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-## Editorial 
  
-Dear readers, 
  
-It is our pleasure to share Global Tapestry of Alternative'​s seventh periodical with you. With this issue we announce the renaming of our traditional newsletter, now called _"​WEAVING ALTERNATIVES:​ A periodical of the Global Tapestry of Alternatives"​_. 
  
-The Global Tapestry of Alternatives seeks to build bridges between networks of Alternatives around the globe and promote the creation of new processes of confluence. You can know more about the project, in our [[:​introduction|introductory note]]. 
  
-We, across the world are facing immense uncertainties that pose very serious challenges and have social, economic, political, cultural and ecological implications for most of us. The attempt is to bring to you the news, perspectives,​ thoughts, ideas, reflections,​ and dialogues on alternatives to the current dominant regimes. Importantly,​ what do they offer us as pathways towards just, equitable and ecologically wise futures. It is a humble attempt to bring together the collective envisioning of these pluriversal alternatives by creating a space for sharing and dialoguing.+## Editorial Note
  
-We intend ​to share this periodical ​every two months sometimes thematic and sometimes general but broadly sharing perspectives,​ news on activities being seeded through GTA, as well as perspectives/​news/​thoughts/​questions from tapestry weavers and endorsing organisations and networks. We see this periodical part of a process ​of knowing each-others'​ work, engaging with ideas, facilitating collaborations ​and initiating co-writing and co-learning ​processes. ​Yes, the objectives are ambitious and that is why we need your support, your contributions and engagement. We invite you to this sharing, reflecting, dialoguing, healing, and envisioning space.+It is our pleasure ​to share Global Tapestry of Alternative'​s eighth ​periodical ​with you. 
 +The Global Tapestry ​of Alternatives seeks to build bridges between networks ​of Alternatives around the globe and promote the creation of new processes ​of confluence. You can learn more about the project, in our [[https://​globaltapestryofalternatives.org/​introduction|introductory note]].
  
-This periodical comes at the times when we at GTA have lost our elder and wisdom holder, Gustavo Esteva. We dedicate this periodical to him and it starts with an obit for Gustavo authored by Franco Augusto and Arturo Escobar. Additionally, the periodical features updates from our weavers in India (Vikalp Sangam) ​and Mexico and Colombia (Crianza Mutua), envisioning of a post-growth economy by Post-growth Institute, and perspective pieces from Lina Álvarez Villarreal, Xochitl Leyva Solano and Axel Köhler and Talking Wings.+Learning has a central role in the construction of the world and the subjectivities that inhabit ​it. The relational condition of human beings means that when their social relationships change, their world and they themselves are transformed. Pedagogies not only shape human reason but also build our sensibility ​and desire. Learning processes not only have a central role in the reproduction of relations of domination, but also in the processes of liberation.
  
-##An educator’s notes from an eroding coast- Yuvan Aves+This is why the current civilizational crisis we are going through (a crisis that is manifested in political, health, economic, and environmental crises) cannot be understood without calling into question the dominant educational model. This model is also the cause and the result of a colonial, capitalist and patriarchal system, where it is assumed that there is only one way of knowing, thus conceiving knowledge as an exclusive property of western civilization (coloniality of knowledge); it is presumed that there are a series of experts who possess the knowledge and are called upon to teach those who are in a condition of ignorance; pedagogies are disconnected ​from the potentialities and needs of the territory where it is taught. Thus giving rise to a universalist and abstract knowledge; and pedagogies that exclude nature, for it is assumed that Earth is an entity from which there would not be much to learn.
  
-##​Transformance between the Rivers Tocantins ​and Itacaiúnas- Dan Baron+However, social movements ​and countless peoples from diverse geographies have been able to re-create and propose alternative conceptions of education, learning and pedagogies. They are transforming colonized subjectivities,​ giving place to a world that re-weaves the tapestry of life.
  
-After 10 years of collaborations with the MST (Landless Workers), Trades Union and indigenous movements, and the Pará State Federal University (UFPA), in Brasil, performance educators and eco-cultural activists Dan Baron and his co-founder ​of the Community University of the Rivers, Manoela Souza, were invited ​to create a community sculpture in the Afro-Indigenous village of Cabelo Seco in 2008, an arrow of land where the River Tocantins and River Itacaiúnas meet. +With the aim of showing that, if we want to solve the crisis we are in, it is necessary to transform hegemonic education ​by learning from existing ​and successful processes. Through this periodical, we will focus on processes from different geographies that have been weaving decolonial, anti-patriarchal, biocentric, just and anti-capitalist alternatives. What elements do we find in common among these initiatives?​ What can we learn from them?
-  +
-The Rivers of Meeting project began by awakening sleeping cultural roots and voicing a keen defense of human rights through Afro-Contemporary percussion, dance and lyrics workshops. Over 12 years, excluded youth were nurtured to become community workshop leaders and coordinators of medicinal plant gardens, street library/​cinema projects, dance and audiovisual companies, annual festivals ​and workshop courses in their Community University of the Rivers, to defend the River Tocantins and River Itacaiúnas to nurture an eco-village based on pedagogies for sustainable community. This young AfroRaiz Collective became the community '​sculpture'​. Rivers of Meeting is now transforming itself into a Good Living educational and therapeutic program for all. +
  
-**Carnaval**+The process of curating this periodical is centred on collaboration,​ diversity and emergence with the aim to better understand the variety of work happening within the network.
  
