10:30 – 12:30 pm
Workshop Slot 1

• • Brainstorming for innovative low cost/high impact actions
    Organiser: Eric Lombard (Rester sur Terre)
    Description: Brainstorming to come up with new ideas of low cost and high impact actions accessible to everyone at any time. Individually or in small groups. The starting point is that traditional actions require a lot of organisation and investment on the part of the organisers. But everyone who has the time and the motivation should be able to take action when and where they want, and still manage to have a strong impact. 
• • Changing mindsets on (air) travel
    Organiser: Alexis Chailloux (Greenpeace France)
    Description: We believe that switching mindsets is a very important leg of our work to lower air traffic. Especially regarding the audience that often takes the plane (young urban elites, sensitive to climate change, privileged). That said, we are conscious that our ‘mindset work’ would be way more efficient with strong political measures (end of aviation subsidies, taxation of each flight departure, development of night trains and long-distance trains at a fair price).
    In this workshop we will:
    • Present Greenpeace France’s work on switching mindsets so far (context, audience, goal, tactics)
    • Brainstorm on what actions we could take to contribute to that broad cultural shift
  • Climate justice and aviation
    Organiser: Anne Kretzschmar (Stay Grounded)
    Description: In this workshop we will look into why reducing aviation is such an important part of our pathway to climate justice. Based on our report,  “Common Destination”, along with the work Stay Grounded has been doing for the past years, we will learn and discuss the basic facts around the climate impact and injustice of aviation. We will touch on why greenwashing is  not a solution and how we can counter the arguments and narratives of the aviation industry effectively.
• • Mapping South and North struggles against aviation: companies, movements, campaigns
    Organisers: Sara Mingorría (Universitat de Girona and Zeroport) and Daniela Subtil Fialho (Stay Grounded)
    The workshop aims to discuss and weave strategies of resistance based on the analysis of 100 cases of airport conflicts around the world. Specifically, we will learn from success stories of the cases mapped. Moreover, we will discuss the required information and the available data to design a collective campaign (eg. European companies and governments investing abroad or in other countries in Europe).

    In this workshop we will open a space of discussion and reflection to connect resistance on the Global South and North. We will present some analyses based on the mapping team work about resistance against airport infrastructure expansion around the world. For example, we will see:

    • • The different European company names and governments investing in airport expansions
      • The amount of investments
      • The main success strategies of resistance
  • Non–violent action – an effective tool for social change?
    Organiser: Sara Fromm (Werkstatt für Gewaltfreie Aktion)
    Description: Non-violent action – Yes, of course! But what does “nonviolent action” entail and how does it work? In this workshop, we want to take a closer look at Non-violent Action as a form of making socio-political conflicts visible and thus bring about social change. In addition to the basics, we will deal with different personal motivations and different levels of escalation. We want to offer a space for reflection and combine theoretical input with the concrete context of the AviAction Conference.

2:30 – 4:30 pm
Workshop Slot 2

• • Energy sufficiency: an opportunity to reduce air traffic!
    Organisers: Audrey Boehly, Eric Lombard
    Description: With the war in Ukraine and the acceleration of climate change, energy sufficiency has finally hit the media and the political agenda in Europe. Yet, aviation is not part of the debate. Let’s change this! How can we seize this opportunity and include air traffic reduction in the debate? Which aviation sufficiency measures should we demand as a network? How should we communicate to reach our objective (publish a call, launch a campaign)? 
• • Learning to fight together
    Organisers: Dominique Just and Jonas Asal (Robin Wood)
    Description: In social movements it’s vital that we work together. To step up our fight we need to motivate and inspire each other. But that’s not always easy given different political views, different organizing experiences or different “activist cultures”.
    We want to create an open exchange: What challenges do we have in our movement-internal collaboration and how can we overcome them? How can we become more inclusive – which barriers can we bring down?
• • Speechless speeches: how to interrupt people in power at high-level events?
    Organisers: Francisco Pedro (ATERRA), Magdalena Heuwieser (Stay Grounded), Peter Paul Vossepoel (formerly Zomer Zonder Vliegen)
    Interrupting high level speeches can be a fun, empowering and effective way to break through the media monotony, unmask environment criminals and and shed attention to inspiring ecological struggles.
    We’ll share first hand about our past aviation-related actions in Portugal, Belgium and Austria, how they were planned and how they went, what we’ve laughed about and learned. And maybe we can find new opportunities?
    Feel free to interrupt us!

• • Navigating a Safe Landing: collaborating with aviation workers to transform air travel and ensure a just transition
    Organiser: Finlay Asher (Safe Landing, XR Trade Unionists and Unite the Union)
    Description: The workshop will present and facilitate break-out groups for participants (in person and online) to discuss the following questions:
    • Is climate action aligned with, or in opposition to, protecting jobs?
    • Should climate campaigners and trade unionists collaborate?
    • What can the climate movement learn from the TUs about organising & mobilising people to achieve system change? What can TUs learn from the climate movement on diversity and creativity of tactics?
    • Should climate campaigners support striking workers on picket lines?
    • What messaging and imagery should be used to appeal to workers?
    How can we encourage more deliberative democracy (e.g. “Aviation Workers’ Assemblies” ) within TUs to design alternative visions of the future for air travel and organise towards a just transition?

10:30 – 12:30 pm

Strategy working groups – What would a global call to action in 2023 look like and what should our strategic priorities be

• • Hybrid – Alliances – Facilitator: Mira Kapfinger
  • Communication – Facilitator: Manuel Grebenjak
  • Hybrid – Global Solidarity – Facilitator: Daniela Subtil Fialho
  • Tactics – Facilitators: Magdalena Heuwieser, Sara Fromm
  • Targets – Facilitators: Anne Kretzschmar, Calum Harvey-Scholes

2:30 – 4:30 pm
Open Slot

• • Counselling sessions
    Bring strategic questions or problems your group or initiative is facing (around actions/campaigns) and get spontaneous advice through collective swarm-intelligence
  • Continuation of the strategic discussions

9:00 – 11:00 am
Workshop slot 3

• Adbusting: Words as a political measure against air traffic
  Organiser: Berlin Busters Social Club
  Description: Adbusting is a form of street art. It involves altering advertising posters with paint, paper and paste in such a way that the message is distorted beyond recognition. In the workshop we will talk about what advertising actually is and how advertising represents social ideas. Together we want to discuss whether this form of action is suitable for an emancipatory practice against the expansion of air traffic, or whether it merely reproduces the visual habits of the advertising industry.
  

• Legal steps against aviation greenwashing
  Organiser: Hiske Arts (Fossielvrij NL)
  In this workshop we will look at what legal steps we can take against  the deception of the aviation industry, taking the Bristol airport expansion and the KLM misleading ads lawsuit as case studies.

• Organizing without burning out
  Organiser: Diffraction
  A workshop to learn how to shape activist spaces so I can organize while taking care of myself and others.
  As Audre Lorde well put it : “Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.” And we still have some work to do about that in these times. In this 2-hour workshop, we will explore our narratives and beliefs around what an activist is or “should be”. We will also question « guilt », this strange feeling that sometimes leads us to exceed our limits or to close ourselves. All in a context of organizing actions and, more broadly, participating in social and environmental struggles.

• Rapid response actions
  Organiser: António Assunção (Climáximo)
  Description: Governments and Companies want to expand aviation as fast as they can. Most of the time we know that new projects are being built but we don’t know when the construction begins. That’s why we need rapid response teams and actions, to stop the harm and give us time to mobilize in mass.

  We will look at:

  • How to build a team
  • Narrative and communication
  • Action planning
  • Next steps after the response is active