This activity is part of the work we have been carrying out since Calala The project has been working on the anti-racist and decolonial review for more than three years, and includes sharing our experience in order to move towards the incorporation of this perspective in social organisations and philanthropy.
The working day “Is your organisation a racist? Thursday 4 May from 16.15h to 20h at Coòpolis (C/ Constitució 19, Barcelona) with the aim of bringing together social organisations that are rethinking their own internal organisation in an anti-racist key. The event is free of charge and registration is required through this website form.
Where do we come from?
Both organisations are coming to this conference as a result of the internal process they are carrying out to advance an anti-racist and decolonial perspective in their organisations. In the case of Lafede.cat, in this news more information on its route can be found. On the other hand, in the case of Calala Women’s Fund, For more than three years, we have been deepening the decolonial gaze through various processes, both internally and externally.
In late 2019, we began to think seriously about the power relations in our work, both in our relationship with the groups and organisations we support and within the team. Some critiques from the migrant and racialised women we were supporting at the time were an eye-opener. We decided that anti-racism should not be left as a matter of individual choice. for our staff. Therefore, we initiated a process to integrate a decolonial perspective into our way of working.
On the one hand, we believe that it is essential to understand our work in strengthening the feminist and anti-racist movement in Spain and Central America from a decolonial historical perspective, which understands how we got here and how we can move forward from a perspective of reparation without continuing to perpetuate the colonial and racist violence that prevails in North-South relations. At the beginning we made a diagnosis from a decolonial perspective within the team, and a work plan was drawn up based on the results: since then, we have carried out internal training in decoloniality, the decolonial perspective has been introduced into our Theory of Change, we have drawn up a protocol against racist violence in the foundation, and much more. All this process has been carried out with the help of Town Square, an anti-racist collective in Madrid, which is still accompanying us in the process to this day.
For more information, see this news the decolonial journey in Calala is explained in more detail.
Where is it goingmos? The day of 4 May
At Calala we have worked internally, but we also participate in advocacy and awareness-raising spaces to share and encourage other organisations and foundations to review themselves in a decolonial and anti-racist way. Calala is in a constant process of revision, but this does not stop us from sharing our experience, the lessons we have learned and the challenges we face.
In parallel to this process, we want to open the focus so that organisations can share their own processes, inspire each other and move forward in an anti-racist and decolonial way. For this reason, Calala is co-organising the conference on the 4th of May, which will include an inspiring round table “Perspectives and experiences on organisational change in an anti-racist key” with the intervention of Ainhoa Nadia, social educator, researcher on institutional racism and anti-racist activist, and the experiences of SOS Racisme Catalunya y Calala Women’s Fund. This will be followed by group work to “share challenges and strategies of anti-racist processes in a space of trust”, and finally the main strategies will be shared in plenary. In order to try to maintain coherence across the board, the catering will be done by the Abarka cooperative, The federation, a non-profit cooperative of social initiative, was born out of the need to self-organise as migrants and racialised people in order to offer solutions that are found in the social and labour sphere as a result of racism. In order to facilitate the organisation of the event, the federation has opened a registration form.
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