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They also talk about \u2018Alivelihoods\u2019, livelihoods of intentional living \u0026amp; lifelong learning for a sustainable, equitable \u0026amp; just world.\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"smwtext\"\u003E \u2026 \u003C/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"smwttcontent\"\u003EIn the former session of the two-part webinar series, we facilitate a conversation between four co-creators of TU introducing their work, along with sharing their own experiences that led them to thinking of alternatives to mainstream educational practices. They also talk about \u2018Alivelihoods\u2019, livelihoods of intentional living \u0026 lifelong learning for a sustainable, equitable \u0026 just world.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/span\u003Eing for a sustainable, equitable \u0026amp; just world.","title":"A two-part Webinar Series with Travellers' University: The Pedagogy of Travel","link":"","lat":10.16315,"lon":76.64127,"icon":""},{"text":"\u003Cb\u003E\u003Ca href=\"/Webinar:African_ecofeminist_alternatives_to_development_for_a_just_and_resilient_post-extractivist_future\" title=\"Webinar:African ecofeminist alternatives to development for a just and resilient post-extractivist future\"\u003EAfrican ecofeminist alternatives to development for a just and resilient post-extractivist future\u003C/a\u003E\u003C/b\u003E\u003Chr /\u003EIn this session, Zo Randriamaro from WoMin\u003Cspan class=\"smw-highlighter\" data-type=\"2\" data-state=\"persistent\" data-title=\"Information\" title=\"In this session, Zo Randriamaro from WoMin first explains why African ecofeminist alternatives to development are critical to a just, decolonised and resilient post-extractivist future in Africa, and how they are building on African worldviews and political ideas such as Ubuntu and Pan-Africanism. Secondly, Nonhle Mbuthuma from the Amadiba Crisis Committee and Ange David from GRAIN share their experiences with communities in bringing to life such alternatives in real-world application.\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"smwtext\"\u003E \u2026 \u003C/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"smwttcontent\"\u003EIn this session, Zo Randriamaro from WoMin first explains why African ecofeminist alternatives to development are critical to a just, decolonised and resilient post-extractivist future in Africa, and how they are building on African worldviews and political ideas such as Ubuntu and Pan-Africanism. Secondly, Nonhle Mbuthuma from the Amadiba Crisis Committee and Ange David from GRAIN share their experiences with communities in bringing to life such alternatives in real-world application.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/span\u003Ech alternatives in real-world application.","title":"African ecofeminist alternatives to development for a just and resilient post-extractivist future","link":"","lat":-8.78319,"lon":34.50852,"icon":""},{"text":"\u003Cb\u003E\u003Ca href=\"/Webinar:Capitalism,_Its_Crises_and_Its_Alternatives:_Understanding_Real_Utopias\" title=\"Webinar:Capitalism, Its Crises and Its Alternatives: Understanding Real Utopias\"\u003ECapitalism, Its Crises and Its Alternatives: Understanding Real Utopias\u003C/a\u003E\u003C/b\u003E\u003Chr /\u003ETo confront the multiple crises characteri\u003Cspan class=\"smw-highlighter\" data-type=\"2\" data-state=\"persistent\" data-title=\"Information\" title=\"To confront the multiple crises characterising contemporary capitalism, we need a historical understanding of its functioning and its elements of instability. The debate on capitalism came back to the fore due to the financial crisis of 2007-2008. Today, more than ten years later, capitalism is still the dominant system and we often hear terms like Capitalocene, platform capitalism, surveillance capitalism, accelerations, post-capitalism. In the context of its resilience, how do we work for systemic and progressive change? One example is that of prefigurative social movements. Intentional communities like Auroville in southern India can show how change can happen through interstitial mechanisms of karst-like erosion of capitalism from within.\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"smwtext\"\u003E \u2026 \u003C/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"smwttcontent\"\u003ETo confront the multiple crises characterising contemporary capitalism, we need a historical understanding of its functioning and its elements of instability. The debate on capitalism came back to the fore due to the financial crisis of 2007-2008. Today, more than ten years later, capitalism is still the dominant system and we often hear terms like Capitalocene, platform capitalism, surveillance capitalism, accelerations, post-capitalism. In the context of its resilience, how do we work for systemic and progressive change? One example is that of prefigurative social movements. Intentional communities like Auroville in southern India can show how change can happen through interstitial mechanisms of karst-like erosion of capitalism from within.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/span\u003Est-like erosion of capitalism from within.","title":"Capitalism, Its Crises and Its Alternatives: Understanding Real Utopias","link":"","lat":12.00525,"lon":79.80689,"icon":""},{"text":"\u003Cb\u003E\u003Ca href=\"/Webinar:Climate_Change_Fiction:_A_Conversation_with_Amitav_Ghosh\" title=\"Webinar:Climate Change Fiction: A Conversation with Amitav Ghosh\"\u003EClimate Change Fiction: A Conversation with Amitav Ghosh\u003C/a\u003E\u003C/b\u003E\u003Chr /\u003EIn this session, Ashish Kothari of Kalpavr\u003Cspan class=\"smw-highlighter\" data-type=\"2\" data-state=\"persistent\" data-title=\"Information\" title=\"In this session, Ashish Kothari of Kalpavriksh and the Global Tapestry of Alternatives will be conversing with Amitav Ghosh, celebrated author, about issues such as the range and scope of climate fiction from and on South Asia, its potential for influencing actual action on the climate crisis; among others on his work and the work of authors within the climate fiction genre.\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"smwtext\"\u003E \u2026 \u003C/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"smwttcontent\"\u003EIn this session, Ashish Kothari of Kalpavriksh and the Global Tapestry of Alternatives will be conversing with Amitav Ghosh, celebrated author, about issues such as the range and scope of climate fiction from and on South Asia, its potential for influencing actual action on the climate crisis; among others on his work and the work of authors within the climate fiction genre.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/span\u003E authors within the climate fiction genre.","title":"Climate Change Fiction: A Conversation with Amitav Ghosh","link":"","lat":40.71278,"lon":-74.00597,"icon":""},{"text":"\u003Cb\u003E\u003Ca href=\"/Webinar:Climate_Change_Fiction:_Marine_ecosystems_and_climate_fiction_from_South_Asia\" title=\"Webinar:Climate Change Fiction: Marine ecosystems and climate fiction from South Asia\"\u003EClimate Change Fiction: Marine ecosystems and climate fiction from South Asia\u003C/a\u003E\u003C/b\u003E\u003Chr /\u003EAccelerated anthropogenic climate change p\u003Cspan class=\"smw-highlighter\" data-type=\"2\" data-state=\"persistent\" data-title=\"Information\" title=\"Accelerated anthropogenic climate change poses a serious existential threat to dwellers in the marine world, besides the fisherfolk and inhabitants of coastal areas. The melting of land ice in Antarctica and Greenland, leading to rise of ocean levels, besides the deleterious effects of acidification on marine ecosystems, may soon reach a tipping point if adequate mitigation is not undertaken soon.\u0026#10;\u0026#10;In this episode, writers and activists from South Asia share their creative responses to this ongoing crisis, which may eventually lead to biosphere collapse if such trends are not reversed.