💀 COP Has Finished. The Death Project Continues.
A billion lives are on the line, yet COP answers with fanciful roadmaps, false promises, and the polite performances of mundane evil.
The UN Climate Change Conferences, officially known as the Conference of the Parties (COP) has finished in Belém, Brazil. The most important thing that happened was when Indigenous people forced their way into the conference and blocked the entrances. They chanted “Our land is not for sale” and “We can’t eat money”. They are on the frontline of the global death project: agribusiness, oil extraction, illegal mining, the violence of landowners and loggers.
COP was created to lock them out of decisions. To bring them in only to add colour, to act as tokens, to ask nicely. COP was created to lead them to their deaths. And now, to lead the rest of us to ours.
One billion dead – one thousand million people – at least, according to estimates, is only the beginning. COP meets this greatest of all crimes with… roadmaps, consultations, recommendations, targets, promises. Anything other than actual action. COP is the blah blah blah of mundane evil.
Anyone, or any organisation, that participates in such obscenity becomes complicit in such obscenity. In the face of such evil, you don’t enter into talks. You resist.
Revolution in the 21st Century and similar networks are working for what comes next. Training, inspiring, coming together. Preparing – across borders, cultures, and perspectives – to remake the world. To resist until our last breath. To be fully human at the end of the world.
Rev21 Induction
This workshop introduces the vision, mission, values and strategy of Rev21, as well as our current work and projects. The workshop engages with post-modern theory and the importance of inner transformation to create outer change, while also highlighting the kinds of culture that enable collaboration in tricky, tense and complex times. This is an interactive workshop, and includes innerwork practices and opportunities to share.
We anticipate that workshop attendees will include both people who are new to activist organising and culture, as well as those who have already involved themselves substantially, whether in XR, JSO, or elsewhere. Wherever you are on this spectrum, the workshop aims to respect your time, and will likely introduce ideas, framings and/or practices that are new to you.
If you're interested to know more or get involved with Rev21, then this is the workshop to attend. You'll be introduced to some of Rev21's cultural practices, and we'll explore ways for you to meet the teams and connect into organising with Rev21. Come along to find out how...
