Category: Power and Democracy
On June 10th, members of the Save Agrarian Reform Alliance (SARA) joined a protest action in front of the Department of Agrarian Reform in commemoration of the 36th anniversary of the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program. Photo: Isaak Heller.
On the Anniversary of Agrarian Reform Law, Farmers intensify their demand for distribution of agrarian lands, support for farmers, and an end to the criminalization of land rights struggles
By Isaak C. Heller On June 10th, members of the Save Agrarian Reform Alliance (SARA) joined a...
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Building Solidarity from Below: The Intensifying Wars in Myanmar and Palestine, their effects on People’s, and the role plates by regional and global powers
By Joseph Purugganan The International Institute for Research and Education (IIRE) Philippines, ...
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[Joint Statement] Thailand: Justice for Bung Sanesangkhom, stop harassment against dissent
Originally posted on FORUM-ASIA website here. The Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development...
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A Conversation with Vijay Prashad and Walden Bello
If there are two names that many identify with international activism, they are most likely those...
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Angkhana Neelapaijit at the event "Enforce Justice Instead of Disappearances — Commemorating the 20th Year of Somchai Neelapaijit", 12 March 2024 at Chulalongkorn University. Photo by Kheetanat Wannaboworn.
“…enforced disappearance is not just taking someone away forever, but it turns the living into a state resembling death”
Twenty years ago, Somchai Neelapaijit, an outspoken human rights lawyer and senior member of two...
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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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Power Dynamics and Progressive Movements: Lessons from Latin America to the Philippines
by Bianca Martinez Across the globe, peoples and communities continue to reel from the impacts of...
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#WSF2024: Unjust Wars and a Just Peace
By Walden Bello* Wars can have many and diverse causes, but it is when local conflicts are...
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A banner displayed at the Palestinian Social Forum, part of the World Social Forum in Kathmandu, Nepal, Feb 18, 2024. Photo by: Galileo de Guzman Castillo.
#WSF2024: The Global Rise of Fascism and How to Fight It
(Intervention at the “Building a Movement Mindset” Panel of the World Social Forum,...
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Support and solidarity for Palestine during the solidarity march of the World Social Forum held in Kathmandu, Feb 15, 2024. Photo by: Galileo de Guzman Castillo.
#WSF2024: Palestine Lights the Way Forward
(Speech at Opening Plenary of the World Social Forum, Kathmandu, Feb 15, 2024) by Walden Bello...
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Palestinian Social Forum, part of the World Social Forum in Kathmandu, Nepal, Feb 18, 2024. Photo by: Galileo de Guzman Castillo.
PEACE, JUSTICE, AND SELF-DETERMINATION FOR PALESTINE: OPPOSE OCCUPATION, APARTHEID, AND GENOCIDE; CEASEFIRE NOW!
Statement by Focus on the Global South at the World Social Forum, Kathmandu, Nepal 2024 February...
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Letter to Sombath on his birthday, 17 February 2024
My dearest Sombath, Today is 17 February, and once again it’s your birthday. You would be 72...
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