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Venezuelan Gov’t Signs Wildlife Conservation Deal with Controversial Indian Group
Venezuela signed an MOU with India's Vantara-backed GZRRC to modernize its zoos and wildlife centers, raising concerns given Vantara's controversial record on wildlife trade and its ties to the Ambani-owned Reliance conglomerate.
PI Briefing | No. 29 | From Law to Justice
As Trump attacked the ICC and Netanyahu faced a walkout at the UN, forty states gathered to put an arms embargo, protections for the Court and a new UN mechanism modelled on the Special Committee against Apartheid.
Istanbul Declaration: "Dockworkers will not become a link in the chain of their wars!"
Dockworkers' unions from over 35 ports across Europe and the Mediterranean declare their refusal to handle weapons and military cargo.
‘Philippines not for sale,’ groups tell investors
Progressive groups and farmers’ organizations in the Philippines protested the Luzon Economic Corridor Investment Forum, calling it a foreign-led sellout of Philippine sovereignty and a vehicle for U.S. strategic and commercial interests.
Defending the Territory in Filogringo Against All Odds
For the campesino community of Filogringo in Colombia's Catatumbo region, "defending the territory" means collective memory, and cultural survival against state abandonment, paramilitary violence, resource extraction, and military bombardment.
Capitalism
A notorious consulting firm is selling austerity. Canada’s universities are buying
Australian consulting firm Nous Group profits from public-sector austerity by imposing corporatization across cash-strapped Canadian universities, and is now expanding into health care.
Imperialism
Trump administration to support 'independent journalism' in Europe with anti-immigrant focus
An investigation reveals how the U.S. State Department, under the Trump administration, is funding a $1 million "independent journalism" consortium in Europe to produce reporting explicitly aligned with U.S. foreign policy objectives and right-wing political interests.
Labor
One thousand parcels in an hour
In Philippines women parcel sorters face precarious, unregulated working conditions in e-commerce hubs.
Briefing
PI Briefing | No. 27 | Breaking the Sequence
The war on Iran continues — despite Washington’s best efforts to hide its wanton violence from public view.
Colonialism
After Blocking Fuel, the US Turns to Cuba’s Food Supply
The U.S. is tightening sanctions on Cuba's food import and port infrastructure, using hunger as leverage to force regime change while maintaining its own monopoly over Cuban agricultural trade.
Colonialism
Declaration of the Rights of Caribbean Peoples to Self-Determination and Self-Government, West Indies National Emergency Committee, 1940.
In 1940, Caribbean activists protested U.S. plans to oversee European colonies in the Americas, demanding self-determination and independence rather than a transfer from European to U.S. control.
Briefing
PI Briefing | No. 26 | Fortress Europe
From Mauritania to Libya, Europe is externalizing its border: funding detention, surveillance and armed violence against people on the move — giving even greater ground to the extreme right back at home.
Land rights
The Colombian Peasant Movement in the Face of the New Political Situation
Colombian peasant leaders warn that the incoming far-right government of Abelardo de la Espriella threatens to reverse land reforms, intensify repression, and criminalize protest.
War & Peace
Palestinian youth are risking their lives to clear rubble in Gaza
In Gaza, teenage boys work dangerous, backbreaking rubble-clearing jobs for meager wages to support their families and reclaim what remains of their homes.
Briefing
PI Briefing | No. 25 | The Unfinished Congress
Two centuries after Bolívar tried to unite the Americas around sovereign equality, progressive forces are once again building solidarity between peoples and nations.
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