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houghts and ideas shaping our work
And as we remember Gaza — its families displaced, its homes destroyed — the web becomes clearer: the threads of erasure, yet also the threads of resistance, stitching grief into solidarity, and pointing us towards renewal.
Communities across the world challenging politics as usual
An inner-led approach to social change
We need to recover ourselves as part of nature
How do we transform our internalised and cultural habits of domination?
We need a people-led Citizens Assembly to do what political parties have proved incapable of
How local people in Torry organised a Peoples Assembly to address an unwelcome development
Exploring the trauma that is driving us towards extinction
We are not islands, or – if we are – we can be as connected by the water between us as we are separated by it, if we’re in a space that encourages us to pay attention.
Eva Schonveld of Grassroots to Global speaks on World Social Forum panel “Power and Democracy: Despair and Hope” alongside Ruth Nyambura (Kenya) Kali Akuno (United States) Pedro Pontual (Brazil), Boaventura de Sousa Santos (Portugal), Arturo Escobar (Colombia), Eva Schonveld (Scotland), Şervîn Nûdem (Kurdish Rojava)
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DeLiberate is all about exploring the question of how do we begin to re-democratising democracy and reclaiming our world? What could it look and feel like?
Eva Shonveld on Medium
Assemblies need to challenge our assumptions about power.