{"id":4238,"date":"2018-10-17T14:44:24","date_gmt":"2018-10-17T14:44:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thepowerofstorytelling.org\/edition-2018\/?p=4238"},"modified":"2018-10-17T17:24:56","modified_gmt":"2018-10-17T17:24:56","slug":"storywall-what-would-you-like-to-rewrite-in-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thepowerofstorytelling.org\/edition-2018\/storywall-what-would-you-like-to-rewrite-in-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"StoryWall: What would you like to rewrite in the world?"},"content":{"rendered":"

With this year\u2019s theme being\u00a0Rewrite, we wanted to know\u00a0what are some of the issues of the world that participants would like to be different. Their answers, ranging from personal stories to global issues, from politics to poverty and from abuses of power to our relationship with animals and nature, provide a roadmap on issues that need to be tackled, written about or given more thought to.<\/p>\n

We extracted some of their notes below.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Girls getting married against their will<\/p>\n

The fact that we think the planet is just for the rich people<\/p>\n

Children not going\/quitting school<\/p>\n

Why do we keep repeating the same mistakes as a species?<\/p>\n

Parents abusing their kids<\/p>\n

Teaching science through stories<\/p>\n

The policy process; Odessa massacre; Berlin Olympics;\u00a0This summer.<\/p>\n

Making businesses that care for the people and the planet<\/p>\n

Poverty, politics, education<\/p>\n

Intimate partner violence<\/p>\n

Last Romanian elections<\/p>\n

Making education\u00a0more accessible<\/p>\n

My father leaving me and mom<\/p>\n

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The way we look at poor people<\/p>\n

How people communicate with each other<\/p>\n

The role of Church in politics<\/p>\n

Love, hope, fear of death<\/p>\n

Child\u2019s early education in the political life their country<\/p>\n

The meaning of life<\/p>\n

Religion, wars, poverty, injustice, inequality<\/p>\n

The tradition of eating animals for holiday meals<\/p>\n

The idea of original sin. Humans are born noble<\/p>\n

The importance we place on money<\/p>\n

Families (and nations) not telling their stories<\/p>\n

How power flows. Who has it. How it\u2019s used.<\/p>\n

My relationship with myself<\/p>\n

Generational trauma. Like Decrete 72 and December 1989<\/p>\n

All of the world\u2019s biases<\/p>\n

The story of women in motorsports (&co)<\/p>\n

Our relationship with the Earth and its resources (granted that I write this on paper)<\/p>\n

The purpose of education: from creating obeying contributors to the economy, to fulfilled human beings<\/p>\n

Cancer and mental health; disability<\/p>\n

The importance of Kanye West<\/p>\n

The importance of kindness<\/p>\n

Vulnerability, authenticity, love, hope, freedom<\/p>\n

The power that we gave to women<\/p>\n

The life of post-industrial cities in Valea Jiului<\/p>\n

How feelings of racism are passed on to other generations<\/p>\n

The divide between profoundly similar human beings<\/p>\n

The way we have poisoned the earth, the seas, the air<\/p>\n

LGBTQ, hate, and discrimination<\/p>\n

Asking her name.<\/p>\n

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With this year\u2019s theme being\u00a0Rewrite, we wanted to know\u00a0what are some of the issues of the world that participants would like to be different. Their answers, ranging from personal stories to global issues, from politics to poverty and from abuses of power to our relationship with animals and nature, provide a roadmap on issues that … Continue reading StoryWall: What would you like to rewrite in the world?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":4254,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[24],"tags":[147],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepowerofstorytelling.org\/edition-2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4238"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepowerofstorytelling.org\/edition-2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepowerofstorytelling.org\/edition-2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepowerofstorytelling.org\/edition-2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepowerofstorytelling.org\/edition-2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4238"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepowerofstorytelling.org\/edition-2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4259,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepowerofstorytelling.org\/edition-2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4238\/revisions\/4259"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepowerofstorytelling.org\/edition-2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepowerofstorytelling.org\/edition-2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepowerofstorytelling.org\/edition-2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepowerofstorytelling.org\/edition-2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}