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Kali Akuno, Sara Abbas, Mitzi Jonelle-Tan, Ruth Nyambura
Moderator: Hilary Wainwright
Twenty years ago, social movements were described by the New York Times as the world’s second superpower. What is the situation today? What victories have been won and what are our biggest challenges? Who are the emerging social movement actors and what capacity do they have to shift power in today’s global economy? What can we learn from the strategies and tactics deployed by movements? How can we turn protest into power and rhetoric into real systemic change?
00:00 PART I: Introduction
05:27 What makes the power of social movements unique or distinctive from other forms of power?
06:23 Kali Akuno
12:19 Sara Abbas
16:26 Ruth Nyambura
19:54 Part II: Individual presentations
20:02 Sara Abbas: The imagination and collective practices in Sudan’s ongoing revolution
38:53 Mitzi Jonelle-Tan: Fridays for Future and the voices of the global South.
50:57 Ruth Nyambura: Ecofeminism and the agrarian political economy in Africa and the global South.
1:04:11 Kali Akuno: Cooperative development alternatives and justice in the context of cities.
PART III: Discussion
1:19:51: Question to Sara Abbas: You talked about the committees not coming up with an alternative to economic models. Is that primarily due to a lack of access to resources? Or is it just a gap in the knowledge around creating alternatives?
1:25:05 Question to Mitzi: What kind of alliances and strategies are you developing, particularly in the context of repression, and whether the issue of economic alternatives is something to consider in the long term given that this will be a long-term struggle?
1:29:45 Comments by Sara Abbas
1:32:12 Question to Kali Akuno: Can you talk about the issue of empire?
1:39:49 PART IV: Q&A
1:40:19 Question to Sara Abbas: Could talk more about the prominent role that women have played in the Sudanese revolution?
1:45:10 Question to Ruth Nyambura: What do you think about AGRA and its influence on the UN Food System Summit?
1:47:36 PART V: Closing remarks
1:47:54 Question to all the panelists: Identities become a strategic resource in social movements. How do the panelists think about the identity as a strategic resource in building a pro-people movement where people across strata, social and cultural spheres can relate to the movement and participate actively?
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Kali Akuno, Sara Abbas, Mitzi Jonelle-Tan, Ruth Nyambura
Moderator: Hilary Wainwright
Twenty years ago, social movements were described by the New York Times as the world’s second superpower. What is the situation today? What victories have been won and what are our biggest challenges? Who are the emerging social movement actors and what capacity do they have to shift power in today’s global economy? What can we learn from the strategies and tactics deployed by movements? How can we turn protest into power and rhetoric into real systemic change?
00:00 PART I: Introduction
05:27 What makes the power of social movements unique or distinctive from other forms of power?
06:23 Kali Akuno
12:19 Sara Abbas
16:26 Ruth Nyambura
19:54 Part II: Individual presentations
20:02 Sara Abbas: The imagination and collective practices in Sudan’s ongoing revolution
38:53 Mitzi Jonelle-Tan: Fridays for Future and the voices of the global South.
50:57 Ruth Nyambura: Ecofeminism and the agrarian political economy in Africa and the global South.
1:04:11 Kali Akuno: Cooperative development alternatives and justice in the context of cities.
PART III: Discussion
1:19:51: Question to Sara Abbas: You talked about the committees not coming up with an alternative to economic models. Is that primarily due to a lack of access to resources? Or is it just a gap in the knowledge around creating alternatives?
1:25:05 Question to Mitzi: What kind of alliances and strategies are you developing, particularly in the context of repression, and whether the issue of economic alternatives is something to consider in the long term given that this will be a long-term struggle?
1:29:45 Comments by Sara Abbas
1:32:12 Question to Kali Akuno: Can you talk about the issue of empire?
1:39:49 PART IV: Q&A
1:40:19 Question to Sara Abbas: Could talk more about the prominent role that women have played in the Sudanese revolution?
1:45:10 Question to Ruth Nyambura: What do you think about AGRA and its influence on the UN Food System Summit?
1:47:36 PART V: Closing remarks
1:47:54 Question to all the panelists: Identities become a strategic resource in social movements. How do the panelists think about the identity as a strategic resource in building a pro-people movement where people across strata, social and cultural spheres can relate to the movement and participate actively?
#stateoftheworld #tniwebinars
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