• Note taker: Franco, Shrishtee
• Facilitator: Ashish
• Participants: Lina, Shrishtee, Ashish, Simon, Franco, Arvin, Hans, Mauricio, Alex, Angging, Marta, Xochitl, Upamanyu, Vasna

Round of updates!

Check status:

• International Tribunal on Rights of Nature - Ashish has sent the invitation and they need to check with other members of the tribunal before confirming. Accepted. Now defining how they will collaborate with GTAGlobal Tapestry of Alternatives.
• Milk Tea Alliance, - Ashish has sent reminder to them, and expects to get a response soon. For Milk Tea, Annging is following up. Arvin wrote in the chat: “Hi! Regarding MTA, we will update the soonest about their endorsement to the GTA. ”.

  • Update: We sent a message to them following our last meeting. It got lost in the messaging thread of MTA. But we already followed-up with them this week. We heard back and they seem to be interested but would like to know more about GTA first before proceeding. We already sent them GTA's website so they can check for themselves.
• Vasna would like to suggest International League of People's Struggles who are co-hosting the COP26 event. Decide was postponed after COP26. https://ilps.info/en/about-us/.

  • Update: process very slow, they will take some to define.

We already did the Feb 11th: share criterias of CMM and VS.

We agreed to start a draft document for GTA's criteria that emerged from that conversation. Need to form a specific group to do the writing of the draft.

Mauricio will send a first draft. Then we will have meeting with the other WeaverA local, regional, or national network or organization that connects or consists of multiple Alternatives. It should be a collective process of some kind, rather than only a single individual. By being a "weaver", they are committed to participate in the GTA, developing ways of dialogue, interconnection, collaboration and solidarity with other Weavers. Examples: Vikalp Sangam and Crianza Mutua., Crianza Mutua Colombia.

Next in schedule:

• March: include CMC's criteria and (maybe) SouthEast network input
• April: have the first version of the document of the criteria
• May: Public presentation in WSF

The WSF will take place in May, first week. Will be phisical and virtual.

How can GTA use the space of the WSF to expand our message?

As GTA we recognise that there are many issues about the WSF and its politics. Our position is that we as GTA are critical of the dominant system and are working for radical alternatives. Can we use the opportunity of the WSF to claim a space for alternatives and continue to build solidarity through our activities there? The extent of our impact is partly based on our energy and effort - do we focus effort on shaping the WSF itself and/or also on our strengthening our own work.

Possible activities:

• Gathering of GTA's related people: core members, weavers members, endorser members
• Activities with ADELANTE?
• GTA participating in the WSF facilitation team
• Present the GTA's weaving criterias (that we are developing)

Next steps:

• Write to all Endorsers to ask who will be phisically in the WSF.
• Conform a small team to take care of GTA's in WSF: Vasna, Ashish, Shrishtee, Nisha, Mauricio

Main data about the gathering:

• 5 days
• During the 2nd week of May
• One part located in Unitierra Oaxaca (in Oaxaca city) and other part in a Community.

Who would be able to participate in person from the Core Group:

• Mauricio
• Gustavo
• Vasna
• Ashish
• Shrishtee
• Franco
• Alex
• Xochitl

Maybe:

• Marta
• Angging, Arvin or Hans (budget support)
• Nisha (budget support)

Who won't be able to participate:

• Lina

Who is not here and should be asked:

• Marina
• Christine
• Simon
• Arturo

What happens if WSF is postponed or canceled?

• If canceled, we can still have our gathering in Oaxaca.
• If posponed, maybe we can adapt and move our meeting according to the WSF change.

Xochitl will prepare a proposal to take Core members to Chiapas.

Proposed for end March, probably 31st March.

Assembly facilitation team will send information by email soon.

• How to facilitate the participation of core members of the east? (Austrilia, South East Asia)
  • One month: 3pm UTC
  • Next Month: 10am UTC???
    • New Zeland: UTC+12
    • Mexico: UTC-6
    • Switch to Zoom, to be able to record the meetings.
• We need to have some kind of flow chart to clarify the components ot the “GTA Ecology”
• Need more members in the Facilitation team. Any volunteeeeers??? zzzZZZZZZ
  • Mauricio: Maybe later!
  • and marta is still using PHd as an excuse
• Amazing new name of the newsletter: “Weaving AlternativesAre activities and initiatives, concepts, worldviews, or action proposals by collectives, groups, organizations, communities, or social movements challenging and replacing the dominant system that perpetuates inequality, exploitation, and unsustainabiity. In the GTA we focus primarily on what we call "radical or transformative alternatives", which we define as initiatives that are attempting to break with the dominant system and take paths towards direct and radical forms of political and economic democracy, localised self-reliance, social justice and equity, cultural and knowledge diversity, and ecological resilience. Their locus is neither the State nor the capitalist economy. They are advancing in the process of dismantling most forms of hierarchies, assuming the principles of sufficiency, autonomy, non-violence, justice and equality, solidarity, and the caring of life and the Earth. They do this in an integral way, not limited to a single aspect of life. Although such initiatives may have some kind of link with capitalist markets and the State, they prioritize their autonomy to avoid significant dependency on them and tend to reduce, as much as possible, any relationship with them.: periodical of the Global tapestry of Alternatives”

• I would like this firs call to younger activists would come from us together, Stockholm+50 and GTA. Send an invitation to some 50 below 35 activists (the criteria WSF use) to a first meeting. So what is asked from GTA/Adelante is to sign a first invitation to some 50 younger activists together with me (Stockholm+50)
  • Tord is confused about what is youth in the case of Franco.
  • Vasna already tried to escape from Tord.
  • We will circulate the letter in the core team mailing list prior any public support.

coordinted by Stee, draft document: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1sQ0ePWpA_fvHq6UuPyjs99GoQeKqS6TQETsOvpdGOk4/edit

• Please check the document and make comments.

• We are devoting the 2nd montly meeting for the GTA weaving criteria in first part of the year. Post WSF we will resume that, focused on the idea of the “GTA narrative builiding”

• First concept note shared by Mauricio. To take place in April.

Next GTA's weaving criterias meeting: Lina will suggest a specifc date of the first part of March

Next core meeting: 24th March - 2 PM UTC