resistances?![]()
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In their new book, Worker Cooperatives and Deep Democracy: Transformative Politics and Planetary Care from Below (Wits University Press), Wits University social scientists Vishwas Satgar and Michelle Williams address the traditional leftwing problem: finding practical solutions to capitalism’s planetary crises. A new transformative politics is needed, arising from worker cooperative systems that have begun operating in 15 countries, with the broadest approach to ‘commoning.’ - witspress.co.za/page/detail/Worker-Cooperatives-and-Deep-Democracy/?k=9781776149841![]()
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The most inspiring areas, as Satgar and Williams show, are in social reproduction, expansion of public power, protection of nature, and territorial expansion in opposition to global hegemonic power. For this, solidarities are required to engender emancipatory, utopian imaginaries in the global north and south. Against all odds, people are experimenting with deep democracy and building systems of care in order to live differently. The challenge is to learn from them, to take the next steps in world-making, and to mainstream this praxis of socio-ecological reproduction from below.![]()
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Using a more traditional critical framing – of ‘non-reformist reforms’ as distinguished from ‘reformist reforms’ (that maintain core features of the system) – UJ Sociologist and director of the Centre for Social Change Patrick Bond plots ‘Routes Towards Social Recovery in an Era of War, Ecocide and Ideological Chaos,’ in a new essay for The Sage Handbook of Eco-Social Policy and Politics. uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/afr/the-sage-handbook-of-eco-social-policy-and-politics/book288440![]()
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