BRAZIL SCREAMS FOR HELP “We are living under dark times, when the worst people lost their fear and the best people losttheir hope” Hannah Arendt The Brazilian population who care…
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Popular feminist movements in the Americas: towards politics in a feminine key
Nazaret Castro, 12 February 2021 In the early morning hours of 29-30 December, the Argentine Senate voted ‘yes’, as expected, to the Law on the Voluntary Interruption of Pregnancy. As…
Artists Respond: Myanmar Fights for Democracy
New Naratif, 22 March 2021 Seven creators reflect on the struggles and hopes of the ongoing pro-democracy protests in Myanmar. On 1 February, the Tatmadaw—Myanmar’s military—seized control of the government…
Biden and Trudeau have promised to provide vaccines to the Global South. But later is not good enough!
Robert Rotberg, Founding director of the Harvard Kennedy School’s Program on Intrastate Conflict. His latest book is Things Come Together: Africans Achieving Greatness, 22 March 2021 U.S. Secretary of State…
Dissociar o Estado das corporações e associar ciência e política
análise de Luiz Marques (IFCH/Unicamp) Do Jornal da Unicamp, in EcoDebate, ISSN 2446-9394, 25/04/2018 JORNAL DA UNICAMPTEXTO LUIZ MARQUESFOTOS REPRODUÇÃO | SHUTTERSTOCKEDIÇÃO DE IMAGEM LUIS PAULO SILVA Em 1972, Barbara Ward e René…
A balance sheet of a year of neoliberal pandemic responses
Dorothy Grace Guerrero, 11 March 2021 On 11 March 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) officially declared that Covid-19 was a global pandemic. A year since, there have been more than…
For universal and free access to vaccines! Report from our global meeting
Activists from around the world met on March 2nd, as part of the global campaign to stop the World Trade Organization from putting millions of lives in peril. Pierre Beaudet…
The Political Economy of Covid-19 Vaccines
Jayati Ghosh, March 5, 2021 Vaccine grabs, the refusal to relax patents to enable mass production, and the use of vaccines for diplomacy run the risk that poorer nations may…
Myanmar: How the CDM can win
Aye Min Thant And Yan Aung, March 4, 2021 The Civil Disobedience Movement must define clear goals, set sustainable strategies and ditch any illusions of foreign intervention if it’s to…
WHO chief: waive Covid vaccine patents to put world on ‘war footing’
Sarah Boseley, 5 Mar 2021 Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says he supports patent waiver to help countries make and sell cheap vaccine copies The normal rules of business that protect…