Collective weaving of words
By Aída Naxhielly Espíndola, from La Sandía Digital
We come from windy places.
We make a network of community storytellers to share stories about climate change, racial justice and gender.
We do communication for social change, exhibitions with photos and writing by women from the periphery. We also embroider, make comics and publish interviews about inequality.
We come to sow seeds of radio, of being present and listening. We seek alternatives to share, to create, to consume, to recognize others’ space.
We unite skills and knowledge, because we want to get out of a competitive logic. To sow other approaches, other ways of relating to people and technology.
We work against the dehumanization of bodies. And we take these seeds to plant them wherever we go back.
Because we don’t want to leave, we want to come back. That’s why we do community, grassroots work.
We seek to do more things within our own neighborhoods, and that our neighbors take up these spaces.
We dream of having a radio station that broadcasts local news, of having more presence to have conversations with people. To have cooperatives of journalists who can manage their own stories. We dream of capturing resources and growing audiences…
We dream of not having to present a monitoring or evaluation plan. That international cooperation understands that we cannot be measured in the same way, that the scope we have is precisely that: that we work with the community, that we walk with that community.
Because our wind provokes, moves other things. Because we are the effect of something or someone, and the cause of others’ transformation.