Solidarity Infrastructures – What Do We Leave Behind When the Grant Ends?

Following a retreat held last year on Digital Liberation, co-hosted by Weaving Liberation, Dalan Fund, Whose Knowledge? and Numun Fund, the authors reflect on what is required for resilient justice work, and outline the priorities of a new Solidarity Infrastructure Collective. The Collective imagines “a collectively owned and governed movement space – physical solidarity infrastructure – that transcends one-off grants” aiming to “mobilise our different resources to challenge the dependency cycles we all, at different levels, find ourselves in” with a key objective of working towards “the collective ownership of land in Europe and West Africa governed by local groups.” Accompanied by concrete examples, they suggest that sustainable long-term resourcing requires: “Enabling peer solidarity; Enabling income generation; and Supporting land justice,” recognising a shared “urgency in radically reimagining the role of philanthropy.”