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Center for Constitutional Rights
4 days ago
Peter Weiss (1925-2025) The Center for Constitutional Rights mourns the passing of Peter Weiss, the visionary human rights lawyer, our beloved mentor and friend, and our long-time vice president, who served on our board for nearly five decades.
ccrjustice.org/home/blog/20...
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Institute for Policy Studies
3 days ago
IPS mourns the immense loss of Peter Weiss, a path-breaking international human rights lawyer who led the Institute’s board of directors with a steady and courageous hand through Nixon-era political repression and the assassination of two IPS colleagues.
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Remembering Peter Weiss - Institute for Policy Studies
Remembering Peter Weiss
https://ips-dc.org/remembering-peter-weiss/
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UNFOLD ZERO mourns and honors Peter Weiss, human rights lawyer and nuclear abolition advocate, who passed away on November 3, 2025, just one month before his 100th birthday.
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Rest in Peace, Peter Weiss - a life dedicated to peace and democracy. You will inspire generations to come.
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TNI is deeply saddened to hear of the death of Peter Weiss at the age of 99 | Transnational Institute
Peter and his family—particularly his wife Cora and his father-in-law Samuel Rubin—were involved in the Transnational Institute from its very beginning. His vision, guidance, perseverance, and support...
https://www.tni.org/en/article/tni-is-deeply-saddened-to-hear-of-the-death-of-peter-weiss-at-the-age-of-99
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Laleh Khalili
18 days ago
Much ink has been spilt on Elon Musk as an individual personality rather than as a product of political economy. On 28 October listen to Quinn Slobodian propose a theory of Muskism analogous to Fordism. For details and to register go to
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Privacy International
24 days ago
As military systems seep into law enforcement, border control, public health, and even education, the distinction between national defence & domestic governance is collapsing. Learn more:
privacyinternational.org/long-read/56...
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How Data Drives the Militarisation of Tech
There’s a revolution occurring in how war and conflict are waged. New data-intensive systems are being developed; battlefields are testing grounds for a new generation of tech; and commercial tech…
https://privacyinternational.org/long-read/5667/how-data-drives-militarisation-tech
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Een foto zegt meer dan 1000 woorden waard is. De vluchtelingen de schuld geven voor ongelijkheid in eigen land.
www.volkskrant.nl/cs-b9fc684e/
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Achterban blijft Wilders trouw om één allesoverheersende reden: migratie
Voor de PVV-kiezer is er ook deze campagne geen twijfel mogelijk: opnieuw staat migratie met stip op één als reden om op Geert Wilders te stemmen. Dat hij door veel partijen is uitgesloten van regerin...
https://www.volkskrant.nl/cs-b9fc684e/
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News Eye
about 1 month ago
NEW: Extraordinary scenes in Amsterdam this afternoon (Sunday, Oct 5). An estimated 250,000 bring the city to a standstill; people all wearing red to show solidarity with Palestine 🇵🇸 (🎥 Ahmed Zantac)
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The US-Indonesia Tariff Deal | Transnational Institute
The outcome of Indonesia's negotiations with the US as announced by Donald Trump on 16 July- which includes an agreement to reduce Indonesia's reciprocal tariffs by 19%- is far from “beneficial”. TNI’...
https://www.tni.org/en/article/the-us-indonesia-tariff-deal
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Tom Jenkins
3 months ago
Scandalous: Palantir is well on its way to conquering Europe (UK included) . How can any state claim sovereignty when a US corporation holds a quasi-monopoly on its security?
www.euractiv.com/section/tech...
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Marleen Stikker
3 months ago
“Tech companies are going to war. This isn’t a metaphor. After years of avoiding public links to the military-industrial complex, Big Tech has taken to the hills.“
english.elpais.com/economy-and-...