\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"smwtext\"\u003E \u2026 \u003C/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"smwttcontent\"\u003EAccelerated anthropogenic climate change poses a serious existential threat to dwellers in the marine world, besides the fisherfolk and inhabitants of coastal areas. The melting of land ice in Antarctica and Greenland, leading to rise of ocean levels, besides the deleterious effects of acidification on marine ecosystems, may soon reach a tipping point if adequate mitigation is not undertaken soon.\n\nIn this episode, writers and activists from South Asia share their creative responses to this ongoing crisis, which may eventually lead to biosphere collapse if such trends are not reversed.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/span\u003E collapse if such trends are not reversed.","title":"Climate Change Fiction: Marine ecosystems and climate fiction from South Asia","link":"","lat":-33.13755,"lon":81.82617,"icon":""},{"text":"\u003Cb\u003E\u003Ca href=\"/Webinar:Climate_Change_Fiction:_The_South_Asia_Experience\" title=\"Webinar:Climate Change Fiction: The South Asia Experience\"\u003EClimate Change Fiction: The South Asia Experience\u003C/a\u003E\u003C/b\u003E\u003Chr /\u003EIn this interaction between authors, schol\u003Cspan class=\"smw-highlighter\" data-type=\"2\" data-state=\"persistent\" data-title=\"Information\" title=\"In this interaction between authors, scholars and activists, we hope to critically explore the reasons for South Asia being foregrounded as a zone for climate catastrophe in recent Western cli-fi (Kim Stanley Robinson, Ministry of the Future, Stephen Markley, The Deluge), as well as discover more about the extent to which this sub-genre has found roots in this region. Amitav Ghosh has led the way in writing novels with this theme (The Hungry Tide, Gun Island), besides critiquing the failure of literary fiction to engage with this set of questions.\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"smwtext\"\u003E \u2026 \u003C/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"smwttcontent\"\u003EIn this interaction between authors, scholars and activists, we hope to critically explore the reasons for South Asia being foregrounded as a zone for climate catastrophe in recent Western cli-fi (Kim Stanley Robinson, Ministry of the Future, Stephen Markley, The Deluge), as well as discover more about the extent to which this sub-genre has found roots in this region. Amitav Ghosh has led the way in writing novels with this theme (The Hungry Tide, Gun Island), besides critiquing the failure of literary fiction to engage with this set of questions.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/span\u003Etion to engage with this set of questions.","title":"Climate Change Fiction: The South Asia Experience","link":"","lat":25.03764,"lon":76.45631,"icon":""},{"text":"\u003Cb\u003E\u003Ca href=\"/Webinar:Competing_narratives_for_the_future_of_agriculture_in_Africa\" title=\"Webinar:Competing narratives for the future of agriculture in Africa\"\u003ECompeting narratives for the future of agriculture in Africa\u003C/a\u003E\u003C/b\u003E\u003Chr /\u003EIn this session, we discuss about the comp\u003Cspan class=\"smw-highlighter\" data-type=\"2\" data-state=\"persistent\" data-title=\"Information\" title=\"In this session, we discuss about the competing narratives for transforming African agriculture/ food system. In the West, everyone has a solution for Africa. They propose a Green Revolution and other failing and destructive approach to food, agriculture, and the environment into Africa must be challenged. And it has been challenged. Agroecology is a realistic strategy for improving our nutrition, increasing production, enhancing biodiversity, raising resilience, and boosting farmer income.\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"smwtext\"\u003E \u2026 \u003C/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"smwttcontent\"\u003EIn this session, we discuss about the competing narratives for transforming African agriculture/ food system. In the West, everyone has a solution for Africa. They propose a Green Revolution and other failing and destructive approach to food, agriculture, and the environment into Africa must be challenged. And it has been challenged. Agroecology is a realistic strategy for improving our nutrition, increasing production, enhancing biodiversity, raising resilience, and boosting farmer income.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/span\u003Eng resilience, and boosting farmer income.","title":"Competing narratives for the future of agriculture in Africa","link":"","lat":9.145,"lon":40.48967,"icon":""},{"text":"\u003Cb\u003E\u003Ca href=\"/Webinar:Confronting_COVID_19_with_dignity_and_strength:_Resilience_of_small-scale_fisheries_in_Costa_Rica\" title=\"Webinar:Confronting COVID 19 with dignity and strength: Resilience of small-scale fisheries in Costa Rica\"\u003EConfronting COVID 19 with dignity and strength: Resilience of small-scale fisheries in Costa Rica\u003C/a\u003E\u003C/b\u003E\u003Chr /\u003EThis webinar will share the experience of \u003Cspan class=\"smw-highlighter\" data-type=\"2\" data-state=\"persistent\" data-title=\"Information\" title=\"This webinar will share the experience of the association between CoopeSoliDar R.L and small scale fisher communities in Costa Rica in the defense of their rights to responsible, small-scale fisheries. In particular, the experience in the context of COVID 19 and how community resilience has been a result of collective action, community-based governance models, equity, and the innovation of a fair market. These aspects have guaranteed community livelihood security in a moment of great struggle, when traditional markets and tourism collapsed.\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"smwtext\"\u003E \u2026 \u003C/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"smwttcontent\"\u003EThis webinar will share the experience of the association between CoopeSoliDar R.L and small scale fisher communities in Costa Rica in the defense of their rights to responsible, small-scale fisheries. In particular, the experience in the context of COVID 19 and how community resilience has been a result of collective action, community-based governance models, equity, and the innovation of a fair market. These aspects have guaranteed community livelihood security in a moment of great struggle, when traditional markets and tourism collapsed.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/span\u003Etraditional markets and tourism collapsed.","title":"Confronting COVID 19 with dignity and strength: Resilience of small-scale fisheries in Costa Rica","link":"","lat":9.93103,"lon":-84.05198,"icon":""},{"text":"\u003Cb\u003E\u003Ca href=\"/Webinar:Covid_19_-_10,000_Years_of_Winter_Fisheries_Endangered:_Responses_From_the_Polar_North_and_Why_Do_They_Matter_in_Global_South\" title=\"Webinar:Covid 19 - 10,000 Years of Winter Fisheries Endangered: Responses From the Polar North and Why Do They Matter in Global South\"\u003ECovid 19 - 10,000 Years of Winter Fisheries Endangered: Responses From the Polar North and Why Do They Matter in Global South\u003C/a\u003E\u003C/b\u003E\u003Chr /\u003EIn this session, Tero Mustonen, a fisherma\u003Cspan class=\"smw-highlighter\" data-type=\"2\" data-state=\"persistent\" data-title=\"Information\" title=\"In this session, Tero Mustonen, a fisherman from Finland, first explains how transformative climate change is at present to cryosphere (snow-ice) based cultures, lifestyles and professions, like winter fisheries. Secondly, by reviewing the Landscape Rewilding Programme by the Snowchange Cooperative links between equity, Indigenous- and community-led action on climate change and a \u0026quot;return to the land\u0026quot; are discussed as a globally-relevant actions to address our historic moment in time on the Planet.\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"smwtext\"\u003E \u2026 \u003C/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"smwttcontent\"\u003EIn this session, Tero Mustonen, a fisherman from Finland, first explains how transformative climate change is at present to cryosphere (snow-ice) based cultures, lifestyles and professions, like winter fisheries. Secondly, by reviewing the Landscape Rewilding Programme by the Snowchange Cooperative links between equity, Indigenous- and community-led action on climate change and a \"return to the land\" are discussed as a globally-relevant actions to address our historic moment in time on the Planet.