Join us! Next System Teach-In Organizer Workshop Series starting April 24.
by Deissy Perilla 16 Apr '26
by Deissy Perilla 16 Apr '26
16 Apr '26
[Spanish to follow - Texto en español abajo]
Dear GTA community of weavers,
As we face the ever-more-urgent crises of this moment, how can our
campuses, communities and cities come together around the work of building
a system that sustains the future we all deserve?
This is the question behind the Call to the Next System Teach-Ins
<https://nextsystem.org/call-to-teach-ins/>, and our invitation to you: to
join with others in organizing a local Next System Teach-In where you live,
learn, and work in April 2027.
To support each organizer and organizing team on your journey, we are
excited to launch the Next System Teach-Ins Organizer Workshop Series.
This series of dynamic workshops will provide information, tools, and
strategies as well as space to discuss ideas, ask questions and connect
with peers as you plan your local Teach-In.
Each workshop will tackle a specific topic related to coordinating,
designing, and hosting a teach-in in ways that can not only energize and
inspire your campus and community, but also forge meaningful relationships
while uncovering critical knowledge, skills and energies to build the next
system where you live.
Below you’ll find details for the first workshop and for the full series.
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Workshop 1: Lessons from the Ground: Organizer Reflections on the 2025 Next
System Teach-Ins
Friday, April 24, 2026
12:00–1:15 pm ET
(with an optional extra 15 minutes for those who wish to stay longer)
As momentum grows toward the April 2027 Teach-Ins, connect with and learn
from local organizers who shaped the November 2025 Teach-Ins across the
Americas.
Simultaneous interpretation (ES–EN–ES) will be available.
Register / Learn more
<https://nextsystem.org/next-system-teach-ins-organizer-workshops-lessons-fr…>
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SAVE THE DATES!
Full NSTI Organizer Workshop Series – 2026–2027
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April 24, 2026 – Lessons from the Ground: Organizer Reflections on the
2025 Next System Teach-Ins
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June 26, 2026 – Why Next System Teach-Ins?
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August 28, 2026 – Practical First Steps in Organizing Your Teach-In
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October 30, 2026 – Wall-to-Wall Organizing: Campuses, Schools &
Universities
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December 18, 2026 – Building Diverse Coalitions and Inclusive Organizing
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February 26, 2027 – Popular Education & Liberatory Facilitation Tools
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We know many of you already hold and have access to a wealth of powerful
practices and resources. A key goal of this series is to pool resources and
experiences into a shared library of practical knowledge.
Please help grow this timely wave of locally-led, globally-linked
innovation and partnership by sharing this with your networks!
For inspiration & ideas now, check out the Organizing Guide
<https://nextsystem.org/organizing-guide/>, Next System Convergences
<https://nextsystem.org/convergences/>, and videos from the Nov. 2025 wave
<https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrFE8GFuZltH-PVGB2GLLQPEHZXKDrHsC>.
We look forward to seeing you at the kickoff on April 24 -- register today
<https://nextsystem.org/next-system-teach-ins-organizer-workshops-lessons-fr…>
to save your spot! and please, if you can help us to spread the word among
your networks!
With appreciation and solidarity,
Deissy Perilla
on behalf of the Center for Next System Studies team
Español
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Hola,
Ante las crisis cada vez más urgentes de este momento, ¿cómo pueden
nuestros campus, comunidades y ciudades unirse en el trabajo de construir
un sistema que sostenga el futuro que todas y todos merecemos?
Esta es la pregunta que está detrás de la Convocatoria de los Next System
Teach-Ins <https://nextsystem.org/call-to-teach-ins/> y también nuestra
invitación para ti: sumarte a otras personas para organizar, en abril de
2027, una Jornada local de Educación Popular para construir el Próximo
Sistema donde vives, aprendes y trabajas.
