“Systems change not climate change” is a popular climate justice slogan. This report explores where the slogan could take us. Using the idea of concrete utopias, it encourages activists to build a wellbeing economy out of elements in local and care economies, and to work with systems change to take us beyond capitalism.
On 31 January this year, Open Secrets, a non-profit organisation that exposes and builds accountability for private sector economic crimes – often enabled by the state – held a ‘People’s hearing on Energy Profiteers’. Witnesses living on the fenceline of dirty...
It is always an exciting time when the date arrives to launch The groundWork Report, which gives an account of the state of environmental justice in South Africa in relation to a focus theme. In 2022, we chose to speak with and listen to people who are living the...
The year 2020 was brutal. But this was nothing new for the millions of South Africans who are unemployed, who go without the basics needed to live well, and who are excluded from meaningful participation in our post-apartheid South Africa. Covid struck and time stood...