car industry

An event reportOn 27 June and 28 June 2022, Rosa Luxemburg Foundation Brussels organised an international conference with trade unionists, academics and transport transition activists from Europe and Brazil to discuss the necessary transformation of the international car industry and the creation of alternative jobs in the EU and other world regions, such as Brazil. The increasing financial burden for households with medium and small incomes, the rising fuel prices, and the unchecked ...
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“The right to mobility – how can mobility poverty be overcome?”

Manuela Kropp, Project Manager, Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung Brussels
Workshop on 26 April 2022 in the context of the “Global Green New Deal” conference by the Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung, Brussels Mobility poverty is a growing problem in the EU. Rising fuel prices, the discussion about an oil embargo due to the war in Ukraine, rising food prices, rising ticket prices on public transport and trains as well as the lack of public transport (especially in rural areas) are pushing more and more households into financial hardship and mobility poverty. Currently the European parliament is ...
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Mobility for everyone is in, car-centrism and hegemonic masculinity is outAbout the publication This polemic analyses capitalist-shaped cities, transport and mobility from a feminist and intersectional perspective, centred around the theory that car-centrism in particular systematically neglects the mobility needs of many in favour of outdated gender norms and ways of life. In other words: today’s cities and the associated transport planning reflect and replicate patriarchal, racist and classist patterns of production, consumption and thought. The author describes this ...
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