News

Ideas, News, Stories

A Tribute to A.T. Ariyaratne

Quincy Saul

A.T. Ariyaratne, founder of the Sarvodaya Movement in Sri Lanka, passed away on 16th April 2024. Quincy Saul offers a tribute to the legendary figure, sharing key lessons we can learn from his life’s work as movements around

Action, Agenda, Analysis, Ideas, News, Stories

Earth Uprisings – une histoire

Christine Dann

“Nous sommes des habitant·es en lutte attachés à leur territoire.”

Les Soulèvements de la Terre [2023] *

“We are inhabitants in struggle attached to their territory.”

“One common factor is the territorialization of the movements – that is,

Analysis, Ideas, News, Stories

Gustavo Esteva Had a Vision

David Barkin

Gustavo Esteva’s life was marked by an indefatigable zest to imagine and craft “alternatives” to  moribund societal structures, and he participated in the construction of many new worlds with friends, colleagues and students. Gustavo also built them with …

Agenda, Analysis, Ideas, News, Stories

In Defence of Life: Cajamarca, Colombia

Mariana Gomez Soto and Benjamin Hitchcock Auciello

The history of large-scale mining in Colombia is inseparable from the violence of European colonialism in the Americas. Prior to the Spanish invasion nearly five centuries ago, gold was extracted on a relatively …

Agenda, Analysis, News, Stories

The Coming Green Colonialism

Nnimmo Bassey

We have entered the era of Nature-based colonialism. Call it the Green Colonialism. The gloves are coming off. The climate crisis in the world is being approached as a mere unfolding change, as business opportunities and not …

Action, Analysis, News, Stories

A historical victory in Ecuador

Miriam Lang

In an unprecedented victory, Ecuador’s indigenous movement has forced the government of Lenin Moreno to withdraw a structural adjustment decree imposed by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) as a precondition for a $4.2 billion loan to bolster the

Scroll to Top