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[GTA] 4th June |3PM GMT | Webinar: "The Covid Crisis in Chile and Community Alternatives from Below"
by Shrishtee Bajpai 26 May '21

26 May '21

Dear all, Join us for our next GTA webinar. Registration details below. *Alternatives in Pandemic Times: Resistance, Recovery and Re-Existence *- a Webinar series The Covid Crisis in Chile and Community Alternatives from Below with *Katia Valenzuela Fuentes* (Chile) ------------------------------ *Friday 4th June - 3:00 PM *(UTC/GMT) In October 2019, Chile experienced one of its most significant uprisings. People demanded the end of neoliberalism, while hundreds of grassroots organizations and local assemblies emerged. During the Covid crisis, the Government's response has favoured the market over people, denying them basic social protection and food security. However, grassroots organisations are actively trying to tackle poverty with popular solidarity and mutual aid. In this webinar, we will explore some of these local experiences, their strategies, challenges and contributions to radical social transformation. More information <https://globaltapestryofalternatives.org/webinars:2021:02> Direct access to the session <https://globaltapestryofalternatives.org/webinars/live/> About the presenters *Katia Valenzuela-Fuentes* is an assistant professor at the Department of Sociology, Universidad de Concepción, Chile, researcher at the Centre for Sustainable Urban Development – CEDEUS Chile and activist scholar. Her main research interests include political sociology, social movements, autonomous politics, urban sociology, participatory action research and critical epistemologies. For 20 years she has been involved in several autonomous groups in Chile and has contributed to a number of campaigns in solidarity with Latin American social movements. ------------------------------ Our past webinar sessions videos are available in this link <https://globaltapestryofalternatives.org/webinars>. Global Tapestry of Alternatives <https://globaltapestryofalternatives.org> contact(a)globaltapestryofalternatives.org To subscribe and get our updates, visit this link <https://globaltapestryofalternatives.org/contact> --- To unsubscribe from this list, send an email to this address: global-tapestry-alternatives-observers-unsubscribe(a)lists.riseup.net

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Fwd: Alternative Worldviews: SHARING LIFE The Ecopolitics Of Reciprocity Online Book Launch
by Shrishtee Bajpai 25 May '21

25 May '21

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: alternative-worldviews <alternative-worldviews(a)in.boell.org> Date: Sun, May 23, 2021 at 2:39 PM Subject: Alternative Worldviews: SHARING LIFE The Ecopolitics Of Reciprocity Online Book Launch To: *Recording available* *Alternative Worldviews: SHARING LIFE The Ecopolitics Of Reciprocity Online Book Launch* Thank you for expressing interest in the online book launch for Alternative Worldviews: SHARING LIFE The Ecopolitics Of Reciprocity which took place on Friday, April 22 and focused on the various facets of a common ecological future and sharing of worldviews by the contributor to this assemblage. In case you have missed the live event or would like to revisit the discussion, we have made available the recording of the launch on our YOUTUBE Channel. <https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpI1UgWfrB7BwJaGkBVeW2g> If you like to hear, the audio podcast is available on our SOUNDCLOUD <https://soundcloud.com/hbsdelhi/alternative-worldviews-book-launch-podcast> . Watch Recording <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtZQqNau-v4> Order Book <https://www.boell.de/en/2021/04/14/sharing-life-ecopolitics-reciprocity?dim…> *FOR BOOK ORDERS : Book Shop Link <https://www.boell.de/en/2021/04/14/sharing-life-ecopolitics-reciprocity>* *Please note:* For *shipments within India*, kindly write to alternative-worldviews(a)in.boell.org with your name, address, mobile no. and order requirement (maximum 2 per order). Terms & Condition for orders within India: 1. The book is free of cost and shipping charges will be borne by hbs New Delhi Regional Office unless otherwise. 2. Any commercial use of the book including reselling is prohibited. 3. The order can be cancelled due to unavailability of stock or service by hbs New Delhi Regional Office. 4. Due to the ongoing pandemic, the delivery might take more time than usual. Kindly have patience. Otherwise the e-book can be downloaded from the link above. 5. A maximum of 2 copies can be ordered. If you require a larger quantity, kindly contact us at alternative-worldviews(a)in.boell.org. Kindly follow us here: [image: Facebook] <https://www.facebook.com/india.boell> [image: Twitter] <https://www.twitter.com/boell_India> [image: Instagram] <https://www.instagram.com/boell_in/> Copyright © 2021 Heinrich Böll Stiftung Regional Office, New Delhi All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you registered to attend For Alternative Worldviews: SHARING LIFE The Ecopolitics Of Reciprocity Online Book Launch. -- Shrishtee Bajpai Kalpavriksh/Vikalp Sangam/Global Tapestry of Alternatives/Rights of Rivers South Asia http://kalpavriksh.org www.vikalpsangam.org www.radicalecologicaldemocracy.org www.globaltapestryofalternatives.org https://rorsa.org/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/shrishtee?s=03 Insta: https://www.instagram.com/shrishtee.bajpai/

