What can a world in crisis learn from grassroots movements?

For many communities, this is not the first crisis they’ve faced. The lockdown feels familiar to those who have years of experience living and organising in the face of scarce resources and state violence. So it’s not surprising that grassroots and community activists mobilised quickly in response

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Mona Eltahawy Feminist author, commentator and disruptor of patriarchy. Her latest book ‘The Seven Necessary Sins For Women and Girls’ took her disruption worldwide
Crystal Lameman Member of the Beaver Lake Cree Nation and campaigns against the exploitation of her people and of their land, holding the government of Canada accountable for violations of their treaty rights
Elif Sarican Anthropologist (LSE), writer, organiser and activist of the Kurdish Women’s Movement
Chair, Mary Fitzgerald Editor-in-chief, openDemocracy