-So much partying, I almost didn’t notice +This piece features articles by Yuvan Aves who writes about children’s engagement in creating awareness about the challenges faced by coastlines in Chennai (India), Dan Baron who summaries the process of transformance between the Rivers Tocantins and Itacaiúnas with the help of 8 eloquent poems, a brief essay on the processes ​of learning ​and education in the Misak University by James Montano, ​ Lucy Elena and Fabio Calambás. Carol Anne, Gary Anderson, Dipti Desai, and Ana Inés Heras talk about the concept of “third spaces” which explore issues of domination, power, and emancipation. Angging Aban sheds light on the central role of communities in developing emancipatory pedagogies ​with the help of 4 initiatives ​in Southeast Asia and last but not least, a summary of a wonderful time-sharing exercise Pallavi Varma Patil and Melanie Bush conducted with their students. A book review by Christine Dann featuring ​the book "​Convivial Futures: Views from a Post-Growth Tomorrow"​ by authors Frank Adloff and Alain Caillé presents a concise analysis of the text. Additionally, it also comprises updates from our weavers in India (Vikalp Sangam) ​and Mexico and Colombia (Crianza Mutua) and a few of our endorsers, Anitra Nelson, Crystal Arnold and The Alternatives Project.
-the future already happening +
-right there, love, in front of us +
-enclosing our homes +
-and videoing our squares. +
-But love, when I heard the giants +
-in the voices ​of our dancing bulls +
-playing our tambourines +
-stained ​with açaí, ​the penny dropped! +
-They’re rooting themselves ​in our culture +
-and mining our dreams +
-to industrialize ​and steal the Amazon! +
-Let’s rescue ​the future, love +
-and throw the spear for the River Tocantins!+
  
-**library** ​+The periodical is put together by Shrishtee Bajpai, Lina Alvarez, Franco Augusto and Urvi Shah. We are happy to have you read this issue and share and reflect along with us.
  
-every saturday +<​html><​style>​ 
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-and without threat +<div full_image gta></​div>​
-sing dancing +
-opening myself +
-with care +
-to read +
-and recognize +
-my stories +
-and at sunset +
-right there +
-I pick up a pencil +
-which does not judge me +
-or cut me +
-or fell +
-my calm +
-and I invent +
-without fear +
-the first comic-book +
-with afro-amazonian +
-leaves of life+
  
-**literacies** ​ 
  
-I create a kite 
-and see your care, mum 
-in my hands 
-cutting and sowing 
-my clothes. 
-I knot the ribbons of its tail 
-and see your wisdom, dad 
-in the dance of your fingers 
-weaving nets 
-in the shade of the square. 
  
-I fly my dreams +## Updates from GTA
-their cord vibrating +
-with so much history and desire +
-and though mute +
-failed and condemned +
-I read the future in the winds +
-and write +
-the ethics of the rivers +
-on the parched red sky +
-to reveal +
-the values of the giants +
-and keep safe +
-my life in my home.+
  
-**Rivers of Meeting** ​ 
  
-Stop, my brother, give-up that screen in your palm +**GTA Webinars:**
-retrieve the creative time of your imagination. +
-Now leap, and stand by my side +
-on the steel horizon where everything began. +
-Can you see, through the fumes +
-the indistinct contours of the River Tocantins?+
  
-See the boardwalk blurred by frenetic clouds +The aim of GTA webinars is to collaborate and bring out new ideas from within ​the network to anchor discussions on radical transformative practices. Recently, “Beyond Money: A Post Capitalist Strategy” a webinar series ​by Anitra Nelson, David Barkin, a Mexican economist, ​and Meenakshi Gupta, an Indian social entrepreneur discussing money could be replaced as the organizing principle of society allowing the fabrication of a world without socio-economic inequality and crippling environmental stresses was curated. The recordings can be found [[.:​events:​2022_beyondmoney|here]] We are now looking at putting together dialogue from the weaver's, Vikalp Sangam, Crianzas Mutuas Mexico, and Crianzas Mutauas Colombia on healing.
-of crazed dengue mosquitos +
-reproducing in the fetid drains? +
-Now, fly, above the cement dam +
-camouflaged ​by murals ​and premiered graffiti +
-and see Cabelo Seco, before its ’revitalization'.+
  