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Big Tech enters the war business: How Silicon Valley is becoming militarized
Giants like Google, Microsoft, Meta and Amazon have gone from avoiding any involvement in the military industry to signing large contracts with the Pentagon and Israel
https://english.elpais.com/economy-and-business/2025-07-21/big-tech-enters-the-war-business-how-silicon-valley-is-becoming-militarized.html
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Global Justice Now
3 months ago
🚨 NEW: Over half of minerals designated as ‘critical’ by the UK play ‘no major role’ in the green transition, our research reveals 🚨 Our new briefing finds the often-harmful mining of these resources is being driven in a large way by militarisation
www.globaljustice.org.uk/resource/mat...
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Material realities: Who needs ‘critical minerals’ and at whose expense? - Global Justice Now
Over half of minerals designated as ‘critical’ by UK play no major role in the green transition - and are driven in a large way by militarisation.
https://www.globaljustice.org.uk/resource/material-realities-minerals-report
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Belangrijk verklaring van de Handel Anders campagne over de actuele agenda achter US tarieven op EU handel
www.bnnvara.nl/joop/artikel...
door
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en Djuna Farjon
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Europa zwicht voor druk van Trump en zet regelgeving in de uitverkoop - Joop - BNNVARA
Door Djuna Farjon en Guus Geurts.
https://www.bnnvara.nl/joop/artikelen/europa-zwicht-voor-druk-van-trump-en-zet-regelgeving-in-de-uitverkoop
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See piece by Boris Kagarlitsky in LMD below
mondediplo.com/2025/08/07ru...
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Jenny Cohn
4 months ago
“Peter Thiel’s protégés: a common thread runs through Trump’s tech team” 5/21/25
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Peter Thiel’s protégés: a common thread runs through Trump’s tech team
Vice President J.D. Vance and Elon Musk are among Thiel's Silicon Valley collaborators that now find themselves in Trump's D.C. circle.
https://fortune.com/2025/05/21/peter-thiel-silicon-valley-trump-administration-elon-musk-jd-vance/
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Written without internet access and under conditions of censorship in prison, Boris Kagarlitsky of
@tninstitute.bsky.social
offers a sharp and often ironic reflection on the political and systemic dynamics behind Trump’s return to power.
links.org.au/us-hegemony-...
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From US hegemony to a ‘war of all against all’: Boris Kagarlitsky on Trump’s first 100 days
Despite severe restrictions on political prisoners, Boris Kagarlitsky continues to analyse global developments. Here, he offers a sharp and often ironic reflection on the dynamics behind Trump’s retur...
https://links.org.au/us-hegemony-war-all-against-all-boris-kagarlitsky-trumps-first-100-days
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Friends of the Earth Europe
4 months ago
What’s really behind the not-so-clean deal between the EU Indonesia trade deal? Our Julie Zalcman &
@tninstitute.bsky.social
’s Rachmi Hertanti broke it down in
@sustainableviews.bsky.social
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friendsoftheearth.eu/news/the-not...
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Jewish Voice for Peace
4 months ago
Yesterday, 12 countries announced their commitment to a full arms embargo on the Israeli government. The resolution comes out of an emergency summit in Bogota where the Hague Group gathered to coordinate legal and diplomatic action to counter the “climate of impunity” for Israeli war crimes.
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4 months ago
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Dutch financial routes make the Netherlands the biggest EU financier of Israel. Great work by
@somoamsterdam.bsky.social
www.dutchnews.nl//2025/07/dut...
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@dutchnewsnl.bsky.social
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Dutch financial routes make NL Israel’s top EU financial partner - DutchNews.nl
The Netherlands was Israel’s largest nominal investor in 2023, and also the main European destination for Israeli capital, largely thanks to financial flows routed through Amsterdam’s Zuidas business ...
http://www.dutchnews.nl//2025/07/dutch-financial-routes-make-nl-israels-top-eu-financial-partner/
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Daily Maverick
4 months ago
Blaming migrants for South Africa’s ailing healthcare system is a dangerous and politically convenient fiction. Despite mounting evidence to the contrary, this narrative persists, deflecting attention from the real source of collapse: State failure.
