Thank you to the co-founders, organisers + facilitors of the decolonising process - your dedication, thoughtfulness + creativity in seeding + nurturing the work helped everyone dream freely + boldly about their visions for digital justice + how to get there. Shout out to.. 7/10

...@InterwebzNani, @lau_val_meyer, @_sarahchander, @CFerKic Joel, Adelaide Hirwe, Ioana Bărbulescu, Esra Tat (she/her) InnerStellar and the Digital Freedom Fund EDRi teams more broadly! 🙏🏿🫂🫶🏿 8/10

And finally, thank you to all the wonderful people who gave their feedback on the programme - your invaluable inputs and wisdom made this work more ambitious, disruptive and imaginative! All are credited in the programme you can find here: weavingliberation.org/wp-content/upl… 🙏🏿🫂🫶🏿 9/10

As you can see, there are a lot of beautiful people already in the Weaving Liberation community + we want to continue to connect with many more of you - come and say hello 👋🏿 at [email protected] + check out the link in our bio for lots more! 💌 10/10

✅ 22 #recommendations were formulated by the participants of our #Migration and #Development meeting in Lisbon last month. 📌 Co-chairs 🇵🇹 Portugal and 🇸🇳 Senegal 📌In focus: #entrepreneurship and #diasporaengagement ℹ️ Meeting report: rabat-process.org/en/activities/… AIMA Agência para a Integração, Migrações e Asilo

📅🎊The 2nd European Colour of Surveillance Conference is nearly here! Brought to you in partnership with International Women Space & Equinox: Racial Justice Initiative #COS2024 will centre migrant justice organising and liberation practices in times of fascism. Here’s a 🧵of what you can expect from us! 1/8

Take a look at our agenda! A mix of panels, community-led workshops, art and fun, we’ll be kicking of #COS2024 in Berlin with a focus on migrant justice organising against digital surveillance! 2/8

Expect panel conversations w/ the amazing Laurence Meyer lau-val-meyer.bsky.social of Weaving Liberation Jennifer Kamau of International Women Space, Berlin Tech Workers Coalition, ReachOut Berlin & more on racialised surveillance and criminalisation in Germany and how we resist. 3/8

We’re lucky to have @ indigenousmanc & Emmanuelle Andrews 🏳️‍⚧️ guide us toward community visions of digital safety And Caterina Rodelli & Border Violence Monitoring Network will present on migrant surveillance in EU policy, and how to resist. 4/8

On day II, champions only : @marwasf Adla S Sara Chitseko will join Equinox’s sarah chander 🇵🇸 in a conversation about community & international resistance to digital infrastructures of oppression 5/8

Homo Digitalis will share with us their resistance to the Greek govt use of AI in Migration & We'll discuss resisting AI-aided state repression of Eritrean refugees' 6/8

We’ll be joined by Migrants in Culture (inactive account) for visual archiving & Digital Defenders Partnership will be running a drop in on digital security for everyone and will have a lovely sip and paint evening on day I with the support of the artist Alice Z. Jones 7/8

Last week, we organised the 2nd European Colour of Surveillance Conference w/ Equinox: Racial Justice Initiative & International Women Space in Berlin. #COS24 gathered activists and organisers to discuss liberation practices in times of fascism, centering migrant justice A quick 🧵on what happened!

The thing about being a (global south) migrant is that you can never give up, even on days when you feel hopeless, defeated, or exhausted. You must carry on with the plan. Rest feels like a privilege.

🪡👩🏿‍❤️‍👩🏾🔥 We´re so excited to introduce our fabulous Accountability Committee! Please meet the wonderful Anasuya Sengupta, Joan Monique Steijns and Luam Kidane. Their role will be to support us in staying accountable to the communities we aim to support! To learn more about them👇🏿

🌈Anasuya is co-director and co-founder of @[email protected] on Mastodon? She has led initiatives across the global Sout & internationally for over 25 years, to collectively create feminist presents and futures of love, justice, and liberation. She is a co-founder and advisor to numun

💐Joan Monique Steijns is a human rights and technology expert, senior research fellow at the Dutch Scientific Council for Government Policy (WRR), and is engaged with NJCM, the Dutch Section of International Commission of Jurists.

👩🏿‍🚀 Luam Kidane's writing and curatorial work examines movement building at the intersections of Indigenous governance practices, cultural production and articulations of self-determination. Luam works as strategist and researcher on climate, economics and food sovereignty.

𝐓𝐡𝐫𝐞𝐞 𝐜𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬. 𝐓𝐡𝐫𝐞𝐞 𝐩𝐨𝐝𝐢𝐮𝐦𝐬. 𝐎𝐧𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐠𝐞. Insightful, engaging and informative. 𝐖𝐀𝐓𝐂𝐇 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐌𝐉𝐀𝐃𝐀𝐋𝐀 𝐀𝐅𝐑𝐈𝐊𝐀 𝐋𝐄𝐀𝐃𝐄𝐑𝐒𝐇𝐈𝐏 𝐃𝐄𝐁𝐀𝐓𝐄 𝐋𝐈𝐕𝐄 from the African Union Headquarters. 📅13 December 2024. ⌚️19:00-21:00

The AU’s 2025 Theme of the Year marks another significant milestone in the conscious institutionalization of reparatory justice and racial healing in Africa. This initiative aims to develop a Common African Position on Reparations, establish an African Reparatory Programme of