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houghts and ideas shaping our work
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.
How do we design a democracy with heart? Here are some early thoughts on elements we need to take into account.
Lessons learned from Extinction Rebellion Scotland’s experience of engaging with government on Climate Citizens’ Assemblies
20th November 2020 - what have we been doing and what’s next?
Grassroots to Global Assemblies: ‘Becoming equal to the crises, by transforming them and us’
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.