**NOTE: Date change due to National Palestine Protest to commemorate 77 years since the Nakba. We encourage those who can to attend the protest! Our event will be the following day.
On 18th May 2025, Workers in Palestine and WeSmellGas invite you to a day of learning and strategising against energy imperialism!
This day of workshops and discussions will bring together activists, artists, and organisers across housing justice, labour, climate, abolitionist and anti-colonial struggles to collectively unpack how energy systems fuel racial capitalism, militarism and colonial domination. We will explore how energy imperialism connects our movements - from Palestine to public housing.
Together we will look at how energy systems shape global politics, intersect across our struggles, and how we can mobilise to resist them.
- Date: Sunday 18th May 2025
- Time: 9.45am - 5pm
- Location: London (venue confirmed upon registration).
FULL PROGRAMME:
Fuelling Power: Fossil Capitalism, Militarism & the Corporate Grip on Energy
Timings: (10am - 11.30pm)
Speakers: Adam Hanieh, London Mining Network, Gargi Bhattacharyya and WeSmellGas
From the Ground Up: Grassroots Struggles Against Energy Imperialism
Timings: (12pm - 1.30pm)
Speakers: Energy Embargo for Palestine, Amina Adebisi Odofin, ReCommon (Italian energy justice collective) and AFOA (Cypriot anti-captialist collective).
Building Power: Organising Against Energy Across Our Movements
Timings: (3pm - 4.30pm)
Speakers: Rafeef Ziadah, London Renters Union, Asad Rehman
Lunch will be provided by Ponchokhana পঞ্চখানা.
The venue is fully wheelchair accessible. If you have any particular safety or access needs to attend the day please email: collective@wesmellgas.org and we will do our best to accommodate.
Welfare: We will have a dedicated Welfare Team on hand all day for any access needs, queries or a cute chat!
Contact: collective@wesmellgas.org if you need childcare on the day.