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DEADLY SCAPEGOATING OP-ED: When lies Trump truth — debunking the migrant myth in South Africa’s healthcare crisis
https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025-07-14-debunking-the-migrant-myth-in-sas-healthcare-crisis/?utm_term=Autofeed&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1752614762
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Omnicrisis
4 months ago
De eerste Hollandse SuperPAC. Het was een kwestie van tijd.
www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...
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Op de haringparty komen ondernemers van Stem voor Stabiliteit samen ‘om de politiek een handje te helpen’
Verkiezingen: Een centrumrechts kabinet van VVD, CDA en D66: dat is het doel van Stem voor Stabiliteit. Het initiatief werd gestart door ondernemers uit de media- en reclamewereld. „De waarheid ligt i...
https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/07/11/op-de-haringparty-van-stem-voor-stabiliteit-komen-ondernemers-samen-om-de-politiek-een-handje-te-helpen-a4900031
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BDS movement
4 months ago
Hundreds of activists staged a protest outside the UN's “AI for Good” summit in Geneva demanding: No AI for genocide and war crimes. The UN’s partnership with tech companies enabling Israel’s genocide against 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza is: UNethical UNlawful UNacceptable
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Alex Callinicos
4 months ago
Good piece on the destruction of academic freedom as part of the broader assault on civil liberties mandated by the defence of Israel.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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The destruction of Palestine is breaking the world | Moustafa Bayoumi
The rules of the institutions that define our lives bend like reeds when it comes to Israel – so much that the whole global order is on the verge of collapse
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/jul/06/destruction-of-palestine-is-breaking-the-world
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BDS movement
4 months ago
Big tech’s role in Israel’s genocide against 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza takes center stage at UN "AI for Good” summit in Geneva. Dr.
@abeba.bsky.social
, a leading responsible AI and AI ethics researcher, calls out big tech’s complicity in war crimes.
#NoTechForGenocide
#NoAIForGenocide
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IT for Change
4 months ago
This video is part of the Digital Justice, Now! campaign led by the Global Digital Justice Forum, advocating for a people- and planet-first agenda at WSIS+20 and beyond. Join us in building a just digital future:
www.tinyurl.com/digitaljusticenow
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Digital Justice, Now! – Global Digital Justice Forum
https://www.tinyurl.com/digitaljusticenow
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whet moser
4 months ago
whenever i see grok screenshots i remember how it's running on methane-gas generators in a black neighborhood in memphis
www.politico.com/news/2025/05...
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'How come I can’t breathe?': Musk's data company draws a backlash in Memphis
The company’s turbines — enough to power 280,000 homes — run without emission controls in an area that leads Tennessee in asthma hospitalizations.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/06/elon-musk-xai-memphis-gas-turbines-air-pollution-permits-00317582
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George Monbiot
4 months ago
Today the order banning
#PalestineAction
as "terrorists" came into effect. But they are not terrorists. They are protesters trying to stop a genocide. This is a "first they came for ..." situation. Unless we stand in solidarity against this assault on our freedom, they will pick us off one by one.
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Dutch pension funds investing in companies that supply weapons to Israel | NL Times
nltimes.nl/2025/07/04/d...
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Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO)
4 months ago
How is the EU's new Clean Trade and Investment Partnership
#CTIP
is helping Europe get control of South Africa's (not-so-green) hydrogen? Read this op-ed by
@groundworksa.bsky.social
's Yegeshni Moodley and CEO's
@belenbalanya.bsky.social
euobserver.com/eu-and-the-w...
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The EU's dirty hydrogen push in South Africa - revealed
EU politicians are presenting green hydrogen as a win-win fuel, claiming it will lead to low-carbon industrialisation in the Global South while decarbonising economies in Europe. The reality on the gr...
https://euobserver.com/eu-and-the-world/ar48dd8004
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MiningWatch Canada
4 months ago
Yesterday, 283 organizations sent a joint letter urging 🇪🇨Ecuador, 🇨🇦Canada & Canadian mining companies SilverCorp $SVM.TO and Salazar Resources $SRL to stop criminalizing 29 land & water defenders in Bolívar province opposing the Curipamba–El Domo project!
