Werkstatt für Aktionen und Alternativen (WAA)

Three Years towards „block everything“ in 2020 & Project “our planet, our future”

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Maniac idea paper for CJA & Ende Gelände meetings Jan+Feb 2018
This paper has been written to quickly outline the idea of three-year escalation campaign.
It would start with movement building and largely symbolic actions in the first year; some direct action, growing increasingly disobedient, in the second year and culminating in the third year when big and small actions add up to a „block everything” climax. „Everything“ meaning gas+coal infrastructure, agro-industry, airports, as well as meat factories, banks, motorcompanies, etc . . . everything that destroys our climate and threatens our future.
Some of these issues are already rather well established on the (political and protest) agenda, but some issues require some work to further highlight them and make them “actionable”.
With a common campaign frame, these issues are no longer single-issues and we wouldn’t feel that by focusing on one issue, we forget targeting the other issues. Instead, it’s all part of a huge push against the bad stuff (fossil fuels, discrimination and inequality) and for the good stuff (clean energy, social justice, a peaceful and livable future). The campaign/movement would take to form of a non-violent struggle using all tools available to those struggles. In the larger context the 3-years-campaign plan should part of a broader social justice movement that asks “how can we have a livable future on this warming planet”. This movement would address the social justice question built-into the global warming problem.
Three years and then we Block Everything
First year (2018): Setting the stage. Informing about the 3-years-campaign, mobilizing, training of activist for intervention & disobedience, building local groups & networks identifying targets, marking targets with symbolic action, delivering the message: “for Paris goals to succeed, this has to shut down tomorrow, if not… we come back to shut down”. (call it “movement building”)
Second Year (2019): Gaining momentum. Actions become more direct, more disobedient, but are mainly symbolic. Some Actions should be big (mass actions) to train our ability to mobilize huge numbers for diverse targets (not just coal 😉 ). Training of activists continues with an eye on 2020. “Our Planet, our future”-Congress outlines our vision for a livable future.
Third Year (2020): Block everything. Climate villains and places of climate destruction that have been marked by symbolic and/or direct actions during the previous two years are now facing actions designed to cause a maximum of disruption. If successful, the facilities shut down (several days?). Actions and the campaign are designed to dramatize the question: What is more important, short-term profits / economic growth or our future?
Reasoning:
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