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The GTA is an initiative seeking to create solidarity networks and strategic alliances amongst movements and networks of alternatives on local, regional and global levels. It operates through varied and light structures, defined in each space, that are horizontal, democratic, inclusive and non-centralized, using diverse local languages and other ways of communicating.

The initiative has no central structure or control mechanisms; currently to put it on a sustained footing, there is an informal core team (without any centralized power), and there is a proposal to create an Assembly of the various endorsing organisations and individuals. It hopes to spread step by step as an expanding, complex set of tapestries, woven together by existing and newly emerging collective webs (what we call Weavers), building on radical, systemic alternatives to dominant regimes. It promotes or joins regional, national and global encounters, when the conditions allow for them, as well as close and synergistic linkages with existing organizations, like the World Social Forum. It hopes to stimulate global solidarity with initiatives that are threatened or otherwise in need of support

How do we do it[edit | edit source]

The Global Tapestry of Alternatives develops around 6 specific lines of action:

  • Document: Foster platforms and spaces of exchange, mutual learning, documentation, mapping and visibility of alternative initiatives.
  • Disseminate: Make widely visible these alternatives for shared learning, and propagate the process of the GTA among different media
  • Connect: Create a space for already existing networks & confluences (Weavers) to connect and engage cross-sectorally for co-creation of alternatives; sustain a platform for various global change processes to dialogue and act together.
  • Stimulate: Stimulating new networking and confluencing, and their weaving with existing processes, especially in countries or regions that do not have them, by providing key lessons from current GTA Weavers and faciitating exchange between established and developing networks.
  • Support: Develop strategies and actions of solidarity and support with allied initiatives and networks.
  • Advocate: Where necessary, join other global processes to advocate or campaign on urgent matters relevant to Alternatives.

Endorsers[edit | edit source]

The organization is endorsed by many other international partners (list until July 2023):

  1. Academy of Democratic Modernity
  2. Africa Earth Jurisprudence Collective
  3. African Biodiversity Network
  4. Africans Rising
  5. Afrika Youth Movement
  6. Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa
  7. AltDev, Program on Alternative Development of UP CIDS
  8. Alternatives to Capitalism - SASE
  9. Civil Diplomacy Center - North and East Syria
  10. Coalition against Land Grabbing (CALG)
  11. Community Economies Institute
  12. Deep Transformation Network
  13. Defend the Sacred
  14. ECOLISE
  15. Earthlife Africa Jhb
  16. Ecoversities Alliance
  17. European Commons Assembly
  18. Faircoop
  19. Fifth Empire
  20. Focus on the Global South
  21. Forest Peoples Programme
  22. Foundations Earth
  23. Gaia Foundation
  24. Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature
  25. Global Diversity Foundation
  26. Greenpeace International
  27. Global Ecovillage Network
  28. Global Extractivisms and Alternatives Initiative (EXALT)
  29. Global Forest Coalition
  30. Global University for Sustainability
  31. Global Working Group Beyond Development
  32. Global Youth Biodiversity Network
  33. Grassroots to Global
  34. Great Transition Initiative
  35. Health of Mother Earth Foundation
  36. ICCA Consortium
  37. Indigenous Environment Network
  38. International Network of Mountain Indigenous Peoples
  39. International Tribunal on Rights of Nature
  40. It Takes Roots!
  41. Jineoloji Academy
  42. Katalizo
  43. Leadership for the Ecozoic
  44. Local Futures
  45. Los Angeles for All
  46. May First Movement Technology
  47. mέta
  48. MINGAnet
  49. Natural Justice
  50. Newalliance.earth
  51. North-South Initiative
  52. NOW NET
  53. People’s Health Movement
  54. Post-Growth Institute
  55. Reap Goodness
  56. Red Universidad y Compromiso Social de Sevilla, Spain
  57. REEVO, Alternative Education Network
  58. Research and Degrowth
  59. Rising Earth News
  60. Sangat
  61. Socialist Workers and Youth League
  62. Society for Alternative Learning and Transformation (SALT)
  63. Solidarity Research Centre
  64. Symbiosis Revolution
  65. Systems Change Alliance
  66. Soil Not Oil Coalition
  67. The Alternatives Project
  68. The Convivialists
  69. The Emergence Network
  70. The Leap
  71. Transition Network
  72. Transnational Institute
  73. Wellbeing Economy Alliance
  74. Women4Biodiversity / CBD Women's Caucus
  75. WoMin
  76. Yes to Life No to Mining Network
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