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GM Systems Changers
@gmsystemschangers.bsky.social
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We are a network of organisations, activists and artists based in Greater Manchester.

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GM Systems Changers @gmsystemschangers.bsky.social · Jan 30
Hi BlueSky!

We are a network of organisations, activists and artists based in Greater Manchester in the UK.

We organise from a place of solidarity with working-class women and young people (predominantly of colour), towards collective liberation.

Let us introduce ourselves ⤵️
Organising from a place of solidarity with working class women and young people - predominantly of colour - towards collective liberation
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At our Autumn Members Meeting to continue our discussions on how we make decisions as a network and what we want to do together

#GreaterManchester #Network #DecisionMaking #Weaving #SelfOrganising #DeepDemocracy
Group picture of some of the members who are present
October 7, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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Our hearts are with the victims of this morning attack against a synagogue in Manchester, on the most important day of the Jewish calendar.

We're sending love and support to their families, and everyone who feels hurt and unsafe right now. We hold one another in grief, and solidarity.
October 2, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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Our network is shaped by the proposals that members bring forward. If you, as a GM SC member, have an idea you’d like the network to explore, now is the time to share it for the next Members’ Meeting.

#GreaterManchester #SystemsChange #NetworkWeaving #CollectiveDecisionMaking
Submit your proposals Our network is shaped by the proposals that members bring forward. If you, as a GM SC member, have an idea you’d like the network to explore, now is the time to share it for the next Members’ Meeting. Proposals don’t need to be polished or even written, they can be shared as a voice note or short video. The Transition Team is also available to support members in shaping them. Proposals will then be shared with everyone ahead of the Members Meeting, discussed collectively at the meeting, and all members will then be able to vote on them remotely. This is how, as GM SC members, we can decide together the future of GM SC.
September 17, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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Hi beautiful people!

In this month's newsletter, you'll find:
- Invitation to the next Members' Meeting
- Template to submit proposals to discuss as a network
- Form to register new circles
- Decisions tracker
- Updates from members and allies

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#SystemsChange #Network
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September 10, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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Don't miss our last newsletter!

In this month's edition, you will find out more about how we became a member-led network, our history and strategy up until this point, and news from our partners and allies.
GM SC newsletter March 2025: - We are now a member-led network! - Our history and strategy - Update from partners and allies View this email in your browser Greater Manchester Systems Changers Hi 👋🏾 It’s the GM SC Temporary Stewards. Here is your monthly update as we become a self-reliant, organised, and governing collective, as well as stories, events and updates from some of our members! Organising from a place of solidarity with working class women and young people, predominantly of colour, toards collective liberation With love Welcome dreamers, ​ ​​ Here is your summary of this month’s newsletter: ​ 🌻 GM SC’s next chapter: we are now a member-led network! 🌷 Where do we come from: GM SC history and strategy until now ​🌹 From partners: solidarity, community actions, creating together, and much more! ​​ With love and solidarity, GM SC core team ​ ​Did a friend forward you this email? Sign up to get your own copy directly to your inbox to not miss anything from our journey. ​ Send us your updates! We want to share the stories, research, events and opportunities from our partners, DM or email us yours so we don’t miss them 💖 Visual harvesting of the decision-making forum 🌻 We’re now a member-led network! Over the past seven months, GM SC partners have come together to shape the future of Greater Manchester Systems Changers. Last month, they decided to transition GM SC into a member-led network centering centre care, solidarity, and liberation. Members will be expected to agree and align themselves with the new vision and mission, they will have decision-making power, and will be invited to work on proposals aligned with our collective priorities. (At this stage, there are no fees or funding attached to membership.) Over the next two months, the current Temporary Stewards will confirm the membership, create a transparent process for members to put themselves forward for roles, and will facilitate the transition until a new admin team, elected by members, will take over on the 1st of June. If you have been part of GMSC’s journey, you will have received an…
April 2, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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At GM SC, we center and organise in solidarity with working-class women and young people, predominantly of colour, who are leading movements for justice, care, and liberation.

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Some of our members, sat as a circle at our last forum
March 8, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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At GM SC, we have been trying to build a radical, practical space where the most marginalised are centred and leading.

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How we want to be together... This is our radical practical space. In this space, our values are not the values of ableist white supremacist hetero-patriarchal capitalism. We recognise and welcome all body types and the neurodiverse without pathologising or assuming what our capacity and limits are. We recognise and welcome all genders, sexualities and none, all religions, spiritualities and none, all statuses and none, and all the varied lives and life paths that share this space with us. Here, we prioritise and centre the most marginalised and exploited, as full beings, and as experts of their own experience. We also recognise cycles of reproducing harm that can happen inside our own communities, (class violence, colourism, ableism and exploitation), and how privilege also exists within our communities. We are curious and committed to the ways in which we can unlearn oppression and practice new ways of being together. (Openers and principles from Voices that Shake!).
March 5, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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👮 Witness an arrest at a protest? Here's what you can do...🧵

First you should check if a Legal Observer (orange bib🦺) is nearby, call them over and they can do this. If not, do as much of the following as you can. Don't worry if you don't get everything! 1/8
February 25, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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Don't miss this month's newsletter!

If you haven't received it, you can read it and sign up for the next one here: mailchi.mp/d50182684f96...

