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2025-10-19 Annual meeting

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  1. Agenda. For meeting: Sara = chair, Roel = secretary, Silfa, Jens = justerare av protokollet.
  2. Counting of voting members: 9
  3. Election of revisor of the minutes and counter of votes
  4. Meeting announced 6 weeks in advance: yes
  5. Activities and budget sent out 2 weeks in advance: yes
  6. Decision on the agenda: done
    1. Working groups existing: reading & podcast circle (lead: Silfa), Social media (rename to Communications; lead: Roel), election 2026 (lead: Sam).
    2. WG suggestions: Socal WG (also for new members), Reach out WG (Sweden, CPH, international degrowth community), Library making group
    3. Other suggestions: WeChange and meeting notes, info email list, Signal groups (new, old, split)
  7. Work of the board
    1. Welcoming new members, organising working groups
    2. Public seminar What is Degrowth,
    3. Feminist festival
    4. Overshoot festival
    5. Alnarp workshop, Degrowth conference Oslo, Katya in the panel
    6. Study visit to Röstånga
    7. Smaller talks with invited guests to discuss
    8. Study visit Alnarp agroecology farm
    9. Planning meetings
    10. 23 paying members
    11. Financial year: 1 July 2024 - 30 June 2025. Start: 106 839 SEK, End: 92 522 SEK. Support for going to Degrowth conference.
  8. Review of activities for the past working year
  9. Financial report for the past working year: Muriel checked, 100 SEK discrepancy, Katya knows where it comes from and will fix.
  10. Revisor’s analysis for the past working year.
  11. Decision on discharge of the board for the past working year.
  12. Motion: To what extent must a member check in with the larger group to do an activity (in the name of the organisatio), if it agrees with the statutes? It might overload the board and slows initiatives. We shouldn’t have additional procedures.
    1. Discussion:
      1. What does it mean “in the name of the organisation”? Signing as, or just saying you’re a member of?
      2. We would need training to understand and agree on the statutes better.
      3. Enough to tell what you’re planning to do
      4. Current procedure: Take it up in the Signal group and maybe discuss it further in a meeting. Quick enough? Was done e.g. for citizen initiative for fossil ad-free Malmö, and for joining Stoppa Israel nu.
      5. Message in group doesn’t take that long. Ensuring that everyone’s on the same page and make collective decision. As an update, not asking for permission.
      6. Suggestion to have a role of a “well read” person in the organisation that can act without checking.
      7. Sociocraty: group comes up with a vision and everything that is in line with the vision can be done.
    2. Suggestion from Roel to reject the motion and discuss alternatives further in another meeting. 8 for rejecting, 1 against rejecting.
  13. Decision on membership fee:
    1. Not a substantial source of income, just a formality.
    2. What about paying problems? JAK doesn’t accept Swish. Could be sorted out informally (e.g. at the beginning of the meeting) to do it through other members. You can always contact treasurer.
    3. New members usually join right before the annual meeting. Could be a task in the New Members working group to direct people on how they can pay.
  14. Decision on the amount of members and delegates on the board: 1. Minimum 5 people.
  15. Election of board members for 2025-2026:
    1. Proposal: Sara (chair), Katya (treasurer), Board members (Roel, Sam, Silfa), Suppleant 1 (Lucero), Suppleant 2 (Britt if no one else wants it).
    2. Other interested people: Lars.
    3. Vote on: Sara (chair), Katya (treasurer), Board members (Roel, Sam, Silfa), Suppleant 1 (Lucero), Suppleant 2 (Lars). VOTED YES
  16. Election of revisors: Jens (#1), #2 (Britt ⇒ needs to be asked first), suppleant (Muriel ⇒ needs to be asked first).
    1. Jens = #1 revisor, Muriel = #2 revisor, Britt = probably suppleant.
  17. Election of election comittee: VOTES AGAINST HAVING A MORE FORMAL ELECTION COMITTEE
  18. Other matters - Events, meetings, working groups:
    1. Book launch (Katya): Science in Resistance. Experience of scientists rebellion. Present the book, ask questions. Climate movement, anti-colonial. Public event, at ABF.
    2. Digital Degrowth (Roel): Conversation on degrowth and technology. Together with Andreas Roos. Public, at ABF. Roel and Sam will plan and organise.
    3. Naturskyddsföreningen (Sara): before every election they make a report on environmental politics of the different parties. No date set yet, probably in January.
    4. Artist residency (Dylan): works on degrowth, wants to do an artistic workshop. No date set yet.
    5. Social drinks with XR (Per-Erik): usually at Rex. Join whenever they have it. Next one: 2nd Friday of the month.
    6. Regular meetings every 2nd week. Sometimes time for working groups.
    7. Working groups:
      1. Reading circle (Silfa): suggestions for books and podcasts. Next step is to pick a book and decide on if online or in person.
      2. Communications (Roel): informal, via Signal
      3. Election 2026 (Sara): reaching out to other local groups, discussing the Swedish political system. Local network starting up. Who could represent us in that group and go to those meetings?
      4. Film Screening “The Cost of Growth” (Ola). Probably early next year at Hypnos. Hopefully with Q&A of the film makers.
      5. Library building group (Lars): maybe build it on the Backanatten?
      6. Reach out to other Degrowth networks: Katya can be support (but not lead) and knows the groups and our history with them. ⇒ still needs a lead! Should it be combined with Communications? No capacity. We often get inquiries from individuals from other places in Sweden for Degrowth groups, help with setting up, connecting, etc. Lars can join the Zoom meetings on the International Degrowth Network.
      7. Social WG (Sam): organising social activities, taking care of new members
      8. Smarta Kartan Degrowth Walk (Silfa): will set up new working group
      9. Study circles and discussion circles: No lead yet, but would be interesting.
      10. Workshop on alternative social media: Mastodon, Instagram-alternative, WeChange, etc. ⇒ if someone would be lead, it would be very interesting to do.
    8. Activity request from Backa Kåken. Backanatten. Saturday, 15th November.
    9. Booking Direktörsvillan: Roel is contact person. Could be used also for smaller working group meetings.
    10. Info email list: Let Jens know if we don’t want to be on the mailing list.
    11. How to moderate Signal group: maybe Board can discuss.
    12. Activities for new and old members. “Degrowth 101”. Last time it was public at ABF, in February. Katya could present material if someone else could organise it. Let’s plan to have it in February 2026, organised by Social WG.
    13. Next regular meeting: 28 Oct

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