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Open Call for Films and Podcasts

[español abajo]  Now into its 7th year of unfolding, the Ecoversities Alliance continues to connect learners and communities; an emergent ecosystem reclaiming different knowledge systems, and multiple ways of learning, and fostering radical imagination.  In this dynamic web of learners and projects, many insightful cosmovisions and inspiring real-life stories and sensings remain underground.   The Publications

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Swaraj Shakti Girls Program

https://youtu.be/QKVRupUAb4gSAPNE | UDAIPUR AS A LEARNING CITY In 2021, Swaraj University started the Swaraj Shakti Girls Leadership Program for young tribal women in Udaipur. These women have been labelled as ‘failures’ by formal education and are currently working as domestic help. The dream is that these women will become powerful leaders in their communities and

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The “Me” In the “We”

by Bindiya Vaid Stemming from the self, the journey from “me” to “we” could be very interesting and illuminating. Some co-travellers take the reverse journey, too. It’s fascinating how the heart of the transformation, or as we say in Theater of the Oppressed, the “shift,” from where you are to where you want to be,

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OPEN CALL – Ecoversities Residencies 2023

abajo en español abaixo em português [ENGLISH] ECOVERSITIES OPEN CALL for the 2023 RESIDENCIES PROPOSAL (between March and July), part of the Pollinators, Exchanges and Residency (PER) Circle Dear Ecoversities community, In these times of reviving and rebuilding relationships we feel that the regenerative power of connection, learning and sharing is at work today. So

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Is thinking generated by our brain?

by Emilio Fantin This essay was written in 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic. Culture and nature: the logical challenge This is a poetic and resistance attempt to avoid being subjected to a digital format. Covid 19 has only accelerated the process that started with the informatics era, during the Second World War. We have not

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Firefly Frequencies Ecoversities Community Radio Workshop

For International Radio Day, on February 13th, our Ecoversities Community Radio,  FireflyFrequencies.org –  invites us to a time of listening, resonating through the sonic gifts collected in these almost three years of existence.  With the hope to expand the use of the radio across our different geographies and actions, and multiply our places of learning through sounds, languages, stories, music and

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TRANSATLANTIC SOUNDS

Dear reader, below you will find a document that is the result of a political and artistic space of reflection and diasporic experimentation of personal and collective empowerment: a marathon that we called ‘Transatlantic Sounds: What would you say if I told you that our black history has been denied?’  This marathon materialized the desire to create

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Sulak Sivaraksa – The Pedagogy of Breathing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgXDP4izbns&ab_channel=EcoversitiesSulak Sivaraksa is a Thai intellectual and activist, who has played a leading role in the mobilisation of Thailand’s civil society. His life-long activism has involved the creation of a string of social welfare and development organisations; the proposal of alternatives to consumerism; and his concern for democracy, human rights and accountable government. This talk

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50 Years of the Barefoot College

The Barefoot College has followed the life and work style of Mahatma Gandhi for 50 years. Gandhian values of simplicity, austerity, equality, collective decision making, transparency and accountability are put intopractice.The Barefoot College has placed practical common sense at the centre of its search for solutions, and has discovered far- reaching low-cost innovations in conserving energy, schooling,

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Cycle Yatra – Swaraj University

Cycle Yatra – No money, no food, no gadgets Every year, we take our khojis for a yatra – a sacred yatra where we don’t take any money, gadgets, medicine, food, pen, paper. – A yatra that has no message, no prize. It’s a pilgrimage khojis take for a week travelling to unknown villages, without

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