"We are ‘orang desa’ (country people), far from big cities. Maybe it’s hard for you to imagine that we work close to the earth, outside and sweating from morning until night."
The twentieth century began with two major models of progressive change in society, revolution and reformism, and the twenty-first century begins with neither.
The Cross-movement mobilizations series will provide a platform for reflection and research on the conditions under which successful movement alliances evolve.
The fight against corruption is often sold as the pill to end all postsocialist ills. Activists and researchers in Poland, Russia and Ukraine give their views on why we need to challenge it.
Across Russia, active citizens are fighting for their neighbourhoods, livelihoods and against systemic corruption. The moment when these agendas meet will be an important one.
Their insurrectionary politics of autonomy, such as food autonomy in Athens, is crucial for building new solidarities and emancipatory imaginaries within cities.
New moves against opposition politicians and the press are meant to scare the last bastion of Kyrgyzstan’s civil society into submission.
"We are part of nature – human and non-human. The relationship between both and in permanent interaction creates ‘the territory’." Interview.
In Paris, by trying to lift off ‘planet summit’, its gravity became truly noticeable for the first time.
Basically all unions demand a stronger sanctioning capacity for the Arbitration Council.
What makes these protests different from the ones that have come before in Romania?
