Making Movements: Voices from a World of Change
In our rapidly destabilising world, it's clear that nothing will get better without large numbers of people working together. But social movements remain mysterious and under-studied creatures: Making Movements (formerly Social Movement Appreciation Project) aims to shine a warm and loving light on today's many efforts at collective agency and system transformation.
Making Movements: Voices from a World of Change
Western Sahara and how to create activists
Benjamin and Sanna spent three years cycling around the world to spread the word about the Western Sahara: the world’s largest remaining colony, the last such project in Africa, and a weirdly (but not accidentally) under-covered topic. Tune in and cover it with us!
We also cover:
Benjamin’s year-long walk from Sweden to Palestine
The strange lack of social movements in Sweden
A burgeoning ‘activist cafe’ project
What Les Résistantes means to us as visitors, and the role it could play in pan-European organising
I can’t help but note in passing that the activist cafe concept is quite reminiscent of Joël’s frame-building mentality in the previous interview. Could space-holding be the new leadership?
For more about the two’s work, check out Solidarity Rising: https://solidarityrising.com
End music end music from a spontaneous performance at Les Résistantes by what I think was La Criée, a feminist choir Montreuil in Paris. This song is ‘Canción sin miedo’, a feminist hymn.
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