Category: Social Movements
Voices of Women’s Leaders from the Region
This International Women’s Day 2024, we honor the voices of women leaders who are at the...
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Vignettes from the World Social Forum 2024 in Nepal: Peoples’ Power and Solidarities for a Just and Fair Future
“Another World is Possible!” “Another World NOW!” The 16th World Social Forum (WSF) was held in...
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Suvo Bosonto: Welcoming Spring with Songs and Dances
by Joseph Purugganan Dhaka, Bangladesh. February 14-17 A delegation from the Asian Music...
Read More#WSF2024: Challenges and Victories by Social Movements
by Raphael Baladad* Good afternoon friends, allies and comrades. Building and sustaining movements, creating social pressure, campaigning, mobilizing, engaging policy spaces, responding to threats and calls to action, and...
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The Art of Remembering: Reimagining Home Through Performance Art
In the world of performance art, where emotions and expressions collide to create profound...
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Artful Defiance: Myanmar’s Creative Resistance
In 2021, Myanmar faced one of its darkest periods in history. Despite prior steps towards...
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Learning from Herstories and Histories; Shaping Futures, 4 August 2023. Photo by Shalmali Guttal.
Learning from Herstories and Histories; Shaping Futures
The Chulalongkorn University Social Research Institute (CUSRI) and Focus on the Global South...
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SONA Moblizations on 24 July 2023 along Commonwealth Avenue in Quezon City, Philippines.
2023 Civil Society Mobilizations for the State of the Nation Address (SONA)
SONA Moblizations on 24 July 2023 along Commonwealth Avenue in Quezon City, Philippines. ...
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Ahead of President Bongbong Marcos’ State of the Nation Address (SONA) farmers raise doubts whether the recently signed new agrarian emancipation law that seeks to condone agrarian debts will indeed benefit farmers or favor instead landowners who have managed to regain control over agrarian lands. 21 July 2023. Quezon City. Photo by J. Purugganan
Emancipating Farmers, or Land Owners? The New Agrarian Emancipation Act needs a revalidation of ownership in agrarian lands
PRESS STATEMENT: Emancipating Farmers, or Land Owners? The New Agrarian Emancipation Act needs a...
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Joseph Purugganan speaking at the Roundtable discussion Reality vs Expectation: BBM’s 2023 SONA.
Civil Society under the Marcos-Duterte Administration
By Joseph Purugganan [1] It is important to start by looking at a way to frame the relationship...
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[UPCOMING EVENT] Learning from Herstories and Histories; Shaping Futures
(ภาษาไทยด้านล่าง) In the occasion of our launch of new research collaboration project “A Peoples’...
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1SAMBUBUNGAN Statement on the Designation of IPs as Terrorists
Indigenous Peoples are under attack. Again. Using the Anti-Terror Law, the all-powerful...
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