Miriam Lang, Ashish Kothari and Mabrouka M’barek
Our world is facing unprecedented challenges: the rise of the political right in many countries, a historical level of environmental destruction and loss of biodiversity, a crisis of the political mechanisms of decision …
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 …
David Barkin and Alejandra Sánchez
Introduction
The dominant contemporary model of the world economic system is promoted as the ideal of development and growth to improve wellbeing and quality of life to society. It suggests that equality, justice and freedom …
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 …
Ashish Kothari speaks with Yasin Duman about the role of the Kurdish Autonomous Administration in establishing grass-roots democracy in Rojava, northern Syria.
Ashish Kothari: Yasin, thanks for taking the time to speak with us on the socio-political changes shaping Rojava, …
Tero Mustonen
North Karelia, located in Eastern Finland, has been the traditional homeland of the Sámi, Karelian and Savo-Karelian peoples. Down the ages the people of North Karelia have enjoyed a deep and rich connection with nature. Seasonal hunting, fishing, …
Hannibal Rhoades
“We are stuck with the problem of living despite economic and ecological ruination. Neither tales of progress nor of ruin tell us how to think about collaborative survival. It is time to pay attention to mushroom picking.”- Anna …
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 …
Tord Bjork and Marko Ulvila
The impact of Mahatma Gandhi on the emergence of new social movements in Europe after the Second World War has been quite significant. Gandhian influences can be traced to many important civic initiatives – movements and organizations around Third World liberation, peace and non-violence, international solidarity, the environment and democracy. A large number of the key actors involved in these movements had established direct or indirect contact with Gandhian activists in India and, not surprisingly, that relationship shaped their thinking and had lasting impacts on their movements, …
Ashish Kothari and Shrishtee Bajpai speak with Natasha Verco about the utopian thought and practice , which have helped make Christiania, a neighborhood in Copenhagen, a successful autonomous community.
Ashish Kothari: Thanks a lot, Natasha for taking the time to …
The following statement was presented by Besime Konca of the Kurdish Women’s Movement at “Defend the Sacred” Conference, 17th August 20.
Dear women, dear friends,
We have come together in Tamera, Portugal to collectively find a way to defend …
