#socialcohesion — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #socialcohesion, aggregated by home.social.
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https://www.europesays.com/africa/419276/ Namibia Turns Cultural Data Into a New Force for Sustainable Growth #ArtsAndCulture #CreativeIndustries #CulturalData #CulturalHeritage #CulturalPolicy #Culture2030Indicators #EconomicDiversification #EuropeanUnion #GenderEquality #Namibia #SocialCohesion #SustainableDevelopment #UNESCO #windhoek #YouthEmployment
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Insightful piece here seeing the community value of DunsPlayfest showing how it is so much more than it's tagline "Bringing brand new theatre to the Borders"
#DunsPlayfest #Theatre #NewWriting #SocialCohesion #community
https://staciereflects.com/2026/05/28/dunsplayfestbehindthescenes/
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'Difficult' women
"Grace Tame reacts to PM's comment labelling her 'difficult'."
Tame: "'Difficult' is the misogynist's code for a woman who won't comply. History tends to call her 'courageous'.''
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02-26/federal-politics-live-blog-chalmers-inflation/106388618
#Misogyny #WitchHunts #GenderedViolence #resistanceMovement #Socialcohesion #leaders #bystanders #Australia #DifficultWomenImage: Francisco Goya, Witches' Flight, 1798
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CW: A note to non-Australians about Australia Day, 26 January
@futzle Every year, the 26th January sees Invasion Day protest marches and other events mourning genocide and dispossession, celebrating the survival of many of the oldest continuous cultures in the world, and expressing ongoing resistance led by local Indigenous peoples across the continent.
In Gadi (Sydney), most years see tens of thousands of people march from the city to the Yabun festival in Vic Park.
This year will be especially important, given the NSW government's efforts to suppress protest in the name of 'social cohesion' (because denying people a voice has always turned out really well for long-term cohesion, right?). Organisers are planning to march, even if the government extends the anti-protest laws for another two weeks. The more people show up, the less likely it is that the authorities decide to cause trouble.
#InvasionDay #26thJan #jan26 #Auspol #Indigenous #protest #ProtestIsNotACrime #SocialCohesion #NSWpol #SuppressionOfDissent #CriminalisationOfDissent
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On those who warn against 'divisiveness'
In a time of acrimony and unrest, politicians urge social cohesion and decry those who stoke division. They label protesters troublemakers and haters. They bring in new regulations making it more difficult for ordinary people to publicly criticise the injustices of the status quo and to organise against them in a coherent and effective manner (i.e. #CriminalisationOfDissent).
But real social cohesion can only be built on mutual respect across differences in combination with a sense of shared responsibility for common goods. Respect requires trust. Trust requires honesty and a sustained commitment to working towards shared goals. And so when those who demonise protesters for 'divisiveness' have themselves demonstrated a sustained commitment to dishonesty in service of merely private goods, or goods for a limited group at the expense of those outside it, then it is the accusers who are guilty of their own complaint.
To be established and maintained, social divisions and exclusion always require both the propagation of falsehood and the use of violence to suppress the truth. Thus, to speak frankly about actually existing injustices is not to be divisive, but to hold open the only path towards any kind of genuine social peace.
#divisive #SocialCohesion
