6 Billion Ways: making another world possible - 5 March 2011

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

Posted on March 6, 2011 by Tim Gee

"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.

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