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/span\u003Eour historic moment in time on the Planet.","title":"Covid 19 - 10,000 Years of Winter Fisheries Endangered: Responses From the Polar North and Why Do They Matter in Global South","link":"","lat":62.80621,"lon":30.15539,"icon":""},{"text":"\u003Cb\u003E\u003Ca href=\"/Webinar:Covid_19_-_A_dialogue_on_economy_of_Well-being\" title=\"Webinar:Covid 19 - A dialogue on economy of Well-being\"\u003ECovid 19 - A dialogue on economy of Well-being\u003C/a\u003E\u003C/b\u003E\u003Chr /\u003EIn this ninth session we explore \"Wellbein\u003Cspan class=\"smw-highlighter\" data-type=\"2\" data-state=\"persistent\" data-title=\"Information\" title=\"In this ninth session we explore \u0026quot;Wellbeing Economy\u0026quot;, which aims to break free from the growth mantra, and build a better society that promotes social justice on a healthy planet by empowering citizens as the collective leaders of tomorrow. Members of the Well-being Economy Alliance expand on this concept and practice.\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"smwtext\"\u003E \u2026 \u003C/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"smwttcontent\"\u003EIn this ninth session we explore \"Wellbeing Economy\", which aims to break free from the growth mantra, and build a better society that promotes social justice on a healthy planet by empowering citizens as the collective leaders of tomorrow. Members of the Well-being Economy Alliance expand on this concept and practice.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/span\u003Eiance expand on this concept and practice.","title":"Covid 19 - A dialogue on economy of Well-being","link":"","lat":51.19116,"lon":-3.89244,"icon":""},{"text":"\u003Cb\u003E\u003Ca href=\"/Webinar:Covid_19_-_Indigenous_Communities_in_Resistance_responding_to_the_current_crisis\" title=\"Webinar:Covid 19 - Indigenous Communities in Resistance responding to the current crisis\"\u003ECovid 19 - Indigenous Communities in Resistance responding to the current crisis\u003C/a\u003E\u003C/b\u003E\u003Chr /\u003EThis is a dialogue from the perspectives o\u003Cspan class=\"smw-highlighter\" data-type=\"2\" data-state=\"persistent\" data-title=\"Information\" title=\"This is a dialogue from the perspectives of resistance and re-existence driven by the militant and reflective experiences of the Zapatista and autonomous communities of Chiapas (Mexico). The speakers discuss their challenges and actions in the context of the global crisis of the pandemic.\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"smwtext\"\u003E \u2026 \u003C/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"smwttcontent\"\u003EThis is a dialogue from the perspectives of resistance and re-existence driven by the militant and reflective experiences of the Zapatista and autonomous communities of Chiapas (Mexico). The speakers discuss their challenges and actions in the context of the global crisis of the pandemic.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/span\u003Etext of the global crisis of the pandemic.","title":"Covid 19 - Indigenous Communities in Resistance responding to the current crisis","link":"","lat":16.75693,"lon":-93.12924,"icon":""},{"text":"\u003Cb\u003E\u003Ca href=\"/Webinar:Covid_19_-_Moving_towards_a_Commons_future\" title=\"Webinar:Covid 19 - Moving towards a Commons future\"\u003ECovid 19 - Moving towards a Commons future\u003C/a\u003E\u003C/b\u003E\u003Chr /\u003EThird in a series exploring the opportunit\u003Cspan class=\"smw-highlighter\" data-type=\"2\" data-state=\"persistent\" data-title=\"Information\" title=\"Third in a series exploring the opportunities of promoting and creating systemic alternatives, this dialogue explores the responses emerging the Commons Movement, particularly in Europe. How can it provide us the pathways to move towards direct democracy, social equity and ecological resilience?\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"smwtext\"\u003E \u2026 \u003C/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"smwttcontent\"\u003EThird in a series exploring the opportunities of promoting and creating systemic alternatives, this dialogue explores the responses emerging the Commons Movement, particularly in Europe. How can it provide us the pathways to move towards direct democracy, social equity and ecological resilience?\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/span\u003E, social equity and ecological resilience?","title":"Covid 19 - Moving towards a Commons future","link":"","lat":50.84764,"lon":4.35717,"icon":""},{"text":"\u003Cb\u003E\u003Ca href=\"/Webinar:Covid_19_-_People%27s_strikes,_Floyd_rebellion_and_Resistance\" title=\"Webinar:Covid 19 - People\u0026#039;s strikes, Floyd rebellion and Resistance\"\u003ECovid 19 - People's strikes, Floyd rebellion and Resistance\u003C/a\u003E\u003C/b\u003E\u003Chr /\u003EThis webinar discusses this moment in the \u003Cspan class=\"smw-highlighter\" data-type=\"2\" data-state=\"persistent\" data-title=\"Information\" title=\"This webinar discusses this moment in the USA, and global significance, challenges and critical pathways that exist that can support the potential for radical transformation of society at every level, and shares the experience of Cooperation Jackson, an eco-socialist organizing to create a new society and economy from the bottom up.\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"smwtext\"\u003E \u2026 \u003C/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"smwttcontent\"\u003EThis webinar discusses this moment in the USA, and global significance, challenges and critical pathways that exist that can support the potential for radical transformation of society at every level, and shares the experience of Cooperation Jackson, an eco-socialist organizing to create a new society and economy from the bottom up.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/span\u003Eew society and economy from the bottom up.","title":"Covid 19 - People's strikes, Floyd rebellion and Resistance","link":"","lat":32.29876,"lon":-90.18481,"icon":""},{"text":"\u003Cb\u003E\u003Ca href=\"/Webinar:Covid_19_-_Potato_Park:_Defending_the_past_to_envision_the_future\" title=\"Webinar:Covid 19 - Potato Park: Defending the past to envision the future\"\u003ECovid 19 - Potato Park: Defending the past to envision the future\u003C/a\u003E\u003C/b\u003E\u003Chr /\u003EThe Potato Park is a community-managed Bio\u003Cspan class=\"smw-highlighter\" data-type=\"2\" data-state=\"persistent\" data-title=\"Information\" title=\"The Potato Park is a community-managed Biocultural Heritage Territory established as \u201cFood Neighborhood\u201d by six Quechua communities in Peru in 2000. It conserves a unique mountain agroecosystem, its indigenous biocultural heritage including one of world\u2019s richest potato diversity landscapes. The webinar will describe the history and challenges of the community\u2019s holistic management approach based on sumaq kausay or buen vivir, response during COVID pandemic, and visions for the future.\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"smwtext\"\u003E \u2026 \u003C/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"smwttcontent\"\u003EThe Potato Park is a community-managed Biocultural Heritage Territory established as \u201cFood Neighborhood\u201d by six Quechua communities in Peru in 2000. It conserves a unique mountain agroecosystem, its indigenous biocultural heritage including one of world\u2019s richest potato diversity landscapes. The webinar will describe the history and challenges of the community\u2019s holistic management approach based on sumaq kausay or buen vivir, response during COVID pandemic, and visions for the future.