Para acompañar a cada persona y equipo organizador en este camino, nos
alegra lanzar los Talleres para Organizadoras y Organizadores de las
Jornadas de Educación Popular para el Próximo Sistema (Next System Teach-Ins
)
Esta serie de talleres dinámicos ofrecerá información, herramientas y
estrategias, así como espacios para conversar sobre ideas, hacer preguntas
y conectarse con otras personas mientras planificas tu jornada educativa
popular local o Teach-In. Cada taller abordará un tema específico
relacionado con coordinar, diseñar y llevar a cabo estas jornadas de
formas que no solo energicen e inspiren a tu campus y comunidad, sino que
también forjen relaciones significativas y ayuden a revelar conocimientos,
habilidades y energías clave para construir el próximo sistema donde tú
vives.
A continuación, encontrarás los detalles del primer taller, así como la
lista completa de la serie.
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Taller 1: Lecciones desde el Territorio: Reflexiones de personas
organizadoras de las Jornadas Educación Popular del Próximo Sistema en 2025
Viernes, 24 de abril de 2026
12:00–1:15 pm (ET)
(con 15 minutos adicionales opcionales para quienes deseen quedarse más
tiempo)
A medida que crece el impulso hacia las Jornadas Educativas de abril de
2027, conéctate y aprende de personas organizadoras locales que dieron
forma a estas jornadas en noviembre de 2025 en las Américas.
Ofreceremos interpretación simultánea (ES–EN–ES).
Inscripción y más detalles
<https://nextsystem.org/next-system-teach-ins-organizer-workshops-lessons-fr…>
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¡RESERVA LAS FECHAS!
Serie completa de Jornadas de Educación Popular para el Próximo Sistema
2026–2027
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24 de abril de 2026 – Lecciones desde el Territorio: Reflexiones de
personas organizadoras sobre los Next System Teach-Ins 2025
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26 de junio de 2026 – ¿Por qué los Next System Teach-Ins?
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28 de agosto de 2026 – Primeros pasos prácticos para organizar tu
Teach-In
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30 de octubre de 2026 – Organización amplia e inclusiva: campus,
escuelas y universidades
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18 de diciembre de 2026 – Construyendo coaliciones diversas y
organización inclusiva
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26 de febrero de 2027 – Educación popular y herramientas de facilitación
liberadora
Sabemos que muchos y muchas de ustedes ya cuentan con acceso a una amplia
riqueza de prácticas y recursos poderosos. Un objetivo clave de esta serie
es reunir esos recursos y experiencias en una biblioteca compartida de
conocimientos prácticos.
Te invitamos a ayudar a fortalecer esta ola oportuna de innovación y
alianzas, impulsada localmente y conectada a nivel global, compartiendo
esta invitación con tus redes.
Para inspiración e ideas,, te invitamos a visitar la Guía de Organización
<https://nextsystem.org/organizing-guide/>, las Convergencias del Next
System <https://nextsystem.org/convergences/> y los videos de la ola de
noviembre de 2025
<https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrFE8GFuZltH-PVGB2GLLQPEHZXKDrHsC>
Esperamos verte en el taller de inicio el 24 de abril — inscríbete hoy
<https://nextsystem.org/next-system-teach-ins-organizer-workshops-lessons-fr…>
para reservar tu lugar.
Con aprecio y en solidaridad,
Deissy Perilla
En nombre del equipo del Center for Next System Studies
*Deissy Perilla Daza, PhD*
Anthropologist
Next System Teach-ins Coordinator at Center for Next System Studies
<https://nextsystem.gmu.edu/cnss>
Popular Educator at PACC <https://lbpce.ca/fr/pacc-vocational-training/>
Linkedin <http://www.linkedin.com/in/deissy-perilla-phd-aa0758a3>
(438)2291680
Montreal
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Fw: [GTA] WEAVING ALTERNATIVES #19: A periodical of the Global Tapestry of Alternatives
by vasna.ramasar 08 Apr '26
by vasna.ramasar 08 Apr '26
08 Apr '26
The second edition of the learning and education GTA periodical is out!
