tadzio müller
intro’d to Tadzio via disobedience (doc)
31 min
lusatian coal mining region, germany
tadzio müller (climate justice activist, ende gelände) (): not just bad for the climate.. also terrible for people’s health… germany produces more.. we see the dirtiest of all the fossil fuels being dug up.. and of course.. it is the central driver of climate change.. which is a central driver of.. conflict/hunger/destitution/deprivation.. around the world…. this stuff has to be left in the ground
32 min
proschim, germany
tadzio: this little town called proschim produces 100% of its own electricity from renewables and still exports stuff into the grid… like this village is actually the future we need.. here you have agriculture.. biogas.. solar power.. you have a functioning community.. and this is the frontline in the struggle against the madness in the profit driven extraction… the govt has slated proschim for destruction.. because there’s coal underneath it.. what we’re seeing here is the future being eaten by the past.. fossil fuels are the past in more than one way.. they are the past of capital/energy/our relationship to nature..
33 min
haidemühl, germany
tadzio: folks lived here.. a few years ago.. this was their life… the govt said.. you can’t be here because we’re going to dig this up because there’s coal.. underneath.. they had grown up here they were planning to maybe die here… these kinds of images.. that’s why we’re doing this.. the folks here being evicted from their homes because we cannot stop destroying the environment.. this cannot go on
tadzio: all the political work that you’re doing when you’re mobilizing for a big disobedient action will ultimately be for nought… if the action isn’t a success in tactical terms.. as it was .. last year..
may 16 2015 – ende gelände action.. garzweiler lignite mine, rhineland, germany
34 min
tadzio: our goal is not to fight the police.. our goal is to get around them.. they’re not our enemy.. our enemy is the lignite production..
35 min
tadzio: i’ve been doing civil disobedience action for 17-18 yrs now.. it’s very hard to get a sense of empowerment.. to actually really feel in every fiber in your body that you can make it.. we can actually stop this
imagine.. if we did that toward.. we can actually start this..
tadzio: the moment we were running toward these diggers.. and we saw that they were all shut down.. i remember this moment of just ah.. we’ve done it.. it was an unbelievable moment of personal and collective empowerment in struggle that all too often seems brutally hopeless…let’s see if we can do this again.. we think .. we can..
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RLS Germany – 2013
it’s about you folks in greece teaching us how to have hope again .. today.. the new hope is greece..
1\ extractivism scenario
2\ all of the above scenario
3\ large scale renewables
4\ democratic small scale renewables revolution
we have to do both.. improve the lives of people now.. and offer the chance for a fundamentally different world..
ie: a nother way
getting to the
legit freedom will only happen if it’s all of us.. and in order to be all of us.. has to be sans any form of measuring, accounting, people telling other people what to do
how we gather in a space is huge.. need to try spaces of permission where people have nothing to prove to facil curiosity over decision making.. because the finite set of choices of decision making is unmooring us.. keeping us from us..
ie: imagine if we listen to the itch-in-8b-souls 1st thing everyday & use that data to connect us (tech as it could be.. ai as augmenting interconnectedness)
the thing we’ve not yet tried/seen: the unconditional part of left to own devices ness
[‘in an undisturbed ecosystem ..the individual left to its own devices.. serves the whole’ –dana meadows]
there’s a legit use of tech (nonjudgmental exponential labeling) to facil the seeming chaos of a global detox leap/dance.. to facil the thing we’ve not yet tried: the unconditional part of left-to-own-devices ness.. for (blank)’s sake..
ie: whatever for a year.. a legit sabbatical ish transition
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elevate festival 2015 – on Civil Disobedience
we are stuck in crisis… needs mass social movements..
social movements move the boundaries.. make the impossible possible..
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resilience site.. tale of two movements.. justice and degrowth
http://www.resilience.org/stories/2015-03-13/climate-justice-and-degrowth-a-tale-of-two-movements
a discussion about how insane it is to have, on a finite planet, an economic system that is premised on infinite growth. And about what an alternative to this might be, a still fairly vague conception alternatively (and with slightly differing emphases) referred to as degrowth, post-growth or décroissance.
What degrowth lacks (a base in struggles, and an effective conception of global justice), climate justice can bring to the relationship, and what climate justice lacks (a frame that resonates in the North), degrowth can bring.
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reading his empowering anarchy: power hegemony and anarchist strategy in post anarchism: a reader pp 70-85
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find/follow Tadzio:
rls..
https://www.rosalux.de/english/foundation.html
[under sociological analysis]
The Rosa Luxemburg Foundation is one of the largest political education institutions in Germany today and sees itself as part of the intellectual current of democratic socialism. The foundation evolved from a small political group, “Social Analysis and Political Education Association“, founded in 1990 in Berlin into a nationwide political education organisation, a discussion forum for critical thought and political alternatives as well a research facility for progressive social analysis.
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tadzio_M%C3%BCller:
Tadzio Müller (born 1976) is a German climate and LGBT activist; and political scientist. He worked as a speaker on climate justice and international politics at the Center for International Dialogue and Cooperation of the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation until 2021.
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