By Akbayan Representative Walden Bello*Beginning in the second week of December, representatives to the United Nations Climate Conference in Copenhagen will wrestle with the challenge of climate change. This week, influential...
Read Moreby Akbayan Representative Walden BelloPublished on November 28, 2009 by YES! MagazineIt is now generally accepted that globalization has been a failure in terms of delivering on its triple promise of lifting countries from...
Read MoreOn 28th november 2009, 3000 people took part in the demonstration against a WTO conference starting on Monday. Farmers of La Via Campesina gathered to claim the right to Food Sovereignty. Interviews with Kannaiyan Subramaniam...
Read MoreThe death toll from the Philippines’ worst politically-linked massacre has risen to fifty-seven. The victims were abducted as they were travelling to nominate an opposition candidate for governor in upcoming elections.The dead...
Read MorePresented to the Special Committee on Globalization House of Representatives 18 November 2009 On behalf of the Stop the New Round Coalition (SNR) a network of around 40 national and regional level groups and movements, I would...
Read MoreDerail DOHA, Save the Climate* By Akbayan Representative Walden Bello There’s something surreal about the ongoing World Trade Organization talks in Geneva, which aim at coming up with a new agreement to bring down tariffs in...
Read MoreSunday, November 15th, 2009 Copenhagen / Brussels, Monday 16 November The damaging impacts of corporate lobbying on international efforts to fight climate change are exposed today with the announcement of the eight candidates...
Read Moreby Walden Bello* (Speech delivered at the People’s Global Action Conference during the Global Forum for Migration and Development, Athens, Greece, Nov. 1, 2009.) The migrant worker experience is one that is increasingly...
Read MoreOpen Letter of Civil Society to ASEAN Leaders มหกรรมประชาชนอาเซียน ASEAN PEOPLES’ FORUM / ASEAN CIVIL SOCIETY CONFERENCE 31 October 2009 Open Letter To: H.E. Abhisit Vejjajiva, Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Thailand and ASEAN...
Read MoreAt 11:30pm, Thurs, Thai foreign Ministry officials informed organizers of APF that 5 out of 10 civil society representatives were rejected from the interface meeting with ASEAN heads of government. The remaining representatives...
Read MoreBy Walden Bello* (This paper was delivered at the plenary session of the 2009 National Conference of the Philippine Sociological Society held at the PSSC Building, on Oct. 16, 2009.) This paper seeks to shed light on how an...
Read MoreTo renew the spirit of Hong Kong and re-energize the resistance to the WTO-DOHA Round In December 2005 during its 6th Ministerial Meeting, we gathered in Hong Kong as part of one global movement against the World Trade...
Read MoreReview by Stuart Barlow As famine once again threatens Africa, and food prices soar as a result of crop failures and drought, it has never been more urgent to expose the capitalist model of industrial agriculture, which is...
Read MoreBangkok, September 28, 2009 We, the undersigned social organizations, movements and networks working towards climate and socioeconomic justice, gathered in Bangkok for an International Strategy Meeting on Climate and Finance in...
Read MoreWe, the Asian Peoples Solidarity for Climate Justice, are gathered here in Bangkok, Thailand to take our stand in the face of an unprecedented conflict. It is a conflict over resources, a conflict driven by unfettered...
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