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For many in Europe, it’s a dark and cold winter as energy prices, food prices, rents and mortgages are rising even as inflation makes our paychecks worth less. The cost of living crisis is making it harder for four out of every five Europeans to make ends meet. In response, governments and businesses are proposing new rounds of austerity, evictions, credit collapse, unemployment and cuts to public services, while those who created the conditions for this crisis – fossil fuel companies – doubled their profits in 2022. Now, the fossil fuel industry is lobbying Europe to respond to this crisis by deepening its addiction to imported fossil fuels and the geopolitical volatility they bring.
But we have a better idea….
Let’s not just stop this crisis – let’s prevent the next one.
Lets build permanent solutions not just to the symptoms of this crisis, but to its cause. Lets stop rising temperatures and rising costs of living by building an economy powered by local, renewable and democratic energy.
Gas is
over.
Spring is
coming.
take action,
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5-9 July – Mass action against ENGIE in Belgium
Code Rouge/Rood is targeting Engie, the most climate-damaging Belgian company. Join them in taking non-violent action. #BlockEngie
Engie is the most polluting company in Belgium and makes billions in profits thanks to exceptionally high energy prices, while at the same time, climate breakdown has become an everyday reality. In Belgium, people are facing overwhelming power bills and price increases due to the energy crisis. The majority in the world are facing much more severe consequences to the climate crisis. In spite of this, Engie continues its business-as-usual policy undisturbed.
It’s time to #BlockEngie
Find out more : www.code-rouge.be/
TAKE
ACTION
Host a screening of Spring Is Coming!
#SpringIsComing is both a storytelling and mobilizing tool designed to build conversation across movements. Hosting a screening is a great opportunity to work with allies from different movements, and to share perspectives on how we want to create change.
Follow our step-by-step guide on “how to host a screening” with visuals to make a poster, ideas of how to engage a discussion after the movie, and many more tips 🍿.
Spring is Coming is availble in 10 languages!
JOIN A GROUP
People across Europe are organizing to confront the roots causes and symptoms of the cost of living crisis. Get involved!
Here are just a few of the many groups that invite new members, based all over Europe.
If you’d like to have your group added to this list, send us an email at hello@gastivists.org
GLOBAL
- Make Them Pay campaign: make polluters pay in order to reduce excessive energy consumption from the wealthiest and fund climate action for the most vulnerable
REGIONAL
Austria
Belgium
- CSC trade union
- Bakers Food and Allied Workers Union
- Don’t Pay! Belgium
- Rassemblement Bruxellois pour le Droit à l’Habitat
Bulgaria
Cyprus
Czechia
Denmark
Portugal
- Climaximo
- Empregos para o Clima (Climate Jobs Portuguese Campaign)
Romania
RESOURCES
Podcasts
In the Autumn and Winter of 2022, Gastivists and CEO organized bi-weekly calls to make sense of the European cost of living crisis. A diversity of actors (energy groups, housing movement, trade unions, etc) joined to understand collectively the crisis and explore intersectional solutions.
1. Energy justice
2. Trade unions
3. Central and Eastern Europe
4. Housing rights final
5. Hope
Research
Research on government measures and responses from social movements & trade unions to the cost of living and energy crisis, coordinated by CEO & the Gastivists supported by the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation.
A letter from Don’t Gas Africa, a coalition fighting gas on the continent, to European leaders. It is a response to Europe’s dash for gas in Africa in response to the energy crisis in Europe
Follow us for a philosophical take on the cluster-crisis. Your regular dose of satire, woke nonsense and comic sans from social and environmental justice activists in Central & Eastern Europe.
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