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Educating for the Future We Want
by singhvan＠rcn.com 24 May '21

24 May '21

Dear Friends, Some of you may be interested in this series of short essays that just came out, which constitute a conversation around the theme of Educating for the Future We Want. https://greattransition.org/gti-forum/pedagogy-transition There are some authors that would be familiar to people on these lists! And one piece is from me. Apologies for any cross-posting. Thanks, Vandana

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Join today the Opening Session of AEPF13 ! Monday, 17 May at 10 am CET /4pm Manila --- with Jeremy Corbyn, Vandana Shiva et al
by tina ebro 17 May '21

17 May '21

*apologies if cross-posting* *[image: Webinar banner]* *Dear Friends, * *Please join the Opening Session of AEPF13 today, Monday, 17th May at 10 am CET* *entitled RESISTANCE, SOLIDARITY and NETWORKING* *with Vandana Shiva, Jeremy Corbyn, Lidy Nacpil, Charles Santiago, Shui Meng Ng and Sai Sam Kham. * *Moderated by Hilary Wainwright and Hamid Mir.* *To join, please register and get link: https://bit.ly/3tzYpCS <https://bit.ly/3tzYpCS>* *=======================================* *ABOUT AEPF* The Asia Europe People’s Forum (AEPF) is a strategic civil society network of Asian and European social movements, non-governmental organisations and campaign networks that are confronting poverty and inequality and working for social, economic and climate justice. We are committed to opening up new venues for dialogue, solidarity and action in an inclusive and democratic way and to building more inclusive voice, influence and access. *Tina Ebro* *Co-Coordinator for Asia* *Asia-Europe People's Forum (AEPF) * *c/o Institute for Popular Democracy (IPD)* *www.aepf.info <http://www.aepf.info>*

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JOIN! AEPF13 Session: Converging Alternatives from Asia & Europe
by Angging Aban 15 May '21

15 May '21

*Why Regionalism from Below and Cross-border Solidarity?* JOIN: AEPF 13: *Converging Alternatives from Asia and Europe towards Alternative Regionalism and People-to-People Solidarity, * Date: 18th May 2021 Tuesday Time: 12:30 PM CET | 4:00 PM India, Sri Lanka | 5:30 PM Jakarta, Thailand, Vietnam | 6:30 PM Philippines, Malaysia, Hongkong | 5PM Myanmar | 7:30PM Timor Leste, Japan, Korea Register here: https://tinyurl.com/AltRegAEPF13 <https://tinyurl.com/AltRegAEPF13?fbclid=IwAR2ejisYBvhdPSQ3z9KnHxSM2LcVTqFp6…> The diverse modalities of the global crisis intensified by the COVID-19 pandemic provided a space for communities, through their alternative and sustainable practices, to demonstrate cross-border solidarity, resistance, resilience, and collective action. There are multitudes of successful people-led alternative practices in these two regions- Asia and Europe, that deserve substantial attention and support. FB post: https://www.facebook.com/LawanUPAltDev/posts/302586274910129 FB event page: https://fb.me/e/ATGHIQjj Twitter post: https://twitter.com/Lawan_UPAltDev/status/1393164149648019465?s=20 <https://twitter.com/Lawan_UPAltDev/status/1393164149648019465?s=20&fbclid=I…> [image: AEPF13 Poster 2- low res.jpg] See you then! Regards, Angging *Ananeza Aban, MCD* Senior Program Officer Program on Alternative Development (AltDev) University of the Philippines | Center for Integrative and Development Studies *Ang Bahay ng Alumni, Lower Ground Floor * *Magsaysay Ave., UP Diliman, Q.C. 1101 Philippines* *Tel. nos.: 981-8500 loc. 4266-4267 & 435-9283* *Tel. fax: 981-8500 loc. 4268 & 426-0955* *Website: cids.up.edu.ph <http://cids.up.edu.ph>* *Facebook page: www.facebook.com/upcids*

