In Stroud, we started the year with two glocalised film screenings at the Stroud Film Festival. Firstly we hosted Moiz Ibrahim, a Sudanese Pan-Afrikan Scholar Activist connected with the broader NJIAPANDA efforts, to watch Afrikan Apocalypse with us. African Apocalypse is made by Rob Lemkin, tracking Femi Nylander’s journey as a British-Nigerian man following the violent journey taken by French colonist Paul Voulet in 1899 through modern-day Niger and encountering the communities that still remember the barbarity he wrought across the land. Then we also hosted a screening of London Recruits – a film about a group of activists in the UK who were recruited for clandestine work for the ANC during South African Apartheid and hosted one of the London Recruits Bob Newland for a panel discussion. Both of these screenings helped us talk about the current planet repairs work happening in Niger and South Africa now to repair the scars and ongoing harms of colonial violence. The film festival also gives us an opportunity every year to reach a much wider audience and platform the PRALER fund in a wider way. 

Also early in the year, the AEPPPRADIF convened in Berlin and members of the RYSE had the opportunity to go along and contribute. The promises and commitments made at the AEPPPRADIF, particularly around education and building Community Regenerative Unity for Planet Repairs have stayed with us all year and helped to guide our work. We hosted local call ins to the online sessions in Stroud.  

This was supportive as later that month we got the keys to Redz, our community hub. We decorated the walls with glocal educational material, with the flags and symbols of communities that we have been learning about through the PRALER process and packed our library with internationalist literature and ancestors. The space has been open all year and has contributed massively to our work. 

In April 2025, millions of people across Africa mobilised for Ibrahim Traore and we hosted our own solidarity dinner and discussion on the political context of the Sahel and a projection on the side of the Subrooms where we spoke to our wider community. 

To support further community engagement about the AES and other freedom fighting processes, we launched glocal noticeboards at Redz and at the Trinity Rooms community hub. These get semi-regular updates and help combat western media bias and misinformation that stops people here from supporting people’s struggles across the Global South. Also at the Trinity Rooms we’ve been running stalls selling artisanal goods for the benefit of the PRALER fund, and alongside these are facilitating a community Christmas celebration and collaborative theatre piece where we’ll dig into what community wealth really means. We’ve also continued working with specific members of our communities and through this, local councillor and education researcher Natalie Rothwell-Warn featured PRALER in her upcoming book on the state of education in England as a solution to the disempowering violence of the modern school system. 

Part of our educational work this year also involved bringing youth activists from across the UK together and running two residentials asking the questions: why did we all stop talking about climate change and can we rehabilitate a definition of Englishness from the far-right? At both of these residentials we platformed Planet Repairs and have worked with attendees afterwards to discuss ongoing engagement with the PRALER fund and process. 

Into the new year, we will be continuing to build our glocal solidarity relationships for Planet Repairs power.