{"id":337675,"date":"2024-05-28T09:49:37","date_gmt":"2024-05-28T07:49:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ripess.eu\/?p=337675"},"modified":"2024-06-10T11:09:47","modified_gmt":"2024-06-10T09:09:47","slug":"world-localization-day-june-21st-lets-showcase-our-local","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.eu.ripess.rio20.net\/en\/world-localization-day-june-21st-lets-showcase-our-local\/","title":{"rendered":"World Localization Day June 21st &#8211; Lets showcase our local!\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Article by Ripess Europe<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/worldlocalizationday.org\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">World Localization Day<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0 (WLD) is an annual celebration day, this year is the 21st of June, convened by the international NGO <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.localfutures.org\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Local Futures<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, during which Local Futures and a large number of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/worldlocalizationday.org\/global-partners\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">global partners<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> host in-person and online events to highlight localization as a strategy for change, and to make visible and celebrate the initiatives that build up forms of economic organizing in support of socially and ecologically better as well as more healthier communities.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This year, WLD puts out a message in support of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=28Q5CmAP89c\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">big picture activism<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, which means taking a step back in order to <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">see the outline of two very clear and very divergent paths into the future: <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Speed up, or slow down? Scale up, or go local? High-tech, or re-connect? <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">and to create awareness about these two paths.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>On June 21st also, the release of a new Localization movie <a href=\"https:\/\/worldlocalizationday.org\/host-film-screening\/\">Closer to Home<\/a>, which is a 30-minute film by Local Futures and Cyrus Sutton. The film is a united call for a new economy, delivered by those who have committed their lives to working for systemic change. Everyone is welcomed to host a screening as part of this international campaign, and contribute to growing awareness about a global-to-local shift.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0Last year, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/ripess.eu\/en\/localists-of-all-the-world-unite\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">RIPESS Europe participated in October at the three day Planet Local summit in Bristol<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, hosted by Local Futures, speaking among other in one of the plenaries about the connection between Solidarity economy, localisation and community building. RIPESS also hosted together with ECOLISE a well participated break session at the summit putting the spotlight on <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Transformative community-led movements as being essential &#8211;\u00a0 core! &#8211; to the fostering of systemic change.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Localisation movement welcomes everyone interested to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/worldlocalizationday.org\/get-involved\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">get involved<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> with the campaigning, and to participate in <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/worldlocalizationday.org\/events\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">upcoming WLD events<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> or to register an own event. Lets showcase our local!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Article by Ripess Europe World Localization Day\u00a0 (WLD) is an annual celebration day, this year is the 21st of June, convened by the international NGO Local Futures, during which Local [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":337677,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[582],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-337675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campaign","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.eu.ripess.rio20.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337675"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.eu.ripess.rio20.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.eu.ripess.rio20.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.eu.ripess.rio20.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.eu.ripess.rio20.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=337675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.eu.ripess.rio20.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337675\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.eu.ripess.rio20.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/337677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.eu.ripess.rio20.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.eu.ripess.rio20.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.eu.ripess.rio20.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}