How does the Program WG work?

The Program Working Group serves as a coordinating body between individuals and groups in the various movements and the System Change Camp organizing team. We handle the Call for Content, maintain contact with the external tents, prepare facilitation materials, and are generally available to answer questions about the program. (Feel free to check the FAQ to see if we’ve already answered your question there before contacting us.)

There will once again be several hundred different program items, and we are a group of just seven people. We are unable to maintain close contact with individual speakers, make content-related decisions regarding workshop design, or provide speaker support.

Often, the session descriptions are the only information we have about the content of a submission. We cannot conduct background research on every session. At the same time, it’s also important to us to open up spaces for discourse at the camp and to talk to one another as people on the left—even more so and with a wider range of opinions than happens elsewhere. We believe it’s important to foster a culture of respectful debate. We are aware that it can be challenging to be confronted with different political views. However, the groups and speakers themselves are primarily responsible for the specific content, and therefore criticism of that content is best directed to them.