In it you'll find ⤵️

#GreaterManchester #SystemsChange #Network #Newsletter
February 26, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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"Citizenship is not just a legal status; it is a tangible fulfilment of the promise of safety, dignity, and opportunity."

With over 100 others, we signed this Refugee Council letter urging the Home Secretary to rethink their citizenship ban. www.refugeecouncil.org.uk/latest/news/...
Over 100 charities and faith leaders unite against refugee citizenship ban
Well over 100 charities and faith leaders have come together in an urgent call against the Government’s decision to effectively ban tens of thousands of refugees from ever becoming British citizens. O...
www.refugeecouncil.org.uk
February 17, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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GM SC was established in 2021.

From the outset, the core team was set up to be temporary, prioritising justice over charity and seeking to shift power and resources towards grassroots communities and movement-building.

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Illustration featuring diverse people around a heart marked GM SC. Texts on each side of the heart reads "Severe and Multiple Disadvantages", and "Place Based System Change". 2015-2019 is written at the top. Illustration for 2020-2021 showing that GM SC is tending to collective liberation from the ground up. Centering solidarity and collaboration. Resisting discrimination, oppression and coercion. Illustration for 2022-present showing that we are questioning if we want to become a self-organised and self-governed collective? We prioritise justice over charity, shift from critical mass to critical connections and celebrate grassroots resistance and vision.
February 17, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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Opportunity for partners in GM:

free places on the ABCs of Community Assets, a workshop and study visit programme that starts in early March.

What to expect: www.stirtoaction.com/abcs-workshops

Places are limited, so please share with your networks!

Sign-up: airtable.com/appS96XFMePt...
ABCs Workshops
The ABCs of Community Assets is a new training programme to inspire a nation of new community asset leaders, featuring workshops and study visits to support local groups to acquire, manage, and future...
www.stirtoaction.com
February 11, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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Stronger together ✊🏽❤️
February 5, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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We are stronger together, but what does it really take to build a culture of collectivism?

Throughout history & the world, communities have come together to resist oppression, support one another, and create change.

What can we learn from them, and how can we apply those lessons to our work today?
Now online: learning into liberation Wednesday 19th of Feb, 11am - 2pm How do we build a future that belongs to all of us? In this session, we'll explore real examples of collectivism, challenge the forces that push us towards individualism, and imagine how we can build a future rooted in solidarity and shared power. Sign-up now
February 5, 2025 at 9:37 AM
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Benefits Tips Social!
Advice, Peer support, Networking, and Creativity to help you deal with the Benefits system.
Online Thursday 13th Feb 6 - 9pm
Book now!
gmcdp.com/civicrm/even...
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February 4, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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Well done @jengba.bsky.social making to the Big Issue top 100 changemakers 2025. #jointenterprise back in the spotlight 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
February 1, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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👮The Gangs Matrix was found to be unlawful

Now police are 'burning the paper trail' on 13 February

NO ONE after this date will be able to find out if they were on it or how their lives were impacted

🚨 We demand police delay the deletion so people can appeal for justice 🚨
Screenshot of guardian article "Deletion of 'gang matrix' database will destroy evidence against police, say campaigners" "Data to be permanently deleted on 13 February after 'matrix' was found to be unlawful"
February 4, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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‼️There's still time to act

Submit a Subject Access Request before 13 Feb

It may be the only way to find out if you were on it and challenge any actions taken against you

👇👇👇
www.erasethedatabase.uk/action
ACTION — #EraseTheDatabase
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February 4, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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🌿Join our online series of events beginning with a panel discussion with Zinesters Hamja Ahsan, Seleena Laverne Daye & Dal Kular we will talk about their work & thoughts about past, present & future of zine-making!📚

📅: Friday 21st February
⏰: 3-4:30pm
💻: Online (zoom)

🔗Register using link in bio
January 31, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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Sir Keir Starmer is pushing plans we defeated under the Conservative Govt - to spy on all of our bank accounts on the premise of dealing with welfare fraud & error.
These Orwellian new powers will force banks to flag people who meet secret criteria to the govt.

Sign the petition, write to your MP.
Stop Bank Spying — Big Brother Watch
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January 31, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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Artificial Intelligence and Disability Conference
Thurs 20th March, People's History Museum & Online
with Keynote Speaker Dr Abeba Birhane
@abeba.bsky.social
Book Now! gmcdp.com/civicrm/even...
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January 30, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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Heading out to a protest? Here's our top legal tips🧵 for you and your comrades to remember...
🚫No comment
🚫No personal details
❓ Under what power?
🚫No duty solicitor
🚫No caution

☎️ See an arrest? Have a legal question? Call 07946 541 511 (1/9)
January 30, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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#manchester Yesterday's #UNITE trade union picket against #Capita, which refuses to raise wages. The company "provides consulting, transformation and digital services." Over the centuries, the form of work has changed, but the reluctance to pay workers a decent salary remains the same.
Yesterday's #UNITE trade union picket against #Capita
January 30, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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The case of Manchester 10 -- where young men were given prison sentences for sending texts -- was bleak. Around it, however, an inspiring community campaign was built to support the boys + families. I spoke to a key organiser about it. Read more: wefightthegoodfight.substack.com/p/the-big-re...
The big read: Manchester 10
Building community and resistance in the darkest of times.
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January 29, 2025 at 4:34 PM