-See the Backyard Drums singing their alert +**GTA Assembly:**
-on the tilted stage of the little blue house? +
-And there, AfroMundi, beneath the trees in the little square +
-dancing a river-source on fire? +
-Now see Leaves of Life, its portable library +
-passing from house to house, cultivating reading?+
  
-And there, a little plaza of children beneath the stars +The GTA Assembly is held every 3 months to introduce new members, follow up on updates and discuss upcoming plans. The 4th GTA Assembly took place on the 30th of June 2022. You can find the recording and report [[.:​assembly:​2022_06_30here]]. The 5th Assembly will be held at September end.
-mouth agape in front of the homemade screen of Owl Cine +
-See "​it’s coming! Radio Stingray… " +
-announcing the great bike-ride 'Let Our River Pass'?​ +
-And Rabetas Videos filming a gathering of families +
-their hair braided with the rays of the sun?+
  
-Now, beside the school, our well of pure water +**GTA Mapping:**
-can you make-out a wee girl, so thin +
-huge Afro, looking at us, filling plastic bottles? +
-Recognize her? Look carefully! It’s me! Yes, your gran +
-dancer, reader and singer in the university of the rivers! +
-I cycled with my mum, our hair in flames!+
  
-I set up the cinema, even won a book in the raffle +GTA Mapping is a process to chart out all endorsers and weavers ​in a digital web space according to their geographical locations, while also making ​the process participatory. Next in action is to get endorsers ​on board to use the web space for updates and information management.
-on the last Saturday before that dawn +
-when we left with a multitude of people. +
-We knew we were exchanging +
-açaí, jambú and Paraense rice festivals +
-for clean, air-conditioned dreams from overseas …+
  
-But we never imagined the tension of that endless boredom +**PeDAGoG:​**
-fenced by fear, in our new habitat. +
-Kissing on the river in Belém, we saw the ships, yes +
-but I never realized, they were actually mining the future! +
-See that guy, staring at the immense desert +
-looking at me from the horizon?+
  
-Till today his questions echo +[[.:​pedagog|PeDAGoG]] (Post-Development Academic-Activist Global Group) is a global network of academics and academic activists interested ​in post-development,​ radical alternatives,​ and related themes. Currently, we are hosting a webinar series on learning alternatives. Two webinars by Pallavi Varma Patil on living utopias, and Dan Baron on the rivers ​of meeting project are completed. An upcoming webinar by Mauricio, Wendy and Juan on Unitierra’s processes ​is scheduled ​for the 8th of July.
-in the craters ​of my stolen imaginary. +
-Who is responsible ​for such devastation?​ +
-How will we survive such violence? +
-What project invites a community to gaze +
-at its revival in a museum where everything ended?+
  
-Leap now to 2015, my brother, to the world stage +**Participation in the World Social Forum:**
-of that beautiful little square! +
-Gather all the youth and children of the community +
-and tell them all you have seen, at my side! +
-Tell them Brazil will produce solar energy so cheap +
-that there’ll be no more argument for hydroelectric dams!+
  
-Go, invite youth from projects around ​the world +In an effort to build solidarity and connect to movements working for change, the Global Tapestry of Alternatives once again had an active presence at the World Social Forum in 2022. This year the WSF took place both in-person in Mexico City and online from 01-06 May 2022. GTA organised ​and participated ​in various activities in-person in Mexico and online. At most of the events, language translation was offered. Six members ​of the GTA core group were able to travel to Mexico to participate in the WSF in person.
-that have already lived green lies +
-to meet between ​the Tocantins ​and Itacaiúnas Rivers +
-and together, create a solidarity and generosity +
-that fit in the palm of every hand!+
  
-**let our river pass** ​+GTA sessions included: (1) Staying human at the global level on the experiences of remaining grounded in the local while working transnationally;​ Grounded voices: Toward radical democracy with experiences shared from India, Mexico, Scotland and Rojave ; (3) Knowledge and the production of learning for emancipatory practice on critical pedagogies; and (4) Radical transformative alternatives where GTA weavers from Colombia, India and Mexico shared their experiences. In addition, GTA supported endorsers May First Technology with their session on “A timeline from movement technologies to liberation” and MINGAnet with a session on Latin American fabric towards the social and economic transformations required for the care of life. All of the activities were carried out in collaboration with partners in [[https://​adelante.global/​doku.php?​id=about | Adelante]]: a dialogue of global processes which GTA has been facilitating. Most significant was two assemblies which GTA organized on Convergence of Radical Alternatives. With over 100 participants in the online and in-person events, we were able to share a [[https://​adelante.global/​doku.php?​id=events:​wsf2022 | manifesto]] for radical change. This manifesto was also presented at the closing Agora of the World Social Forum and at the Stockholm+50 People’s Summit in June 2022.
  
