In the context of global democratic crises and pervasive neoliberal policies, civil society organizations (CSOs) play a critical role in promoting democratic processes and advancing social change on local, national, and transnational scales. However, such organizations also (need to) grapple with how they themselves put social justice and democratic principles into practice, and resist coloniality within. This article examines these questions in the case of People Powered–Global Hub for Participatory Democracy, a recently found transnational CSO that advocates globally for participatory democracy as a mechanism for social change and employs these principles in its own governance and operations. The analysis focusses on the creation of People Powered and its first year of practice. Drawing upon decolonial frameworks—and based on our own experiences as founding members of People Powered and our reading of interviews and documents—we identify concrete practices through which the organization seeks to enact epistemic justice, shift power, and emphasize relationality. We argue that People Powered's decolonial roots, collectively articulated values and commitments, radical transparency, and its consistent employment of meaningful participation and reflexivity have built and are likely to sustain this transnational solidarity for social change. At the same time and perhaps critical for fostering solidarity and social change in the long term, People Powered embraces, rather than evades, tensions and contradictions that emerge in these efforts.

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通过参与式实践组织跨国团结以实现社会变革：以人为本——参与式民主全球中心的案例

在全球民主危机和普遍的新自由主义政策的背景下，民间社会组织 (CSO) 在促进民主进程和推动地方、国家和跨国范围内的社会变革方面发挥着关键作用。然而，这些组织也（需要）努力解决他们自己如何将社会正义和民主原则付诸实践，并在内部抵制殖民主义。本文以 People Powered-Global Hub for Participatory Democracy 为例探讨了这些问题，这是一个最近成立的跨国公民社会组织，它在全球范围内倡导将参与式民主作为一种社会变革机制，并在其自身的治理和运营中采用这些原则。分析侧重于 People Powered 的创建及其第一年的实践。利用非殖民主义框架——并基于我们作为 People Powered 创始成员的经验以及我们对采访和文件的阅读——我们确定了组织寻求实施认知正义、转移权力和强调关系的具体实践。我们认为，People Powered 的去殖民根基、集体表达的价值观和承诺、激进的透明度以及对有意义的参与和反思的一贯运用已经建立并可能维持这种对社会变革的跨国团结。同时，也许对于长期促进团结和社会变革至关重要，“人民力量”拥抱而不是回避在这些努力中出现的紧张和矛盾。