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/span\u003EOVID pandemic, and visions for the future.","title":"Covid 19 - Potato Park: Defending the past to envision the future","link":"","lat":-13.35923,"lon":-71.79757,"icon":""},{"text":"\u003Cb\u003E\u003Ca href=\"/Webinar:Covid_19_-_Responses_from_the_Kurdish_Women%E2%80%99s_Movement\" title=\"Webinar:Covid 19 - Responses from the Kurdish Women\u2019s Movement\"\u003ECovid 19 - Responses from the Kurdish Women\u2019s Movement\u003C/a\u003E\u003C/b\u003E\u003Chr /\u003EIn this sixth session, we will carry on a \u003Cspan class=\"smw-highlighter\" data-type=\"2\" data-state=\"persistent\" data-title=\"Information\" title=\"In this sixth session, we will carry on a conversation about the perspectives, challenges and progress of the Kurdish Women\u2019s Movement in the context of the global crisis and pandemic. The role of women, jineology and the struggle in Rojava as a source of inspiration for radical alternative processes on a global level. \u0026#10;With Dilar Dirik (Kurdistan)\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"smwtext\"\u003E \u2026 \u003C/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"smwttcontent\"\u003EIn this sixth session, we will carry on a conversation about the perspectives, challenges and progress of the Kurdish Women\u2019s Movement in the context of the global crisis and pandemic. The role of women, jineology and the struggle in Rojava as a source of inspiration for radical alternative processes on a global level. \nWith Dilar Dirik (Kurdistan)\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/span\u003Elobal level. \nWith Dilar Dirik (Kurdistan)","title":"Covid 19 - Responses from the Kurdish Women\u2019s Movement","link":"","lat":36.61442,"lon":37.34131,"icon":""},{"text":"\u003Cb\u003E\u003Ca href=\"/Webinar:Covid_19_-_Visioning_the_Future:_May_First_Movement_Technology\" title=\"Webinar:Covid 19 - Visioning the Future: May First Movement Technology\"\u003ECovid 19 - Visioning the Future: May First Movement Technology\u003C/a\u003E\u003C/b\u003E\u003Chr /\u003EThis is a collective dialogue about May Fi\u003Cspan class=\"smw-highlighter\" data-type=\"2\" data-state=\"persistent\" data-title=\"Information\" title=\"This is a collective dialogue about May First Movement Technology, a non-profit organization that engages in building movements by advancing the strategic use and collective control of technology for local struggles, global transformation, and emancipation without borders.\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"smwtext\"\u003E \u2026 \u003C/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"smwttcontent\"\u003EThis is a collective dialogue about May First Movement Technology, a non-profit organization that engages in building movements by advancing the strategic use and collective control of technology for local struggles, global transformation, and emancipation without borders.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/span\u003Ermation, and emancipation without borders.","title":"Covid 19 - Visioning the Future: May First Movement Technology","link":"","lat":40.67818,"lon":-73.94416,"icon":""},{"text":"\u003Cb\u003E\u003Ca href=\"/Webinar:Covid_19_-_Women_Farmers_Adapt_and_Innovate!:_Alternative_models_developed_by_women_farmers_in_India\" title=\"Webinar:Covid 19 - Women Farmers Adapt and Innovate!: Alternative models developed by women farmers in India\"\u003ECovid 19 - Women Farmers Adapt and Innovate!: Alternative models developed by women farmers in India\u003C/a\u003E\u003C/b\u003E\u003Chr /\u003EMAKAAM -Women farmers rights- forum share their experiences and innovations to sustain and adapt to covid circumstances for food and livelihoods security ; and to innovate for marketing of produce and planning in uncertain times.","title":"Covid 19 - Women Farmers Adapt and Innovate!: Alternative models developed by women farmers in India","link":"","lat":17.4324,"lon":78.53699,"icon":""},{"text":"\u003Cb\u003E\u003Ca href=\"/Webinar:Covid-19_-_a_response_from_Nayakrishi_Andolan\" title=\"Webinar:Covid-19 - a response from Nayakrishi Andolan\"\u003ECovid-19 - a response from Nayakrishi Andolan\u003C/a\u003E\u003C/b\u003E\u003Chr /\u003EThe second in a series exploring the oppor\u003Cspan class=\"smw-highlighter\" data-type=\"2\" data-state=\"persistent\" data-title=\"Information\" title=\"The second in a series exploring the opportunities of promoting and creating systemic alternatives to global crises, this dialogue explores the responses emerging from local, sustainable, bio-diverse farming in Bangladesh. How can campaigns like a New Agriculture Movement or Nayakrishi Andolan led by farmers show us pathways to a just, equitable, sustainable future that helps avoid or deal with such crises better?\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"smwtext\"\u003E \u2026 \u003C/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"smwttcontent\"\u003EThe second in a series exploring the opportunities of promoting and creating systemic alternatives to global crises, this dialogue explores the responses emerging from local, sustainable, bio-diverse farming in Bangladesh. How can campaigns like a New Agriculture Movement or Nayakrishi Andolan led by farmers show us pathways to a just, equitable, sustainable future that helps avoid or deal with such crises better?\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/span\u003Elps avoid or deal with such crises better?","title":"Covid-19 - a response from Nayakrishi Andolan","link":"","lat":24.20466,"lon":89.93707,"icon":""},{"text":"\u003Cb\u003E\u003Ca href=\"/Webinar:Covid-19_%E2%80%93_a_potential_opening_for_Just_Transitions%3F\" title=\"Webinar:Covid-19 \u2013 a potential opening for Just Transitions?\"\u003ECovid-19 \u2013 a potential opening for Just Transitions?\u003C/a\u003E\u003C/b\u003E\u003Chr /\u003EFirst, in a series exploring the opportuni\u003Cspan class=\"smw-highlighter\" data-type=\"2\" data-state=\"persistent\" data-title=\"Information\" title=\"First, in a series exploring the opportunities of promoting and creating systemic alternatives, this dialogue explores the responses emerging from labour movements, workers, social movements and popular organisations in South Africa. How can campaigns like One Million Climate Jobs and People\u2019s Coalition provide pathways out of multiple crises, both in the present and the future?\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"smwtext\"\u003E \u2026 \u003C/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"smwttcontent\"\u003EFirst, in a series exploring the opportunities of promoting and creating systemic alternatives, this dialogue explores the responses emerging from labour movements, workers, social movements and popular organisations in South Africa. How can campaigns like One Million Climate Jobs and People\u2019s Coalition provide pathways out of multiple crises, both in the present and the future?\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/span\u003Erises, both in the present and the future?","title":"Covid-19 \u2013 a potential opening for Just Transitions?","link":"","lat":-30.55948,"lon":22.93751,"icon":""},{"text":"\u003Cb\u003E\u003Ca href=\"/Webinar:De-colonizing_our_bodies:_experiences_and_practices_for_reclaiming_our_whole_body_sovereignty\" title=\"Webinar:De-colonizing our bodies: experiences and practices for reclaiming our whole body sovereignty\"\u003EDe-colonizing our bodies: experiences and practices for reclaiming our whole body sovereignty\u003C/a\u003E\u003C/b\u003E\u003Chr /\u003EHow has modernity shaped the way we percei\u003Cspan class=\"smw-highlighter\" data-type=\"2\" data-state=\"persistent\" data-title=\"Information\" title=\"How has modernity shaped the way we perceive, inhabit, and relate to our physical bodies? What does it mean to \u201creclaim whole body sovereignty\u201d? How do we free not only our minds, but also the body from the shackles of coloniality and extractivism? How do we unroot the old myth of separation and domination from the sacred soil of our physical sanctuaries? And how might we begin to see our bodies as living systems - extensions of our Earthly home, interwoven with the fabric of life?\u0026#10;\u0026#10;Join us for an (un)learning journey guided by Wang\u0169i wa Kamonji. Together, we\u2019ll dive deep into questions of decolonization, healing, and how to restore wholeness with(in) the sacred vessel that carries our story.