Pushed out
People are moved, priced out or prevented from staying
Roots: ties to place, ownership, tenure
Explore this pressureUnerasable
How communities hold together under pressure.
When a community is pushed out, written out, squeezed out, worn down or silenced, it often feels personal and random. It usually isn't. Pressure has a pattern, and so does holding on. This site helps you see both, and gives you tools to act.
The five pressures and answering strengths
Written out
Language, history and culture are dropped, renamed or banned
Heritage: passing on language, memory and practice
Explore this pressureSqueezed out
Livelihoods, businesses and land are taken or starved
Livelihood: income and assets the community controls
Explore this pressureWorn down
Stigma, surveillance and fear wear people down
Voice: telling your own story, in your own media
Explore this pressureSilenced
Leaders are removed, co-opted or made unsafe
Backbone: leadership spread across many people
Explore this pressureFive pressures, five strengths.
Learn to recognise the pressures, and the strengths that answer each one.
Stories of communities that held.
From Welsh speakers to Dhaka's Korail, what people did, what worked and what didn't.
A toolkit you can use tonight.
48 practical tools, from tenant organising to oral history.