By Walden Bello* Pittsburgh As the self appointed economic guardians of the world and thousands of protesters converge on Pittsburgh for the third summit of the Group of 20, expectations are low that a breakthrough in the...
Read MoreBy Diana Nelson Jones, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette First published on September 20, 2009 at 12:00 am post-gazette.com/localnews. “‘The ultimate solution to climate change is to move away from capitalism,'”...
Read Moreby Mmhonlümo Kikon They could have just arrested Jiten Yumnam at his home. But a team of Manipur Police Commandos chose the Tulihal Airport in Imphal to stage a dramatic arrest when the 33 year-old environmental activist was...
Read MoreAdvancing a Peoples’ ASEAN: Continuing Dialogue 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 The...
Read MoreMini-Ministerial Results in More US Demands Press Release 4 September 2009, New Delhi India Betrays Farmers and Workers by Endorsing WTO December Texts;Mini-Ministerial Results in More US Demands The much hyped Delhi...
Read MoreThe current global downturn, the worst since the Great Depression 70 years ago, pounded the last nail into the coffin of globalization. Already beleaguered by evidence that showed global poverty and inequality increasing, even...
Read MorePRESS RELEASE, September 3, 2009INDIAN PEOPLE’S CAMPAIGN AGAINST WTO (IPCAWTO) Thousands of workers, farmers, women, students and youth marched against the WTO Ministerial meeting which started in New Delhi today. Farmers...
Read MoreHighlight the corporations lobbying to undermine effective action to tackle climate change at the UN Climate Talks in Copenhagen this year. Corporate Europe Observatory, Focus on the Global South, Friends of the Earth Europe and...
Read MoreThe Food Wars The Focus on the Global South-Philippines (FOCUS-Philippines) and the UP Main Library would like to invite everyone to the launching on Hon. Walden Bello’s new book entitled “Food Wars.” ...
Read MoreDay of Action 9am to 12 noon, October 5 2009 Bangkok Thailand The Asian Peoples’ Solidarity for Climate Justice was formed to prepare the civil society program in parallel with the United Nations climatetalks, 28 September...
Read Moreby AKBAYAN Representative Walden Bello (originally published in the Philippine Daily Inquirer, 12 August 2009) In its obituary on President Corazon Aquino, the Economist asserts that she attained greatness in leading the fight...
Read More(The following manifestation was made by Rep. Walden Bello of the Party-list Akbayan! on the floor of the House of Representatives of the Philippines on August 13, 2009. It was prepared by Herbert Docena of Focus on the Global...
Read Moreby Herbert Docena* Funerals are not so much for the dead as for us who have to go on living. The dead have passed on; they can no longer hear us weeping. It is we—we who must scatter the flowers over their graves—who have to be...
Read Moreby Akbayan Representative Walden F. Bello* One of the first remarks that President Barack Obama is likely to make when meeting President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo on July 30 is, “I understand this is your last year in office?” It...
Read MoreBy Akbayan Representative Walden Bello* (Speech at the Conference on “Regional Integration: an Opportunity Presented by the Crisis,” Universidad de Deportes, Asuncion, Paraguay, July 21-22, 2009.) Globalization has ended in...
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