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Fwd: Uno de sus trabajos ha sido citado recientemente en Teoría de la Educación. Revista Interuniversitaria
by Ashish Kothari 14 May '21

14 May '21

-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: Uno de sus trabajos ha sido citado recientemente en Teoría de la Educación. Revista Interuniversitaria Date: Thu, 13 May 2021 19:31:22 +0200 From: ALBERTO SANCHEZ ROJO <asanchezrojo(a)ucm.es> To: ALBERTO SANCHEZ ROJO <asanchezrojo(a)ucm.es> Estimado profesor, estimada profesora: Tengo el placer de adjuntarle el link a un artículo recientemente publicado en la revista /Teoría de la Educación. Revista Interuniversitaria <http://revistas.usal.es/index.php/1130-3743/issue/current/showToc>/ (LA EDUCACIÓN EN EL ANTROPOCENO. POSIBILISMO VERSUS UTOPÍA) donde se cita uno de sus trabajos: https://revistas.usal.es/index.php/1130-3743/article/view/teri.25375 <https://revistas.usal.es/index.php/1130-3743/article/view/teri.25375> Un cordial saludo, Alberto Sánchez Rojo Editor Asistente TERI -- Dr. Alberto Sánchez Rojo Profesor Ayudante Doctor Secretario Académico del Departamento de Estudios Educativos Editor asistente de Teoría de la Educación. Revista Interuniversitaria. Despacho 3208 Facultad de Educación - Centro de Formación del Profesorado

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Fwd: The Pedagogy of Transition: Educating for the Future We Want
by Ashish Kothari 14 May '21

14 May '21

Friends, this set of essays may be of interest. fore more, pl. write to Jonathan, cc'd here ... do not write back on lists. ashish -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: The Pedagogy of Transition: Educating for the Future We Want Date: Thu, 13 May 2021 17:30:03 +0000 From: Paul Raskin - Great Transition Initiative <gti(a)greattransition.org> Reply-To: Paul Raskin - Great Transition Initiative <gti(a)greattransition.org> To: ashishkothari(a)riseup.net The Pedagogy of Transition: Educating for the Future We Want GTI Bulletin - May 2021 View in browser <https://mailchi.mp/greattransition/the-pedagogy-of-transition-educating-for…> <https://greattransition.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=200b309cd11b2c2d…> GTI Bulletin May 2021 Dear friends, Our new GTI Forum, The Pedagogy of Transition <https://greattransition.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=200b309cd11b2c2d…>, explores how to align education with emerging social and ecological imperatives. The times call for approaches that cultivate integrated knowledge and global citizenship, while preparing students for curious, well-informed, big-hearted lives. Instead, we continue to educate for a world we don’t want. Forward-looking educators confront the challenge at two levels: long-term efforts to adapt educational systems for a changing world and the near-term work creating alternative curricula and pedagogies within existing systems. The Forum is thus divided into two panels, *Frameworks* and *Practices*. The first appraises the state of education today, the factors maintaining its deficiencies, and strategies for its reformation. The second reports on the kinds of innovations already in the classroom (and beyond) that point the way forward. 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The Pluriversity for stuck humxns: A queer EcoPedagogy & Decolonial School
by Shrishtee Bajpai 07 May '21

