Kalabash Media – Memories of a hyper-activist – COULD INDIVIDUALITY BE THE ROUTE TO COMMONALITY?
Dear friends, crew and all organisers from last month’s workshop at Create, Inspire Change at the Bookcafe. Thanks for being a massive inspiration and inviting me. SO MUCH RESPECT TO KALABASH MEDIA, MAGAMBA, ZIMBABWE ALLIANCE AND ALL YOU AMAZING CREW! Keep in touch and please do not hesitate to shout me with any ideas – hope to see you back in Zim or at home soon for more! Here’s a bit more info on these great cats- Kalabash Media – Imagine a place where youth eat up and spit out the world around them, the country they see and feel. Welcome to the world of...
Read More“The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House” – DAILY TRAINING FOR TRANSFORMATION COMMUNITY ACTIVISM TOOLS
Right friends – I’m back at the brilliant Training for Transformation (tft) for the next 2 months – and I’m gonna share my luck for getting on this brilliant programme but sharing a tool for stoking the fire in communities bellies to fight for justice, fun and self-determination. I certainly ain’t the most organised person in the world, but the magic of TfT just needs sharing, so I will try to every day. TfT has nourished the belly of movements for justice all over the world. From Steve Biko, founder of the Black Consciousness Movement who along with others...
Read MorePower, powerlessness and the austerity measures – LET FREEDOM RING! Report from the Glasgow Launch!
“There is a lack of solidarity amongst asylum seekers and Glaswegians. In the sense that there are formidably sized groups suffering so many injustices but there’s not so much unity, so we often feel powerless. Ideas for empowerment and unity is something I’d like to work on and learn skills and codes for.” Leonna O’Neill, participant “Inequality in the UK is getting worse and worse. Across the UK our are communities attacked from all angles and it’s forcing us into more isolated ways of working to survive. The uprisings 2011 and the continued anti-cuts...
Read MoreGet in there quick! 20 spaces for Glasgow ‘Let Freedom Ring!’ training – April 6th 2013 – 4-6pm
Let Freedom Ring! - from South Africa comes the UK launch of Training for Transformation in 2013 - “The greatest weapon in the hand of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.” ― Steve Biko www.theglassishalffull.co.uk SATURDAY 6TH APRIL - AFRICAN CARIBBEAN NETWORK CENTRE, 66 – 68 OSBORNE STREET, GLASGOW G1 5QH This Summer, around the 2nd anniversary of the UK’S biggest insurgencies in years, a second Summer Programme ‘Let Freedom Ring!’ to empower our communities hits town, built on the legacy of the Summer School 2012 ‘Introduction to...
Read MoreHIV and activism
What is the role of activism, popular education and critical consciousness in liberating ourselves and society from HIV / AIDS stigma and prejudice? How has HIV / AIDS activism and protest influenced change for the better? What can we learn from our history of people responding to the HIV / AIDS epidemic as we face the ‘second silence’ and the British situation turns into an epidemic? AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP) is an international direct action advocacy group working to impact the lives of people with AIDS (PWAs) and the AIDS pandemic to bring about legislation, medical...
Read MoreTraining for Transformation Movement Building Tools
On this page I will put up as fast as I can all the training for transformation tools as I can – hands down it was the most powerful programme I have ever been lucky enough to go on. For now here are som photos from The Dynamic Model tool to critically analyse power dynamics on Society. More at The Freire Institute. Below are some of the videos and photos - Full Training for Transformation videos here. Explanatory Information and further pictures for these brilliant tools coming very soon. Are you interested in Training for Transformation doing a course in the UK? ‘Let...
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