Covid 19 Webinar: Leading in times of uncertainty

Features cases:

• Kate Brennan, Organizing Director, Maine Equal Justice, USA
• Mensur Haliti, Division Director, Roma and Democracy and Governance, Open Society Foundations, Germany

Sustaining Movements While Maintaining Physical Distance

This session on Thursday 16th April 2020 brought together organizers from around the world to explore how we can most effectively take our work online in the face of COVID-19. We were joined by LCN member Natasa Danilovic from Serbia on the Move, who shared their initiative “Corona-Free Zone”, which is creating spaces for people to build community & organizational capacity in response to COVID-19.

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LCN Webinar: Sustaining Movements While Maintaining Physical Distance

Creative tactics in times of distancing

This session on Thursday 30th April 2020 brought together organizers from around the world to explore creative tactics for building community and power in these times of physical distancing. We were joined by LCN member Nadia Montague from Victoria Trades Hall Council (Australia), who shared their creative tactic of a virtual picket which turned out 39,000 participants. We were also joined by Nadine Bloch, Training Director for Beautiful Trouble.

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LCN Webinar: Creative Tactics in times of distancing

Organizing Under Authoritarianism

Throughout history, governments and authorities have used crisis moments to consolidate power, and COVID-19 is no different. Our session on Thursday 14th May 2020 brought together organizers from around the world to explore how to turn this threat into an opportunity to deepen our organizing and strengthen democratic institutions. We were joined by a panel of speakers from Syria, Hungary and Nicaragua, and together in an interactive session we explored the common signs of authoritarianism that we’re seeing at this moment, the opportunities to respond and resist and the sources and stories of hope can we draw on as we respond?
A video is not available for this session for security reasons.

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LCN Webinar: Organizing Under Authoritarianism

Thinking Beyond COVID: Shaping the emerging world

COVID-19 has been a catalyst for deeper reflection, learning and fast shifts in how we organize our communities to respond to the immediate needs of the moment. We came together on Thursday 28 May to reflect as a community on what this experience has taught us. Guided by the following questions:

• What have we learned from organizing during the past few months?
• What questions are we still grappling with?
• Where do we go from here to enable our communities to build the power they need to shape our collective future?

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LCN Webinar: Thinking Beyond COVID: Shaping the emerging world