Social Movement Appreciation Project
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: the Social Movement Appreciation Project aims to shine a warm and loving light on today's many efforts at collective agency and system transformation.
Social Movement Appreciation Project
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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