Reimagine and Organize: Education with a Difference
Friends of the Earth India hosted a dynamic 4-day youth workshop in Villupuram, Tamil Nadu in September 2024. Youth from across South India came together to discuss land rights, social justice, and environmental activism, exploring the history of land struggles and issues like community displacement and corporate land acquisition.
Through activities like resistance songs, theatre, exposure visits, insightful discussions and interactive sessions, participants reflected on the intertwined struggles of gender, caste, and class in relation to land rights. While the venue echoed with songs and slogans of solidarity, participants left with a deeper understanding of land rights and the political perspectives associated with it.
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Know our Earth
Know our Earth is a youth focussed workshop programme of Friends of the Earth India, as they are not just second-liners, but are an indispensable voice in shaping our work. It offers a series of learning sessions and workshops that allow participants to learn more about pressing development issues.
Know our Earth programme is a 3 to 5 days of residential programme with focus on ‘Natural Resources & Customary Rights’. This will be an intensive meeting bringing together youth from each member groups to receive orientation on Mother Earth Rights, Natural Resources and Climate Change. This programme will also bring together diverse traditional livelihood communities and organisations/groups of natural resource based communities to share their expertise. This will be a space for campaigners as well as other youth from the groups to engage with FoE India and with each other. This will be an opportunity to share lessons, experiences and make connections.
Who can participate
This programme will be open to all Indian citizens 18 years above and below 40 years of age. Young people from the marginalised and historically oppressed communities, working or associated with the movements/networks/ organisations/ collectives are encouraged to apply for this programme. Priority and preferences will be given to the young people from the member groups of FoE India.
What you will learn and do
- Learn about natural resources, their uses and end products
- Land reclamation, sustainability, healthcare and environmental issues
- Activities related to natural resources
- How to utilise digital, best practices in political advocacy
- Understanding of Constitutional & other legal rights to affirm ownership to safeguard natural
resources for the communities - Experience field trips to unique geological formations, land reclamation sites where the
importance of ecology are revealed - An understanding and estimation of current natural resources in different regions
- Understanding on contemporary environmental movements
- Networking with co participants and other social movements
Click here to read about the workshop.