07 May '21

Dear all, Sharing with you all a collaborative chapter (pdf attached below) written by 20 authors from across the world imagining the Pluriversity for stuck humxns-*Queer Ecopedagogies: Explorations in Nature, Sexuality, and Education*, 183. Take a look, share your comments and pass it on if you like it :) For more info contact Dylan McGarry (cc’d here) best wishes, shrishtee -- Shrishtee Bajpai Kalpavriksh/Vikalp Sangam/Global Tapestry of Alternatives/Rights of Rivers South Asia http://kalpavriksh.org www.vikalpsangam.org www.radicalecologicaldemocracy.org www.globaltapestryofalternatives.org https://rorsa.org/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/shrishtee?s=03 Insta: https://www.instagram.com/shrishtee.bajpai/

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Gender and sexuality in the neoliberal University: online conference, 27-28 May 2021
by Davis, Laurence 04 May '21

04 May '21

Dear all, The following online conference may be of interest to list members. The registration link (deadline of 25th May) is here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/gender-and-sexuality-in-the-neoliberal-unive… Further information: https://igsrcdmu393330702.wordpress.com/annual-conference/ Kind regards, Laurence -- GENDER AND SEXUALITY IN THE NEOLIBERAL UNIVERSITY Interdisciplinary Gender and Sexuality Research Cluster De Montfort University, Online Conference, 27-28 May 2021 Website link: https://igsrcdmu393330702.wordpress.com/annual-conference/ THURSDAY 27 MAY UK time 9.30-9.40 Welcome Address Michela Baldo (University of Birmingham) and Marion Krauthaker (De Montfort University) 9.40-9.55 Conference Opening Jo Richardson (De Montfort University) 10.00-11.15 KEYNOTE LECTURE 1 Chair: Richard Hall (De Montfort University) Lisa Blackman (Goldsmith University): _Dis-ordering and estrangement in the neoliberal university: a crisis intervention_. 11-15-11.45 Coffee break 11.45-1.15 FINDING A PLACE Chair: Lidia Salvatori (University of Leicester) Karolina Krasuska, Ludmiła Janion & Marta Usiekniewicz (University of Warsaw): _Gender Studies under Review: Paradoxes of Academic Evaluation in Peripheral Neoliberalism and Illiberal Isolationism_. Mireille Rebeiz (Dickinson College): _Teaching While Arab in the United__ States of America. The pressures experienced by untenured women of color teaching in America in and outside the classroom._ Alena Sander (University of Louvain): _Producing knowledge with care. Building mutually caring researcher-research participants relationships_. 1.15—2.15 Lunch Break 2.15-3.15 GUEST OF HONOUR LECTURE Chair: Marion Krauthaker (De Montfort University) Micheline Sheehy Skeffington (National University of Ireland, Galway): _Taking on an Irish university with neoliberal values; winning my gender equality case and how it went viral._ 3.15-3.45 MARKETISATION AND RESISTANCE Chair: Michela Baldo (University of Birmingham) Lili Schwoerer (London School of Economics): _Pushing against and moving beyond institutional regulation – Feminist knowledge production and utopian imaginaries._ Joanna Chojnicka & Łukasz Pakuła (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland): _When the obligation to be neutral becomes the right to discriminate: discursive struggles over LGBTQIA+ rights at Polish universities._ FRIDAY 28 MAY 9.30-10.30 GENDER PRESSURE, GENDER VIOLENCE Chair: Nicole Fayard (University of Leicester) Barbara Biglia (Universitat Rovira I Virgili), Itziar Gandarias Goikoetxea (Univerisad de Deusto), Pilar Parra Contreras (Universidad Compultense de Madrid) & Luz Martinez (Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona): S_ame roots, different experience: Visibilising and measuring intersectional effects on Gender-Related Violence within the neoliberal university._ Anna Hush (University of New South Wales, Australia): _In the belly of the beast: Feminist resistance to sexual violence in the Australian neoliberal University._ 10.30-11.00 Coffee Break 11-12.15 KEYNOTE LECTURE 2 Chair: Federica Formato (The University of Brighton) Helen Sauntson (York St John University): _Language, gender and sexuality in the neoliberal academy: Contributions from applied linguistics_. 12.15-2.00 Lunch Break 2.00-3.30 PRODUCING KNOWLEDGE OUTSIDE THE UNIVERSITY Chair: Michela Baldo (University of Birmingham) Elia A.G. Arfini (CRAAAZI, Bologna (IT)/University of Milan): _Performing the Institution, perverting the Academia, reproducing struggles._ Elspeth Mitchell (University of Leeds) & Lenka Vráblíková (University of South Africa, UNISA): _Out of Office: Mychorrizal Encounters and feminist paths through/beyond the University_. Carlotta Cossutta & Elisa Virgili (Università del Piemonte Orientale): _Teaching Gender in Prison._ 3.30-4.00 Coffee Break 4.00-5.15 ROUND TABLE Chair: Michela Baldo (University of Birmingham) and Marion Krauthaker (De Montfort University) In conversation with the contributors of Spaccademia (Le Nine, Beatrice Gusmano, Elena Pavan, Gruppo Femminismi Pisa).

