WHO WE ARE - Gastivistshttps://www.gastivists.org/who-we-are/The Gastivists are a small team of motivated people, active in a variety of climate and oppression-related struggles in several different countries.
We aim to support grassroots groups who fight new gas infrastructure, facilitate the flow of information between NGOs and local groups, create connections between different groups around the world, and help build a movement that will stop gas and bring about an energy transition.
While opposition to gas infrastructure is our starting point, the struggles we are involved in intersect with issues like militarisation, land rights, geopolitical conflicts and energy democracy. These intersecting struggles inform our work and our goals.
We recognise that climate change is wrapped up in the neocolonial capitalist system and all the other oppressions that system causes – such as racism, misogyny, homophobia and xenophobia. We use gas as a lens to fight against many other injustices which are perpetuated by the fossil fuel industry. Our call for climate justice is also a call for justice for all oppressed groups.
We focus on grassroots activism because of the potential it has to really create new spaces, dialogues and ways of working which challenge that system.