Sept. 2, 1945 two weeks after Korea’s independence from Japan, the US Military’s General Order Number One officially divided Korea. Then, the division was cemented by war. Since then, Korea’s democracy…
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Thousands of Filipinos marched to protest when President Rodrigo Duterte delivered his second State of the Nation address at the Batasang Pambansa Complex, the home of the national legislature, on July 24.
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On Aug. 15th, at Seoul’s Square I participated in “Restoring Sovereignty and Realizing Peace in the Korean Peninsula: 8.15 People’s Peace Action” held in City Hall Square at the 72th Independence…
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The RCEP negotiations involved over 500 negotiators meeting in secret to: Further open markets in agriculture, services, and manufacturing. Create stricter Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) limiting…
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It is our duty, as a progressive force, to move towards a better world by supporting the Maduro administration that has worked to keep democracy in Venezuela by forming the constituent assembly and defending the Bolivarian revolutionary force.
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The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) is a mega-regional trade deal being negotiated among 16 countries across Asia-Pacific. If adopted, RCEP will cover half the world’s…
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Over the last 30 years, people’s responses to the economic, social, and political impacts of capitalist globalisation have included inspiring examples of collective…
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Korea’s sexual minority movement fights to change Korean society. For now, the Queer Culture Festival and Parade exist as a holiday from everyday Korean society. My friend recalls, “The day I look most forward to each year is the parade. I am getting emotional just thinking about it. It’s so satisfying following the floats while screaming at the top of my lungs in public. I can scream myself to the world.”
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For many years, the International Strategy Center has been building solidarity by visiting sites of struggle and informing the world about them. This year, we are starting the Uncovering Alternatives…
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Chile has been a country of abuse and inequality. Without the guarantee of basic social rights by the state, we have become one of the poorest countries of the Organization for Economic..
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The Haitian people’s history tells a story of steadfast struggle, solidarity and abolition. In 2015 and 2016, hundreds of thousands of Haitians organized massive protests chanting “Nou Pap Obeyi” meaning…
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The Korean war would not have occurred and continued for nearly 70 years were it not for U.S. intervention. As was the fate of many Third World countries, the Korean War was less a civil war like…
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What happens now after the people successfully deposed one president and elected another one? What happens after people put down their candles and return to daily life? Or rather, since the future is…
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I’m 68 and anxious – and given what’s happening to the climate, we should all be alarmed. My contemporaries and I will likely only be around for another 20 or 30 years and therefore won’t see…
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“We want to live peacefully like right now. We don’t want the current North-South tension. North Korea shoots missiles. South Korea installs Thaad. We want them to figure this out through dialogue.
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On April 15 of 2017, the day before the third year of the Sewol tragedy, I embarked upon “The bus of remembrance and resolution.” After three years, the Sewol had finally been recovered.
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This month, Hungary had the largest public demonstration in 25 years, the culmination of resistance against undemocratic laws passed by the center-right government.
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As the U.S. military, under the direction of Donald Trump, begins to take a more aggressive posture around the world (Syria, Afghanistan, growing tensions on the Korean Peninsula) it is forcing…
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In the 20th century, feminism took place in the United States and Europe as a political fight to recognize the civil rights of women in those countries. Nonetheless, the women…
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