\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"smwtext\"\u003E \u2026 \u003C/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"smwttcontent\"\u003EHow has modernity shaped the way we perceive, inhabit, and relate to our physical bodies? What does it mean to \u201creclaim whole body sovereignty\u201d? How do we free not only our minds, but also the body from the shackles of coloniality and extractivism? How do we unroot the old myth of separation and domination from the sacred soil of our physical sanctuaries? And how might we begin to see our bodies as living systems - extensions of our Earthly home, interwoven with the fabric of life?\n\nJoin us for an (un)learning journey guided by Wang\u0169i wa Kamonji. Together, we\u2019ll dive deep into questions of decolonization, healing, and how to restore wholeness with(in) the sacred vessel that carries our story.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/span\u003E the sacred vessel that carries our story.","title":"De-colonizing our bodies: experiences and practices for reclaiming our whole body sovereignty","link":"","lat":-0.02356,"lon":37.90619,"icon":""},{"text":"\u003Cb\u003E\u003Ca href=\"/Webinar:Dialogues_on_Radical_Democracy_and_Autonomy_-_Session_1:_Voices_from_Asia\" title=\"Webinar:Dialogues on Radical Democracy and Autonomy - Session 1: Voices from Asia\"\u003EDialogues on Radical Democracy and Autonomy - Session 1: Voices from Asia\u003C/a\u003E\u003C/b\u003E\u003Chr /\u003EThe first episode in the series \u201cDialogues on Radical Democracy and Autonomy\u201d, this session will feature three speakers, two from the Kurdish movement and one from India.","title":"Dialogues on Radical Democracy and Autonomy - Session 1: Voices from Asia","link":"","lat":55.92261,"lon":99.48515,"icon":""},{"text":"\u003Cb\u003E\u003Ca href=\"/Webinar:Dialogues_on_Radical_Democracy_and_Autonomy_-_Session_2:_Voices_from_Latin_America\" title=\"Webinar:Dialogues on Radical Democracy and Autonomy - Session 2: Voices from Latin America\"\u003EDialogues on Radical Democracy and Autonomy - Session 2: Voices from Latin America\u003C/a\u003E\u003C/b\u003E\u003Chr /\u003EThis second dialogue, with voices of participants from processes and communities from different parts of Latin America, will include the participation of the following people.","title":"Dialogues on Radical Democracy and Autonomy - Session 2: Voices from Latin America","link":"","lat":-15.98161,"lon":-67.15548,"icon":""},{"text":"\u003Cb\u003E\u003Ca href=\"/Webinar:Dialogues_on_Radical_Democracy_and_Autonomy_-_Session_3:_Voices_from_Africa\" title=\"Webinar:Dialogues on Radical Democracy and Autonomy - Session 3: Voices from Africa\"\u003EDialogues on Radical Democracy and Autonomy - Session 3: Voices from Africa\u003C/a\u003E\u003C/b\u003E\u003Chr /\u003EIn this session will have the presence, voices and perspectives of some communities from Africa, in particular Amadiba Crisis Committee (South Africa) and Makoko community (Nigeria).","title":"Dialogues on Radical Democracy and Autonomy - Session 3: Voices from Africa","link":"","lat":6.76933,"lon":22.1414,"icon":""},{"text":"\u003Cb\u003E\u003Ca href=\"/Webinar:Filming_Change:_A_Conversation_with_Janet_Solomon\" title=\"Webinar:Filming Change: A Conversation with Janet Solomon\"\u003EFilming Change: A Conversation with Janet Solomon\u003C/a\u003E\u003C/b\u003E\u003Chr /\u003EIn our 5th webinar, we will be joined by J\u003Cspan class=\"smw-highlighter\" data-type=\"2\" data-state=\"persistent\" data-title=\"Information\" title=\"In our 5th webinar, we will be joined by Janet Soloman who will be in conversation with Shrishtee Bajpai about her film, Blue Burning- a powerful piece of work that documents impacts on South Africa\u0026#039;s coasts \u0026amp; seas due to oil/gas exploration. (she is one of the several co-founders of Oceans Not Oil) against offshore oil and gas in South Africa\u2026 She will share her journey of telling stories that need to be told in these times of climate ruptures, especially interweaving art and activism to bring wider awareness and connection to the natural world.\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"smwtext\"\u003E \u2026 \u003C/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"smwttcontent\"\u003EIn our 5th webinar, we will be joined by Janet Soloman who will be in conversation with Shrishtee Bajpai about her film, Blue Burning- a powerful piece of work that documents impacts on South Africa's coasts \u0026 seas due to oil/gas exploration. (she is one of the several co-founders of Oceans Not Oil) against offshore oil and gas in South Africa\u2026 She will share her journey of telling stories that need to be told in these times of climate ruptures, especially interweaving art and activism to bring wider awareness and connection to the natural world.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/span\u003Eawareness and connection to the natural world.","title":"Filming Change: A Conversation with Janet Solomon","link":"","lat":-33.98071,"lon":24.74116,"icon":""},{"text":"\u003Cb\u003E\u003Ca href=\"/Webinar:Gifts_from_the_Sentient_Forest\" title=\"Webinar:Gifts from the Sentient Forest\"\u003EGifts from the Sentient Forest\u003C/a\u003E\u003C/b\u003E\u003Chr /\u003EIn the third episode of our More than Huma\u003Cspan class=\"smw-highlighter\" data-type=\"2\" data-state=\"persistent\" data-title=\"Information\" title=\"In the third episode of our More than Human webinar series, \u00c5sa Andersson Martti, Francis Joy and John C. Ryan will tell us about the different ways of communicating with the forests, speaking from the S\u00e1mi tribe\u0026#039;s traditions and Indigenous knowledges, as well as from scientific perspectives of forest intelligence, memory and sentience.\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"smwtext\"\u003E \u2026 \u003C/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"smwttcontent\"\u003EIn the third episode of our More than Human webinar series, \u00c5sa Andersson Martti, Francis Joy and John C. Ryan will tell us about the different ways of communicating with the forests, speaking from the S\u00e1mi tribe's traditions and Indigenous knowledges, as well as from scientific perspectives of forest intelligence, memory and sentience.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/span\u003Eforest intelligence, memory and sentience.","title":"Gifts from the Sentient Forest","link":"","lat":67.8558,"lon":20.22528,"icon":""},{"text":"\u003Cb\u003E\u003Ca href=\"/Webinar:How_I_Became_a_Tree:_A_Conversation_with_Sumana_Roy\" title=\"Webinar:How I Became a Tree: A Conversation with Sumana Roy\"\u003EHow I Became a Tree: A Conversation with Sumana Roy\u003C/a\u003E\u003C/b\u003E\u003Chr /\u003EIn this conversation with our moderator Sh\u003Cspan class=\"smw-highlighter\" data-type=\"2\" data-state=\"persistent\" data-title=\"Information\" title=\"In this conversation with our moderator Shrishtee Bajpai, celebrated author Sumana Roy will talk about her experience and share meditations in writing, especially how trees, plants and the rest of nature are reflected within the many genres she traverses in her work. The title of this episode is taken from her award-winning non-fiction book \u0026#039;How I Became a Tree\u0026#039;, which features \u201cstunning meditations on forests, plant life, time, self, and the exhaustion of being human evoke the spacious, relaxed rhythms of the trees themselves.\u201d\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"smwtext\"\u003E \u2026 \u003C/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"smwttcontent\"\u003EIn this conversation with our moderator Shrishtee Bajpai, celebrated author Sumana Roy will talk about her experience and share meditations in writing, especially how trees, plants and the rest of nature are reflected within the many genres she traverses in her work. The title of this episode is taken from her award-winning non-fiction book 'How I Became a Tree', which features \u201cstunning meditations on forests, plant life, time, self, and the exhaustion of being human evoke the spacious, relaxed rhythms of the trees themselves.