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Dear reader,
Today we are excited to present the launch of a new initiative: The Atlas of Utopias. A global gallery presenting community-led transformations in water, energy and housing that build real, systemic solutions to our world's crises. The atlas features 32 communities from 19 different countries and cities that are leading the way to build alternative democratic and effective public services.
This Transformative Cities initiative is learning from and with communities to explore practices and ideas that have been most transformative in terms of power relations and social and ecological justice and the lessons from their experiences. Nine cases in particular will be explored in more depth. In the first half of April the public will be invited to vote for their favourites.
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Arun Kundnani, Ben Hayes
The globalisation of Countering Violent Extremism (CVE) policies is the most significant development in counterterrorism policy in the last decade. What began as a rhetorical commitment from a handful of agencies has developed into a plethora of policies, deployed from Finland to the Philippines.
TNI’s timely new report 'The globalisation of Countering Violent Extremism Policies' - with a foreword by Professor Fionnuala Ní Aoláin, United Nations Special Rapporteur for the Protection and Promotion of Human Rights While Countering Terrorism - provides a critical account of the emergence of CVE policies and analyses their subsequent institutionalisation within three international bodies: the European Union, the United Nations, and the Global Counterterrorism Forum.
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Ruben Rosenberg Colorni
The island of Bali is home to a rich and unique system of agriculture, based around traditional water management systems developed over the last 1200 years. However, growing pressure from the expansion of the tourist trade as well as the effects of climate change are putting these systems at risk. Farmers are fighting to preserve their livelihoods and maintain a base for local food sovereignty in Bali, but significant changes to policy and practice are needed to protect their rights to land, water, and seed.
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Sylvia Kay, Emily Mattheisen, Nora McKeon, Paola De Meo, Ana Moragues Faus
What is the political significance of leveraging public policies in support of food sovereignty? Food sovereignty is based on the right of peoples to define their own food system and to develop policies on how food is produced, distributed and consumed. It is above all a political call for action that it is based on empowerment processes and the generation of critical knowledge in support of the collective and popular construction of alternatives. There is a demonstrable need to identify some of the key elements of an analytical framework for the design and implementation of public policies that strengthen food sovereignty and are based on the Right to Food.
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Gerardo Alatorre Frenk
The social, political and environmental conflicts regarding the management of water in today’s world are a clear indication of the tensions at this point in history, when capitalist greed for what it sees as ‘energy, water and mineral resources’ knows no bounds. This neoliberal model of capital accumulation has serious consequences for the social fabric, for people’s access to water, and for watersheds and territories. Many parts of the world – including Mexico – are battlegrounds, and what is at stake is the very life of communities and ecosystems. |
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Alexa Botar, Laszlo Zalatnay
More than two thirds of the homes in Hungary are insufficiently insulated. As a result millions of people are living in energy poverty. Straw bale insulation and construction offer a simple, inexpensive, environmentally sustainable and socially just housing solution. |
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Fiona Dove
TNI is mourning the terrible news that our beautiful, bubbly, funny, quirky, creative, smart and perceptive 'web gardener' Tessa Kersten-Zenger passed away in February. She had turned just 43 years old the week before and was celebrating with a family weekend away when she died suddenly following an accident. For those who might like to share a memory of Tessa or send a message to her family, friends and colleagues, please email to tessatributes@tni.org. |
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Uruguay's Mutual Aid Housing Cooperatives [English Subtitles]
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Later this year we will produce a primer and a series of related materials on housing as a commons. This short film is part of a forthcoming web-documentary that will include more information and analysis on housing coops.
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Sylvia Kay
Listen to the podcast by journalist Nikos Vrantsis from 2017’s European Rural Sustainability Gathering in Greece where he interviewed Sylvia Kay.
Here Sylvia Kay explains the visions, ideas, and commitments of TNI's Agrarian and Environmental Justice team concerning land grabbing in Europe. It is a global phenomenon whereby the access, use and right to land and other closely associated natural resources is being taken over - on a large-scale and/or by large-scale capital – resulting in a cascade of negative impacts on rural livelihoods and ecologies, human rights, and local food security.
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The Emancipatory Rural Politics Initiative (ERPI) event was held in the Netherlands last weekend, bringing together more than 250 researchers and activists from across five continents.
The ERPI is focused on the social and political processes in rural spaces that are generating alternatives to regressive, authoritarian politics. We aim to provoke debate and action among scholars, activists, practitioners and policymakers from across the world who are concerned about the current situation, and hopeful about alternatives. For the ERPI we have compiled a set of papers and discussion notes submitted by researchers and scholars across the world. The papers are categorized by different continents, specifically Africa, Asia-Pacific, the Americas and Europe. Later on this month we will share a series of interviews and highlights of the plenary sessions held during the event.
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Nina Power
Hay una nueva militancia feminista en las calles, en el planeta y en el aire. ¿Por qué no aprovechamos esta oportunidad desde los movimientos sociales para cuestionar la forma en que se nos socializa y superar los estereotipos de género?
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Nick Buxton
Frente a las oscuras visiones apocalípticas que plantean ciertas voces frente al cambio climático, debemos reivindicar nuestra capacidad para incidir en el futuro y aprovechar esta ocasión crítica para cambiar de rumbo.
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Chris Jones
A pesar de la crisis económica, los fondos de la UE para nuevas herramientas y tecnologías de seguridad se duplicará en el período 2014-2020 en comparación con los seis años anteriores. La principal beneficiaria es la industria de la 'seguridad interior', cuya influencia en la política europea no deja de aumentar, promoviendo una Europa cada vez más militarizada.
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Susy Núñez, Fabricio Herrera, Martha Flores
Cuando se cumplen dos años del asesinato de Berta Cáceres, las comunidades hondureñas siguen sufriendo los impactos del extractivismo depredador y luchando por defender los bienes comunes. Hablan las voces desde el terreno.
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Jorge Hernández Tinajero, Guillermo Andrés Ospina, Martin Jelsma
El cultivo de la flor de amapola en México y Colombia forma parte de una economía local destinada de forma casi exclusiva al mercado ilegal en el exterior: la demanda de heroína, principalmente en los Estados Unidos. |
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