I would like to invite anyone interested in continuing to contribute on these topics to please reach out. Bea and I will be proposing a project of compiling and extending the pieces of the periodical so please watch this space :-)
For now a lot of energy is going towards the 2nd Physical assembly which takes place in Indonesia next week. We will report back after the Assembly.
Best
Vasna
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From: Global Tapestry of Alternatives <global-tapestry-alternatives-observers(a)lists.riseup.net>
Date: On Wednesday, April 8th, 2026 at 1:35 AM
Subject: [GTA] WEAVING ALTERNATIVES #19: A periodical of the Global Tapestry of Alternatives
To: GTA Observers <global-tapestry-alternatives-observers(a)lists.riseup.net>
> WEAVING ALTERNATIVES #19:
> A periodical of the Global Tapestry of Alternatives
>
> LEARNING AND EDUCATION II
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> APRIL 2026
>
> The contents of this periodical are also available online on [this webpage](https://globaltapestryofalternatives.org/newsletters:19:index).
>
> https://globaltapestryofalternatives.org/newsletters:19:index
>
> Dear Readers,
>
> We are delighted to share with you the 19th edition of the[GTA](https://globaltapestryofalternatives.org/definitions#term-gta)Peri…. In this edition, we continue to engage with learning and education drawing from the work of the Learning and Education Thematic Group within the GTA.
>
> This periodical comes out as we face the dismantling of global systems of human rights, governance and international law. These are taking place through violent geopolitical games that are destroying lives, livelihoods and lands from Cuba to Venezuela, Gaza to Iran and beyond. As we see the collapse of the Master’s house as Audre Lourde names it, the hypocrisy beneath the unequal integration of countries and communities into a racialized international order is being laid bare. Political struggles are being mobilized across localities, and learning and (political) education are core to these projects. We need to reimagine learning as inseparable from the work of liberation. Learning, in this sense, is not an institutional activity but anemancipatory practice,something that unfolds in the everyday, in relationships, in the ways communities sustain and transform themselves. As learners and teachers, I would like to believe that we are also groovetenders asWangũi wa Kamonjidescribes in her beautiful poem. As noted in the recent GTA webinar “[Learning as Freedom](https://globaltapestryofalternatives.org/events:2026_learning_in_f…, this is what “weaving” seeks to do: connect diverse knowledges, practices and struggles into a living fabric of alternatives. The issue presents the key messages emerging from that encounter.
>
> In this edition of the periodical which is the second to focus on learning and education, we offer a collection of pieces that speak to this topic.Chaitali Chaudharioffers a reflection on how initiatives such as AlternativesDecentres and Alternatives Courses emerging from the living landscape of Vikalp Sangam, a GTA weaver, are an effort to listen, connect and learn from grounded practices. Similarly approaching learning from praxis,Xochitl Levya Solanoreflects on the learning that moves and mobilises, inspired by her participation in the encounter of women from Abya Yala to Kurdistan at the conference organized by the Network Women Weaving the Future held in Bogotá, Colombia this year. Similarly, in his intervention,Carlos Tornelshares his learning from visiting the Yes to Yasuni movement and presents the Radical Pedagogy of Yasuní. He notes that the pedagogy of Yasuní begins by reversing the dominant question. It is not only about “how to exit extractivism,” but about what kind of world we want to sustain once the extractive frontier closes, and with what institutions, care, and economies we make it possible. Thinking beyond the human experience,Salvador Vásquez Banda and Beatriz von SaengerHernández propose the creation of the post-humanist research and experimentation assemblage,[remanso](https://sites.google.com/ensambleremanso.net/remanso-e… space to learn to relate in a different way, to learn with the non-human, unlearning the logics of domination. However it is not only from the grassroots and praxis that learning happens and in our last article,The Alternatives Projectwhich works within university education offers a dialogue on how transformative educational alternatives can be facilitated. Finally we are gifted by another poem on Generational reckonings byWangũi wa Kamonjireminding us all that we do not walk this path alone.
