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houghts and ideas shaping our work
Can the metaphor of the hydra help us better understand the layered interplay between inner and outer unconscious patterning that makes it so hard to change the system?
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
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.