Volunteer at Friends of the Earth - Kangaroo Collective

Come and join our volunteer collective that comes together to learn and share skills and help out with tasks that come up from all the collectives. We will start at 6 pm with food and chats for a 6.30 - 8pm workshop/ action meeting.

What does the world look like that we want to create and what would you like to get out of being part of this collective.

We will discuss each session what we want the next sessions to look like, whether it's doing workshops, watching a doco, learn about Friends of the Earth's 50 years of radical rizhomic resistance in so-called Australia and internationally, help out at stalls, paint banners, make props, learn organising skills, create social media campaigns, do research, connect with the broader environmental and social justice movement.

Let us know if you have any mobility issues to come up the stairs. Come and share delicious food and make new friends or bring a friend and we'll see you on the first Thursday of the month!

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Collingwood VIC
Regular - less than 6 months
Climate Strategy

Type of work

Administration & Office Management, Arts, Craft & Photography, Marketing, Media & Communications, Writing & Editing

Suitable for

Centrelink Volunteers, People Learning English, People with disability, Young Adults, 18 - 24

Training

You will learn lots of skills, depending on what you and the group are interested in.

Time required

It really is up to you. The Kangaroo collective meetings are 2 hours once a month, but if you are keen to get more involved, you can help convene these meetings, help out collectives on stalls, with social media, research or actions, help cook or use your skills in any way that works for you and contributes to our work.

Requirements

Be open-minded and a critical thinker. Friends of the Earth strives to be Anti-Hierarchy, Anti-Patriarchy, Anti-Colonialism, Anti-Capitalism and Anti-Oppression. We don’t have a CEO or bosses, we strive for anti-hierarchy and practice consensus decision-making. Each group has the autonomy to do whatever they need to protect the natural environment as long as they act in accordance with these principles. Because we organise in a way that means groups of activists can self manage what they do, a sense of organisational unity comes from our shared beliefs that environmental and social justice are inextricably linked, and consensus decision making is essential to collective process We actively support the rights of women, First Nations people, people of colour, minority ethnic groups, the young and the aged, LGBTQIA+ community, people with disabilities, the working class and the unemployed, who are on the frontlines of both social and climate justice struggles. We seek justice and liberation from all oppressive systems that devalue and exploit people and the environment, including patriarchy, colonialism, class oppression, capitalism, racism, ableism and heteronormativity. We work from a climate justice perspective and understand that long lasting system change requires challenging the dominant interlinked and mutually reinforcing systems of oppression that we live in and under.

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