"Africa has produced much greatness; let it never be said that the continent is lacking in greatness. If truth be told, Africa’s great people of character and principle have often been silenced by forces of greed, exploitation and selfishness. Africa must then learn to build strong and enduring systems for the protection of virtue, the promotion of character and the vilification of vice. Africa would have been better than what it is today, if Thomas Noel Isidore Sankara were alive as an elder statesman to celebrate his 70th birthday anniversary."
https://mronline.org/2020/01/10/president-thomas-sankara-a-70th-birthday-tribute/
https://mronline.org/2020/01/10/president-thomas-sankara-a-70th-birthday-tribute/
MR Online
MR Online | President Thomas Sankara: A 70th birthday tribute
Thomas Sankara’s passion was Africa’s advancement; his experimental field was Burkina Faso. What President Sankara wanted to see in Africa, he strategized, mobilized and implemented in Burkina Faso.
"So we decided to try new ways of reporting with people, not on them. We adopted a model called Story Circles that has been successfully used in the US and adapted it for a British audience. It involves convening small groups of people affected by different dimensions of an issue and creating a warm, welcoming space for the sharing of first-hand stories. It relies on the idea of “radical hospitality” – using soft rugs, plants, tealights and food, to create a homely ambience."
https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/blog/2020-01-10/taking-a-story-full-circle
https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/blog/2020-01-10/taking-a-story-full-circle
The Bureau of Investigative Journalism
Taking a story full circle: reporting with people, not on them
Using story circles, a method of gathering testimonials used in the US, Bureau Local heard from people directly affected by homelessness in Edinburgh and Bedford
"In October 2015, a building called La Morada (The Residence) was opened in a working-class neighborhood of Madrid. This was the first node in a network of social and cultural centers directly managed by Podemos. The 460 square-meter space allowed the neighborhood’s residents to come and have a drink at the bar, attend cultural events and photography exhibitions, settle down for a few hours in a co-working space or a room with Wi-Fi access, buy products in the official Podemos shop, attend public debates and film screenings and, finally, hold Podemos circle or local association meetings."
https://jacobinmag.com/2020/01/podemos-party-social-movement-pablo-iglesias/
https://jacobinmag.com/2020/01/podemos-party-social-movement-pablo-iglesias/
Jacobinmag
Podemos: A “Party-Movement” in Government
Upon its creation in 2014, Podemos insisted it was nothing like the political parties that had long dominated Spain. Today, Pablo Iglesias’s party looks like an ever-more institutionalized force — yet one whose activists continue to see themselves as belonging…
socialist_economy_21st_century.pdf
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A bit US-centric but still quite useful
you can also listen to this article if you're busy ^^
https://newrepublic.com/article/155999/loneliness-resistance-protester
https://newrepublic.com/article/155999/loneliness-resistance-protester
The New Republic
The Loneliness of the Resistance Protester
Grassroots Democrats are marching and donating, but they are not forging a movement.
"Seemingly disparate efforts by state lawmakers were all connected as part of an elaborate legal strategy devised by a coalition of Christian Right groups."
https://truthout.org/articles/a-christian-nationalist-group-is-quietly-shaping-bills-for-state-legislatures/
https://truthout.org/articles/a-christian-nationalist-group-is-quietly-shaping-bills-for-state-legislatures/
Truthout
A Christian Nationalist Group Is Quietly Shaping Bills for State Legislatures
Seemingly disparate anti-LGBTQ, anti-choice bills can all be traced to a handbook produced by theocrats.
"Old-fashioned socialism, it turns out, is the “good old thing” best suited for combating the “bad new things” of modern capitalism. Corbyn and Sanders upended their respective parties precisely by holding on to socialism even when it was desperately unfashionable to do so. They were able to do so because they understood, as the Italian novelist Giuseppe Lampedusa put it, “Because things are the way they are, they cannot stay the way they are.”"
https://jacobinmag.com/2020/01/third-way-democratic-socialism-tony-blair-bill-clinton-uk/
https://jacobinmag.com/2020/01/third-way-democratic-socialism-tony-blair-bill-clinton-uk/
Jacobinmag
The Third Way Is the Past. Socialism Is the Future.
For years, Third Way politicians claimed to be modernizing progressive politics by rejecting leftist policies. But their political project now stands in ruins — and it’s democratic socialism that is on the rise.