We’re excited to announce a new round of movement-based research and we want to invite you to take part. For the Long Haul: Social Movement Research and Popular Education Initiative This is a research project about social justice, social change, and the radical imagination. How can we sustain activism and social movements over the long…
In order to change the world, movements and activists have to move beyond simply responding to crisis after crisis, outrage after outrage. This workshop offers practical tools for thinking strategically about grassroots campaigns. It includes a discussion about: How to build activism and organizing on core values and transformational demands, How to identify and approach…
‘SÍ SE PUEDE. Seven days at PAH Barcelona’ is a daily account of Barcelona‘s Platform of People Affected by Mortgage in what could be a week of its tireless activity. Departing from the concrete and the everyday, the documentary tries to explain the complexity and diversity of a movement that has spread throughout the state and has been a real challenge for civil society to government policies and financial institutions after the economic and human disaster which marked the bursting of the housing bubble.
The second of a two-part report-back on austerity and grassroots movements in Greece by Larry Haiven and Max Haiven, who recently visited the country to meet with organizers and activists developing the solidarity economy. This presentation explores a number of grassroots movements that are seeking to reinvent economic and social life in Greece. From factory occupations…
The first of a two-part report-back on austerity and grassroots movements in Greece by Larry Haiven and Max Haiven, who recently visited the country to meet with organizers and activists developing the solidarity economy. This first session provides background, context and analysis of the current state of affairs, including an introduction to the nation’s recent…
The Radical Imagination Project is delighted to be once again partnering withCinema Politica and the Central Branch of the Halifax Public Library to curate a series of provocative documentary films to Halifax from September to December 2015. These films focus on key contemporary issues and will be followed by moderated discussions. All films are free and…
We’re very please that our academic article “Outside but Along-Side: Stumbling with Social Movements as Academic Activists” has been published in a special issue of the open-access journal Studies in Social Justice, the first of two dedicated to the “Scholar-Activist Terrain in Canada and Ireland.” Here’s the abstract: In this article, we critically reflect on…
