Decolonial Open Communiversity
The Decolonial Open Communiversity is a historic reunion led by people who want real change.
We are going to come together because the times say that we need to.
We will be asking the difficult questions.
Everyone is invited to the table.
We are going to share knowledge, cultures, and music and build new bridges with peoples from across the world at a time where we are told that we have to be divided.
The Decolonial Open Communiversity (DOC) is a space for all peoples from across the world to share their diverse cultures, wisdoms, knowledges, skills, understandings and contexts in order to effectively unify our paths to repair humanity and Mother Earth. It is about learning collectively through transforming the world.
For centuries knowledge has been developed by billions of people in all corners of the world to preserve life, maintain balance and build a more just world. Our rights did not come out of academia but out of the struggle of ordinary peoples and communities fighting for their freedom, this is a movement that is resurging today and is a continuation of what humans have always done in difficult times to support each other to build a better and more fair world.
The DOC is currently scheduled in to take place in the following locations, with the possibility that some dates and locations might change:
- London - SOAS, Walter Rodney Freedom Square - 2nd to 3rd November
- North London (N22) - 7th November
- Oxford - 8th November
- Bristol - 9th to 10th November
- Sheffield - 13th to 15th November
- Brimingham - 16th to 17th November
The DOC will also encompass:
- The UK Afrikan Reparations Conference - 26th to 27th October
- The Afrika Europe Peoples to Peoples Planet Repairs Action Dialogue Internationalist Forum (AEPPPRADIF)- 23rd to 24th November - Berlin
Educational sessions will cover topics such as:
- Political Economy
- Planet Repairs
- Critical Legal Praxis
- Reparations
- Respecting the women’s territory
- Food Sovereignty and Agroecology
- Tactics for Land Defence
- Audiovisual Workshops
The objectives of the DOC are:
To develop Global Citizenship Education with clarity of different geopolitical contexts and towards the decolonisation of the mind for Planet Repairs
To develop a shared intergenerational and intercultural space of co-learning to share the pluriversality of our different wisdoms, cultures and strategies of struggle
To strengthen our spirit of unity and conviction of struggle with a firm political position against an imperialist system.
To strengthen a true sentiment and commitment to internationalist solidarity
About the Decolonial Open Communiversity:
The Decolonial Open Comuniversity (DOC), an activity of the Planet Repairs Action Learning Educational Revolution (PRALER) is part of the institution building process of the UbuntuPachaVidya Peoples Comuniversity of Planet Repairs Action Learning (UPCOPRAL), a Global Justice framework for intercultural and intercomunal education that strengthens our Internationalist efforts to defend our human, peoples' and Mother Earth rights. This is an effort being coordinated by the Majority World Internationalist Solidarity Coordinating Council of Communities of Resistance (MWISCCCOR).
The DOC is a space to bring together our peoples' knowledges to advance our collective efforts of co-liberation for decolonisation. This will be done through the sharing of our histories, cultures, music, foods, dances, knowledges, tools, contexts and stories of struggle to better equip one and other with the tools to organise ourselves, and secure the liberation of our peoples and Mother Earth, proceeding from a Planet Repairs standpoint of pluriversality to build a multipolar world of global justice. Conferences, workshops, peoples’ circles, seed sharings, visits and talks will be coordinated as part of the DOC.
This year (2024) will be the first time outdooring the DOC and it will have the honour of hosting indigenous leaders from Peru that form a part of the National Federation of Peasant, Artisan, Indigenous, Native and non-salaried worker Women of Peru (FENMUCARINAP), as well as indigenous community leaders from Ghana and Azania/South Afrika. We also expect the decolonial educational experiences in Europe, such as those of the Sapmi to be shared in the DOC
The DOC will take forward the contributions of thePan-Afrikan Reparations Internationalist Standing Conference (PARISC) in the UK Afrikan Reparations Conference (UKARC) into broader PRALER processes for the decolonisation of education that will enhance the liberatory pedagogical substance of the Afrika-Europe Peoples to Peoples Planet Repairs Action Dialogue Internationalist Forum (AEPPPREDIF).