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Defeating the hydra
Defeating the hydra

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? By Eva Schonveld

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Migration, Resistance, and the Web of Connections across places
Migration, Resistance, and the Web of Connections across places

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. By Karina Vica (Emslie)

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From Canada with Solidarity
From Canada with Solidarity

Wapat’s words after our gathering on Knoydart - by Wapat

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The Cultural Transformation Game
The Cultural Transformation Game

We’re working on a game about transforming culture… by Eva Schonveld

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Open Source Assemblies Handbook
Open Source Assemblies Handbook

By the Open Source Team

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Paradox of Portobello

By Justin Kenrick and Eva Schonveld

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System Change Requires a Radically Softer Approach
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System Change Requires a Radically Softer Approach
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Assemblies need to challenge our assumptions about power. By Eva Schonveld

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Jin Jiyan Azadi
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Jin Jiyan Azadi
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Not just a slogan but a vision of a new (and ancient) way to live. By Eva Schonveld

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Opening the Black Box
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Opening the Black Box
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How do we make real change on the brink of oblivion? By Eva Schonveld

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The Declaration of Torry
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The Declaration of Torry
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People from Torry speak out. Words from the Torry People’s Assembly

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Navigating Our Turbulent Future
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Navigating Our Turbulent Future
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Communities across the world challenging politics as usual. By Eva Schonveld and Justin Kenrick

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Deep Colonisation Recovery Circles - DIY Guide
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Deep Colonisation Recovery Circles - DIY Guide
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An inner-led approach to social change. By Eva Schonveld

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Moving from Rewilding to Reworlding - restoring our humanity as part of nature
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Moving from Rewilding to Reworlding - restoring our humanity as part of nature
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We need to recover ourselves as part of nature. By Justin Kenrick and Eva Schonveld

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Ingredients for a decolonial politics - cooking up a future to delight in
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Ingredients for a decolonial politics - cooking up a future to delight in
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How do we transform our internalised and cultural habits of domination? By Eva Schonveld and Justin Kenrick

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Business as Usual is a Failure for our Climate Emergency
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Business as Usual is a Failure for our Climate Emergency
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We need a people-led Citizens Assembly to do what political parties have proved incapable of. By Justin Kenrick and Eva Schonveld

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Torry Assembly Report
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Torry Assembly Report
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How local people in Torry organised a Peoples Assembly to address an unwelcome development. By Eva Schonveld and the Open Source team

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Ending systems of domination:  Reclaiming our bodies from global trauma
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Ending systems of domination:  Reclaiming our bodies from global trauma
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Exploring the trauma that is driving us towards extinction. By Eva Schonveld and Justin Kenrick

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Deliberative Democracy Resources
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Deliberative Democracy Resources
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Useful resources we’ve picked up along the way. Compiled by Eva Schonveld

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World Social Forum 2021
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World Social Forum 2021
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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 Podcast
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DeLiberate Podcast
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A podcast brought to you by Grassroots2Global. Hosted by Scott Herrett.

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?

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Politics, Trauma and Empathy: Breakthrough to a politics of the heart?
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Politics, Trauma and Empathy: Breakthrough to a politics of the heart?
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Eva Shonveld on Medium

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