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New Issue of Asian Exchange |
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Written by Administrator
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Monday, 25 September 2006 |
 This is ARENA's bi-annual journal Asian Exchange for the year 2006, titled "Knowledge, Culture and Livelihood - The Struggle for Water and People's Everyday Resistance". |
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Nearly 100 Thai People Staged the First Civilian Protest Against the Coup Last Night |
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Written by Pravit Rojanaphruk
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Monday, 25 September 2006 |
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On-line Petition Is Going On
The protesters in front of Bangkok's Siam Centre included university students, lecturers and social activists. All wore black to mourn the death of democracy and condemned the coup as counter-productive.
The demonstrators urged the public to resist the new military regime and vowed to continue their fight until democracy was restored. They called on people who opposed the coup to wear black or carry black banners.
"We believe that a military coup is not the answer," said Giles Ungphakorn, a well-known political scientist at Chulalongkorn University.
He said the 1997 Constitution should be restored along with press freedom and freedom of assembly.
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Civil Society Activists Demand Accountability of the World Bank-IMF |
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Written by Mohiuddin Ahmad
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Friday, 22 September 2006 |
The IPF held a small gathering in Batam and issued a statement that says 'no' to the way people's lives are being 'managed' by the 'axis of evil' comprised of the World Bank, IMF and the WTO, writes Mohiuddin Ahmad , September 20, 2006 
When the annual general meeting of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund were scheduled in Singapore, as a part of the ritual to hold such a meeting once in every three years outside Washington, DC, civil society organisations and groups representing social movements from across the globe started preparing to hold an International People's Forum in the same place to oppose the hegemonic economic globalisation led by the Bank-Fund and the neo-liberal policies of the global brokers. Jubilee South, an anti-debt coalition of NGOs and movements, along with many other international and regional alliances and networks constituted an International People's Forum (IPF), with an objective to provide a broad platform to all participants for organising meetings, workshops and demonstrations. Main concerns and demands of the IPF were: |
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