ANTI-EXTRACTION PEOPLE’S SCHOOL

How is the green and digital transition narrative being used to greenwash the expansion of mining and other extractive projects in the Balkans and elsewhere? What movement needs to be built and strengthened across geographies?

This project of the Group on Green Extractivism in the Balkans (GGEB) departs from the mining struggles in the Balkans in the context of the EU Critical Raw Materials and seeks to create a space for collective analysis and action using a decolonial feminist lens.

The project offers a unique networking platform for activists and art and cultural workers in the format of a collective learning space. Here, environmental activists meet concerned and engaged (non)citizens to present their struggles in the EU space and look for alternative ways to create new and radical forms of participation and social reproduction through collective learning.

The sessions take place in the format of ‘People's school’ in close collaboration with 4thangrund Kulturzentrum, drawing on learning practices in the tradition of workers' collectives and assemblies. The programme concludes with a public manifesto.

Credits

Authors and facilitators: Group on Green Extractivism in the Balkans (Nina Djukanović, mirko nikolić, Sofija Stefanović)

Producer & exhibition curator: Marko Markovic / Galerie Utopia / 4lthangrund

Financial department: Smaranda Krings / 4lthangrund

Workshop facilitators: HEKLER kolektiv, Jelena Savić, Jevđenije Julijan Dimitrijević, Justina Špeirokaitė, Majda Ibraković, Paccha Turner Chuji

Workshop facilitator and author of the exhibition: Miloš Vučićević