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Empowerment Through Movement-Building

This movement-building guide explores fostering collective power for social change, embracing diversity, and fostering political agility and accountability. It emphasizes critical reflection, learning, risk-taking, and understanding power dynamics to rebuild movements effectively. Key elements include developing political skills, empowering communication, systematizing experiences, sharing knowledge democratically, and envisioning bold futures. Topics cover empowerment, rights, citizenship, information rights awareness, political consciousness, new skills, individual and new leadership, and organizational change.

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Empowerment Through Movement-Building

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  1. What is movement building? • Developing and nurturing the collective power of people united by a common cause, for social and political change, in a way that recognizes and taps into the richness of their many differences, and creates both political agility and accountability. • The power of numbers bonded by hope, explicit justice values and clear agendas.

  2. What is needed to rebuild movements? • Autonomous spaces for critical reflection and self-assessment • Learning from past and present - multi-generational, cross-sector/ class/ caste/ race/ religion/ gender/ ability/ sexuality • Risk-taking – to think and act ‘out of the box’ • Concepts and theories for understanding power dynamics; explicit steps for building/using power • Bridging perspectives: scholars-activists; grassroots-policy; individual-collective; radical-mainstream

  3. What is needed to rebuild movements? (2) • Political skills and capacity to develop/adjust strategies to fast-changing contexts; negotiate alliances • Back to basics (empowerment and base-building) with exciting popular communications • “Systematization”, documentation and broad sharing of experiences • Democratization of knowledge, which builds stronger communication and mutual respect • Bold, heartfelt visions that tap into the best of who we are as women and men; human beings

  4. Empowerment, Rights and Citizenship Information Rights awareness Political consciousness New Skills Individual New Leadership Organization Our Theory of Change

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