By2020WeRiseUp is a platform supported by around 60 (climate) justice groups mostly based in Europe. Our aim is to create and facilitate spaces for coordination, to be a bridge between different struggles, to help groups and movements escalate their actions, and to strive towards a strategic and coordinated uprising against exploitative, destructive and unsustainable systems.
This Beginner’s Guide to By2020 is also available as pdf: download. Why a Beginner‘s Guide? Working together with activists and different groups, the question, “But what exactly is By2020?
This Call out is also available as pdf: download. This document reached consensus during a European conference. I. Why this call-out Our time is one of fast changes and multiple global crises, not only of climate, that call for a response of the same scale.
If you want to contact us, write us at 2020we@riseup.net.
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The vision was drafted late 2018 and stands only as a a vision of what could be and nothing else. Indeed, By2020’s sole purpose is to be a platform and it doesn’t aim at planning actions.
We have three different kinds of working groups:
Open working groups: Completely open working groups focusing on certain topics Waves working groups: Working on different topics for the time of a wave Internal working groups: Responsible for the facilitation of the whole platform Open working groups The following working groups are completely open for anyone to join and mainly focused on specific topics that came up during our regular European calls.