Reclaim the Land! - Commons and Private Ownership

Sunday, 6 October

Reclaim the Land! - Commons and Private Ownership

Short url: 

https://squ.at/r/air5

Approximately 60% of the forests in the European Union are privately owned. In England, you only have a right of access to 8% of the land, and uncontested rights to 3% of the rivers.

For decades, people are made to feel unwelcome to roam the world freely - the right to access nature is by no means given to everyone unconditionally . At the same time, we are made to believe that only privately owned/maintained land and resources can function in a long run. Collective ownership is bound to result in chaos and inequality, they say. But the real inequality starts right there, at every fence keeping us from accessing a meadow, a forest, a stream.

In this session, we will talk about access to nature and the right to roam as well as about the tragedy of the commons in fact communal use of resources has been working amazingly well for centuries in locally organised small-scale collectives all over the world.

We will also brainstorm what we can do to reclaim our right of access to land in a way that values and protects nature (how about some more trespassing, wildcamping, forest occupations?). Also, we will think and talk about how to fight private ownership and implement collectively organised commons in our lives.

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The formal education system affects us all. Not only are we forced to attend schools growing up, but academic research shapes our governments, our news, and how we view the world around us. As much as many of us want to believe in the promise of institutional education, the sad fact is that our schools and universities are undemocratic and elitist. They perpetuate inequalities instead of giving people the tools to fight them. This world is fucked.

Here at Radical Sunday School, though, we know that another world is possible. Everyone should be able to direct their own learning, to grow together with their communities, and to live as though they’re already free. There are countless examples of movements already putting these ideas into practice. This collective is trying to follow in their footsteps, organizing to explore new ways of learning based on principles of autonomy, mutual aid, and egalitarianism.

This is not intended to be a course that you would have to follow all the way through. Jump in and out whenever you like. Sessions will be held every Sunday at Joe's Garage.

Doors open at 17.30, we start sharp at 18.00!

 

 

Date & Time: 

Sunday, 6 October, 2024 - 17:30 to 20:00

Category: 

  • course/workshop
  • discussion/presentation

Price: 

  • free
Joe's Garage
Pretoriusstraat 43
1092 EZ Amsterdam
Netherlands

Directions: 

Train station Amsterdam Muiderpoort, 10 minutes walk --- Metro station Wibaustraat, 15 minutes walk --- Tram 19 or Bus 41, Bus/tramhalte: Oostpoort, 1 minute walk

Squat: 

Presently squatted

Radical Sunday School is an anarchist educational collective based in Amsterdam.

categories: 

  • course/workshop

opening times: 

Since June 2005, Joe's Garage is an autonomous squatted political social center, a meeting place in the Transvaal neighborhood for squatters and non-squatters, subsidy free, not for profit, self-organized and entirely run by volunteers.

categories: 

  • advice/help/office hours / book shop/info shop/library / course/workshop / discussion/presentation / exhibition / film / food / (free) shop/market / meeting / music/concert / theater

opening times: 

(December 2024)
Monday: 19:00, Volkseten Vegazulu
Tuesday: 19:00-20:30, Kraakspreekuur Oost
Wednesday: 19:00-21:00 Dutch Language Classes*
Thursday: 19:00, Volkseten Vegazulu*
Friday: 20:00 Aman molli
Saturday: 14-18, Give Away Shop
Sunday: 18-20, Radical Sunday School*
Sunday: 20:30, Movie night*
(*) not weekly
Every 2nd Saturday of the month, 19:00-20:30, Joe’s Garage open assembly
Every 2nd Sunday of the month, 14:00-18:00, All Crafts Are Beautiful