-even though there are no more fish +For the past two decades, the World Social Forum (WSF) has served as an open meeting place for social movements, networks, NGOs and other civil society organizations who are aiming to build alternatives ​to the dominant and destructive world system. While there was limited participation ​in the forum in person this year for many reasons, participation in the event was important for solidarity building and re-connection after the COVID-19 pandemic.
-I will hold on to my grandpa'​s canoe +
-its taúba benches preserve +
-the curve of my learning ​in his lap +
-of how to read the rivers +
-the smell of tucunaré +
-drying on the clothes-line in our backyard +
-and mum’s peels of laughter +
-discovering my first love of summer+
  
-that world sustains the roots +## Updates from our Weavers
-of my hope +
-that the murder of river-sources +
-in the name of green progress +
-will open your nut-brown eyes +
-encourage you to pick-up the propeller +
-and cross the tocantins, again +
-at sunset, with me +
-to defend ​our amazon+
  
-**Letter from Mariana** ​+<​html><​style>​ 
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-My dear Marabá, Amazonian kin +The Global Tapestry of Alternatives is a “network ​of networks”. Each of those networks acts in different parts of the planet by identifying ​and connecting Alternatives. They are the Weavers. The following are the networks that currently weaves the Global Tapestry of Alternatives. In the following section, our Weavers from India, Colombia and Mexico shares updates from their recent activities and actions. 
-greetings from Mariana +
-your miner-sister +
-still trembling beneath the mud.  +
-I write against time +
-within ​a labyrinth ​of shame without light +
-to disturb ​and encourage you...+
  
-Sister, even sensing it was a lie  +**[[.:​weavers|Keep reading ->]]**
-I let green promises +
-seduce me to become human +
-and end once and for all my fear of hunger. +
-I won a home and became so consumed  +
-by the dreams in the palm of my hand +
-I spent the future bit by bit, not noticing...+
  
-Friend, read the debris of my naivety 
-mocking my dry scream. 
-Learn from me, my cousin 
-the toxic cost 
-of saying '​yes'​ when you think '​no'​. 
-Don't even hide behind the law of silence 
-that today shelters so many giants... 
  
-Marabá, when their ships pass  
-fat with so much iron, beef and wood  
-your chance will have already passed! 
-You will only have time 
-to take one last selfie  ​ 
-in front of a boat rushing  ​ 
-towards the source of the Tocantins in flames! 
  
-Sister, preserve the Lourenção Boulders  +## Updates ​from our Endorsers 
-wise beings that will protect you  +<​html><​style>​ 
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-and take care of our Amazonian good life!+<div full_image tap></​div>​
  
-**Good living**+### The Alternatives Project
  
-Every dawn, nets emerged from your needle  +[[https://​www.thealternativesproject.org/​|The Alternatives Project]] -- known by its initials as TAP -- is an international and geographically diverse network of progressive academics, union members, civil society activists, and social movement participants concerned with building ​a global collective critical voice-oriented towards transformative education and societal change. At the moment we have about 25 core members, hundreds of people have signed ​our Statement (including Noam Chomsky, please sign!) and attended some of our activities, and TAP is in our second year of operation.
-a precise white pen +
-weaving living wisdom into a web of concern.  +
-Even well-made, fish always escaped  +
-transforming ​our boats into flowing feasts! +
  
-And suddenly, the sun forgot to rise, I swear!  +**[[.:tap|Keep reading ->]]**
-In the darkness, we breathed so much ash +
-Marabá got sick, became blind, lost its voice +
-and our canoes returned hungry.  +
-The dust settled, but nothing was ever the same.  +
-  +
-Today, in the mall, I saw my dad's extinct canoe +
-beautifying the billboard '​Marabá,​ the Future'​.  +
-Our River Tocantins, traded for mandates  +
-has become a favor in an aluminium dream.  +
-I feel betrayed, shaken by the cheering crowd! ​+
  
-I search for any memory that can illuminate ​ 
-this blackout that threatens the world'​s future. ​ 
-I've already lost years scrolling post after post  
-to relieve me of the hunger that addicts me  
-to the consuming of my own imagination! ​ 
  
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-Take my portrait, kid, right here in front of my river +.wrap_beyond_money_new { 
-an old woman requests, cidreira leaves in her hand. +  ​height:​ 350px !important;​ 
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-The kindness of this sage frees me from my solitude  +### Beyond Money: A Postcapitalist Strategy
-and suddenly, drums re-skinned with love +
-by youth already creating a network of good life +
-begin a beat so synchronized  +
-my pulse quickens and my humanity flows!+
  
