Oh we know where we’re going…
Read an update from NCIA’s planning group meeting for news of the campaigns we’re linking with, progress on our project work and how we can make a louder noise about independent voluntary action.
What’s Burma got to do with us?
Penny Waterhouse finds a connection with the struggle for democracy in Burma.
I was listening to Aung San Suu Kyi, the democratically elected leader of Burma, about the struggles in her country to be self-determining. And although Burma’s situation is very different to mine, here’s what she said which rang bells with me:
- being a dissenter is what democracy is about
- building contacts with each other is what is done
- one struggle is just one of many struggles across the globe and this understanding brings solidarity and connections
- mental freedom is at the heart of what creates material freedoms
- the drivers for change are always internally led
- out of differences come new ideas
- and, when things seem bleak, what you can do is keep the flame of hope alive
Mergers and other takeovers: new youth work case studies
Two new youth work case studies show that we need to defend independent voluntary action if young people and youth workers are to be included in democratic decisions about youth services.
