Festival Y?! will take place 21 – 24 August 2020 in Estonia, Annimatsi Kamping, gathering individuals and grassroots groups to discuss how to build a strong and inclusive movement for systemic political action in the Baltics.
Find here the full report, where based on the conversations with 20 organizers and movement analysts across six continents (EYFA is one of them) the author presents the challenges the movements face these days.
Radical Resilience is a film project by activists, for activists (or anyone involved in social or environmental change, however they define themselves), that aims to spread awareness and encourage discussion about the effects of burnout within our movements, both individually and collectively.
Due to the increasing need for care and solidarity during the lock-down moments of the pandemic, our volunteers are conducting weekly solidarity actions for people falling under certain risk group categories. Every Friday we will gather to do and deliver shopping for those unable to, cooking for the homeless, engaging in neighborhood book-exchanges, etc.
To join and help, write us at eyfa@eyfa.org. The actions will be documented and volunteers will have the opportunity to share knowledge and insights gained at an online info share on the 13th of August! Take care of one another.
As mentioned last month, we’ve postponed all scheduled activities and are working on how to reschedule them for the summer or move them online.
Our ESC volunteers have worked hard developing this workshop and thus would like to take the opportunity to try our their digital skills.
Workshop: Social Justice and Anti-Gentrification Community Work has been moved online and is set to take place on Tuesday, 12th May 2020 at 19:00.
This amazing zine ‘Caring Movements: Chronic Illness and Activism’ is now available in polish and hopefully soon in other language versions.
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We are displeased to inform you that our events for the upcoming spring/summer have been postponed, including the event on
We will post again here in case we can reschedule! Please send an email to eyfa@eyfa.org, to request to subscribe to our Newsletter. That way we can inform you directly when/if our events can be rescheduled.
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EDIT This Wednesday’s EVENT has been rescheduled and will happen online in June EDIT
As we have had to reorganize our scheduled activities, join us for an online panel discussion as part of the series ‘Plant Awareness to Grow Solidarity’ on 11.06. Our volunteers will moderate the discussion with a few speakers from our network to share on the topic of Mutual Aid.
Continue readingJoin us for the next event in the series ‘Plant Awareness to Grow Solidarity’. This coming Wednesday we invite for a panel discussion, which our volunteers will moderate, inviting a few speakers to share on the topic of Mutual Aid.
Continue readingWhat is the relationship between our struggles? How can we make solidarity horizontal? How do we collectively and effectively deconstruct oppression given our different economic and political contexts?
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