-**good living amazon** +**By Anitra Nelson**
  
-when our canoes return famished +Mainstream education is oriented ​to training students in every way for a future role in capitalist workplaces. Transformative learning and emancipatory education are significant alternatives for skilling ourselves ​to create and experiment with postcapitalist futures. Many activist scholars inhabit such spaces. My recent work [[https://​www.plutobooks.com/​9780745340111/​beyond-money/​|Beyond Money: A Postcapitalist Strategy]] (2022) is a case in point.
-we turn our hunger into dance +
-when our forests are turned ​to dust +
-we transform our asthma into song +
-so that when the ‘green’ giants +
-command us to cleanse our rivers +
-of their toxic greed +
-marabá will already be reviving+
  
-because in the healing of every scar +**[[.:​anitra|Keep reading ->]]**
-we learn the art of caring +
-in the silence of every favour +
-we learn the courage to dare +
-and in the leap of every child +
-a flying river of resilience is born+
  
-Dan Baron 
-danbaronmst@hotmail.com 
-YouTube channel: Rios de Encontro 
-[[www.riosdeencontro.wordpress.com]] ​ 
  
  
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-##Updates from our Weavers 
-### Vikalp Sangam (India) 
-### Crianzas Mutuas Colombia 
  
-During the last months, Crianzas Mutuas Colombia has participated in several activities. By the end of November 2021, we had a first encounter with Vilkrap from India and Crianzas Mutuas México. Since we all speak different languages, we decided to share our paths through a video that compiles our struggles in different territories of Colombia. Concretely, we have been nurturing emerging alternatives in the spheres of health, economy, education, and art. The aim of these efforts is to liberate Mother Earth and the peoples that have learned to live in a symbiotic relationship with her. We encourage solidarity economies through the creation of peasant markets that are better understood as “markets of resistance”. The idea is to create exchange webs that ensure reciprocity through food sharing. This means that trade must assure benefits both for the producers and the buyers, and that these benefits must be based on the regeneration of agriculture. We also encourage urban gardens and short commercial circuits. Regarding health systems, we are working on the construction of popular and communitarian systems that build from ancestral knowledges. We have also been working on harvesting water, for water brings life, movement, and knowledge. In midst of fierce and egregious violence, we see life flowering thanks to the resistance build from and with the earth, and indigenous, peasant and afro-colombian modes of life.+### Offers ​and Needs Market
  
-Also, we are collectively writing a book titled Pluritopías. Después del fin del mundo de la civilización y la barbarie (Pluritopias. After the end of the world of civilization and barbarism). The aim of the book is double. We want to bring back to our memory the paths that we have been walking over the last years in Crianzas Mutuas Colombia, and to shed light on the multiple ways of weaving with the territories that we inhabit on behalf of life, joy, and abondance beyond State, capitalism and patriarchy. The book traces back the emerging processes of more than 40 collectives in Colombia that are building alternatives in the face of coloniality and development. The book also recalls the conversations entertained with Crianzas Mutuas Mexico and Vilkrap India, dialogues that nurture and inspire our own paths. The book is written both in Spanish and in non-colonial languages, it also includes non-logocentric languages, such as videos, songs and images.+**by Crystal Arnold, Education director at the Post Growth Institute**
  
-On February 2022, we gathered in Cali around the presentation of the book Pluriverse. A post-development dictionary. The book was presented by Arturo Escobar and Alberto Acosta, and it was commented by afro-Colombian,​ indigenous, and peasant social leaders. This was the opportunity to reflect on the importance of inspiring the imagination of sustainable futures by shedding light on existing alternatives in the region. 
  
-Finally, with the Tejido de transicionantes por el Valle del Cauca we are currently working on a dream that is already emerging: ​to redesign the Valley of Cauca region based on enrooted conceptions of Buen vivir (good living) ​and abundance. This region has been marked ​by racial violence and ecological devastation,​ due to sugarcane plantations and illegal economies that actively produce the rural and urban zones divide. This violence is not hazardous but results from a modern design whose aim is the accumulation of capital. Our hope is to weave the relationship between the countryside and the city with and from communitarian initiatives that already exist in the region. +You're invited to join an , open to all and hosted ​by the Post Growth Institute!
- +
  
-### Crianzas Mutuas Mexico+This is a two-hour guided process in which community members meet to identify and exchange their passions, knowledge, skills, resources, opportunities,​ and needs.
  