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Aaron Benanav
4 months ago
What could a world after capitalism look like? This two-part article in the @NewLeftReview is the result of five years of research. I’ll be turning it into a book later this year, so I’d love to hear your comments and critiques.
newleftreview.org/issues/ii153...
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Aaron Benanav, Beyond Capitalism—1, NLR 153, May–June 2025
In the first instalment of a major contribution to the reconceptualization of a post-capitalist social order, Aaron Benanav marshals insights from a long century of socialist thought and practice—Cabe...
https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii153/articles/aaron-benanav-beyond-capitalism-1
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Open letter to world leaders from jailed Russian dissidents, including
@tninstitute.bsky.social
Associate Boris Kagarlitsky
www.reuters.com/world/open-l...
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Open letter to world leaders from jailed Russian dissidents
Here is the text of a joint letter from 11 jailed Russian dissidents, issued to international leaders via Reuters.
https://www.reuters.com/world/open-letter-world-leaders-jailed-russian-dissidents-2025-07-03/
4 months ago
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Julian Bushoff
4 months ago
Shell en ExxonMobil eisen via private tribunalen miljarden voor afbouw Groningse gaswinning Uit onderzoek van
@somoamsterdam.bsky.social
blijkt weer hoe schaamteloos, na alle aangerichte ellende, de kosten van de gaswinning afgeschoven worden op de samenleving. Walgelijk.
dvhn.nl/groningen/Sh...
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Shell en ExxonMobil eisen via private tribunalen miljarden voor afbouw Groningse gaswinning
Een olieraffinaderij van ExxonMobil in Rotterdam. Foto: AD
https://dvhn.nl/groningen/Shell-en-ExxonMobil-eisen-via-omweg-miljarden-voor-afbouw-Groningse-gaswinning-46747352.html
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Good analysis from
@iliasalami.bsky.social
on why we need a renewed, internationalist vision of a post-capitalist ecological transformation
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4 months ago
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Important commentary from my colleague
@tninstitute.bsky.social
@nickbuxton.bsky.social
on the implications of rising military expenditure
www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...
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NATO’s 5 percent spending pledge is a threat to people and the planet
The alliance’s spending surge will prompt war, cut services and worsen the climate crisis.
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2025/6/26/natos-5-percent-spending-pledge-is-a-threat-to-people-and-the-planet
4 months ago
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Gilbert Achcar / جلبير الأشقر
5 months ago
“Buy More U.S. Weapons”: “Daddy” Trump Pushes Military-Industrial Complex on NATO Countries
democracynow.org/2025/6/26/pr...
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“Buy More U.S. Weapons”: “Daddy” Trump Pushes Military-Industrial Complex on NATO Countries
President Donald Trump has returned to Washington after a NATO summit where leaders agreed to increase their military spending to 5% of GDP by 2035, more than doubling the current target of 2%. The in...
https://democracynow.org/2025/6/26/president_donald_trump_nato_iran
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The Lincoln Project
5 months ago
"Republican leaders are…desperately afraid the public will discover what the bill would do—rip health care away from millions, explode the deficit, and cause what might be the biggest transfer in government resources from poor to rich in American history."
www.thebulwark.com/p/trumps-abo...
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Trump’s About to Slash Medicaid. TV News Has Barely Noticed.
The rush job to pass the big beautiful bill has had its intended outcome: not giving the public time to catch on to the consequences.
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/trumps-about-to-slash-medicaid-tv
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Check out sessions with
@tninstitute.bsky.social
fellowship Boris Kagarlitsky, Kali Akuno and
@arunkundnani.bsky.social
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5 months ago
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Socialism Conference
5 months ago
Can’t make it to Chicago for Socialism 2025? Check out our live-stream schedule, and RSVP to join us virtually!
socialismconference.org/virtual-prog...
