Author

E. T. Smith

3 illustrations of trees. The first tree is in a box and text reads 'private asset' and 'market'. The 2nd tree is a healthy looking tree growing from the ground. The text reads 'commons resource' and 'commons'. The third tree is surrounded by a fence and text reads 'public asset' and 'state'.

Practising Commoning

This article introduces commoning and provides a comprehensive resource list including tools for practicing commoning.

Coalition Building: Start Here

A guide to Coalition Building resources in the Commons Social Change Library including frameworks, training sessions, podcasts, and case studies.

Image of a three hands, all with dark-brown skin. One is a small hand with fingers spread out onto a yellow, red, and black painting from hand-stencils; the others are gently holding and spraying yellow paint onto the first hand, respectively.

Prefigurative Politics in Practice

The concept of prefigurative practices can help us identify and cultivate the many forms of activism that help to open up the space of possibilities from within which we can co-create better futures.

Painting of bell hooks with her face purposeful and compassionate, resting her chin on her hand. Her hair is an afro over which text is written in white capital letters" "“The moment we choose to love we begin to move against domination, against oppression. The moment we choose to love we begin to move towards freedom, to act in ways that liberate ourselves and others. That action is testimony as the practice of freedom.”

bell hooks – Ideas for Social Justice

bell hooks’ ideas have resonated widely. This resource-set focuses on her contributions to three key concepts in social justice movements: understanding intersecting structures of power; practising love, as a verb, as a pathway to justice; and the transformative power of teaching/learning as activism.

Cover of the booklet We Will Not Cancel Us. The cover is bright pink with black text.

Book Review: We Will Not Cancel Us

Review of the booklet We Will Not Cancel Us – And Other Dreams of Transformative Justice by adrienne maree brown. Discusses transformative justice approaches as an alternative accountability measure to ‘canceling’ individual harm-doers.

A large daffodil grows out of a concrete block. The block is a prison cell with metal bars. The daffodil's stem, leaves and roots are breaking through the block and causing cracks. Text reads: Imagining long-term solutions to violence, including sexual harassment, is part of a larger abolitionist project to foster community-wide changes instead of distributing individual punishments.

Transformative Approaches to Conflict Resolution

This article introduces some of the key concepts of transformative justice and provides links to a wide array of resources. Transformative justice describes a systems approach to identifying root causes of conflict and responding to these as a community.

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