Community visions for liberation: strategy, creativity, and joy
Last week, we held our very first in person community event “Community visions for liberation: towards racial, social, and economic justice in Europe”, and it was a truly inspiring and energising experience. The first evening brought together 80 people in the Miriam Makeba Hall at the Berlin Global Village, with people from across Europe joining […]
The long road to litigation
“Revolution is not a one-time event. It is becoming always vigilant for the smallest opportunity to make a genuine change in established, outgrown responses” – Audre Lorde The term “litigation” can conjure up thoughts of fierce battles in the courtroom, and celebrations or protests on the steps of court buildings. However, these images are only […]
Case study: building our organisational culture
“To do things differently, we also have to be a different kind of organisation. How can we build an organisation that lives its values of anti-oppression, justice, and intersectionality not only in how it approaches working with the communities it seeks to serve, but also in the way it works internally, in its systems, processes, […]
Reframing climate justice: Europe’s climate movement stands at a crossroads
Driven by white, middle-class archetypes of what it means to be the “right” kind of activist, the mainstream climate movement has prioritised fast, visible, solutions-based action as the ultimate weapon against the unfolding climate crisis. Yet, this approach is dangerously close to replicating the harms caused by the very systems of domination responsible for this […]
Personal troubles as public issues: Revisiting Systemic Injustices in Europe
Today, Europe continues to experience a series of crises that disproportionately affect racially, socially, and economically marginalised groups and communities. The assent of populist governments across the region have emboldened racist, homophobic, and misogynist narratives, alongside a disdain for poor and working-class communities, and people on the move. Further, negative media portrayals of organisations, movements, […]
Imagining change for the world and ourselves
“If you could change the way one system currently works, what would it be and why?” This question, put to us at our recent team retreat by Lea Jovy-Ford from Mission Equality, asked us to imagine what the systems we live and work in would look like if they had not been built by colonialism […]