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[GTA] GTA's Newsletter #04 - May 2021
by Shrishtee Bajpai 04 May '21

04 May '21

Dear all, Here is the fourth issue of Global Tapestry of Alternatives newsletter bringing in news and updates from around the world on transformative alternatives and processes. Take a look and share among your networks. Best, Shrishtee (On behalf of GTA core team) GTA's Newsletter #04 - May 2021 *The contents of this newsletter are also available online in this webpage <https://globaltapestryofalternatives.org/newsletters:04:index>.* Editorial Dear readers, It is our pleasure to share Global Tapestry of Alternatives' third newsletter with you. The Global Tapestry of Alternatives or GTA as a process or a dialogue began in 2014 and was officially launched in the year 2019. The Global Tapestry of Alternatives seeks to build bridges between networks of Alternatives around the globe and promote the creation of new processes of confluence. You can know more about the project, in our introductory note. This newsletter comes to you at times of immense uncertainties that pose very serious challenges and have social, economic, political, cultural and ecological implications for most of us. The attempt of this newsletter is to bring to you the news, perspectives, thoughts, ideas, reflections, and dialogues on alternatives to the current dominant regime. Importantly, what can do they offer us as pathways towards just, equitable and ecologically wise futures. It is a humble attempt to bring together the collective envisioning of these pluriversal alternatives by creating a space for sharing and dialoguing. We intend to share this newsletter every two months to share perspectives, news on activities being seeded through GTA, as well as perspectives/news/thoughts/questions from tapestry weavers and endorsing organisations and networks. We do not see it as a newsletter that is simply a conglomeration of news/updates but rather as a process of knowing each-others' work, engaging with ideas, facilitating collaborations and initiating co-writing and co-learning processes. Yes, the objectives are ambitious and that is why we need your support, your contributions and engagement. We invite you to this sharing, reflecting, dialoguing, healing, and envisioning space. This newsletter features updates from our weavers in India (Vikalp Sangam), Mexico (Crianza Mutua), and Colombia (Crianza Mutua), updates on GTA's activities, community responses and perspectives in these times from our endorsing networks- The African Earth Jurisprudence Collective, Global Alliance for Rights of Nature, Global Ecovillage Network, and a fascinating piece by eco-feminist Ariel Salleh. This newsletter is compiled by: Shrishtee Bajpai, Anna Hedin, Upamanyu Das and Franco Augusto. News from GTA Webinars and online activities Weaving Systemic Alternatives from the Global South *A conversation with the Global Tapestry of Alternatives, presented by EDGE Founders Alliance <https://edgefunders.org/>* May 11th 14:00- 15:30 UTC - Register now <https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_0WU9mM6sR5WfAtNGyq-RoQ> As the world struggles to find ways out of multiple global crises (ecological, climate, inequality, health), we need to heed myriad voices emerging from Indigenous Peoples and other local rural and urban communities. There are thousands of alternatives, grounded in specific ecological and socio-economic contexts, and based on diverse worldviews and ethics that are profoundly different from the currently dominant system. These alternatives cover the full range of human concerns, including food, water, health, education, livelihoods, governance, culture, justice, while attempting to sustain all life on earth. They are, however, often isolated and fragmented. There is a need to build more bridges amongst them to enable cross-cultural and cross-sectoral collaborations, mutual learning and critical engagement, collective envisioning of possible futures, and a critical mass for macro-change. The Global Tapestry of Alternatives (GTA) aims to be a non-hierarchical process, seeking to weave together myriad networks of alternatives