-In 2022 the groups ​and collectives that are part of the Weaving of Crianza Mutua Mexico continue walking and building their own processes in their contexts, their territories and in their own times. ​ The dialogues and agreements that we reached in the last meetings are the paths to organising the next meetings around “eating” and “healing”, assuming that they will be face-to-face meetings due to the need to share in person ​and learn about practical experiences beyond virtuality. +It’s a fun and effective way to connect, get more comfortable expressing your offers ​and needs, and begin conversations with interesting ​people.
-Towards the encounter of eating and learning, the different experiences are part of the roots that build the alternatives:​ +
-**EATING** +
-  * We organize ourselves to create an alternative to work and recover our autonomous capacity to eat by rescuing our natural foods that come from the people ​themselves, we also seek to share our knowledge and wisdom. +
-  * Alternatives are built to strengthen food sovereignty,​ social economy and local consumption in different regions of Mexico, through production, food procurement,​ linkage with others, continuous learning and dissemination for conscious consumption. +
-  * We share knowledge and practices to lead a healthy, dignified, and sustainable way of life. +
-  * To develop a healthier environment,​ with a calmer and more relaxed life. +
-  * It is about eating with seeds in mind.+
  
-**LEARN** +You can register ​for free here: https://www.offersandneeds.com/monthly
-  * To learn from and support the life proposals of communities,​ positioning our words, emotions and actions as viable and pertinent alternatives ​for ourselves and for society in general. +
-  * We walk together with collectives,​ communities and organizations in the weaving of free networks to meet, coexist, understand our habitats and influence them on their own terms. To be a kind of weaving of webs from collectivities cultivating autonomies in their territories. +
-  * To walk around desescolarizacion by questioning educational institutions,​ we start with questions such as: +
-    -  What does it imply to depend on the institutionalized educational framework to learn? +
-    -  Do schools represent the best and only way to learn? +
-    -  Is it possible to create other ways to learn in freedom? +
-    -  We are constantly reflecting on free and joyful learning, through discussions,​ study circles, presentations and spaces to rethink together other ways of learning. ​ - Ordered List Item +
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-In the same important way of making visible the life of the groups that are part of Crianza Mutua Mexico are the radio programs where the voice and the experience of the different alternatives in relation to the care of life are heard, considering the daily activities that represent the tangible processes in the life of the communities,​ whether rural or urban. The care of life not only from an anthropomorphic point of view but also considering the care of everything that is on mother earth.+
  
-These radio programs have been transcribed so that a physical and digital publication can be made and shared to give hope to the discontented 
  