\u201d\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/span\u003E relaxed rhythms of the trees themselves.\u201d","title":"How I Became a Tree: A Conversation with Sumana Roy","link":"","lat":26.7271,"lon":88.39529,"icon":""},{"text":"\u003Cb\u003E\u003Ca href=\"/Webinar:Intergenerational_Wisdom:_weaving_sense_making_and_learnings_in_complex_times\" title=\"Webinar:Intergenerational Wisdom: weaving sense making and learnings in complex times\"\u003EIntergenerational Wisdom: weaving sense making and learnings in complex times\u003C/a\u003E\u003C/b\u003E\u003Chr /\u003EThe historical moment we are currently fac\u003Cspan class=\"smw-highlighter\" data-type=\"2\" data-state=\"persistent\" data-title=\"Information\" title=\"The historical moment we are currently facing requires that we simultaneously recover ancestral wisdom and constantly adapt to the new challenges. To achieve this, it is very important that we weave an intergenerational wisdom that incorporates both the stories and worldviews of the past, as well as the perceptions and capabilities of the new generations. We invite you to share with Alcar, Bel\u00e9n and Itzel (Crianza Mutua M\u00e9xico) and explore together the importance of building this \u201cintergenerational wisdom\u201d to collectively navigate the complexities we face today.\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"smwtext\"\u003E \u2026 \u003C/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"smwttcontent\"\u003EThe historical moment we are currently facing requires that we simultaneously recover ancestral wisdom and constantly adapt to the new challenges. To achieve this, it is very important that we weave an intergenerational wisdom that incorporates both the stories and worldviews of the past, as well as the perceptions and capabilities of the new generations. We invite you to share with Alcar, Bel\u00e9n and Itzel (Crianza Mutua M\u00e9xico) and explore together the importance of building this \u201cintergenerational wisdom\u201d to collectively navigate the complexities we face today.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/span\u003Ey navigate the complexities we face today.","title":"Intergenerational Wisdom: weaving sense making and learnings in complex times","link":"","lat":16.75693,"lon":-93.12924,"icon":""},{"text":"\u003Cb\u003E\u003Ca href=\"/Webinar:Living_Utopias\" title=\"Webinar:Living Utopias\"\u003ELiving Utopias\u003C/a\u003E\u003C/b\u003E\u003Chr /\u003EThe course Living Utopias is oriented for \u003Cspan class=\"smw-highlighter\" data-type=\"2\" data-state=\"persistent\" data-title=\"Information\" title=\"The course Living Utopias is oriented for anyone who believes that the current industry driven endless economic growth model which we term as Industrialism has collapsed or is in severe crisis and there is an urgent need for creating an alternative world in every sphere be it of ecology, economy, politics, culture , education and technology. Through short and long term courses we intend to help the participant gain a perspective around the urgency in combating the crisis of industrialism in the world today and introduce the participant to various alternatives existing in the world today.\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"smwtext\"\u003E \u2026 \u003C/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"smwttcontent\"\u003EThe course Living Utopias is oriented for anyone who believes that the current industry driven endless economic growth model which we term as Industrialism has collapsed or is in severe crisis and there is an urgent need for creating an alternative world in every sphere be it of ecology, economy, politics, culture , education and technology. Through short and long term courses we intend to help the participant gain a perspective around the urgency in combating the crisis of industrialism in the world today and introduce the participant to various alternatives existing in the world today.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/span\u003E alternatives existing in the world today.","title":"Living Utopias","link":"","lat":12.9716,"lon":77.59456,"icon":""},{"text":"\u003Cb\u003E\u003Ca href=\"/Webinar:Palestine%27s_Beautiful_Resistance:_What_it_tells_the_world_about_building_peace_within\" title=\"Webinar:Palestine\u0026#039;s Beautiful Resistance: What it tells the world about building peace within\"\u003EPalestine's Beautiful Resistance: What it tells the world about building peace within\u003C/a\u003E\u003C/b\u003E\u003Chr /\u003EBeautiful Resistance emerges from Palestin\u003Cspan class=\"smw-highlighter\" data-type=\"2\" data-state=\"persistent\" data-title=\"Information\" title=\"Beautiful Resistance emerges from Palestine as a concept and philosophy that aims to inspire hope and promote life through performing and visual arts as non-armed ways for peaceful and creative self-expression. It helps to build peace within individuals, in turn to become peace-builders in their community and beyond.\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"smwtext\"\u003E \u2026 \u003C/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"smwttcontent\"\u003EBeautiful Resistance emerges from Palestine as a concept and philosophy that aims to inspire hope and promote life through performing and visual arts as non-armed ways for peaceful and creative self-expression. It helps to build peace within individuals, in turn to become peace-builders in their community and beyond.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/span\u003Ece-builders in their community and beyond.","title":"Palestine's Beautiful Resistance: What it tells the world about building peace within","link":"","lat":31.71905,"lon":35.19851,"icon":""},{"text":"\u003Cb\u003E\u003Ca href=\"/Webinar:Pedagogies_of_Transformance_in_the_Brazilian_Amazon_with_the_Rivers_of_Meeting_Project\" title=\"Webinar:Pedagogies of Transformance in the Brazilian Amazon with the Rivers of Meeting Project\"\u003EPedagogies of Transformance in the Brazilian Amazon with the Rivers of Meeting Project\u003C/a\u003E\u003C/b\u003E\u003Chr /\u003EThe Rivers of Meeting performance educatio\u003Cspan class=\"smw-highlighter\" data-type=\"2\" data-state=\"persistent\" data-title=\"Information\" title=\"The Rivers of Meeting performance education project began by awakening sleeping cultural roots and human rights through Afro-Contemporary percussion, dance and lyrics workshops. Over 12 years, excluded youth were nurtured to become community workshop leaders and coordinators of medicinal plant, street library/cinema projects, dance and audiovisual companies, annual festivals and workshop courses in their Community University of the Rivers, to defend the River Tocantins and nurture an eco-village based on eco-pedagogies for sustainable community. This young AfroRaiz Collective is the community sculpture.\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"smwtext\"\u003E \u2026 \u003C/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"smwttcontent\"\u003EThe Rivers of Meeting performance education project began by awakening sleeping cultural roots and human rights through Afro-Contemporary percussion, dance and lyrics workshops. Over 12 years, excluded youth were nurtured to become community workshop leaders and coordinators of medicinal plant, street library/cinema projects, dance and audiovisual companies, annual festivals and workshop courses in their Community University of the Rivers, to defend the River Tocantins and nurture an eco-village based on eco-pedagogies for sustainable community. This young AfroRaiz Collective is the community sculpture.