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In this month’s newsletter you can dive into Michael Kwet’s longread, in which he argues that digital colonialism is now engulfing the world; or listen to our latest podcast about the colonial age and the origins of today’s racism with Roger van Zwanenberg and much more…
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Dear reader,
In this month’s newsletter you can dive into Michael Kwet’s longread, in which he argues that digital colonialism is now engulfing the world; or listen to our latest podcast about the colonial age and the origins of today’s racism with Roger van Zwanenberg and much more…
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This briefing profiles the leading US border security contractors, their related financial campaign contributions during the 2020 elections, and how they have shaped a bipartisan approach in favor of border militarization for more than three decades. It suggests that a real change in border and immigration policies will require the Democrats to break with the industry that helps finance them.
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Land politics – who controls what land, how is it used, for how long, for what purposes and to whose benefit — has always been highly contentious. The COVID-19 pandemic has brought these issues into starker relief. As the health crisis has given way to an economic crisis, and degrees of suffering are fractured along class, race, gender and geographic lines, new attention is being given to questions of preparedness and resiliency as well as to issues of socio-economic justice and relationships of care.
This policy report argues that, to meet this moment, it is time to rediscover the roots of our resilience by grounding land policy in collective action and democratic forms of land politics. This is based on an understanding of land not as a commodity but as a common resource, a living territory and a natural landscape. It corresponds closely with a philosophy of land stewardship : a deep and abiding relationship to land that is based on care-taking and an appreciation that land is held in trust, for now and for future generations.
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After the military coup
Three of the latest Myanmar commentaries
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TNI analyses why the present crisis is so profound and why the patterns of military rule, state failure and ethnic conflict are in grave danger of being repeated. Peace and national reconciliation are required today, not at some indeterminate time in the future.
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After the assumption of power by the military State Administrative Council, protests are continuing in all parts of the country. Nowhere is the need for peace and democracy more deeply felt than in the ethnic states and regions. But, as Lahpai Seng Raw warns in this commentary, lessons from the past must be learned if long-essential change is to be achieved. A political system is required that guarantees the rights of all peoples in the building of a democratic Union.
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The 1 February coup by the military State Administration Council has caused protest and confusion in Myanmar and around the world. In this commentary, Kyaw Lynn puts in context the complexity of factors, personal as much as institutional, that preceded the military takeover during a difficult time for democratic progress on the international stage. He then looks at the critical situation in Rakhine State, examining why political trends have been different to other ethnic states and regions in the country.
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Our guest on the podcast, Roger van Zwanenberg is the founder of Pluto Press, an independent publisher of radical, left‐wing non‐fiction books. He’s written a new global history, called Wealth and Power, which he is also sharing in a series of blogs. Roger’s book traces the roller coaster story of the past 500 years or so of human history, focusing on how Europe and its offshoots amassed great wealth and power at the expense of the rest of the world.
In this episode, the first of three, we discuss the beginnings of racism, and how it has shaped the world today
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Imagine Festival
The seventh annual Belfast festival of ideas and politics
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In his talk during the Imagine Festival Hamza Hamouchene will discuss “Extractivism and Resistance in North Africa” and the destructive model of development (large-scale oil and gas extraction, phosphate mining, agribusiness etc.) and the resistance to it in the Maghreb/North Africa.
You can get your tickets for Hamza’s talk here.
In addition, if you’re looking for some quality entertainment book your tickets for The Astronaut’s Missing Passport, a short play written by TNI’s communications coordinator Denis Burke, about identity, privatisation and the simple documents that change our lives.
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The EXALT Initiative is committed to science popularization and communication. In support of this goal the initiative developed a podcast focused on the themes of extractivisms and alternatives. The guests come from academics, activism, and lived experience. The format is a semi-structured conversation between the hosts and the guests. A new conversation will be posted every month.
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Nick Buxton is being interviewed about the fact that corporations have stepped beyond lobbying governments. They are integrating in policy-making at the national and international levels. From agriculture to technology, decisions historically made by governments are increasingly made by secretive unaccountable bodies run by corporations.
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Global call from local authorities in support to the UN Binding Treaty. Join your voice to support a historical process to fight against corporate impunity.
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This open letter to the UN Secretary General initiated by 16 global and national level civil society networks and organisations (including TNI) urging him to shelve plans for a High Level Multistakeholder Body which, if set up, can be expected to become the default apex global digital governance and policy body. This body is proposed to have a private funding model, with strong hints also at a 'pay to play' model. It is but obvious that Big Tech will come to dominate any such body.
This letter is open for endorsements, which can be done by writing an email to secretariat@justnetcoalition.org or filling this form before midnight PST (GMT-8) of the 7th of March.
This companion publication, Reading Piketty II, moves from elucidating Capital and Ideology to critically assessing it.
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Join Kate Aronoff, Avi Lewis, Tina Ngata, Harsha Walia and Jale Samuwai to discuss the upcoming illustrated book ‘Perspectives on a Global Green New Deal’, published by RLS & The Leap, and curated by Dalia Gebrial and Harpreet Kaur Paul.
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