  
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 +### An educator’s notes from an eroding coast 
 + 
 +**by Yuvan Aves** 
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 +Yuvan, a naturalist, award-winning writer, educator and activist based in Chennai; shares with us his trip notes where he explores different alternative initiatives. 
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 +### Creating Third Spaces ​of Learning for Post-Capitalism:​ Lessons from Educators and activists 
 + 
 +**by Gary Anderson, Dipti Desai, Ana Inés Heras and Carol Anne Spreen** 
 + 
 +Spaces that prefigure a post-capitalist world are all around us if we know where to look. In this article, we seek to explore counter-hegemonic social spaces, or what some call third spaces (Anzaldua, 1987/2021; Bhabha, 1994/2002; Soja, 1996) that have been created largely by social, community and artistic activists prefigure a post-capitalist,​ multi-racial democracy. These spaces tend to be democratic, grounded in communities and challenge the hegemony of current forms of economic, political, cultural, and educational domination. 
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 +### Presentation of the Ala kusreik ya- Misak University 
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 +**by James Montano Morales, Lucy Elena Tunubalá Tombé and Fabio Calambás Paja** 
 + 
 +The Ala kusreik ya - Misak University is an integral, autonomous educational process that seeks to revitalize the pishindθ waramik or “good Misak living”, promoting education based on four spirals and four axes. While the spirals of knowledge are: mθrθp (listening),​ aship (seeing), isup (thinking) and marθp (doing), the pillars are autonomous economy, autonomous administration,​ socio-political organization,​ and major law (derecho mayor). This educational process was born in the month of December 2010 as a response to the need of the community to reinforce the learning processes from intra-cultural foundations (or from autonomous education), as well as from the construction of a dialogue of knowledges (interculturality),​ and from those transcultural and global foundations that affect us as human beings. 
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 +### "​Collaboration across borders":​ comic and interview 
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 +**by Pallavi Varma Patil and Melanie Bush** 
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 +This is a snippet from an interview by Urvi Shah with [[https://​www.adelphi.edu/​faculty/​profiles/​profile.php?​PID=0338|Melanie Bush]], professor at Adelphi University (Garden City, NY) and [[https://​azimpremjiuniversity.edu.in/​people/​pallavi-varma-patil|Pallavi Varma Patil]], Faculty at Azim Premji University (Bangalore, India) on learning and sharing as educators. We’ve tried something interesting this time, a graphical comic to present their experience of collaboration. An 11-year-old artist from Argentina, [[mailto:​magnaycielo@sinescuela.org|Magna]],​ has put a lot of her thoughts into bringing this story to life. 
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 +### Transformance between the Rivers Tocantins and Itacaiúnas 
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 +**by Dan Baron** 
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 +After 10 years of collaborations with the MST (Landless Workers), Trades Union and indigenous movements, and the Pará State Federal University (UFPA), in Brasil, performance educators and eco-cultural activists Dan Baron and his co-founder of the Community University of the Rivers, Manoela Souza, were invited to create a community sculpture in the Afro-Indigenous village of Cabelo Seco in 2008, an arrow of land where the River Tocantins and River Itacaiúnas meet. 
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 +### Exploring alternative schools in Southeast Asia 
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 +**by Ananeza P. Aban** 
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 +Marginalized communities and their ability to organize themselves towards a common goal would attest that even amid multiple crises, they can cultivate notable practices that produce and reproduce transformative pedagogies, especially for the young generation of learners. 
 + 
 +These four (4) cases from Southeast Asia provide a material foundation for dynamic learning processes that amplify the central role of communities in developing emancipatory pedagogies attuned to their situation, context, culture, histories, and capacities. Their ground-based undertakings dare to challenge the mainstream educational paradigm extremely influenced by market and capital. These cases question where knowledge is truly generated, and how far have communities been recognized as the producers and builders of knowledge. 
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 +## Book Review: Convivial Futures, Views from a Post-Growth Tomorrow 
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 + 
 +> “Talking about a future – don’t stain it with any Utopia, terrorising the necessary complexity.” 
 + 
 +Nora Bateson, 2021 
 + 
 +> “There is no such thing as a convivial future. A convivial future is an oxymoron, a contradiction in terms. Conviviality is not about linearity and progress, not about planning and designing a better world for the day after tomorrow; not about aiming at an allegedly better future at the expense of a good here and now; not about drafting blueprints for ideal societies that could be applied in any given context, at any given time, at any given place. On the contrary, conviviality refers to a specific kind of lived togetherness that is shared between all the human and non-human inhabitants of a specific place in time: not anywhere, anytime—but right here, right now!” 
 + 
 +Andrea Vetter and Matthias Fersterer, _‘Right Here, Right Now The Art of Living Together’_ in Adloff and Caillé (eds), 2022 
 + 
 +Convivial Futures starts with bold premises. The introduction by the book’s editors, the German sociology professor Frank Adloff and the French professor emeritus Alain Caillé, states that 
 +“To be a pioneering, public political philosophy, convivialism must succeed in capturing the signs of the times and developing perspectives for the future. As difficult as it is to formulate such positive outlooks, that is precisely what this volume is all about.” (p 9) and also that 
 +"​Convivialism presents itself as a political philosophy destined to follow in the footsteps of the great ideologies of modernity—liberalism,​ socialism, anarchism, communism. These ideologies are no longer able to enlighten us on either the present state of the world or what it could or should look like tomorrow, if only because they have completely failed to anticipate the environmental crisis and global warming."​ (pp 14-15) 
 + 
 +Unusually, and to its credit, Convivial Futures then provides space for those who disagree with the premises of its editors, and some of the contents of the Second Convivialist Manifesto, which is the current expression of convivialist philosophy. Some of the critique comes from fellow academics (Robert van Krieken and Martin Krygier, ‘Is Convivialism the Answer? Depends on the Question’) and some from non-academics (Andrea Vetter and Matthias Fersterer, ‘Right Here, Right Now The Art of Living Together’). At a slight tangent – but a useful one – Federico Demaria and Ashish Kothari provide a good outline of current notions of ‘development’ and what the alternatives are and might be in ‘The Post-Development Agenda Paths to a Pluriverse of Convivial Futures.’
  
-The Alternatives Project -- known by its initials as TAP -- is an international ​and geographically diverse network ​of progressive academics, union members, civil society activists, and social ​movement participants concerned with building a global collective critical voice-oriented towards transformative education ​and societal change. At the moment we have about 25 core members, hundreds of people have signed our Statement (including Noam Chomsky, please sign!) ​and attended some of our activities, and TAP is in our second year of operation.+So the book is a mixed bag, with some contributors outlining ​and advocating hypothetical future re-designs ​of economic, social and ecological institutions, systems ​and practices which would be better than the current awful system, while others provide information on what is actually happening now which could be described as convivial. Sometimes both in one chapter.
  
