Transnational Institute 376d ago

What will social movements look like in the newly emerging era? What does global resistance look like? How do we build a new common sense in an age of internet eco-chambers? What can we learn from recent and past uprisings and movements to sustain them and take power? - Shanelle Matthews, Founder of Radical Communicators Network and co-editor of forthcoming Framing New Worlds: Building Narrative Power for 21st-Century Social Movements - Nimmi Gowrinathan, activist, scholar and founder of the Politics of Sexual Violence Initiative and author of Radicalizing Her (Beacon Press 2021) - Tooba Syed, feminist labour organiser, Pakistan Visit our website: https://www.tni.org Support our work: https://www.tni.org/en/support-tni Sign up for our newsletter: https://www.tni.org/en/subscribe 00:00 Introduction 06:32 Tooba on distinction between activism and organising 16:02 Nimmi on how female fighter challenges our ideas of resistance 22:03 Shanelle on how to reclaim narrative power from the far-right 30:59 Tooba on why internationalism is critical to resistance 40:03 Nimmi on why finding your political voice means discomfort 49:24 Shanelle on how to tell compelling and materially grounded story that moves beyond resistance 59:52 Tooba on why we need systems of accountability to have long-term impact 01:06:00 Nimmi on why we need different forms of organisation for different times 01:11:04 Shanelle on why lack of resources for base-building impeded Movement for Black Lives 01:18:18 Final reflections by Nimmi and Shanelle on how to resist and win