Join More Than Enough at Prima (Rue Dethy 80, 1060 Saint-Gilles) for a meetup for our campaign partners, organisations, voluntary initiatives and anyone already conducting or willing to conduct activities or developing strategies to promote post-growth and degrowth ideas, including in practice. Let's coordinate to mobilise and consolidate a movement to build a just society. Join us, in a convivial setting, we will provide light refreshments and let's dig into the following issues:

• Map the degrowth/post-growth movement in Belgium and identify key areas for collaboration.

• Host discussions on different projects, challenges, and ambitions.

• Share strategies to transform our collective power into action.

• Groups like Scientist Rebellion and Growth Kills will showcase their initiatives, and you’ll have the chance to contribute, network, and spark new partnerships.

Event Schedule

• 17:10 - 17:30 Intro: Let’s set the stage with a talk on political strategies for degrowth

• 17:30 - 18:00 Mapping: Discover where your approach fits in with other degrowth strategies

• 18:20 - 19:30 ‘Tables’: Share about your own projects and proposals, and connect to others for cross-movement support

• 19:30 - 20:00 Debrief and next steps to turn ideas into action

Let’s unite our forces to push for alternative solutions that will bring a social and ecological society.

RSVP to confirm your attendance and let us know whether you’d like to host a table discussion.

✨ Want to be part of this? Reserve your spot by filling out the form

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Meer info & tickets hier.

Title: "Sufficiency as a message: from public campaigning to civil disobedience"

In the run-up to the elections, from 5th of June to 8th of June, Scientist Rebellion (SR) and Growth Kills (GK) are organizing a series of (non-violent civil disobedience) actions.
In the context of this series of actions, SR and GK have invited More Than Enough to join them in an informal panel discussion around different ways and strategies of bringing degrowth, post-growth and sufficiency to a wider audience.
We’d like to extend this invitation to you as signatories and/or active partners of More Than Enough. The idea would be to build synergies along the wide spectrum of forms of ‘action’, from civil disobedience to public campaigning. We think it would be great if organisations of different types, kinds and styles could meet, get to know each other and each other’s visions better, and together discuss our current predicament and questions.
The panel discussion that we are invited to join falls within an evening organized on the 7th of June @ Het Goudblommeke in Papier/La Fleur en Papier Doré in Brussels, which looks as follows:

- 18.00: Welcome (there will be some focaccia provided to snack on)
- 18.30: SR and GK speak about the ongoing actions they’re organizing
- 19.00-20.00: Panel discussion with SR, GK, More Than Enough and hopefully someone from your organisations, on different strategies of reaching out to the public and bringing degrowth to the forefront
- 20.00-21.30: Workshop: bringing these messages to a wider public
- 21.30: Live music
- 22.30: actions..?

Anyone is welcome to participate in those discussions and in these actions, but there is of course no expectation for you to stay on. Dinner is not provided but there will probably be a collective pizza order from a pizzeria close by to the Goudblommeke in Papier/La Fleur en Papier Doré. There will also be some live music to enjoy :)
More Than Enough will not be participating in those actions in the name of the campaign as such.

We and our coalition partners are proud to kick off our More Than Enough campaign. You want to get involved? Go here.

The More Than Enough campaign delivers their manifesto to the headquarters of the Belgian political parties.

Dear President of Party X,

On behalf of all the signatory organisations of the More than Enough campaign, we are pleased to send you our attached manifesto.

This appeal is addressed to the Belgian political parties. We urge you to consider the eight main points we propose for building the foundations of a society based on well-being, social justice and respect for the limits of our planet.

The current period of acute crisis is systemic. It will not go away on its own, quite the contrary. If we are to have any hope of recreating and preserving the conditions for a happy life for everyone in our country and throughout the world, we must dare to question many of the principles that have guided us up to now.

The path we propose is uncertain and without guarantees. What is certain, however, is that the current path leads us away from the opportunity to achieve a good life. The choice seems obvious.

Will your party be the first one with the courage to take the first step?

Yours sincerely,

Chloé Mikolajczak and Gert-Jan Vanaken,

Spokespeople for the More than Enough campaign

Event organized by Federal Climate Minister Zakia Khattabi, based on the recommendations from High Committee for a Just Transition, the forum, the citizen agora and the federal administration. More info: justtransition.be

Ecological economist Jonas Vander Slycken’s long awaited book will be launched at the start of the new parliamentary year, doubtlessly inspiring the Belgian political debate. Jonas will travel the country for a book tour by bike. Let’s follow his lead! More info here.