Fight the Fire - Ecosocialist Magazine number 2 is coming out tomorrow, the day of the global climate strike! Stay tuned, subscribe, support! #fighthefire #climatejustice #EcoSocialism #ecosoc
Fight the Fire!
We're almost ready to launch our first issue! Coming from different struggles around the world, we're fighting the fire, thinking and working for an ecosocialist future that stops climate and social collapse! Stay tuned for updates! #fighthefire #climatejustice #ecosocialism #ecosoc
Nnimmo Bassey is a member of our editorial board! He is a Nigerian activist, author, poet and architect. He chaired Friends of the Earth International and was executive director of Environmental Rights Action for over two decades. He became an activist after the bloody oil conflicts with Shell in Nigeria in 1990, and has been directly involved in community monitoring and organising in the areas most affected by oil exploration. He currently heads Health of Mother Earth Foundation. He has authored, among others, "To Cook a Planet: Destructive Extraction and the Climate Crisis in Africa" and "Oil Political - Echoes of Ecological Wars", and has received awards such as the Right to Livelihood, Time magazine's Heroes of the Environment and the Rafto Prize. #fighthefire #climatejustice #ecosocialism #ecosoc
Julie Gorecki is a member of our editorial board! She is an ecofeminist activist, writer and scholar. She works on new ecological feminisms by reexamining the systemic links between capitalism, gender, race, class, marginalized peoples and the environment. She is part of the transnational Women and Feminists for Climate Justice movement. Her work and activism aim to destabilize the capitalist patriarchal structure towards a systemic change rooted in intersectional feminist values. Julie lives in France and is originally from Canada. #fighthefire #climatejustice #EcoSocialism #ECOSOC
João Camargo is a member of our editorial board! He has been a political militant involved in precarious workers organization and the international anti-austerity movement in the early 2010’s. He helped create Climáximo in 2015 and has had an active role in climate jobs, anti-oil and gas campaigns, international articulation of the climate justice movement and direct action. He’s an environmental engineer and holds a PhD in climate change. He’s authored Climate Change Combat Manual and Portugal in Flames - How to rescue the forests. He's an ecosocialist and believes the only out of our civilizational crisis is revolution. #fighthefire #climatejustice #EcoSocialism #ECOSOC
Bianca Castro is a climate justice activist based in Lisbon, Portugal. She organizes in Fridays for Future International both nationally Greve Climática Estudantil and internationally, and works with Greenpeace. Alongside activism, she is an actress and Physics undergraduate. #fighthefire #climatejustice #EcoSocialism #ECOSOC
Sinan Eden is a member of our editorial board! He's an activist at
Climáximo, grassroots climate justice collective in Portugal. He's originally from Izmir, Turkey and holds a PhD in mathematics. He is a climate activist since 2007 when he launched an ecologist group in his university in Istanbul. He migrated to Portugal where he participated in the creation of Climáximo. He's an organizer, facilitator and organizer’s trainer. He's active in campaigns on just transition and against fossil fuel projects, as well as in international networks for climate justice. #fighthefire #climatejustice #EcoSocialism #ECOSOC
Juan Tortosa is a member of our editorial board! He is an ecosocialist activist and organizer based in Geneva, Switzerland. He has founded the International Ecosocialist Encounters and the Groupe Écosocialiste of the Swiss party Solidarités. He is active in different climate justice collectives and against the role of the Swiss financial centre in the climate crisis. He is president of the CCJSS - Coordination Climate, Justice Social et Solidarité and is a founding member of the Breakfree Suisse collective (civil disobedience collective) . He is currently the Swiss spokesperson for the Committee for the Abolition of Illegitimate Debt. #fighthefire #climatejustice #EcoSocialism #ECOSOC
Jawad Moustakbal is a member of our editorial board! He is an activist for social and climate justice with Attac Maroc ATTAC/ CADTM Morocco, and a member of the shared secretariat of the international Committee for the Abolition of Illegitimate Debt. He coordinated the International Honors Programme: ‘Climate Change: The Politics of Food, Water, and Energy’ in Vermont, USA and, as an civil engineer, has worked in many industrial companies in Morocco. #fighthefire #climatejustice #EcoSocialism #ECOSOC
Oscar Mooney is a member of our editorial board! He is an Irish climate activist and ecosocialist involved with non-violent direct actions as part of XR Ireland. Grateful for the writings and actions of revolutionary thinkers and activists while frustrated with the commodification of social and natural life, he is engaged in movement-building towards a people-led Just Transition with wellbeing, redistribution, and reparations central to a new justice-orientated and solidaric world. #fighthefire #climatejustice #EcoSocialism #ECOSOC
Alejandra Jimenez is a member of our editorial board! She is based in Papantla, Veracruz and is an activist in the climate justice movement and the anti-fracking movement, at CORASON (Coordinadora Regional de Acción Solidaria en Defensa del Territorio Huasteca-Totonacapan) and Alianza Mexicana Contra el Fracking. She studied Anthropology and Political Science and is a feminist and community organizer of defenders of the territory. #fighthefire #climatejustice #EcoSocialism #ECOSOC
Antonio Zambrano Allende is a Peruvian political scientist, activist, environmentalist and founding member of Movimiento Ciudadano frente al Cambio Climático – MOCICC where he has been national coordinator. Master in Territorial Development in Latin America and the Caribbean by UNESP (Brazil) and specialist in energy issues in Peru, where he has been dedicated to mobilising citizens towards a popular energy transition process. He is part of the Working Group on Energy and Sustainable Development of the Latin American Council of Social Sciences #fighthefire #climatejustice #EcoSocialism #ECOSOC
Jonathan Neale is in the editorial board of Fight the Fire! He is a writer of plays, novels and politics. He has been a trade union, socialist and climate activist in Britain for many years. In recent years most of his activism has been working with unions and climate campaigns to build movements for climate jobs to transform the economy and replace all fossil fuel use. Among his books are "A People's History of the Vietnam War!, !You Are G8: We Are 6 Billion!, and "Fight the Fire: Green New Deals and Global Climate Jobs" #fighthefire #climatejustice #EcoSocialism #ECOSOC
Andreas Malm is a member of Fight the Fire - Ecosocialist Magazine's board! He is a scholar of human ecology, the author of How to Blow Up a Pipeline, The Progress of this Storm and of Fossil Capital, among others. He has been a climate justice activist and a researcher into the many aspects of the climate crisis. The first number of the magazine is coming out in July! #fighthefire #climatejustice #ecosoc #ecosocialism
Anabela Lemos - Editorial Board
Anabela Lemos is a member of our Editorial Board! She has been an environmental justice activist since 1998. In 2004 she started JA! Justiça Ambiental, and has been the Board Director since then. She has coordinated the campaign to stop the proposed Mphanda Nkuwa Dam, is an advisor for the Southern Africa Board of Global Greengrants Fund (GGF) and seats on the Executive Board of Friends of the Earth International.
In 2022 she became the first environmental activist to receive the Per Anger Prize.
Mitzi Jonelle Tan is a member of our Editorial Board. She is a full-time climate justice activist based in the Philippines. She is the convenor and international spokesperson of Youth Advocates for Climate Action Philippines (YACAP), the Fridays For Future (FFF) of the country. She is also an organizer with FFF International and FFF MAPA (Most Affected Peoples and Areas) making sure that voices from the Global South especially are heard, amplified, and given space. We'll kick off in July! #fighthefire #climatejustice #EcoSocialism #ECOSOC
Coming this July! Fight the Fire - Ecosocialist Magazine #fighthefire #ecosoc #climatejustice #ecosocialism