across the world. Though formally initiated in 2019, it builds on much longer experience of related work by its constituents. The webinar will present this vision, illustrated by real-life experiences from various parts of the world, and the kind of actions being undertaken or proposed by GTA to achieve its objectives. The list of speakers from GTA includes Arturo Escobar (Colombia), Marta Music (ex-Yugoslavia); Alejandra Jiménez Ramírez (Mexico); Ashish Kothari (India) and Vasna Ramasar (South Africa). Feminist Alternatives to the "New Normality" Inspired by the work of community support networks of marginalized groups located on the peripheries of institutional power, the aim of this webinar is to explore feminist alternatives to the new normality which go beyond the State and policy recommendations. This activity will bring together members of different feminist movements, organizations and collectives from the “Global South” to continue amplifying grassroots feminist alternatives that emerged during the pandemic and collectively explore how to build and consolidate feminist economies and societies centered around care and the sustainability of life. This webinar took place on past March 13th. The video recording is available online in our website <https://globaltapestryofalternatives.org/webinars:2021:01>. News from the Weavers Vikalp Sangam updates In the month of December, the national core group of the VikalpSangam process (which includes 67 organisations and networks from all over India) met virtually to reflect on the year long activities of VS, how communities and networks are responding to crises, the proposals of holding gatherings of alternatives on various themes like health, disability, and data/privacy. The meeting was focused on reflecting on the VS process, its activities and its relevance in these exceptional times. A third youth alternatives confluence was organised online with about 30 to 35 youth and a few facilitators and speakers from across the country (all of whom may not fit into the classic definition of ‘youth’!).The confluence attempted to share hope, learn, dialogue, discuss and more; build friendships that we carry into the future. The three thematic sessions during the sangam were: Visioning Alternatives: Exploring what would make for an Alternative world - Sustainable Livelihoods and Resilience - Sustaining Movements and Building Synergies Updates from Crianzas Mutuas by *Patricia Botero-Gómez* and *Alejandra Jimenez* The process of mutual nurturing has been sharing knowledge, knowledge, solidarity between peoples, groups and communities in resistance. In the second meeting of mutual nurturing we shared with 38 groups linked to peoples, organizations and communities in processes of defense of life from the autonomic resistance, we formed learning communities with which we have been interacting in each of the bioregions and with some itineraries to the processes of each territory. Weaving from below has become one of the most forceful ways to create alternatives to mega-projects of development from the custody and care of the seeds, the same that allow us to heal ourselves and the earth. Likewise, we have strengthened the tapestry of different processes and paths with which we agree on the importance of strengthening communicative autonomies for counter-hegemonic purposes; share experiences from the Pluriveresities of on foot (Pluriversidades de a pie), guard the stories from the narratives of sisterhood, and the personal and communal, all of them as practices that we do to defend life, joy and dignity. In this way, with our tissues we try to suture broken intergenerational, socio-territorial and communal weavings, sharing our forms of action from our own experiences, beyond localism and globalism, is a source of co-inspiration for all worlds. Also, in recent months the pandemic has been a challenge that we have been facing, without ceasing to continue weaving and sharing our paths, by the means we have at our disposal today, seeking in the near future the possibility of having face-to-face meetings. We recently inaugurated our radio space, which we named “Crianza Mutua. Experiences of new