Dear friends,
In our October newsletter, we’d like to draw your attention to two glokal workshops, a new glokal project, and a call for proposals.
1. Invitation to the KlimaDeSol Continuing Education Seminar Series
With six online seminars, we are reaching out to activists in the climate movement, the climate justice movement, and various grassroots movements. These seminars give a voice to those who are marginalized in the white-dominated debate on climate justice: activists, experts, and faculty members with migrant and diaspora backgrounds, whose commitment is closely linked to the movements, discourses, and struggles in countries of the Global South.
Fifth Online Seminar: “
” In our upcoming seminar, we’ll have the opportunity to learn from representatives of Indigenous struggles to preserve our planet.
Indigenous activists and scholars are the world’s oldest environmental and climate defenders! Above all, we can learn from them HOW our relationship to the planet and our coexistence with the environment are perceived from their perspective.
In cooperation with the Ecumenical Office for Peace and Justice e.V. in Munich.
Title: Dialogue with Indigenous Representatives and Their Perspectives on the Current State of the Earth
When: October 28, 2021
Time: 4:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.
Who: Leandro Janamejoy Guerrero
Leandro is an advocate for the individual and collective rights of his community. He has supported efforts to strengthen community identity and has taken on leadership roles in the fields of culture, education, and traditional medicine. He is currently pursuing a bachelor’s degree in popular education, specifically indigenous education, at the Indigenous Autonomous Intercultural University (Universidad Autónoma Intercultural Indígena).
He is a member of the Inga indigenous community in Aponte, Nariño, in southern Colombia. There are 29,000 Inga people living in Colombia, 3,600 of whom live in his community.
2. Invitation to an Online Seminar on the Timeline Method
Title: CONNECTING THE DOTS. History – Power – Discrimination!?
When: November 6, 2021
Time: 2:00–4:30 p.m.
Who: Murat Akan and Soma Said from glokal e. V.
The current exhibition “Invisible Inventories: A Critique of Kenyan Collections in Western Museums” at the Weltkulturen Labor (Frankfurt am Main) demonstrates how directly the legacy of the colonial era is linked to the present.
The seminar “Connecting the Dots” provides a space to engage with colonial continuities and histories, as well as with the associated privileges enjoyed by people in the Global North. In particular, using the timeline method developed by glokal e.V., the seminar aims to establish a practical connection that enables participants to independently relate the content to their everyday lives.
We offer a practical introduction to the topic and look forward to lively and engaged participation. More information and registration are available here.
3. New glokal Project on Education to Combat Antisemitism
glokal combines education to combat racism with education to combat antisemitism: In our new project, we are expanding the scope of our timeline method and the e-learning tool “connecting the dots.” Our timeline method is being expanded to include 30 quotes and explanations. As is customary in the timeline method, we work with both perpetuating and resistant sources to highlight anti-Semitic discontinuities and continuities over the past 21 centuries. At the same time, the method is well-suited for addressing various forms and aspects of contemporary antisemitism in a practical way. The new module is available in three languages (German, English, Arabic) and can be booked immediately. It will soon be available on our website as well as digitally on the “connecting the dots” e-learning platform.
4. The bridge-it! One World Award for South-North Partnership Projects.
The bridge-it! One World Award is looking for young people who are working together on projects between countries in the Global South and Germany to shape visions for the future!
As COVID continues to threaten the health of many people around the world and the climate crisis
is becoming even more evident everywhere, one thing is clear: some of these
crises could come to a head in the coming years. Are you change agents who remain committed despite the challenges?
What do crises mean to you? Have you found new ways to collaborate on your projects in recent months at
? Or have you developed new ideas for making your partnerships crisis-proof at
? If so, be sure to apply for the annual bridge-it! Award.
You can find more information, including multilingual content, here:
Our colleague Lucía Muriel from glokal is a member of the jury.
That’s all from us for now. See you soon,
The glokal e.V. team