{"id":20758,"date":"2022-11-28T14:23:15","date_gmt":"2022-11-28T13:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euroalter.local\/?p=20758"},"modified":"2022-11-28T17:30:53","modified_gmt":"2022-11-28T16:30:53","slug":"launching-the-movement-learning-catalyst-a-year-programme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euroalter.com\/fr\/launching-the-movement-learning-catalyst-a-year-programme\/","title":{"rendered":"Launching the Movement Learning Catalyst: A Year+ Programme"},"content":{"rendered":"

How can we challenge and overthrow the many interconnected kinds of oppression we face today? How can we bring our different movements together, across race, class, gender and other divides, beyond borders to grow the power we need to make a different world? How can we develop the strategies we need not just to make a splash but to actually win?<\/h4>\n

We\u2019re living at a historical point of disruption which contains both great peril and promise. The stalled engine of neoliberal growth, bankrupted political leadership, an increasing sense of distributive injustice, intensifying racist and patriarchal violence and the fierce urgency of the \u2018ecological now\u2019 delimit the terrain upon which we need to contest our future. Against a backdrop of a rising far right, big data, and the ongoing consolidation of unaccountable power by elite groups, we have a lot to do to really be in this fight.<\/p>\n

With the Movement Learning Catalyst programme, we aim to nurture the interconnected movements and responsive strategies needed to challenge the interlocking systems of oppression we face today.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

With the Movement Learning Catalyst programme<\/a>, we aim to nurture the interconnected movements and the needed strategies to challenge the systems of oppression we face today. It combines high quality training, an action learning framework, as well as cross organisational and movement networking.<\/p>\n

In late 2021, we engaged activists involved with more than 100 organisations across Europe, to ask them about the key challenges their movements and organisations were facing. Most pointed to fragmentation, persistent divisions within and between movements, and a lack of movement capacity for longer-term and coherent strategy.<\/p>\n

We took this on board to develop a training programme to help overcome these challenges and to equip ourselves to develop movement responses that are transversal and transnational in nature, able to connect across issues, communities, and socio-political cultures \u2013 supporting the building of the kinds of majority social movement alliances required to achieve the depth of structural transformation we need today.<\/p>\n

The first year of the programme will support a cohort of 40-60 activists from across Europe in a mixture of online and residential trainings to:<\/b><\/p>\n