How to build a global pro-democracy movement | Yordanos Eyoel

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🗓️ 15 December 2023

⏱️ 13 minutes

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"Democracy is the most compelling vision we have for self-governance," says freedom advocate Yordanos Eyoel. Taking a stand against predatory and opportunist authoritarian forces, she shares how to reimagine, accelerate and protect the pro-democracy movement — to build societies that are both functional and inclusive.

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0:00.0	Ted Audio Collective.
0:02.0	Audio Collective.
0:04.0	I'm Elise Hugh, you're listening to Ted Talks Daily.
0:12.0	How do we build societies that are both fun? With you're listening to TED Talks Daily.
0:12.5	How do we build societies that are both functional and inclusive?
0:17.3	Democracy entrepreneur, Jordana's EOL,
0:20.4	has been wrestling with this for most of her life and doing the work to get us there.
0:25.0	In her 2023 talk from Ted Women, she lays out the problems for democracy today
0:30.0	and a vision for reimagining and strengthening it after the break.
0:35.0	It is September 1991.
0:40.0	I'm wearing my new green and white uniform,
0:43.0	and I show up to my second grade class
0:45.2	with both excitement and trepidation.
0:48.8	It should have been a walk in the park,
0:50.8	but my first grade year was disrupted by a coup d'etat, which was a culmination of a 17-year
0:58.0	Civil War in Ethiopia.
1:00.6	As a second grader, I was now emerging back into the world after months of lockdown.
1:06.4	What should have been this euphoric moment to reunite with my friends,
1:11.8	however, became one of the most haunting moments of my life,
1:15.3	shaping both my worldview and my future life's work.
1:19.6	You see, in my prior six years of life
1:22.3	up until this point, I had no idea that I was a multi-ethnic
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