A reminder of today's sessions, as we prepare to get underway with day two of Fearless Cities South Yorkshire ⬇️ #FearlessCities

Imagine If All The Empty Buildings In Doncaster Belonged To Community. What Could We Create, What Could We Do With Them? City of Doncaster Council Team Doncaster #Doncasterisgreat RDaSH NHS FT NHS South Yorkshire People Focused Group Citizens Advice Doncaster Borough Citizen Network Cormac Russell Jon Alexander

"The roots of co-operatives are essentially a self-defence tool for surviving within capitalism" We're learning about how we can build autonomy through a co-operative economy 🔁 #FearlessCities Stirchley Co-operative Development

"Sometimes you don't want to believe that you have to deal with these threats, but they are here, and they are real" We're exploring how we can best organise against the far-right, with a film screening and Q&A 📽️ #FearlessCities

First session today is about water. Our colleague Hélène among the panelists. Fearless Cities: South Yorkshire #FearlessCities

"There's a cultural socialisation that power is 'over there', but our lived experience can be that power is with us" Take back the city – how do we transfer power from politicians to citizens when it comes to local decisions? 🏙️ #FearlessCities

Heureux d'intervenir au #FearlessCities à Sheffield 3 jours de réflexion sur comment transformer nos villes pour les gens, par les gens - Excited to be speaking at #FearlessCities in Sheffield 3 days of thinking about how to transform our cities for the people, by the people

"We need to listen to those who live it" We're looking at relational networks, and asking how we can build trust as a foundation for systemic action 🔀 #FearlessCities

"The real problem with transition is this: we don’t have any control over the real functions of our economic system" Abundance's Keir Milburn speaking at our session on municipalism, transition, and how we can run public services in the public interest 💬 #FearlessCities

Closing plenary at #FearlessCities summit. What a great weekend! Thank’s a million for inviting us over. Ir’s been a pleasure to be part of this amazing event. See you soon! Fearless Cities: South Yorkshire

Brilliant weekend in #Sheffield for Fearless Cities South Yorkshire - I am so grateful to Ruth Hannan of Care Full and all our sponsors, our amazing contributors @caref_ll Citizen Network Fearless Cities: South Yorkshire @opusindependents

Thank you for coming! To our friends from Barcelona and everyone else. We are so proud for having made #FearlessCities happen together with co-organisers Opus Independents Citizen Network and Steve Rushton - and of course all of you speakers & participants!

Over the 2 days and 5 workshops at Fearless Cities South Yorkshire me Citizen Network and the amazing Ruth of @caref_ll w. Ester Ortega Glyn Butcher and about 100 different folk created a model of #NeighbourhoodCare. More outputs to follow. youtu.be/a8q8xtfpbGE

Watch this lovely film;

Now that the false alternative to fascism has been defeated, and the techno-lux fascism of Trump/Musk will rule, we must build real, community-based & globally connected people’s power. Fascist oligarchy is an existential threat that can only be resisted with new ways of life.

this clip is quite old, but anyone feeling surprised or shocked by today’s result clearly hasn't been paying attention. Obviously I'm biased, but my mate David had a clearer diagnosis of contemporary politics than anyone alive now.

Couldn’t we collectively organise neighbourhood networks for energy production and retrofit? Citizen Network Fearless Cities: South Yorkshire bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

✨ Thank you so much to all who attended the Fearless Cities South Yorkshire summit earlier this month! We had an incredible few days together, exploring the role of cities & neighbourhoods in tackling some of the most complex problems we collectively face. 👇

Massive thanks also to Citizen Network, Steve Rushton, Research for Action and @caref_ll for working alongside us to make it happen!