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• Movements: Asian Social Movements

  Statement of Asia Social Movements on Climate Change at the Asia Social Movements Assembly

  28 November 2012, by Movements (Asian)

  World Social Forum on Migrations, Manila, Philippines
  We have seen climate change related phenomena with intensity never seen before, like Hurricane Sandy, in many parts of the world in the past year. We no longer have the luxury of time as incidents of increasingly severe storms, floods, (...)

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  Call to Asia Social Movements Assembly in Manila

  16 November 2012, by Movements (Asian)

  Building solidarity and strengthening our struggles to address the economic and climate crisis in the fight to change the system
  Last September 17, 2012, in an inspiring expression of solidarity from the South to the North, more than 35 social movements and civil society organizations from (...)

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  Asian Social Movement In Solidarity With Occupy Wall Street Movement

  31 August 2012, by Movements (Asian)

  September 15-17 With Occupy Wall Street
  Stop financial speculation on food and climate
  (Bangkok, August 31, 2012) The fight of Occupy Wall Street is the struggle of all movements in the world. Finance capital, that created the crisis in 2008, has increased its power instead of being (...)

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  The Challenge to Asia’s Social Movements

  31 August 2012, by BELLO Walden

  Speech at meeting of international social movements, Hotel Trang, Bangkok, August 31, 2012.
  This July was the hottest July in the United States ever since they started keeping records. In India, the monsoon rains are long delayed, resulting in the country’s second drought in four years. (...)

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  Fight for Our Future! No Price on Nature! – Asian Movements’ Statement on the Green Economy

  9 June 2012, by Movements (Asian)

  We are movements and organizations from Asia, waging struggles on various fronts and arenas to defend our rights, resist policies and projects that cause harm and destruction, and to fight for immediate priorities and demands, as well as profound transformation of our societies.
  We envision a (...)

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  Sri Lanka Declaration: Asian Agroecology Encounter

  23 May 2010, by La Via Campesina

  Colombo, Sri Lanka, 18-22 May 2010
  The Via Campesina (LVC) organised an Asian Agroecology Encounter from 18 to 22 May, 2010, hosted by the Movement for Land and Agricultural Reform (MONLAR) at the Community Education Centre (CEC), in Colombo, Sri Lanka. This was attended by practitioners, (...)

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  ADB’s Role in Privatization of Essential Services Is Being Protested in Different Asian Cities

  5 May 2010, by APMDD

  Social movements and civil society organizations simultaneously held protest actions in different Asian cities on Tuesday August 4, 201 morning as the ADB Annual Governor’s meeting was about to conclude.
  The protest actions in the Philippines, Indonesia, India, Bangladesh, and Pakistan raised (...)

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  APF/ACSC civil society representatives rejected or gagged by ASEAN officials

  23 October 2009, by ACSC, APF

  STATEMENT FROM THE ORGANISERS OF THE ASEAN PEOPLES FORUM/ASEAN CIVIL SOCIETY CONFERENCE, 23 OCT 2009
  At 1130pm, Thurs, Thai foreign Ministry officials informed organizers of APF that 5 out of 10 civil society representatives were rejected from the interface meeting with ASEAN heads of (...)

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  Statement of the Asian Peoples’ Solidarity for Climate Justice

  28 September 2009, by APSCJ

  We, the Asian Peoples Solidarity for Climate Justice, are gathered here in Bangkok, Thailand to take our stand in the face of an unprecedented conflict. It is a conflict over resources, a conflict driven by unfettered profiteering and the slavery of consumption, it is a conflict brought about (...)

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  Invitation for WSF meetings in Bali for the Global Call for Action

  3 December 2007, by Focus on the Global South, FSPI, Institute for Global Justice, WSF India

  Dear friends
  The call for a Global Day of Action on 26^th January 2008, is a major innovation for the WSF process globally. Many of you would already be planning activities around this Call (see below).
  You are also aware of the Conference on Climate Change in Bali, Indonesia on 3-14^th (...)

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  Asia People and Social Movements Call to Action

  15 June 2004, by Movements (Asian)

  We, the Asia Social and People’s Movements - trade unions, peasants, small farmers, women, consumers, students, migrant workers, urban poor, anti-war and anti-neoliberal globalization activists - have gathered here in Seoul, Korea to demonstrate against the World Economic Forum, neoliberal (...)

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  Open Proposal to Organize a Asia Social and Peoples’ Movement Assembly

  14 May 2004, by Movements (Asian)

  Dear Colleagues, Greetings of solidarity from Korea. The various movements and organizations in Korea have formed an organizing committee to prepare for the struggle against the World Economic Forum (WEF)on 12^th and 13^th June, together with the Asia Social and Peoples Movements Assembly of (...)

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  Philippines: Workers call on Governments to Defend the Public Interest and Reject Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP)

  , by Focus on the Global South, Indonesia for Global Justice, Nagkaisa, TNI

  Workers call on Governments to Defend the Public Interest and Reject RCEP
  10 September 2017, Manila
  We are trade union and civil society representatives from seven Asian countries who came together to discuss the impacts on labour rights and quality public services of the proposed Regional (...)