Four women standing in fron of a brightly coloured pull up banner that says 'Making Birmingham's Economy Work For Everyone"
What an amazing day in Birmingham! 🎉
A huge thanks to everyone who came along to celebrate our 7 huddles - and to all of our network members.
Excited to have also launched our new branding, merch, and website ⭐️
Check it out and join us here 👉 economicjusticebrum.org
#EconJusticeBrum
6 huddlers presenting on their collective journey exploring the concept of living a good life
Our final Huddle presentation- A Life Well Lived - exploring care, connection and community in capitalist times.
An illustration of how hard we find it to explore without conclusion, to consider problems without solving, to allow ourselves to simply experience, connect & listen.
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7 people presenting on building a network of child poverty campaigners
Child Poverty Changemakers
46.4% of #Brum children live in poverty. That’s over twice the national average.
How do we fix something so fundamentally broken?
7 asks of #Brum City Council including a play strategy, family centred housing and good youth work
#maybeoneday
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8 people presenting to an audience on transformative economics in Birmingham
Transformative Economics - designing infrastructures for alternative economic systems in #Brum neighbourhoods.
Our huddlers adopted the symbol of a dandelion to represent breaking free of existing economic thinking & systems, distributing new ideas and transforming old ground
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A woman standing in front of a slide which says SEND Seen Economic Justice Manifesto
SEND Seen - our huddle exploring how to harness power to change the SEND system in #Brum from adversarial, demeaning, failing to holistic, creative, person centred, effective, dignified.
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3 black senior women professionals discussing their experiences through their huddle journey
Mindset Matters - this huddle was “impactful, empowering, cathartic” “economic justice served family style” - amazing black women leaders going inside themselves to question, challenge, explore and grow.
“Mindset is a collective practice’
“We are going to take over the world!” #econjusticebrum
A group of 6 people, one talking into a hand held microphone, standing in front of a slide which says ‘Emergency vs Emergence’
Emergency vs Emergence - this huddle explored the book Emergent Strategy by Adrienne Maree Brown - concluding a move away from the individual to the collective is needed, and exploring the skills and actions needed to do that. adriennemareebrown.net/book/emergen... #econjusticebrum
3 people standing in front of an audience, with a slide that says Creativity x Economy. The person speaking is delivering a poem.
“How do you define your personal economy?” One of our huddles has explored economic liberation through the lens of creativity and culture and their definitions involved blogs, poetry and illustration #EconJusticeBrum
A crowd of people, seated, waving at the photographer. There is multicoloured bunting.
The #econjusticebrum celebration event is live! Our thanks to Huddlecraft, People’s Economy and all our huddlers for their hard work to get us to this point.
Very excited to be doing this today - do check out #EconJusticeBrum and our new website at www.economicjusticebrum.org
