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What safeguards are needed for Hong Kong’s new national security law? Who could get caught by it? Legal eagles flag concerns In the second of a three-part special on Beijing’s move for a new national security law for Hong Kong, we review the legal questions it has sparked. Key issues include scope of new law, definition of offences, which courts will deal with cases and safeguards needed.
When China’s parliament (...)United States and racism — We Can’t Breathe : Rebellion against Racist Police Violence The uprisings and demonstrations in Minneapolis and other cities including in front of the White House that followed the brutal May 25th killing of George Floyd, an unarmed Black man by white Minneapolis police officers and the hesitation of local and federal prosecutors to immediately arrest (...)
United States (racism & history) — From Detroit to Minneapolis: Police Brutality is Key to Containing Revolutionary Possibilities An exclusive excerpt from A People’s History of Detroit.
Introduction by Mark Jay and Philip Conklin
In 1965, the correctional population in the U.S., including all those in jail or prison, or on probation or parole, was less than 800,000. At present, the number is around seven million. As a (...)Police violence in United States: six years after Ferguson, George Floyd’s killing shows little has changed After the African American teenager Michael Brown was shot dead by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri in August 2014, the epidemic of police violence against people of color in the US captured national and global attention, for a time.
When Brown was killed, the words of Eric Garner, (...)Covid-19 (Mindanao, Philippines): Humanitarian relief mission to six communities For the first time under the COVID pandemic, TRIPOD and MIHANDs South Central Mindanao embarked on an off-city humanitarian relief mission to six communities in the Municipalities of Lebak and Kalamansig, Sultan Kudarat Province from 19th to 22nd May 2020.
COMBATING COVID AND CONFLICT: REPORT (...)The Coronavirus Pandemic and the Crisis of the World Trade Organization: An Opportunity to Transform Philippine Agriculture Intervention of Walden Bello in the Webinar on the “Program for a New Normal in Agriculture” sponsored by Greenpeace Philippines and other organizations, May 29, 2020.
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I was originally intending to give the main points of a recent article I (...)A Preliminary Report on Southeast Asian Community and Grassroots Responses in COVID-19 Times This report is a preliminary attempt to document the independent initiatives undertaken by AltDev partner organizations and civil society networks during the COVID-19 crisis in the Southeast Asian region. In order to cover a wider field of experiences, reports from other civil society (...)
France: Federate - We do need to federate in times of multiple crisis To see the list of signatures and more information on this new initiative, see the French version Se fédérer — Un appel pour travailler ensemble en ces temps de crises.
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So many of us think and feel that the current system has had its days. But our voices are scattered, our calls are (...)Program: A Socialist Manifesto for a Post-Covid-19 Philippines As government and the private sector attempt to mitigate the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic by instituting both health and social amelioration measures, the assumption reigns that when all this is over things will go back to normal and it will be “business as usual.” This means going back to the (...)
India’s Kerala Is Combating COVID-19 Through Participatory Governance The left-ruled Indian State of Kerala continues to remain in the global spotlight for its effective and efficient measures in tackling the COVID-19 pandemic. Kerala dominated the Indian news headlines, showing the rest of the world its potential, its strength and its humane approach, (...)
Sri Lanka: Tackle the household debt pandemic: Cancel debt! Create common credit! A debt burden will only scuttle economic recovery as it will put enormous pressure on small farmers, fishers, tea plantation workers and small and medium entrepreneurs who have to lead the economy towards recovery.
The onset of islandwide curfew since mid-March delivered a blow to the economy (...)Class antagonism and social contradictions: Tensions within Hong Kong’s imagined community Beijing is but one of the most visible causes of Hong Kong’s social ills. The “invisible hand” of the free market lies at the root.
Eleven months into the ongoing anti-government protests, the people of Hong Kong have become well aware of the perils of a regime tainted red. In a society without (...)ESSF coverage of the Coronavirus pandemic The Covid-19 pandemic has generated interlocking crises at multiple levels. ESSF is providing thematic and geographic coverage in English and French.
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Our (...)Israel’s Mizrahi Activists Are Fighting the Racist Nation-State Law Echoing the country’s Black Panther movement of the early 1970s, they’re challenging the false binary of Arab vs. Jew, which the law strengthens.
In July 2018, human rights attorney Hassan Jabareen, a Palestinian citizen of Israel, called sociologist Yehouda Shenhav. They had been trying since (...)In Japan, the Pandemic Has Shattered Abe Shinzō’s Great Power Dream Abe Shinzo’s government was slow to respond to COVID-19, lagging behind neighbors like South Korea. The public health crisis has been worsened by the recklessness of Abe’s foreign policy, which relies upon an erratic US sponsor whose bases are a vector for spreading the disease.
The year 2020 (...)Salt in the Wound In late March, Boris Johnson pronounced, “One thing I think the coronavirus crisis has already proved is that there really is such a thing as society.” He was celebrating the return to service of 20,000 workers from the public health system (NHS), along with the 750,000 “NHS volunteers,” pointing (...)
Ten Aphorisms on Capitalism, Covid-19, and the Climate Crisis 1. The end is also a continuation. Even as the coronavirus crisis cuts the feet out from under capitalism while exposing and embodying its horrors, capitalism finds its lifeline in further extraction. Not the extraction of value from workers or of oil from the earth, but of the political (...)
Emmanuel Macron’s Weak Pandemic Response Is a Bad Omen for His Promises on Climate Action Like the COVID-19 pandemic, climate change is a threat to all humanity. But it’s working-class people who are suffering most — and faced with both crises, Emmanuel Macron’s government is not taking concrete action to help.
France is one of the countries worst affected by the coronavirus pandemic (...)Hong Kong protests : more than 360 arrested as thousands take to streets to oppose new laws concerning Chinese sovereignty Diehard protesters continued to play cat and mouse with police late into the night, while radicals threw gas canisters into a fire, causing explosions Heavy police presence on streets throughout the day as lawmakers discuss bill that criminalises insults to March of the Volunteers.
More than (...)Covid-19 (Bangladesh): A fervent call to contribute to the relief operation initiative among the people affected by the pandemic Bangladesh Krishok Federation(BKF) and Bangladesh Kishani Sabha(BKS) stand with the people living in their organizational areas. Humanitarian support is urgently needed by people living uncertain lives due to the impact of COVID 19, who are afraid of contagion and, at the same time, are facing (...)
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