When thinking about governance in our movement homes, what can we learn from principles of ecology?  How can we build movements that can govern not just within our organizations, but at the appropriate scales necessary for truly transformative change. 

Join Gopal Dayaneni, co-founder of Movement Generation: Justice and Ecology Project and movement comrade in many formations (including Climate Justice Alliance, ETCgroup, the Center for Story-based Strategy and People’s Solar Energy Fund) for an exploration of core ecological principles that can inform how we build our organizations.  We’ll explore how the ecological principles of “form follows function”, “resilience, diversity and redundancy”, and others can help us think about how to build the deep democracy we need to win.  We’ll also draw on examples from global social movements, informed by eco-feminism, indigenous sovereignty, food sovereignty, land reform and peasant rights models of organizing, to see these principles in practice.

This offering is essential for organizers, activists, and movement practitioners (new and seasoned) hoping to:

• Build a sharper, more developed understanding of how to build resilient, effective governance into our movement homes
• Orient strategically toward governing at different scales in our liberatory movements
• Draw key lessons from global social  movements
• Agitate and politicize your movement spaces to build movement organizations that are less captured by the nonprofit sector in the US

This is part two of our opening module of Collaborate to Co-Liberate 2025.

Collaborate to Co-Liberate: Structures and Practices for Democratic Organizations (C2C) is a year-long learning journey designed for solidarity economy and  social justice movement left organizations who are building organizations with democratic, participatory, and liberatory leadership structures.  

To join the entire year-long journey, register here instead of signing up for this one-time event.

To view the other events in the series click here.