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Our vision is to build human solidarity to sustain
life and a grassroots driven, just transition for
system change
COPAC is a not-for-profit section 21 Company.
Our vision is to build human solidarity to sustain
life and a grassroots driven, just transition for
system change
Learning from international UBIG experiences: Spain/Europe, Brazil/Latin America and Canada
Public Talk: The Case for Basic Income in a Time of Pandemics (Guy Standing)
Book launch: BRICS and the New American Imperialism: Global Rivalry and Resistance
Public Webinar: Learning from Kerala’s Covid-19 response
Discussion with Dr T. M. Thomas Isaac (Minister of Finance, Kerala Government)
Public Webinar: The worsening food crisis: Exploring possibilities for partnership between Government, the Solidarity Fund and progressive civil society
Panel: Anokhi Parikh (Solidarity Fund), Dorah Marema (GenderCC – Southern Africa), Tim Abaa (Ubuntu Project), Desmond D’Sa (SDCEA) and Mervyn Abrahams (PMBEJD)
Public Webinar: Unpacking the Covid-19 Stimulus Package
Panel: Busi Sibeko (IEJ), Michael Sachs (Wits, SCIS) and Duma Gqubule (CEDT)
Webinar recording: Advancing food sovereignty pathways: How subsistence fishers, community gardens, small-scale farmers and community feeding schemes can feed our communities
Panel: Magda Campbell (Beacon Organic Garden), John Nzira (Ukuvuna Harvests), Desmond D’Sa (SDCEA) and Jane Cherry (COPAC)
Webinar Recording: Where is our water, Minister Sisulu? #WaterForAll to confront Covid-19
Panel: Chriszanne Janse Van Vuuren (SCLC), Nosintu Mcimeli (Abanebhongo Persons with Disabilities), Davine Cloete (WCFSSF), Ferrial Adam (COPAC) and Caroline Ntaopane (WoMin)
Webinar recording: #BIGNow: Covid-19, Unemployment and a Basic Income Grant
Panel: Rosheda Muller (SAITA), Ayanda Kota (UPM), Dominic Brown (AIDC), Marcus Solomon (CRC), Duma Gqubule (CEDT) and Isobel Frye (SPII)
Webinar Recording: Covid-19 and food crises: Solidarity buying, pantries and grassroots supply networks
Panel: Dorah Marema (GenderCC Southern Africa), Tatjana von Bormann (WWF), Susanna Coleman (PHA Campaign)
Democratic Marxism Volume 2 Workshop
Contributors to the second volume in the series presented their chapters for review and discussion from the 15th to 16th August 2014
Food Sovereignty Campaign Assembly
The Assembly took place in Johannesburg on 28 February-1March 2015 to deliberate on and launch a programme of action of the South African Food Sovereignty Campaign. Over 50 organisations were present, and a Declaration was issued which set out the intentions of the campaign.
Solidarity Economy Movement (SEM) Assembly, 4-5 December 2014
After an intense activist school on worker cooperatives, activists of the SEM deliberated at an annual Assembly, which planned the future direction and activities of the SEM in order to consolidate the movement in South Africa. Exciting times lie ahead!
World Food day
Marikana Food Sovereignty Workshop
Members of Sikhala Sonke participated in a food sovereignty workshop from 23rd to 26th June 2014
Inter-provincial Right To Food Dialogue
Various civil society and community based organizations from North West, Limpopo and Gauteng came together to participate in the Inter-provincial Right to Food Dialogue to discuss challenges faced around the right to food in their communities, and alternatives and solutions to these challenges.
Food Sovereignty and Agroecology Activist School
5 Day training focusing on Food Sovereignty and agroecology. Grassroots activists from 16 communities from all over the country came together to learn and share their skills on food sovereignty and agroecology.
2nd National Solidarity Economy Conference
5 Day training focusing on Food Sovereignty and agroecology. Grassroots activists from 16 communities from all over the country came together to learn and share their skills on food sovereignty and agroecology.
1st Solidarity Economy Conference – ‘Beyond the Social Economy – Capitalism’s Crises and the Solidarity Economy Alternative’
Date(s): 26 October, 2011 – 10:00 – 28 October, 2011 – 13:00
Location: WITS University
COPAC will be hosting the 1st international solidarity economy conference in South Africa. Participants include leading solidarity economy activists and thinkers from Brazil, Argentina, USA, UK and Italy. This conference will provide a platform for local movements and activists to engage in a comparative dialogue and learning process. The conversation will span discussion on the nature of the capitalist crisis, the importance for transformative alternatives like the solidarity economy, national experiences of solidarity economy and movement building, worker cooperatives and factory occupations and food sovereignty. The conference will discuss a national strategy for advancing and building the solidarity economy movement in South Africa and it will launch the South African solidarity economy forum. On the evening of the 26th from 6.30 pm there will be a public event. There will be a documentary screening on factory occupations in Argentina followed by a discussion. On the 27th October from 6.30pm there will be a second public event; a panel discussion on climate jobs. All are welcome to attend these public events. See attached.
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Promoting the Solidarity Economy Movement at the Gauteng Consulative Conference of the Democratic Left
Date(s): 20 March, 2010 – 14:00
Location: WITS University
COPAC together with the Gauteng unemployed peoples movement and local community based cooperative movements will introduce the concept of the solidarity economy to the Conference of the Democratic Left. The panel on the Solidarity Economy will speak to case, approach and content of the solidarity economy alternative.