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For those planning to be at Socialism25 in Chicago, do go along to the session highlighting the case of political prisoner, Boris Kagarlitsky, a member of the fellowship of the
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socialism2025.sched.com/event/254gI/...
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Socialism 2025: Putin’s Anti-War Political Prisoners in...
View more about this event at Socialism 2025
https://socialism2025.sched.com/event/254gI/putins-anti-war-political-prisoners-in-russia?iframe=no
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Middle East Eye (Unofficial)
5 months ago
Shipping giant Maersk cuts ties with companies operating in Israeli settlements -
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/maersk-cuts-ties-companies-operating-israeli-settlements
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Shipping giant Maersk cuts ties with companies operating in Israeli settlements
Human rights activists say the move sends a strong message to the global shipping industry
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/maersk-cuts-ties-companies-operating-israeli-settlements
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Despite the massive security around the NATO summit in The Hague this weekend, a demo against increasing militarization prioritised over diplomacy & peace-making will take place from 2pm at Koekamp, on the Laan van Reagan en Gorbatsjov in The Hague. More here:
thehaguepeace.org/tegentopcoal...
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PROTEST – Tegentopcoalitie
https://thehaguepeace.org/tegentopcoalitie/en/protest-2/
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Counter-summit to Nato meeting in The Hague. Livestream available to follow Saturday main event with Jeremy Corbyn and Peter Mertens
thehaguepeace.org/tegentopcoal...
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PROGRAMME – Tegentopcoalitie
https://thehaguepeace.org/tegentopcoalitie/en/programme/
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Transnational Institute
5 months ago
NATO’s new 3.5% GDP spending goal is a danger for people and the climate. The massive increase in military expenditure is already weakening Europe’s climate and environmental goals.
www.tni.org/en/publicati...
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Daniel is brilliant and his research on transformative potential of state-owned oil companies will beva pioneering effort.
www.tni.org/en/article/e...
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European Research Council's most prestigious and competitive grant awarded to TNI researcher | Transnational Institute
Dr Daniel Chavez, a Senior Researcher at the Amsterdam-based Transnational Institute (TNI) has been awarded a prestigious Advanced Grant by the European Research Council (ERC). The 2.5 million Euro gr...
https://www.tni.org/en/article/european-research-councils-most-prestigious-and-competitive-grant-awarded-to-tni-researcher
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Fossil Free Politics
5 months ago
🔔 Reminder sent 🔔 60 organisations have sent a timely reminder to EU Climate Commissioner
wopkehoekstra.ec.europa.eu
calling on him to protect UN climate talks from fossil fuel industry influence at Bonn
#SB62
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fossilfreepolitics.org/news/reminde...
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60 organisations sent a reminder to Hoekstra ahead of the climate talks in Bonn - Fossil Free Politics
A timely reminder signed by 60 organisations was sent to EU Climate Commissioner Wopke Hoekstra. Initiated by the Fossil Free Politics campaign and supported by the KickBigPollutersOut coalition, we’r...
https://fossilfreepolitics.org/news/reminder-sent-to-hoekstra-ahead-of-climate-talks/
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Transnational Institute
5 months ago
And Yet We Exist reveals the hidden cost of corporate power. While a US company sues Mexico for over $1.5 billion, it denies the very existence of the people it harms. This documentary centers the voices they try to silence. Register for the online premiere on June 26.
www.tni.org/en/event/and...
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Transnational Institute
5 months ago
Organizers, educators, movement strategists: Join tomorrow’s Fractures session for shared learning on how we imagine and build liberated futures across borders and struggles. Register here:
www.tni.org/en/event/fra...
With Kali Akuno, Blessol Gathoni & Lyn Ossome ✊
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Incredible 150k people out in defence of Gaza today. That is a lot for little Netherlands.
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