Introducing The PRALER Fund
A fund for communities of resistance.
The Planet Repairs Action Learning Educational Revolution (PRALER) is based on the knowledge developed by Communities of Resistance through their struggles for cognitive, reparatory and environmental justice. The PRALER Fund is needed for these indigenous and other communities of resistance to develop their own capacity for cooperatively resourcing themselves and building themselves into a global self-determining force Being the Change for Planet Repairs.
How do we build a force that they have no choice but to listen to?
A core part of reparatory justice understood in International Law, as outlined by the United Nations, is the question of restitution, of returning that which was stolen, which includes the vast amounts of money stolen through neocolonialism every year. Campaigns particularly from the International Social Movement of Afrikan Reparations (ISMAR) champion guarantees of non-repetition, and stopping the harm.
The PRALER Fund comes out of the efforts of various networks to consolidate a fund for the redistribution of resources to support frontline efforts of communities for reparatory justice. The vast majority of wealth and resources in the Global North have ended up here through crimes against humanity which we need to repair. However, the question of reparations has been seriously co-opted by elite institutions and neo-colonial governments to only be about financial compensation for crimes committed without addressing underlying systemic issues.
The communities harmonising their struggles through the Majority World Internationalist Solidarity Coordinating Council of Communities of Resistance (MWISCCCOR) and the PRALER Coordination Committee are committed to supporting communities on the front line of the battles for cognitive, reparatory and environmental justice. Colonised communities of the Majority World are particularly at the forefront of these battles, defending Mother Earth rights, stopping the pillaging of resources, and building alternative futures. Reparations means stopping the harm against these communities.
The PRALER Fund seeks to learn from internationalist solidarity movements past and present which have sought to invest themselves into Global South freedom struggles, including the Liberation Support Movement, the International Defence and Aid Fund, the United NLF Groups and many more. We believe that its only through locating ourselves within a lineage of struggle that we will be able to learn whats needed for the times that we find ourselves in.
Our emphasis is on movement building work and the development a Glocal Planet Repairs economy and the fund supports communities and institutions participating in PRALER to develop their own ways of resourcing their work, such as the organisation of glocal fundraising events, as well as engaging with funders and wealth holders who see the need for reparatory justice.
The story of the International Defence and Aid Fund (IDAF) is a powerful example of what can be achieved through internationalist solidarity fundraising which we seek to learn from for our work in building the PRALER Fund.
IDAF succeeded in channelling millions of pounds to liberation movements resisting apartheid, including the ANC which were carrying out armed struggle, without being infiltrated by the South African secret services:
What and how we fund
The funds raised go directly into this grassroots movement work including through:
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Educational activities such as The Decolonial Open Communiversity
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Supporting funding for capacity and logistical needs of indigenous and other colonised communities working for reparatory justice
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Establishing monitoring and communications networks through the Planet Repairs Internationalist Observatory which supports grassroots processes such as the Ghana in Planet Repairs Action Dialogue, and is developing monitoring of Earth Defenders and Indigenous activists
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Supporting the campaign for Pan Afrikan Unity for the Sahel through selling arts and crafts to support the work of PARISC.
Funds are being allocated in the following way:
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70% of funds raised will go towards Global South communities to develop their own capacity to cooperatively resource themselves through Planet Repairs initiatives
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10% of funds will be going towards supporting infrastructure shared by grassroots organisations working towards Planet Repairs
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10% of funds will go towards material costs like stickers and banners for movement building activities in the Global North
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10% of funds will be allocated towards supporting specific community institutions in the Global North which are participating in the PRALER process.
You can read more about the PRALER Fund in our policy here