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/span\u003Eaiz Collective is the community sculpture.","title":"Pedagogies of Transformance in the Brazilian Amazon with the Rivers of Meeting Project","link":"","lat":-11.40987,"lon":-48.71914,"icon":""},{"text":"\u003Cb\u003E\u003Ca href=\"/Webinar:Salween_Peace_Park,_Myanmar:_Strengthening_Karen_People%27s_Resistance,_Resilience_and_Response_to_Conflict_and_Covid-19_Crises\" title=\"Webinar:Salween Peace Park, Myanmar: Strengthening Karen People\u0026#039;s Resistance, Resilience and Response to Conflict and Covid-19 Crises\"\u003ESalween Peace Park, Myanmar: Strengthening Karen People's Resistance, Resilience and Response to Conflict and Covid-19 Crises\u003C/a\u003E\u003C/b\u003E\u003Chr /\u003EThe Salween Peace Park is an initiative in\u003Cspan class=\"smw-highlighter\" data-type=\"2\" data-state=\"persistent\" data-title=\"Information\" title=\"The Salween Peace Park is an initiative in Myanmar declared by Indigenous Karen people in December 2018 to bring peace, cultural harmony, self determination, and environmental integrity after 70 years of armed conflict in the region. However, the community continues to face threats from the Burmese military dictatorship. In this webinar, Saw Paul Sein Twa and Naw Wah Ku Shee talk about the experience of the Karen people working towards self determination, navigating a global pandemic, and facing a violent military offensive.\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"smwtext\"\u003E \u2026 \u003C/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"smwttcontent\"\u003EThe Salween Peace Park is an initiative in Myanmar declared by Indigenous Karen people in December 2018 to bring peace, cultural harmony, self determination, and environmental integrity after 70 years of armed conflict in the region. However, the community continues to face threats from the Burmese military dictatorship. In this webinar, Saw Paul Sein Twa and Naw Wah Ku Shee talk about the experience of the Karen people working towards self determination, navigating a global pandemic, and facing a violent military offensive.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/span\u003E, and facing a violent military offensive.","title":"Salween Peace Park, Myanmar: Strengthening Karen People's Resistance, Resilience and Response to Conflict and Covid-19 Crises","link":"","lat":18.0969,"lon":97.45345,"icon":""},{"text":"\u003Cb\u003E\u003Ca href=\"/Webinar:Self-determination_%26_coping_with_COVID19_in_indigenous_Lomerio,_Bolivia\" title=\"Webinar:Self-determination \u0026amp; coping with COVID19 in indigenous Lomerio, Bolivia\"\u003ESelf-determination \u0026 coping with COVID19 in indigenous Lomerio, Bolivia\u003C/a\u003E\u003C/b\u003E\u003Chr /\u003EMonkoxi leaders from the Indigenous territ\u003Cspan class=\"smw-highlighter\" data-type=\"2\" data-state=\"persistent\" data-title=\"Information\" title=\"Monkoxi leaders from the Indigenous territory of Lomerio, Bolivia, share experiences dealing with COVID-19. Though the pandemic led to 20 people dying, the Monkoxi were able to control further spread by blocking access in and out of their territories, coordinating with partners the delivery of biomedical equipment, and (esp. important) reviving traditional medicine and community care values and relations. Participatory indigenous research in collaboration with Nur University (Bolivia) and University of East Anglia (UK) is helping systematize this learning, for possible similar out-breaks in future, and to share with other indigenous nations. This builds on several years of process to claim self-determination rights to the territory.\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"smwtext\"\u003E \u2026 \u003C/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"smwttcontent\"\u003EMonkoxi leaders from the Indigenous territory of Lomerio, Bolivia, share experiences dealing with COVID-19. Though the pandemic led to 20 people dying, the Monkoxi were able to control further spread by blocking access in and out of their territories, coordinating with partners the delivery of biomedical equipment, and (esp. important) reviving traditional medicine and community care values and relations. Participatory indigenous research in collaboration with Nur University (Bolivia) and University of East Anglia (UK) is helping systematize this learning, for possible similar out-breaks in future, and to share with other indigenous nations. This builds on several years of process to claim self-determination rights to the territory.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/span\u003Eelf-determination rights to the territory.","title":"Self-determination \u0026 coping with COVID19 in indigenous Lomerio, Bolivia","link":"","lat":-16.29015,"lon":-63.58865,"icon":""},{"text":"\u003Cb\u003E\u003Ca href=\"/Webinar:Session_3:_The_Geopolitics_of_Green_Colonialism_and_Emerging_Green_Sacrifice_Zones:_Cold_regions\" title=\"Webinar:Session 3: The Geopolitics of Green Colonialism and Emerging Green Sacrifice Zones: Cold regions\"\u003ESession 3: The Geopolitics of Green Colonialism and Emerging Green Sacrifice Zones: Cold regions\u003C/a\u003E\u003C/b\u003E\u003Chr /\u003EThe previous sessions focused on emerging \u003Cspan class=\"smw-highlighter\" data-type=\"2\" data-state=\"persistent\" data-title=\"Information\" title=\"The previous sessions focused on emerging sacrifice zones and the Geopolitics of Green Colonialism and Decolonising the Energy Transition in the Polycrisis. This session will turn to the so-called cold regions, including areas of the Arctic and Ladakh in India, to explore how the energy transition is reshaping these territories into new sacrifice zones, and to discuss the challenges and struggles emerging in response.\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"smwtext\"\u003E \u2026 \u003C/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"smwttcontent\"\u003EThe previous sessions focused on emerging sacrifice zones and the Geopolitics of Green Colonialism and Decolonising the Energy Transition in the Polycrisis. This session will turn to the so-called cold regions, including areas of the Arctic and Ladakh in India, to explore how the energy transition is reshaping these territories into new sacrifice zones, and to discuss the challenges and struggles emerging in response.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/span\u003Elenges and struggles emerging in response.","title":"Session 3: The Geopolitics of Green Colonialism and Emerging Green Sacrifice Zones: Cold regions","link":"","lat":34.22685,"lon":77.56194,"icon":""},{"text":"\u003Cb\u003E\u003Ca href=\"/Webinar:Session_4:_The_geopolitics_of_Green_colonialism_and_Emerging_Green_Sacrifice_Zones_-_Africa\" title=\"Webinar:Session 4: The geopolitics of Green colonialism and Emerging Green Sacrifice Zones - Africa\"\u003ESession 4: The geopolitics of Green colonialism and Emerging Green Sacrifice Zones - Africa\u003C/a\u003E\u003C/b\u003E\u003Chr /\u003EThe previous sessions focused on the Geopo\u003Cspan class=\"smw-highlighter\" data-type=\"2\" data-state=\"persistent\" data-title=\"Information\" title=\"The previous sessions focused on the Geopolitics of Green Colonialism, Decolonising the Energy Transition in the Polycrisis as well as on emerging green sacrifice zones in \u0026quot;Cold regions\u0026quot;. This session will turn to the African continent to explore how the energy transition is reshaping territories into new sacrifice zones, and to discuss the challenges and struggles that lie ahead.\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"smwtext\"\u003E \u2026 \u003C/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"smwttcontent\"\u003EThe previous sessions focused on the Geopolitics of Green Colonialism, Decolonising the Energy Transition in the Polycrisis as well as on emerging green sacrifice zones in \"Cold regions\". This session will turn to the African continent to explore how the energy transition is reshaping territories into new sacrifice zones, and to discuss the challenges and struggles that lie ahead.