Interview transcribed and compiled by Wangüi wa Kamonji. In February 2022, 3 ecoversities initiators from Cairo, Egypt, Dakar, Senegal and Nairobi, Kenya, met in a gathering exploring Faju (healing) in Dakar. In the middle of workshops, talks and activations, we sat down to connect about our journeys and unearth what we had learnt so far. Each
Soweto, March 28-31, 2024 – The streets of Soweto came alive with the rhythms of unlearning, restoration, and community during the recent Knowledge in People Festival held from March 28th to the 31st. This groundbreaking event aimed to disrupt conventional notions of education and restore it to a time of collective listening and deep sensing,
by Maura Stephens and Alessandra Pomarico Most living things and virtually all of the freshwater in the Palestinian Occupied Territories have been destroyed. Photo from University of British Columbia by sierra ying allen/ Ecoversities Like others around the world, we’ve been watching as neoliberal and corporate-controlled universities repress, silence, and violate peaceful protesters who are
The demonstration in defense of one of the last forests of Salento, threatened by the expansion project of Porsche’s Nardò Technical Center, took place on Saturday afternoon in Lecce. Numerous people responded to the forest’s cry for help, launched by the Guardians of the Arneo Forest Committee, organizer of the procession. People of all ages
The Asia Ecoverse reunited in the heart of Nepal for their third Regional Gathering with 40 participants from 8 countries around the world, 5 days filled with the spirit of unity and collaboration, they were received by the King’s College Community in Kathmandu and the Royal Beach Camp in Bagmati, where they entered into communion with the mountains and the flowing of an ancient river, the river Trichuli, a riverversity, and witnessed the emergence of new friendships. The rich heritage and colors of Nepal accompanied this fantastic gathering, which our friends share in these little reflections. Enjoy!
It was possible for these birds,
Which feed on the trash of the universe in Gaza
And drown in a river of exhaustion and darkness
And their bodies smashed beneath the rain of hunger
And rising smoke dust
From the chimney of the relentless massacre
To win prizes in physics, mathematics, and literature
And the various sports
Adjacent to my obsessions,
About lost identity
And between here and there
nothing
Except that the sides around me shrank;
To become a grave the size of my corpse
For alienation there is a verse
Recited by the Nakba at her funeral
For her only heirs
In cold exile
Between here and there
This lunacy is larger than you my love
Its harshness
Its fatal sins
That the delicacy of your untarnished hands can’t endure
Your palms that hold the country’s oranges
A beauty mark on your waist
And your hair strewn
Over the shoulders of truth
has the saltiness of the sea
And the scent of mud
and the sweetness of both
Seventy five years
Gnawed upon by hyenas
Of green and blue and red
And the colour of our nations within us
Seventy five years
Since the dawning of Gaza’s only sigh
The sights like a river rushing into the mouths of her children
With the missiles of an f16
And so the nation poured from it drop after drop
Since the child in us ceased to question
And, panting, began to stretch out his fingers and dry throats
The past month, members of the service circles of the Ecoversities Alliance meet for two days, March 23 and March 24, for the fifth Ecoversities Assembly: Dancing the Waterfall of Abundance, Dancing the Rain, these are some reflections.
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