What do Mamdani’s election in New York, the victory of the eco-socialist party in Copenhagen this year, and a network of Black-led community cooperatives helping to elect their own mayor in Jackson, Mississippi, in the United States, have in common?

All of these examples are rooted in bottom-up community mobilisation: people coming together, organising locally, and making collective decisions through assemblies and direct democracy.

Across our network, we are also beginning to develop experiments in this direction.

One of the main examples we will discuss is Shake It Up in Brixton, London. We will hear how a group of activists, by mobilising people around a local election, managed to build a much more ethnically and culturally diverse group, which is now launching neighbourhood campaigns in Brixton and could become an important model for others.

We will focus mainly on this case, but we will also touch on other examples from the UK, Australia , Denmark and Germany.

We are in the process of building a new international network of associations, organisations and climate movements that want to move beyond purely performative activism and build mass popular bases.

In this meeting, we will discuss how to build neighbourhood-based mobilisation. We believe that the next necessary step for the climate movement is to move quickly beyond activist bubbles and focus, with humility, on working-class neighbourhoods and bottom-up organising.

Hope to see you there.

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