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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


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GLOBAL AKTION

  • Peo

eople and Pla lanet Before Profit!

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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

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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

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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)

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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
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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
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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)

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Thanks for listening!