>
> Whilst the pieces above focus on learning and education, these practices are inseparable from the wider work of world-building. From this issue we are introducing a section that captures the essence of some of the conversations and gatherings which you may have missed attending. GTA, in its own way, has been creating and engaging in spaces that weave together ideas, experiences, and practices. At its core is an effort to hold open a pluriversal political space in a time of deep uncertainty; to recover languages of dignity and struggle that have been buried, and to bring diverse practices of autonomy, care, territorial rootedness, and collective imagination into conversation without flattening their differences.
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> We leave this periodical with you as both reflection and invitation; as many within the GTA prepare to gather in Indonesia for the second in-person Assembly of the Global Tapestry of Alternatives from 11–18 April 2026. It is in such spaces that we continue to learn together, and to build, step by step, the worlds we know are possible. We invite you to walk with us.
>
> In case, you would like to get this periodical directly into your inbox then join our[mailing list](https://globaltapestryofalternatives.org/contact)and keep an eye on the future[events](https://globaltapestryofalternatives.org/events:index). In solidarity,
>
> Guest editor:Vasna Ramasar
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> Editorial team:Madhuresh Kumar, Beatriz von Sanger and Franco Augusto.
>
> Periodical Articles
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> https://globaltapestryofalternatives.org/newsletters:19:groovetenders
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> groovetenders
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> Wangui wa Kamnoji
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> “Imagine winning, this is your sacred task.”
>
> My sacred task: to know the wound, so I can know it healed,
>
> [Keep reading ->](https://globaltapestryofalternatives.org/newsletters:19:groovetenders)
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> https://globaltapestryofalternatives.org/newsletters:19:reimagining
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> Reimagining Learning Through Alternatives Decentres
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> Chaitali Chaudhari
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> We are in a moment where many of the assumptions that shaped our societies are beginning to come undone. Ecological limits are becoming impossible to ignore; inequalities are sharpening; democratic spaces are shrinking; and there is a growing sense that the ways we have organised our economies, institutions and knowledge systems are no longer tenable. These are not isolated disruptions but part of a deeper, structural crisis in how we have come to live and learn.
>
> [Keep reading ->](https://globaltapestryofalternatives.org/newsletters:19:reimagining)
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> https://globaltapestryofalternatives.org/newsletters:19:xochitlleyva
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> Lessons from Kurdistan to Abya Yala and vice versa. “The Twenty-First Century is the Century of Women…”
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> Xochitl Leyva Solano
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> This article is about what we learned from participating in the women's conference held in Bogotá, Colombia. Women's movements have been our school. There, we learn and unlearn collectively and together. This text begins by discussing the global context and then addresses what we did and why in these times of violence, horror, and war, but also of embodied and situated hope.
>
> [Keep reading ->](https://globaltapestryofalternatives.org/newsletters:19:xochitlleyva)
>
> https://globaltapestryofalternatives.org/newsletters:19:yasuni
>
> Yasunizing Territories (or the Radical Pedagogy of the Yasuní)
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> Carlos Tornel
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> From November 29 to December 5, I had the honor of accompanying a large delegation of organizations and experts to Yasuní National Park in Ecuador. The visit to Block 16 allowed us to confirm how, two years after the Popular Consultation in which this country voted Yes for Yasuní, and after a second consultation in 2025 that ratified the current Constitution with its plurinational character and its recognition of the rights of nature, the Ecuadorian government has deliberately ignored its obligation to halt oil extraction and to dismantle, repair, and provide redress to the territories affected in Block 43, known as Yasuní–ITT.
