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GLOBAL AKTION

• Peo

eople and Pla lanet Before Profit!

A bit about Denmark

• Smallest Scandinavian country, part of EU
• Capitol city: Copenhagen
• 6 million people
• Surrounded by the sea
• Second most cultivated country on Earth (over 60% of the

country is agricultural land – however only 2 % of employment)

• High consumption, and home to some evil corporations:

Mærsk, Arla, Danish Crown

Global Aktion

• Activist-based solidarity organization in Copenhagen,

Denmark

• 100 activists organized in different working groups (and a

small staff)

• Work with and support like-minded social movements and

grassroot organizations in Europe and Africa (and the rest

• f the world)
• Support people fighting for their collective political and

socioeconomic rights

• Political campaigns internationally and in our ”own

backyard” as well

History ry

• Started in support of the fight to end apartheid in South Africa

(name: the Sydafrika Komiteen)

• After apartheid ended, supported people’s struggles across Southern and

Eastern Africa (name: Afrika Kontakt)

• Now: Realizing that the struggle

and its roots are globalized, the solutions must be global too (name: Global Aktion)

What do we we work for?

WE WANT TO SMASH OPPRESSIVE POWER STRUCTURES – CAPITALISM, PATRIARCHY, IMPERIALISM! We work with four overall topics:

• A fair trade system based on solidarity and justice (against neoliberal free trade regimes)
• Climate justice and food sovereignty
• Local ownership over natural resources (against ressource grabbing)
• Dismantle power and fight for real and active democracy and workers’ rights
• Cross thematically: Intersectional feminism and anti-racism

Partners, allies, , campaigns

• CARES, Mauritius
• La Via Campesina Southern and Eastern Africa
• Trust for Community Outreach and Education

(TCOE), South Africa

• Justicia Ambiental (JA!), Mozambique
• Swaziland United Democratic Front (SUDF),

Swaziland

• Institute for Young Women’s Development (IYWD),

Zimbabwe

• Saharawi Campaign Against the Plunder, Western

Sahara

• Transnational Institue (TNI), the Netherlands
• Friends of the Earth, Denmark & Europe
• Clean Clothes Campaigns
• Corporate Europe Obervatory, Belgium
• Campaign to Dismantle Corporate Power
• Right 2 Say No Campaign
• And many more

Strugg ggles in Denmark

• Food sovereignty – campaign for a national

land reform (Danish Forum for Food Sovereignty)

• Against free trade deals (Network for

Solidarity Trade)

• Just policy action on climate change

(demonstrations, advocacy)

• Fighting corporate state capture (Danish

Corporate Watch)

Thanks for listening!