Anti-Imperialist Networking TENTS // Two tents organised by three groups

These two tents will be independently run by the following three groups:

• Palestine Solidarity
• Debt for Climate
• Resistance Connections Ukraine

Introduction to the groups:

While having different focus, we all stand in solidarity with struggles for self-determination around the world: in Kurdistan, Palestine, Armenia, Ukraine, Sudan, DRC and others. We understand the tent as a space of collective unlearning and learning. We see a need to bear with contradictions and controversy. While centering empathy and non-judgement in our approach, we do not justify people’s stances or actions. We remain clear and strong in our stance against all forms of oppression and proactively challenge them.

As Palestine Solidarity group we see ourselves as comrades in the fight for Palestinian liberation and solidarity as being embedded in a wider anti-imperial and anti-colonial understanding of the world. Acknowledging that people within the German climate justice movement have been socialized in a country where zionist perspectives dominate, we aim to critically engage with the speechlessness of many in the German left concerning this topic and invited external groups to share their knowledge about the Palestinian struggle.

Resistance Connections UA is a mostly Berlin-based activist group engaged in political and material solidarity with anti-authoritarian and de-colonial struggles in and beyond Ukraine. We work to expose Russian imperialism as a violent and ongoing project, while also challenging the flattening of liberation movements into geopolitical binaries. As co-organizers of the anti-imperialist tents, we aim to hold space for plural, situated solidarities that confront the empire in its multiple forms – supporting grassroots resistance and building links across feminist, indigenous, and anti-colonial movements.

Debt for Climate is a global grassroots movement of movements, initiated by the Global South from an anti-colonial perspective. We are building power from the bottom up by uniting workers, indigenous and local communities, feminists, and faith-based, environmental, social, and climate justice movements in both the Global North and South. Our goal is to cancel the illegitimate financial debt of the Global South to stop exploitation and extractivism, enabling self-determined, just transitions.