Ashish Kothari provided an update from the first in-person meeting of the Global Tapestry of Alternatives for Meer:
“One of the slogans resounding through the Assembly was ‘jin, jiyan, azaadi’ (women, life, freedom), emerging from the Kurdish movement. This and many other such revolutionary slogans, chants, prayers, and concepts that were voiced by the participants in their own languages, must have stayed long in the hearts and minds of participants as they wound their ways back home. As we bid each other bye (and not ‘goodbye’), many of us were moist-eyed, but also hopeful from the stories and aspirations we had shared, buoyed by the knowledge that we are not alone in the struggles for a just, beautiful world.”
