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THE TRANSFORMATIVE POWERS OF NATURE
A portrait of Martin Odour based on a dialogue with artist Madeleine Kate McGowan
DECOLONIZING QUEER STRUGGLE, PART 2
The revolutionary and prolific queer organizer and writer Dan Glass recently paid a visit to one of our Global Platforms. We caught him for an interview on his new book Queer Footprints, which just dropped with Pluto Press.
GrlzWave is the Gen Z middle finger to Georgia’s conservative patriarchy
In Georgia – a country where religion and conservative forces still dominate media and politics – a new wave of young people are calling for change.
POETRY, PORTRAITURE AND PRISON
Two artists and their time within the walls of Myanmar’s Insein Prison.
DECOLONIZING QUEER STRUGGLE, PART 1
Meet Stella Nyanzi, ex-prisoner, poetess, peaceful protester, published scholar, queer political activist, and feminist icon, recently exiled from Uganda.
Breaking Boundaries of Resistance
In this piece, Obi Omekedo discusses how the Whispers To Humanity network advocates for the rights of women and children in Nigeria despite great difficulties.
To zoom or not to zoom?
In this piece, Twinomugisa Pius shares options other than Zoom that can help you organise your movement online for free.
The revolution will be tweeted
#BlackLivesMatter #MeToo #ProudBoys. The last ten years hashtags have been a cornerstone in online campaigning. We are exploring four principles for using twitter as a revolutionary tool.
Four lessons we learned from Hong Kong protesters
The 2019 Hong Kong protests took over global media. The success of the Hong Kong protests has inspired revolutionaries worldwide to emulate their tactics (...)
How to build a Climate Clock in your city, community or campus
Just months ago, artists unveiled a new kind of clock hovering over Union Square in New York City. The clock no longer reads the time of day, but now reads the time left for humanity (...)
THE “HOWS” OF HORIZONTALISM
There is more than one way to be horizontal. How can we design decision-making and share power in more nuanced and effective ways in our movements? (...)
NIGERIA'S #ENDSARS PROTEST
Though EndSARS protest have been making headlines across the globe, the list of untold stories of young people being brutalized by Police forces are increasing by the day (...)
Organisers: the secret sauce no revolution can avoid
Some things have been studied for thousands of years: mathematics, philosophy, agriculture. Nonviolent resistance has only been systematically analyzed for the past 50 years (...)
COVID-19 CAN TRIGGER REVOLUTION - HERE'S HOW!
COVID-19 is an example of what movement analysts call a “trigger event.” When shocking events of immense scale occur suddenly - such as natural disasters, military coups.
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