>
> [Keep reading ->](https://globaltapestryofalternatives.org/newsletters:19:yasuni)
>
> https://globaltapestryofalternatives.org/newsletters:19:remanso
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> Evoking the non-human: the seminar as an ecotone for more-than-human learning
>
> Beatriz von Saenger Hernández and Salvador Vásquez Banda
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> Our research and experimentation practice has focused on reading circles, in-person workshops, conference organization, dérives, and seminars; we have tried to reflect on the sensibilities that emerge in an (un)expected world, and that we evoke toward more-than-human worlds . The International Seminar on Post-Humanist Art and Research “Evoking the Non-Human” was a gesture that began as a pause and has become a territory of shared knowledge that preserves more-than-human archives. So far, we have launched two editions, one in 2024 and another in 2025, with the need to open up a time-space amid contemporary turbulence, in which 18 artists and researchers from six Latin American countries have shared concerns, affections, and resonances of relationships situated with the non-human in their territories. This essay is born out of that process.
>
> [Keep reading ->](https://globaltapestryofalternatives.org/newsletters:19:remanso)
>
> https://globaltapestryofalternatives.org/newsletters:19:tap
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> Amid the Polycrisis, How can we Facilitate Educational Alternatives for Societal Transformation?
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> The Alternatives Project (TAP)
>
> The coauthors of the present article are all members of The Alternatives Project (TAP). Founded in 2019, TAP is a diverse, transnational collective of progressive academics, union members, civil society activists, and social movement participants working on creating a global critical voice focused on education and societal transformation. We see societal transformation as an essential response to the global polycrisis manifested by the convergence of poverty, inequality, climate breakdown, pandemics, rampant violence, war, and democratic erosion, all driven by structures of capitalism, racism, patriarchy, ableism and militarism.
>
> [Keep reading ->](https://globaltapestryofalternatives.org/newsletters:19:tap)
>
> https://globaltapestryofalternatives.org/newsletters:19:generationalreck
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> generational reckonings
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> Wangui wa Kamonji
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> let me step into the ruins of your dreams
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> alongside you,
>
> [Keep reading ->](https://globaltapestryofalternatives.org/newsletters:19:generationalreck)
>
> https://globaltapestryofalternatives.org/newsletters:19:eventintro_19
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> Event Reports
>
> Taken together, GTA conversations, presentations and interventions in allied spaces reveal something central to its work: trying to hold open a pluriversal political space in a time of collapse, to recover languages of dignity and struggle that dominant systems have buried, and to bring scattered practices of autonomy, care, territorial rootedness, and collective dreaming into a shared conversation without flattening their differences.
>
> [Full Editorial Introduction to the Event Reports Section available here ->](https://globaltapestryofalternatives.org/newsletters:19:eventintro_19)
>
> Solidarity and Wellbeing Economy in Conversation
>
> Crisis surrounds us from all sides, climate breakdown, obscene inequality, deepening violence and exhaustion. In this context, to discuss solidarity, wellbeing and economy is more necessary than ever. So, on March 26, GTA Solidarity Economy Thematic Group and the Wellbeing Economy Alliance organised a conversation between the two concepts, starting with the simple question: are solidarity economy and wellbeing economy the same?
>
> [Keep reading ->](https://globaltapestryofalternatives.org/newsletters:19:economyevent)
>
> Learning in Freedom: Weaving Knowledge, Unlearning Power
>
> Our minds and imaginations are shackled by dominant neo-liberal education systems reducing learning to skills, productivity, and market alignment. In response, for years, a different conversation has also been taking shape across movements and communities. One that shifts the question from what do we learn? to something far more fundamental: how do we learn, and with whom? The session “Learning in Freedom: Building a Tapestry of Radical Alternatives”, held as part of the Re-imagining Education Conference5.0, brought together practitioners, activists, and thinkers from across the Global Tapestry of Alternatives (GTA) to explore precisely this terrain.
