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#GreaterManchester #SystemsChange #Network #Newsletter

We celebrate mutual aid, radical care, collective power, and all the work being done to make another world possible.

We recognise that these struggles are interconnected, and today, we celebrate those who fight for futures where all women, whether or not they're racialised, disabled, and/or trans, can heal and thrive together.

For us, women’s rights are not just about representation but about dismantling capitalism, colonialism, and patriarchy in all the ways they shape our lives.

On International Women’s Rights Day, we honour those who have always been at the forefront of struggle, challenging systems that seek to exploit and oppress us, and building alternative to them.

#IWD2025

These principles guide how we show up, share space, and shape a future beyond capitalism, colonialism, and oppression. Read more about the values that have shaped our work so far, in order to inform where we might be going next.

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Our work is rooted in solidarity, collective liberation, and unlearning oppression, creating spaces where we can grow, organise, and build power together.

We recognise the cycles of harm that our communities face, and resist, and build alternatives to the charitable industrial complex that pushes us to depoliticise our struggles, accept scarcity as inevitable, and prioritise survival over liberation.

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4) And finally, news from our partners and allies with their new initiatives, their events for #IWD2025, new reports and funding opportunities:

3) An invitation to the next healing session on Monday 3rd March held by Paul and Shamshad:

2) An invitation to our partners to our next Learning into Liberation on care and how we are with each other:

1) An invitation to our partners (organisation we've funded over the past 4 years) to join us for the next set of forums to decide the future of our network:

This next phase will be rooted in collective dreaming and action, continuing our work of resisting oppression and nurturing alternative futures through creativity, solidarity, and systemic change.

If you have received funding from us in the past, join us: gmsystemschangers.org.uk/decision-mak...

From March 2025, we will be exploring new forms of governance and sustainability, asking whether we should evolve into a co-operative, a constituted group of change-makers, or another structure that ensures long-term impact.

This phase included financial support to partners, expanding the core team with 18 Temporary Stewards, and investment in life-affirming demonstrators such as food sovereignty networks, community asset transfers, and alternative economic models.