A three day international seminar/workshop bringing together people from different worker organizations within different branches of the energy sector and energy intensive industries, as well as analysts on these themes, to discuss the role that workers can play in building a new global energy system in the context of the current worldwide economic-financial and, increasingly, political crisis. The event seeks to contribute to an ongoing long-term discussion process about how such a transition to new energy system can be built in such a way as to benefit workers, and to be part of a wider process of building collective solidarity, resistance and alternative social and economic relations, in order to find an emancipatory way out of the multiple crises. The seminar will seek to strengthen a common analytical framework amongst participants and lay the basis for a process of long term collaboration between them.

This seminar is the first of what is hoped will be a series of thematic preparatory events along the road towards organizing a bigger and more complex global meeting, entitled Another Energy is Possible!. This large international event, which will take place in the second half of 2011, aims to make a significant global contribution towards grassroots-led efforts in relation to energy and climate change, as part of a wider process of grassroots-led emancipatory social, political and economic transformation in the face of the world-wide economic-financial (and increasingly political) crisis.

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