Reporting from 6 Billion Ways
From the grassroots to the global, communities and movements are imagining and creating a world where people and planet come before profit, and democracy trumps corporate power. 6 Billion Ways explored this resistance through discussion, ideas, action and the arts and was held on 5 March 2011.
During the day, our group of citizen journalists used social media tools – blog posts, photographs and videos – to report for this website. You can see the results on this page.
Note: The blog posts, videos and photos here have been produces by volunteer citizen journalists that are not affiliated with the 6 Billion Ways organisers.
Featured blog post:
Decolonising our minds"I wish you Egypt so you can decolonise your minds” says the Palestinian Human Rights Campaigner Omar Barghouti, to a packed plenary in Shoreditch Town Hall. It is the final rally of the 6 Billion Ways Conference, a day of workshops, speakers and music from across the world. In so doing he captures the mood of a day in a single sentence. Both decolonisation of the mind and the revolution in Egypt have proven central themes of 6 Billion Ways conference as a whole, as they will during the final rally.
More from the blog
- Stuffed and starved: Reclaiming the global food system
- 6 Billion Ways – Keeping up the momentum
- Biosphere crisis provides single channel for humane organisations
- What can the media do for democracy?
- Accumulation by African Dispossession
- Decolonising our minds
- Searching for happiness at the bottom of a shopping bag
- Power to the People: Rethinking Democracy
- Rupert Murdoch versus democracy
- Power to the People: Rethinking Democracy
- Capitalism and class – don't mention the C words?
- How the arms trade took over the census (and what to do about it!)
- Planet in Crisis: where next for global action on climate change?
- Why are poor countries poor?
- When did we become obsessed with the money supply?