worlds”, which we will be transmitting weekly through Radio Unitierra <http://giss.tv:8000/radiounitierra.mp3> and different friendly community radio stations such as Radio Padiushri. In this first transmission we had the interview of the independent editorial collective: “Fusilemos la noche”. We invite you to listen to it soon on Untierra's Sound Cloud Site <https://soundcloud.com/unitierra>. Updates from the endorsers New endorsers - African Biodiversity Network - International Network of Mountain Indigenous Peoples - MINGAnet (Colombia) - Alexander Dunlap, Centre for Development and the Environment, University of Oslo, Norway. - Martha Giraldo, Colombian, naturist, Coordinator for MINGAnet a network of networks to life care. The African Earth Jurisprudence Collective: Navigating towards a Resilient Future by *The African Earth Jurisprudence Collective* A new, uniquely African hope is emerging to counter threats to the continent’s most precious ecosystems and to revive ways of life that restore the relationship between communities and their lands and waters after centuries of colonial harm. The African Earth Jurisprudence Collective is made up of dedicated Earth Jurisprudence Practitioners from across East, West, Central and Southern Africa, working closely with The Gaia Foundation and the Siama Programme. Together they accompany local and Indigenous communities to put into practice African alternatives to the destructive industrial development model, helping to navigate towards a more resilient future for the continent. *Keep reading -> <https://globaltapestryofalternatives.org/newsletters:04:aejc>* Nature is alive, she has rights by *Natalia Greene* for Global Alliance for Rights of Nature Nature is alive, and she has the right to exist. This seems obvious; even a child wouldn’t question this assessment. Why then isn’t Nature rec-ognised as a subject of rights in local, national and global jurisprudence? The answer is that people are afraid that if Nature has rights, it will challenge corporate power and thereby the economy. However, it’s important to remember that the Latin root for ‘economy’ is eco, oikos, home, for our home. Our planet is at risk, and so are all her inhabitants. To regain the harmoni-ous balance, we need systemic change and recognising the rights of Nature is that ground-breaking paradigm shift. *Keep reading -> <https://globaltapestryofalternatives.org/newsletters:04:nature>* Building the New Normal by *Global Ecovillage Network* “Until living from a place of love within becomes the New Normal, our global problems that are symptoms of that love’s absence, will remain.” During this past year, we have heard the term “the New Normal” buzzing around in many countries around the world. It has generally been associated with social distancing, work from home, heightened hygiene, as well as empty roads, skyrocketing online shopping, and closed borders. *Keep reading -> <https://globaltapestryofalternatives.org/newsletters:04:gen>* Re-Worlding—with a Pluriversal New Deal by *Ariel Salleh* So where to start but with the Anthropocene, this non-sensical civilisation where the ‘means’ to life has overtaken ‘ends’. The Eurocentric fantasy of mastering nature has always been a problematic ontology. Ecologically minded feminists believe this ancient drive to power re-enacts a sublimated form of ‘mother killing’, allowing men to ‘birth themselves culturally’ without dependence on mysterious natural flows. In any event, pandemic anxieties have released a shadow epidemic of terror by men on to the bodies of women. French statistics show a 30-per-cent rise in domestic violence; in Australia the figure is said to be 50 per cent. *Keep reading -> <https://globaltapestryofalternatives.org/newsletters:04:ariel>* *Global Tapestry of Alternatives* *contact(a)globaltapestryofalternatives.org <contact(a)globaltapestryofalternatives.org>* To subscribe and get our updates, visit this link <https://globaltapestryofalternatives.org/contact> --- To unsubscribe from this list, send an email to this address: global-tapestry-alternatives-observers-unsubscribe(a)lists.riseup.net

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