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Nov 10, 2020

Stop imagining the apocalypse. Start imagining the renaissance.

Oi Polloi’s manifesto for a better future.

Stop imagining the apocalypse. Start imagining the renaissance.

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Jun 19, 2025

Innovating the ‘socio’ in ‘socioeconomic’

Updates from the frontlines of undercover systems change

Innovating the ‘socio’ in ‘socioeconomic’

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Mary Valiakas

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Nov 23, 2023

Thanksgiving in the age of escapism

Indigenous wisdom to come home to ourselves & authentic connection

Thanksgiving in the age of escapism

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Apr 28, 2023

The butterfly effect of a night out

Can a pay-it-forward campaign to support free nights out unleash a chain reaction of kindness and save London’s nightlife? Help us keep fun…

The butterfly effect of a night out

Mary Valiakas

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Jan 20, 2023

How fun can change the world: mindful hedonism + spending power = unstoppable force for good

Changing the world can and should be all fun and games. Because all the solutions to the world’s problems exist — we just have to remember…

How fun can change the world: mindful hedonism + spending power = unstoppable force for good

Mary Valiakas

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Jan 2, 2022

Reframing the past to create a new future

What a Roman god, Greece adopting the Euro, the toilet paper panic, the Great Resignation, and the Oi Polloi executive summary all have in…

Reframing the past to create a new future

Mary Valiakas

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Jul 21, 2021

Overview effect to the rescue?

The optimist’s view of the billionaire space race and space tourism.

Overview effect to the rescue?

Mary Valiakas

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Dec 1, 2020

Why systems change requires shadow work

From cancel culture, to rape culture, systemic racism and everything in between — acknowledging our own and society’s skeletons is…

Why systems change requires shadow work

Mary Valiakas

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Apr 13, 2020

Kindness as diplomacy

An open letter to Queen Elizabeth II inviting her to become a United Nations Kindness Ambassador in a bid to spread a kindness contagion.

Kindness as diplomacy

Mary Valiakas

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Oct 18, 2019

What the granddaughters of the witches that didn’t burn, did next

An ode to strong women in the age of rebirthing social structures. Because feminism in its most evolved form is a rallying cry for unity…

What the granddaughters of the witches that didn’t burn, did next

Mary Valiakas

Mary Valiakas

Currently rebooting Greece: www.oipolloi.io | Part of a team with a mission to make solidarity sexy: whatdoesnot.com | She advocates user-centred policy design

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