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/span\u003Ee challenges and struggles that lie ahead.","title":"Session 4: The geopolitics of Green colonialism and Emerging Green Sacrifice Zones - Africa","link":"","lat":-19.01544,"lon":29.15486,"icon":""},{"text":"\u003Cb\u003E\u003Ca href=\"/Webinar:The_Covid_Crisis_in_Chile_and_Community_Alternatives_from_Below\" title=\"Webinar:The Covid Crisis in Chile and Community Alternatives from Below\"\u003EThe Covid Crisis in Chile and Community Alternatives from Below\u003C/a\u003E\u003C/b\u003E\u003Chr /\u003EIn October 2019, Chile experienced one of \u003Cspan class=\"smw-highlighter\" data-type=\"2\" data-state=\"persistent\" data-title=\"Information\" title=\"In October 2019, Chile experienced one of its most significant uprisings. People demanded the end of neoliberalism, while hundreds of grassroots organizations and local assemblies emerged. During the Covid crisis, the Government\u0026#039;s response has favoured the market over people, denying them basic social protection and food security. However, grassroots organisations are actively trying to tackle poverty with popular solidarity and mutual aid. In this webinar, we explore some of these local experiences, their strategies, challenges and contributions to radical social transformation.\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"smwtext\"\u003E \u2026 \u003C/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"smwttcontent\"\u003EIn October 2019, Chile experienced one of its most significant uprisings. People demanded the end of neoliberalism, while hundreds of grassroots organizations and local assemblies emerged. During the Covid crisis, the Government's response has favoured the market over people, denying them basic social protection and food security. However, grassroots organisations are actively trying to tackle poverty with popular solidarity and mutual aid. In this webinar, we explore some of these local experiences, their strategies, challenges and contributions to radical social transformation.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/span\u003Eibutions to radical social transformation.","title":"The Covid Crisis in Chile and Community Alternatives from Below","link":"","lat":-35.67515,"lon":-71.54297,"icon":""},{"text":"\u003Cb\u003E\u003Ca href=\"/Webinar:The_River_is_Us:_A_Conversation_with_Alyen_Foning\" title=\"Webinar:The River is Us: A Conversation with Alyen Foning\"\u003EThe River is Us: A Conversation with Alyen Foning\u003C/a\u003E\u003C/b\u003E\u003Chr /\u003EIn this episode of the More than Human web\u003Cspan class=\"smw-highlighter\" data-type=\"2\" data-state=\"persistent\" data-title=\"Information\" title=\"In this episode of the More than Human webinar series, Shrishtee Bajpai will be in conversation with Alyen Foning, a Shaman from the Lepcha community in India. She resides in her ancestral home, Kalimpong -the Lepcha community, with its sacred mountains and rivers, at the foothills of the Eastern Himalayas. Inspired by her Lepcha roots and reflections of her life\u2019s journey, Alyen uses her art and storytelling as a medium to help others remember their own ecological connections. Using fabrics, colours, music and design, her work serves as a bridge between the fields of art and research, and between ancestral pasts and future generations.\u0026#10;\u0026#10;Through her storytelling we journey through longing, loss and disconnection. Finding our way forward through remembrance we delve into our origins, shamanism and our deep connection and interdependence to nature.\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"smwtext\"\u003E \u2026 \u003C/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"smwttcontent\"\u003EIn this episode of the More than Human webinar series, Shrishtee Bajpai will be in conversation with Alyen Foning, a Shaman from the Lepcha community in India. She resides in her ancestral home, Kalimpong -the Lepcha community, with its sacred mountains and rivers, at the foothills of the Eastern Himalayas. Inspired by her Lepcha roots and reflections of her life\u2019s journey, Alyen uses her art and storytelling as a medium to help others remember their own ecological connections. Using fabrics, colours, music and design, her work serves as a bridge between the fields of art and research, and between ancestral pasts and future generations.\n\nThrough her storytelling we journey through longing, loss and disconnection. Finding our way forward through remembrance we delve into our origins, shamanism and our deep connection and interdependence to nature.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/span\u003E connection and interdependence to nature.","title":"The River is Us: A Conversation with Alyen Foning","link":"","lat":27.05936,"lon":88.46945,"icon":""},{"text":"\u003Cb\u003E\u003Ca href=\"/Webinar:Unitierra_Oaxaca:_Learning_and_Hope\" title=\"Webinar:Unitierra Oaxaca: Learning and Hope\"\u003EUnitierra Oaxaca: Learning and Hope\u003C/a\u003E\u003C/b\u003E\u003Chr /\u003EUniversidad de la Tierra Oaxaca, was born \u003Cspan class=\"smw-highlighter\" data-type=\"2\" data-state=\"persistent\" data-title=\"Information\" title=\"Universidad de la Tierra Oaxaca, was born amongst the context of radical reactions against institutional schooling observed in many Indigenous communities. Unitierra is deeply immersed in social change processes and dedicates itself to the exploration and application of life alternatives to modernity and imposed development. Unitierra understands learning as an aspect of daily life that can be cultivated and studying as the joyful and autonomous exercise of the free people. We define our learning and research method as reflection in action. In this webinar session some members of Unitierra\u0026#039;s assembly present the history and present of this initiative.\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"smwtext\"\u003E \u2026 \u003C/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"smwttcontent\"\u003EUniversidad de la Tierra Oaxaca, was born amongst the context of radical reactions against institutional schooling observed in many Indigenous communities. Unitierra is deeply immersed in social change processes and dedicates itself to the exploration and application of life alternatives to modernity and imposed development. Unitierra understands learning as an aspect of daily life that can be cultivated and studying as the joyful and autonomous exercise of the free people. We define our learning and research method as reflection in action. In this webinar session some members of Unitierra's assembly present the history and present of this initiative.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/span\u003Ehe history and present of this initiative.","title":"Unitierra Oaxaca: Learning and Hope","link":"","lat":17.07323,"lon":-96.70918,"icon":""},{"text":"\u003Cb\u003E\u003Ca href=\"/Webinar:Water_as_a_Living_Entity:_A_Conversation_with_Juana_Vera_Delgado\" title=\"Webinar:Water as a Living Entity: A Conversation with Juana Vera Delgado\"\u003EWater as a Living Entity: A Conversation with Juana Vera Delgado\u003C/a\u003E\u003C/b\u003E\u003Chr /\u003EIn this episode of our More than Human web\u003Cspan class=\"smw-highlighter\" data-type=\"2\" data-state=\"persistent\" data-title=\"Information\" title=\"In this episode of our More than Human webinar series, Juana Vera Delgado tells us about the rediscovery of her water-based identity made during her PhD journey. As a descendant of the Wari culture, she could understand why water was and is seen as a feminine creator divinity of Life on the earth. This belief to see water as a living entity persists in many communities, especially in the Andes and the Amazon, and forms the basis of the political, social and religious resistance to colonial imposition.\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"smwtext\"\u003E \u2026 \u003C/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"smwttcontent\"\u003EIn this episode of our More than Human webinar series, Juana Vera Delgado tells us about the rediscovery of her water-based identity made during her PhD journey. As a descendant of the Wari culture, she could understand why water was and is seen as a feminine creator divinity of Life on the earth. This belief to see water as a living entity persists in many communities, especially in the Andes and the Amazon, and forms the basis of the political, social and religious resistance to colonial imposition.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/span\u003Eligious resistance to colonial imposition.","title":"Water as a Living Entity: A Conversation with Juana Vera Delgado","link":"","lat":-14.05045,"lon":-73.08775,"icon":""}]}

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