MEDIA, COMMUNICATIONS AND OUTREACH ASSOCIATE-Philippines
Focus on the Global South Philippines Programme is in need of a MEDIA COMMUNICATIONS AND OUTREACH ASSOCIATE to join a team working on various thematic programmes – deglobalization and trade, the commons, alter- natives, peace and security and climate justice.
Focus on the Global South is looking for a Communications Coordinator (CC) to be based in New Delhi, India for a full time position.
We are looking for a candidate to join a team working on various thematic programmes – deglobalisation and trade, the commons, alternatives, peace and democracy and climate justice. The CC will play a key role alongwith our Communications team in revamping and reinventing Focus’ communications strategy and tools.
Call for Civil Society’s Participation
In the 2nd ASEAN Peoples’ Forum / 5th ASEAN Civil Society Conference
18-20 October 2009
Cha-am, Phetchaburi Province, Thailand
http://aseanpeoplesforum.net
Asian People's Solidarity for Climate Justice
The Gr8 Climate Sale
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The issue of climate change has come to the forefront and people both in the North and the South have been feeling the devastating effects of global warming. However, the links between the neo-liberal system and the model of over consumption to the climate crisis are not clearly stated.
This May, FOCUS ON THE PHILIPPINES brings together commentary on the
party list and the upcoming elections. Here, Miriam Coronel-Ferrer, Mon
Casiple and Men Sta. Ana discuss the significance and the implications
of the Supreme Court decision, which paves the way for 32 more party
list representatives in Congress—including FOCUS senior analyst and
Akbayan rep Walden Bello, whose first privilege speech, tackling the
crisis, is also contained in this issue. This new twist in Congress
underscores the character and contradiction of the kind of ‘democracy’
we have in the Philippines. According to our analysts, the good news is
that we can somehow expect substance and some intelligent discussion in
the House, with more platform-based groups gaining entry through the PL
system. The bad news is, with the likes of Presidential First
Sister-in-Law Marilou Arroyo and General Palparan sneaking in, the
party-list continues to serve as a backdoor for trapo groups, political
dynasties and ‘fly-by-night’ organizations, adding notoriety to an
already discredited institution; all this presenting a preview of next
year’s catch not just in the party list but in the over-all national
elections and a case to push for changes in the law.
In any case, a lot of attention is geared toward 2010, for various
reasons. May signals the run up to the next elections, eagerly awaited
by many-- if only because it marks the final stretch, the beginning of
the end, the last year of Gloria Arroyo and her cronies-- among them
FOP editor Aya Fabros, who cranks it up in Welcome to Verwirrung.
There’s also a growing number of emerging groups and movements banking
on the possibility of reform arising from the ‘excruciating slow,
incremental’ processes of electoral and institutional change. While
there are sections that do not see any gains arising from the routine
exercise of elections under a democracy held hostage by elites, there’s
still this reverberating call for greater vigilance, with Cha-cha
schemes, parliamentary plots and other similar attempts threatening to
prolong our agony and accelerated deterioration under GMA. Here, as we
ask ‘Can Alternative Reform Candidates Win in 2010?’ we are also
reminded: ‘Gloria Forever: She Will If She Can.”
As we find ourselves confronting twists and turns in the political
scene, as we enter this blitzkrieg of TV ads, tarpaulins and televised
politicovelas, as we start counting down from 365 to 1, we’re compelled
to take note: this is not a good time to just sit and wait things out.
It’s going to be a bumpy ride ahead. Make sure you’re not stuck in the back seat.
Focus on the Global South, a programme of development policy research, analysis and action, opens its 2009 Volunteer/Internship Program. The Focus internship is a non-salaried programme that is designed to provide exciting opportunities and exposure to highly-motivated college students, graduate students and fresh university graduates. Accepted interns/volunteers will have a chance to assist in a research on climate change.
The initiative People’s Agenda for Alternative Regionalisms, involves regional alliances such as Hemispheric Social Alliance (Latin America), Southern African People’s Solidarity Network- SAPSN (Southern Africa), Solidarity for Asian People’s Advocacy – SAPA (South East Asia), People’s SAARC (South Asia) as well as organisations and networks in Europe, including Transnational Institute (TNI), that struggle for “Another Europe”. These networks and the organisations part of them, share a strong commitment on the need to RECLAIM the regions, RECREATE the processes of regional integration and ADVANCE people-centered regional alternatives.
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