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Climate Justice Conference
12-14 July 2008
Bangkok, Thailand

Focus on the Global South is co-organizing a conference on climate justice from July 12-14 2008 in Bangkok.  The conference aims to bring together civil society organizations, networks and movements from across Asia to collectively discuss and learn about climate change issues and bring  new perspectives and analyses to the climate debates from local/national movements and organisations.

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The Development Rountable Series (DRTS) Thematic Working Groups on Trade and Industrial Policy and Agrarian Reform and Rural Development invite you to:

Trabaho, Saka, Pangisdaan, Negosyo: Ramdam mo ba ang asenso?
on Thursday, July 10, 9 am - 5 pm UP SOLAIR Auditorium

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Internship Announcement

The Development Roundtable Series (DRTS), a project that aims to provide space for building alternative policy options and instruments on various developmental issues, opens its 2008 Summer Volunteer/Internship Program. The internship is designed to provide exciting opportunities and exposure to highly-motivated college students, graduate students and fresh university graduates.
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Map of US Military Present in the Philippines Now Available for Download
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This map illustrates the different ways and forms by which the United States has established its military basing in the Philippines. It shows the locations of the increasing number of military exercises the US has been holding year-round in venues throughout the country from Batanes to Tawi-Tawi since 2001. It also charts the growing number of ports that an increasing number of US warships have been visiting. It highlights the under-reported presence of a unit of US Special Operations Forces that has been stationed continuously and indefinitely in various camps throughout Mindanao, with its headquarters inside the Western Mindanao Command in Zamboanga City, since 2002.

With the US and Philippine governments attempting to downplay their actions in the country, the map makes visible the true scale and extent of US military presence in the country today.

The map accompanies Focus on the Global South's recent report, At the Door of All the East: The Philippines in United States Military Strategy, which explains how the US is transforming its presence in the Philippines in a way that seeks to heighten its capacity for intervention within the country and in the region.


The JPG file of the map is now available online for download here

The PDF file of the report, At the Door of All the East: The Philippines in United States Military Strategy, may also be downloaded from here
 
Week of Strategy and Action Against EU FTAs
ep_public_hearing_eu_ftas_-_poster April 6-11, 2008

Join us for a week of strategy planning and action against European FreeTrade Agreements

Over 50 networks, movements and organisations from the Global South and Europe will join together to sound the alarm on EU Free Trade Agreements (FTAs)

- April 9 Public Hearing in European Parliament on EU FTAs followed by press conference, action and meeting, Brussels

- April 10/11 Lobbying and advocacy programmes in Brussels, Dublin, London, Madrid, Amsterdam/The Hague and other EU cities
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Will capitalism survive climate change?

by Walden Bello
Originally published by Bangkok Post, 29 March 2008.

There is now a solid consensus in the scientific community that if the change in global mean temperature in the 21st century exceeds 2.4 degrees Celsius, changes in the planet's climate will be large-scale, irreversible and disastrous. Moreover, the window of opportunity for action that will make a difference is narrow _ that is, the next 10 to 15 years.

Throughout the North, however, there is strong resistance to changing the systems of consumption and production that have created the problem in the first place and a preference for ''techno-fixes,'' such as ''clean'' coal, carbon sequestration and storage, industrial-scale biofuels, and nuclear energy.

 

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