-We had our launch webinar in January 2021 at the World Social Forum and participated again in a webinar at this year’s WSF.  In February, 2022, we organized a two-hour webinar concerned with education, social, and economic alternatives in February 2022 in conjunction ​with other leading organizations, with over 100 participants entitled: “TAP on TAPAS: The Alternatives Project on There are Plenty of Alternatives!” ​+If you are new to learning what’s wrong with the current world system, ​and are interested ​in ideas on how it could be improved, then Convivial Futures would be a good place to start. If you feel you know more than enough about what’s wrong, are sceptical about attempts to imagine ‘solutions’ which “terrorise the necessary complexity”, and agree with Ivan Illich (as cited by Vetter and Fersterer, p 165) that what is convivial tends to be place-centred and vernacular (and hence happening here and now – wherever your here and now may be) then probably what you are looking for is a book on convivial presents. I know I am. Here’s hoping it turns up soon.
  
-At each of the 2021 and 2022 annual meetings of the Comparative and International Education Society we organized about 15 panels under the special track we developed titled “21st Century Socialism and Education: Global Alternatives to Patriarchy, Racial Capitalism, Militarism, and Climate Change.”  TAP members have been working with the global umbrella 32 million member teachers union, Education International,​ whose newest campaign, Teach for the Planet, is to help its member unions develop responses to the climate crisis. TAP worked with EI's capacity-building team to lead one of the workshops in their Teach for the Planet training program to launch the campaign. Following that meeting, TAP organized a session on Climate Change and Education for the Comparative International Education Society annual meeting. ​ TAP has also been working with the Global Student Forum which is the global umbrella of student unions and organizations of second-level and third-level education from more than 120 countries and territories of the world on the organization of seminars and online events. +The book is available as Open Access in the [[https://www.transcript-publishing.com/978-3-8376-5664-0/​convivial-futures/?​c=410000045|editorial website]].
  
-Most recently, we are collaborating on developing webinars under the title “Learnings for Alternative Futures” with partners Global Tapestry of Alternatives;​ WEAll Wellbeing Economy Alliance; Educere Alliance; PeDAGoG; Ecoversities;​ and Radical Ecological Democracy.+----
  
-### Anitra Nelson+**About the author of this review**: Christine Dann is a New Zealand writer and eco-gardener who has been active in feminist, peace and green movements since the 1970s. This has led to her developing an '​alternatives'​ world view which is now informed by degrowth, decolonial and indigenous perspectives. She is a member of the GTA Core team.
  
-Mainstream education is oriented to training students in every way for a future role in capitalist workplaces. Transformative learning and emancipatory education are significant alternatives for skilling ourselves to create and experiment with postcapitalist futures. Many activist scholars inhabit such spaces. My recent work Beyond Money: A Postcapitalist Strategy (2022) is a case in point. I wrote the book as an intervention in movement debates around ideal futures. And as a counterpoint to dystopian visions such as highly automated, digitally-oriented societies with regulated, modified or quasi-markets,​ or as a state-regulated quasi-ecosocialism maintaining some level of market activities. Associated articles and reviews in Radical Ecological Democracy and two Global Tapestry of Alternatives webinars have promoted discussion around the key place of money and markets in a socially just and ecologically sustainable future. The book is being publicised widely in a range of forums. 
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-I have an enduring interest in monetary and autonomist money-free economies, a major theme in my activism and academic work. I have experimented with no/low money models and practices. Decades ago I lived in a commune at a tricky point when the direction and content of the collective work of members and their collective purse became controversial. My personal and scholarly interest in eco-collaborative housing culminated in writing a book Small is Necessary: Shared Living on a Shared Planet (2018), the final chapter of which leads in a nonmonetary direction. Moreover, that book is really about degrowth, even if ‘degrowth’ is never mentioned. Exploring Degrowth: A Critical Guide (2020) written with Vincent Liegey proposes an ‘unconditional autonomy allowance’ that could be an entirely nonmonetary or in-kind right to basic needs collectively produced locally. 
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-I have belonged to four local/​labour exchange trading systems (LETS) in three distinct areas of Australia and to one Community Exchange System — developing a critique of such alternative currencies in Beyond Money. 
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-When I lived in the Blue Mountains (NSW Australia) I co-founded a nonmonetary Fruit and Nut Tree network, to share harvests, knowledge and skills in growing and maintaining these plants. It incorporated trees on public and private property. It was inspired by an existing project that still operates where I live now. The community-based Growing Abundance Harvest Project enables harvest and pruning volunteers to keep one-third of their pickings, while the owners of the fruit trees get another third, and the final third goes to local community organisations,​ such as schools and regular community lunches. Pruners reduce pests and disease regionally and pass on removed material to local free range chickens. ​ 
-An occasional speaker at Melbourne Free University, a couple of years ago I convened Castlemaine Free University in my home town, currently operating once a month with intentions for more regular activities. Again the venue, speakers, and membership is free. Most speakers are selected to talk about their activist and creative works that promote socio-political and economic justice and ecological sustainability. ​ 
-### Crystal Arnold 
-### Vivianne Solace 

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