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Dear reader,
This week, on the International Day of Peasants' Struggles, we celebrated small scale fishers and farmers, who feed their communities while working for food sovereignty. Thousands of peasants face systematic oppression and discrimination, risking their lives fighting for land, economic opportunity and human rights. Creating resilient alternatives and developing healthy and sustainable food systems is essential for the well-being of the people who feed the world. Additionally, we turn towards Brazil and the country's continuing struggle for democracy.
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 Lula, Ricardo Stuckert / Photo credit: CLACSO |
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Pablo Gentili
The forces that shaped modern Brazil made the rise of a figure such as Lula da Silva all but inevitable. Conditions in Brazil today mean his imprisonment is certainly not the end of this chapter in the nation's story. Pablo Gentili, Executive Secretary of the Latin American Council of Social Sciences, analyses the parallel between Brazil's history and the story of its most charismatic leader.
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Zoe Brent
In the face of growing inequality and ecological crises, the global peasant movement, La Vía Campesina, has advanced the idea of food sovereignty as a way to put decisions about how food is produced, processed, distributed and consumed back into the hands of small-scale food producers and local communities. This report draws insights from historical examples of social movements who worked for public policy change. Read the first piece of the Food for Thought series here.
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Dave Bewley-Taylor, Tom Blickman, Martin Jelsma and John Walsh
Ever since the introduction of the Cannabis Act questions have been swirling about Canada’s position relative to the UN drug control conventions. How can Canada move from what seems to be intended as a temporary period of technical non-compliance with the conventions vis-à-vis cannabis to a long-term arrangement that brings full compliance with the country’s international obligations, yet permits sufficient policy space at the national level? |
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Ruth Hall
Two months ago, Jacob Zuma stepped down as president of South Africa. An authoritarian patriarch implicated in large-scale corruption, he had for years effectively rallied political support by invoking populist discourses around land reform and radical economic transformation. Has an era of authoritarian populism given way to a much-sought freedom? Is a new emancipatory politics afoot? |
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The 61st session of the Commission on Narcotics Drugs took place in Vienna (Austria) from 12-16 March March 2018. This year, TNI co-organised another side event to address the rising tension between the UN drug control conventions and shifts in policy towards non-medical cannabis, exploring a number of options of treaty reform which can be pursued by reform-minded countries like Canada and the United States.
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Amigos y amigas del TNI,
Hoy nos emociona presentaros una nueva iniciativa: el Atlas de utopías, una panorámica de inspiradoras experiencias de transformación comunitaria de todo el mundo en los ámbitos del agua, la energía y la vivienda. El atlas presenta 32 comunidades de 19 países que están creando soluciones radicales para construir unos servicios públicos democráticos y eficaces.
Esta iniciativa de Ciudades Transformadoras está aprendiendo de las comunidades —y con las comunidades— para analizar qué elementos han resultado especialmente transformadores desde el punto de vista de las relaciones de poder y la justicia social y ecológica, y las lecciones que podemos extraer de su experiencia. Nueve de los casos se examinarán con más detalle y, durante la primera mitad del mes de abril de 2018, se invitará al público a votar por sus favoritos.
¡No os lo perdáis!
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Pablo Gentili
El Brasil de hoy conserva sus marcas históricas, la sociogénesis de un pasado que revive día tras día en la prepotencia de sus élites, en la persistencia de sus estructuras esclavistas y en un sistemático desprecio hacia la democracia.
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Leandro Bonecini y Satoko Kishimoto
Del 17 al 22 de marzo de 2018, cerca de 7000 personas de más de 30 países y casi todos los estados brasileños se reunieron en el Foro Mundial Alternativo del Agua (FAMA) para debatir alternativas y fortalecer las luchas contra las privatizaciones.
Ver también: El futuro del agua pública y democrática: resistencias y alternativas |
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Susan George
Estoy deseando que llegue el día en el que la fecha del 8 de marzo solo evoque recuerdos entre las personas mayores. ¿Puedes imaginar por qué? |
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