Category: Philippines
Thousands of individuals from various groups join #SONAgkaisa while ensuring physical distancing to express dismay over the Duterte administration at University Avenue, University of the Philippines Diliman, Quezon City on 5th State of the Nation Address of President Rodrigo Duterte. Photo by: Arrem Alcaraz, Kodao — with Wacphilippines Cavite.
THE MORIBUND DUTERTE PRESIDENCY
Focus on the Global South’s Post-SONA 2020 Assessment 2020 August 7 In the middle of the COVID-19...
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The Philippines’ Response to COVID-19: Limits of State Capacity
In an article for the Covid-19 Chronicles of the Center for Southeast Asian Studies (CSEAS) of...
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RESIST TERROR LAW!
Focus on the Global South’s Statement on the passage of the Anti-Terrorism Law in the...
Read MoreMula sa Lockdown patungong Crackdown:Pahayag ng Focus on the Global South laban sa Anti-Terror Law
12 Hunyo 2020* Nakikiisa ang Focus on the Global South sa mga progresibong grupo at mga kilusan sa mariing pagtutol sa napipintong pagpasa ng bagong anti-terror law sa Pilipinas. Ang pagratsada ng panukalang batas na ito...
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Youth activists hit the streets wearing face masks and defying the government lockdown to protest the imminent passage of a new anti-terror law in the Philippines. University of the Philippines Campus in Quezon City. Photo courtesy of Susan Corpuz. 2020 June 4.
FROM LOCKDOWN TO CRACKDOWN: Focus on the Global South Statement on the Anti-Terror Bill in the Philippines
June 04, 2020 Focus on the Global South joins other progressive groups and movements in strongly...
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IN THE GLOAMING. It probably goes all around the world. Preak Kak, Kampong Cham, Cambodia. 2020 May 10. Photo by Galileo de Guzman Castillo.
Notes from the Land of Peace and Prosperity
By Galileo de Guzman Castillo[i] 2020 June 4 The only hope, or else despair Lies in...
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Iraynon Bukidnon women prepare relief goods to be distributed in their community. With the inefficient (and in many cases politicized) delivery of government aid, NGOs such as LILAK (Purple Action for Indigenous Women’s Rights) and peoples’ organizations have initiated efforts to extend support and solidarity in their communities. Antique Province, Philippines. 2020 April 16. Photo by Jhona Vicente.
COVID-19 exposes twin crises of Neoliberalism and Authoritarianism in Philippines
by Bianca Martinez* 29 April 2020 Under the Luzon-wide lockdown imposed on March 17 and the...
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PRESS RELEASE: Workers are not Virus-Proof
Advocacy groups call for expanded massive testing before economic restart As the nation...
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Democracy and Charisma: A Dangerous Liaison
Democracy in the Era of Charismatic Politics in India and the Philippines Talk delivered to...
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Farmer groups stage a protest at the gates of the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) to call on the government to repeal the Rice Liberalization Law. 2019 November 20. Pasig City, Philippines.
Farmers demand government to repeal Rice Liberalization Law
On Wednesday, November 20, around 100 farmers, farmworkers, rural youth, women, urban poor, and...
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We demand Trade Justice: Reject RCEP and Corporate Trade Deals!
Workers, farmers, fishers, indigenous peoples, rural women, and health and trade justice advocates...
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Farmers, fishers, rural women, indigenous peoples, and civil society organizations come together to organize a press conference that aims to raise the alarm over the severe crisis in food, land, fisheries, livelihoods, and natural resources precipitated by the Duterte administration's neoliberal economic policies. [2019 October 15. Quezon City, Philippines. Photo by Galileo de Guzman Castillo.]
Resist the corporate takeover of agriculture, lands, waters, and natural resources
Statement on the World Food Day, 2019 October 15 We are in the midst of a food crisis. This is a...
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