Breathing Together, Dreaming Forward: Transmissions from Life- Affirming Visions of Tech — Retreat No. 1
by Esra Özkan and Ari Robey-Lawrence Imagine what you can cultivate with the people around you. Imagine that they are relying on you, and you are relying on them. Those words from the opening breathwork exercise, borrowed from adrienne maree brown, permeated our first circle, carried on the warm, ocean air of Lesvos — salt-tinged, threaded […]
Weaving care into organisational operations: The Logistics of Care
When Weaving Liberation was envisioned as an organisation, we wanted the principles of solidarity and liberatory practices to also be emulated internally, in our operations. We thus decided earlier on to put more consideration and intention in the way we hold spaces, centring the communities – and therefore the individuals – we work with, their […]
Whose internets? Our internets! Weaving Liberation at the AWID Forum
Going to international civil society gatherings is always a humbling experience as a European civil society organisation. The AWID Forum 2024 was no exception – it even more so underlined the power of feminist movements from the Global Majority and the timid place European initiatives play in those many beautiful currents fighting for a world […]
Flowers in the pouring rain: sharing impressions on the first Digital Liberation Retreat
The first ever Digital Liberation Retreat took place between the 29 October and 2 November 2024 in the peaceful landscape of Igman Mountain in Bosnia-Herzegovina. The retreat is a key part of a programme – “A vision for digital justice organising in Europe” drafted by 30+ people over two years during the Decolonising the Digital […]
European Colour of Surveillance II – Building solidarity and strategies for liberation
This Blog post was co-written by Salmana Ahmed and Sarah Chander Earlier this year, across two days in June, 100 racial, social, migrant justice and digital rights organisers came together in Berlin for the second European Colour of Surveillance conference. The event, hosted by Equinox, International Women* Space and Weaving Liberation was all about building […]
Our vision, approach and plans: building collectively towards digital justice in Europe
written by Salmana Ahmed and Laurence Meyer It has been a few months now, since we have been up and running as a team, and it has been a busy and exciting period– setting up our internal operations, co-organising a Knowledge and Imagining space on Digital Policing with ENAR and the second Colour of Surveillance […]
Strategic workshop on digital policing: challenging harmful practices and planning for safety
This blog was co-written by Oyidiya Oji from European Network Against Racism and Laurence Meyer, Co-director of Weaving Liberation. On 7 and 8 May 2024, Weaving Liberation and the European Network Against Racism (ENAR) joined forces to organise a strategic workshop on digital policing. More than 20 community organisers, lawyers, racial and social justice and […]
How to throw a wedding for digital justice
This blog speaks to a community celebration, soft launching ‘A Vision for Digital Justice Organising in Europe’, the programme that emerged from the Decolonising the Digital Rights in Europe process. This event was held in Brussels on October 11, 2023, and brought together participants to the process, civil society allies and funders committed to supporting […]