>
> [Keep reading ->](https://globaltapestryofalternatives.org/newsletters:19:learningevent)
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> Reclaiming Words, Reclaiming Worlds - The Dictionary of Radical Alternatives
>
> In a moment marked not only by ecological collapse and political fragmentation, but by a deeper erosion of meaning itself, GTA’s Dictionary of Radical Alternatives launch event was an invitation to rethink the very language through which we understand the world, and to collectively reclaim the words that shape it.
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> [Keep reading ->](https://globaltapestryofalternatives.org/newsletters:19:dictionaryevent)
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> Rethinking the world with Iván Illich and Gustavo Esteva
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> The webinar, organised by the Global Tapestry of Alternatives along with the Acervus Project and CEDI in Oaxaca, unfolded as both a commemorative and forward-looking space. Framed around the commemoration of Ivan Illich’s centenary, it brought together reflections on his work alongside Gustavo Esteva, also commemorating 90 years of his birth and situating both within contemporary crises and struggles.
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> [Keep reading ->](https://globaltapestryofalternatives.org/newsletters:19:rethinkingevent)
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> https://globaltapestryofalternatives.org/newsletters:19:weavers19
>
> Updates from our Weavers
>
> The Global Tapestry of Alternatives is a “network of networks”. Each of those networks acts in different parts of the planet by identifying and connecting Alternatives. They are the Weavers. In the following section, our Weavers, the networks that currently weaves it, from India, South-East Asia, Colombia, and Mexico shares updates from their recent activities and actions.
>
> [Full Weavers’ report available here->](https://globaltapestryofalternatives.org/newsletters:19:weavers19)
>
> Vikalp Sangam (India)
>
> Over the past few months, the Vikalp Sangam process has continued to move across regions and themes, bringing together diverse practices and reflections on alternatives. These are part of ongoing efforts to deepen conversations around well-being, justice, ecology, culture, and self-governance, while staying rooted in people’s lived realities.
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> Crianza Mutua México
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> At Crianza Mutua México, the past couple of months, especially February and March, have been a period of looking inward while also preparing ourselves for what lies ahead. We have been trying to better understand who we are as a collective and how we hold our work together. As part of this, we put together a detailed directory of all those who are part of this process; collectives, organisations, movements and networks. This itself became a collective exercise. A small group gathered the messages that each collective had written and requested images, while another group worked on bringing all of this into a visual form. What has emerged from this process are materials that we will carry with us to Indonesia for the Assembly in April.
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> MASSA
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> Over the past months, MASSA has been moving through a quieter phase in terms of collective planning, as preparations for the upcoming strategy meeting in Malaysia. At the same time, members continue to be engaged in field-based work across different territories, sustaining the grounded and relational processes that shape the network.
>
> In parallel, UPCIDS Alternative Development is co-organizing theInternational Study Conference on Autonomous Social Science and Alternative Development, in collaboration with faculty members and scholars from Institut Pertanian Bogor (IPB) University. The conference will take place in Bogor, Indonesia, from May 21 to 23, and is envisioned as a space to deepen dialogues around autonomous knowledge production and alternative development pathways.
>
> Updates from our Endorsers
>
> An[Endorser](https://globaltapestryofalternatives.org/:definitions#term-End… an organization, collective or thematic network that publicly expresses its support to the GTA process, and is aligned to its vision and values.Endorsersare invited by, or when self-invited, endorsed by, the Facilitation Team, and then approved by the Assembly.
>
> [Learn more about Endorsers](https://globaltapestryofalternatives.org/endorsements:index)
>
> May First Movement Technology
>
> May First Movement Technology continues to deepen its work at a time when the politics of technology have become sharper and more urgent. For over two decades, May First has been building internet infrastructure rooted in collaboration, autonomy, and movement needs. Today, that work is taking on new significance as Big Tech companies are increasingly entangled in systems of surveillance, militarisation, and control.
>
> [Keep reading ->](https://globaltapestryofalternatives.org/newsletters:19:mfmt)
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> Thank you for reading!
>
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