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A participatory process is a sequence of participatory activities (e.g. first filling out a survey, then making proposals, discussing them in face-to-face or virtual meetings, and finally prioritizing them) with the aim of defining and making a decision on a specific topic.
Examples of participatory processes are: a process of electing committee members (where candidatures are first presented, then debated and finally a candidacy is chosen), participatory budgets (where proposals are made, valued economically and voted on with the money available), a strategic planning process, the collaborative drafting of a regulation or norm, the design of an urban space or the production of a public policy plan.
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Only a mass social movement can change the exploitative fashion industry
The challenges to create a just transition may seem overwhelming, but they will only grow larger if we fail to unite and organise at the grassroots.
The current model is based on the exploitation of workers and nature. Workers are often paid poverty wages and work in unsafe conditions, while nature provides the materials for industrial production and is the recipient of the waste generated by industrial processes.
The interconnected crisis we face requires connecting struggles and social movements. It also requires educated and informed citizens in their roles as consumers, citizens, workers, or activists, with access to information and transparency.
When workers, trade unions, environmental activists, social movements, young people, organised citizens and consumers work together with one purpose, change is possible.
What new institutions and power structures need to be created in the just transition to a future fashion industry, and how?
How can we realise a really international mass movement for a Just Transition to a new fashion industry?
Notes from a workshop with workers and trade union representatives from Serbia
Union struggles in Serbia face institutional and economic obstacles that directly threaten the idea of a Just Transition and effective freedom of association. Union representatives are exposed to direct repression. Examples of 48 criminal charges against one representative and the firing of union le…
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Reference: CC-PART-2025-04-3