{"id":89320,"key":"A_fairer,_kinder_society","title":"A fairer, kinder society","latest":{"id":1273419,"timestamp":"2026-09-16T13:51:26Z"},"content_model":"wikitext","license":{"url":"https://www.appropedia.org/Appropedia:Copyrights","title":"CC-BY-SA-4.0"},"source":"[[File:Ealing1.jpg|thumb]]\n\nHow can community agency networks ([[Citizens Action Network handbook|CANs]]) and community groups help co-create a fairer, kinder world, through arts, sport, culture, play, education, co-learning and social inclusion?\n\n== News ==\n\n{{Tabs\n| tab1 = Fairer kinder\n| tab2 = Justice\n| tab3 = Gender equality\n| content1 = {{News card|keyword=Fairer kinder|limit=3|more=A fairer, kinder society#News archive}}\n\n| content2 = {{News card|keyword=Justice|limit=3|more=A fairer, kinder society#News archive}}\n| content3 = {{News card|keyword=Gender equality|limit=3|more=A fairer, kinder society#News archive}}\n}}\n\n== Video ==\n\n<div class=\"grid\">\n\n{{Video\n| ZkLLqHNXT-k\n| title = Like A Rainbow Shining by Will Todd\n| authors = Will Todd, ''3.41 mins.''\n| date = 2020-04-23\n}}\n\n{{Video\n| O9UByLyOjBM\n| title = The Science of Kindness\n| authors = randomactsofkindness\n| date = 2017-11-13\n}}\n\n{{Video\n| video = czkHmjrFCnM\n| title = Medicine\n| authors = Rising Appalachia, May 13, 2015\n}}\n\n</div>\n\n'''Rising Appalachia'''\n\nTogether with the music of Rising Appalachia, the Rise Collective {{W|Rising Appalachia#Rise Collective}} is used to support many of the Smith sisters' community-based projects uniting the arts and justice. Having themselves been community activists during their travels, Leah and Chloe Smith want their art to also be a source of activism, as well as of cultural development.\n\n== Education, deliberation and media services ==\n\nFabulous example of citizen and community group created local media: Visioning Camden 2030 booklet, link via [https://visioningcamden2030.wordpress.com/ visioningcamden2030.wordpress.com]\n\n== Inspiring quotes ==\n\n<blockquote>\"Most people participate in their communities not as part of organised groups, but in doing acts of kindness.\" Professor Carolyn Kagan, Professor of Community Social Psychology at Manchester Metropolitan University.\n\n\"Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.\" Aristotle\n\n\"...if we are to move from charity to justice, helping our community members who are most marginalized to be heard is one of the most effective and enduring things we can do. Let's restore one of the strengths of our sector, and one of our sacred duties. Let's mobilize the full power of our community, constantly and unapologetically, in service of justice. We must intellectualize less and organize more. The soul of our sector, and the well-being of our community, depends on it.\" [https://nonprofitaf.com/2019/05/we-need-fewer-theories-of-change-and-more-community-organizing/ Nonprofit AF]\n\n\"Please remember there's no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end.\" @TransitionLag\n\n\"We've always done skills exchanges. Hundreds of years ago, maybe, it was just with our neighbors and family, But now we have the possibility to take it anywhere in the world, and that's a great opportunity.\" Graziella Michel<ref>A new landscape for skill-sharing emerges from pandemic aftermath, Jan 7, 2021 [https://www.shareable.net/skill-sharing-landscape-emerges/ shareable.net]</ref>\n\n\"The greatness of a community is most accurately measured by the compassionate actions of its members.\" Coretta Scott King </blockquote>\n\n== News archive ==\n\n{{Tabs\n| tab1 = Fairer kinder\n| tab2 = Justice\n| tab3 = Gender equality\n| content1 = {{News card|keyword=Justice|year=2025}}\n\n{{News card|keyword=Justice|year=2024}}\n\n{{News card|keyword=Justice|year=2023}}\n\n| content2 = {{News card|keyword=Fairer kinder|year=2025}}\n\n{{News card|keyword=Fairer kinder|year=2024}}\n\n{{News card|keyword=Fairer kinder|year=2023}}\n\n{{News card|keyword=Fairer kinder|year=2022}}\n\n| content3 = {{News card|keyword=Gender equality|year=2025}}\n\n{{News card|keyword=Gender equality|year=2024}}\n\n{{News card|keyword=Gender equality|year=2023}}\n\n}}\n\n'''See also'''\n\n* CANwiki: [[CAN handbook, Come and play!#Shaping the system|Shaping the system]], [[CAN handbook, Come and play!#Share learning|Share learning]], [[CAN handbook, Come and play!#Create the feel|Create the feel]]\n* CASwiki: [[Arts, sport and culture]], [[Education for sustainability]], [[Health and wellbeing]], [[Peace and community safety]], [[Road safety]], [[Sharing]], [[Social inclusion]] associated news articles and local, eg UK counterparts.\n\n{{CANs near you footer}}\n\n{{CANwiki footer}}\n\n'''External links'''\n\n* Equipped for my future, [https://www.thealternative.org.uk/equipped-for-my-future thealternative.org.uk]\n* The Daily Alternative, categories: [https://www.thealternative.org.uk/dailyalternative/category/ARTISTS Artists], [https://www.thealternative.org.uk/dailyalternative/category/CREATIVE+INDUSTRIES Creative Industries], [https://www.thealternative.org.uk/dailyalternative/category/A+BETTER+MEDIA A better media], [https://www.thealternative.org.uk/dailyalternative/category/CREATE+THE+FEEL Create the feel], [https://www.thealternative.org.uk/dailyalternative/category/VIDEO%2FFILM Video/film], [https://www.thealternative.org.uk/dailyalternative/category/LEARNING Learning]\n\n:articles tagged: [https://www.thealternative.org.uk/dailyalternative/tag/education education], [https://www.thealternative.org.uk/dailyalternative/tag/journalism journalism], [https://www.thealternative.org.uk/dailyalternative/tag/news+media news media], [https://www.thealternative.org.uk/dailyalternative/tag/Power+of+the+Arts Power of the Arts], [https://www.thealternative.org.uk/dailyalternative/tag/feminine feminine], [https://www.thealternative.org.uk/dailyalternative/tag/theatre theatre]\n\n'''Notes and References'''\n\n<references />\n\n{{Page data}}\n\n[[Category:CAN handbook]]"}