Yes to Life, No to Mining (YLNM) is a global solidarity network of and for communities, organisations and networks who are standing up for their Right to Say No to mining and advancing life-sustaining, post-extractive alternatives- whether they be new or ancient. Our members hail from every inhabited continent. We are bound together in…
About Global Tapestry of Alternatives
Organising From Below in a Time of Crisis
Centring an African ecofeminist perspective on COVID 19 and alternatives to development
Centring an African ecofeminist perspective on COVID 19 and alternatives to development
Thinking About the Post/Pandemia- Notes From Latin America
By Arturo Escobar The COVID-19 crisis has brought to the fore a renewed awareness of the possibility –for many, an absolute imperative—of a radical eco-social, economic, political and cultural transitions in every society and in the world at large. This notion has found powerful expression in a slogan that has been circulating in Latin…
Raising Gardens of Hope and Love Towards Feminist Solidarities
Even as Human Right Defenders, we are often stuck in this race for power and in the love for power, we often lose sight of the power of love.
Even as Human Right Defenders, we are often stuck in this race for power and in the love for power, we often lose sight of the power of love.
How Can We Safely Collapse Systems of Domination, and So, Flourish?
To reclaim the future we need to relearn how to be fully present to each other.
To reclaim the future we need to relearn how to be fully present to each other.
Radical Ecological Democracy Gaining Root in Africa
We call upon African governments and the world to support such emerging initiatives to counter the threats to the continent’s most precious ecosystems and to revive ways of life that restore the relationship between communities, their lands and their waters after centuries of colonial harm.
We call upon African governments and the world to support such emerging initiatives to counter the threats to the continent’s most precious ecosystems and to revive ways of life that restore the relationship between communities, their lands and their waters after centuries of colonial harm.
Nature Is Alive, She Has Rights
Our current legal systems allow humans to destroy ecosystems in the name of material ‘development’ while only granting rights to humans and human-centric constructs such as corporations and nation-states.
Our current legal systems allow humans to destroy ecosystems in the name of material ‘development’ while only granting rights to humans and human-centric constructs such as corporations and nation-states.
Building the New Normal
“Until living from a place of love within becomes the New Normal, our global problems that are symptoms of that love’s absence, will remain.”
“Until living from a place of love within becomes the New Normal, our global problems that are symptoms of that love’s absence, will remain.”