Six years ago while reading the news about political unrest, daily protests and even rioting in Athens, I decided to pack my bags and move to my mother’s home country – I felt it was time to do my part and take some action to help in the struggle to overcome the crisis Greece was […]

New Year’s Revolutions 2019 Dear activists, Last year we kicked off what we hope to consolidate this year, as our guerrilla tradition, our New Year’s Revolutions. Very simply; we are posing a single question to ourselves: ‘What is the revolution you’d like to see taking place this year?” Here goes.. Cross Border Extinction Rebellion Last […]

A meme is circulating the web in which economist Stephen Kinsella asks ‘Siri, describe 2018 in one tweet’ and below we quite aptly read the following: “being angry all the time is exhausting and corrosive. Not being angry feels morally irresponsible”. This sentiment of toxic outrage and guilt-inducing non-outrage has certainly permeated the many social […]

Raising Activists Much like Christians, engineers or assholes, nobody is born an activist. Much like it takes some serious conditioning to raise someone to believe in an omnipotent deity, or how to build a bridge, or to flip-off pregnant women while screaming racial slurs, it takes some effort to inculcate the activist spirit in a […]

We are elated to announce our autumn closed call grantees and partners for 2018 and into 2019, and we’re wildly excited to get the chance to work alongside them. Of course, once again, competition was fierce and choosing a final list was extremely challenging, as we had to decide between brilliant & badass activist initiatives. […]

Five key takeaways from Josef Lentsch’s new book, “Political Entrepreneurship”. “The art of transformation from within is to learn to work the system without becoming a part of it”, this quote lingers with me, after finishing Josef Lentsch’s book, Political Entrepreneurship – ‘How to build successful centrist political startups’, and I’m left with this age-old question, […]