Category: Power and Democracy
KASAMAS FOR LOVE, FOR PEACE. Heiwa koshin desu! (We are the Peace March!). Kiyosu Castle, Aichi Prefecture, Japan. 2019 June 10. Photo by Hideki “Run” Yokoe.
Peace and Courage in the Time of COVID-19
Solidarity Message from the Global South to the 2020 Japan Peace March[i] By Galileo de Guzman...
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US Tank Convoy during the Vietnam war - goodfreephotos.com
The Racial and Genocidal Underpinnings of the American Way of War
by Walden Bello* The US military command’s pushback against President Donald Trump’s attempt to...
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What next for the Anti –CAA protests in India?
28 June 2020 Interview with Professor Manisha Sethi (NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad, India)...
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The Trump Baby blimp rises over London’s Parliament Square. -Michael Reeve
The Far Right: Formidable but not Unbeatable
By Walden Bello* The Covid-19 pandemic has frozen much social and economic life throughout the...
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Statement From Feminists in India Against The Police Violence That Killed George Floyd
We, feminists in India, strongly condemn the murder of George Floyd, an African-American, by a...
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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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The “New Cold War” between the United States and China
As the “New Cold War” between the United States and China threatens to escalate to an...
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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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Police in Kashmir confronting demonstrators in December 2018. Source: Wikimedia Commons
India asked to restore special status of Jammu and Kashmir
Focus signed on to this joint open letter to Prime Minister Modi on the situation in Jammu &...
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Message from a Filipino Peace Activist from the Global South during the 2019 Japan Peace March International Youth Relay
We publish this final blog post by our colleague Galileo De Guzman Castillo on his participation...
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DUTERTE, THE SERPENT. His strongman rule ultimately serves the administration’s authoritarian and neoliberal agenda. United Peoples’ SONA. Quezon City, Philippines. 2019 July 22. Photo by Galileo de Guzman Castillo.
A Period of Consequences: The Era of Violence, Hardships, Betrayals, and Perversions under Duterte
Focus on the Global South’s Statement on President Rodrigo Duterte’s midterm State of the Nation...
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NOTES FROM THE FIELD #10: Of No Goodbyes But See You Soons
Tuesday and Wednesday, June 11 and 12, 2019 Fuso and Inuyama, Aichi Prefecture and Kakamigahara,...
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