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Joel Rocamora

Email: joelroc [at] popdem.org

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Joel Rocamora

Director of Institute for Popular Democracy (IPD)

Former Co-Director of TNI, Joel Rocamora has been working for several decades on issues of democracy, governance, and social movements within the Philippines.

Rocamora coordinated TNI's early work on the Philippines while he was in political exile during the Marcos regime. Rocamora returned to the Philippines in 1992 where he worked as a political analyst at the Ateneo Centre for Social Policy and Public Affairs and as a consultant to several development NGOs.

Philippine & South East Asian Democratization Process; New Kinds of Political Parties; Social Movements; Participatory Democracy; Debt; Corruption and Governance

Rocamora was awarded the 1995 Philippines National Book Award for his book, Breaking Through: The Struggle within the Communist Party of the Philippines (Anvil1994)

English

Selected publications: 
Breaking Through
European Official Development Assistance to the Philippines

Recent content by Joel Rocamora

Denounce the Israeli Rogue State! Support the Palestinian People! Support Hamas! (8 Jan 2009)

Two pictures in the Philippine Daily Inquirer a couple of days ago said it all. One showed three dead Palestinian children, killed in Gaza by an Israeli bomb. Another, in the inside pages, showed three Israeli children playing inside a bomb shelter hiding from Hamas rocket attacks.
After over a week of Israeli attacks, more than 660 Palestinians dead, most of them non-combatants, including 215 children and 98 women. At a clearly marked United Nations refugee center, an Israeli attack killed 40 people and wounded 100. Another 2950 people have been wounded in the whole of Gaza.

IPD: Twenty Years In Retrospect (25 Sep 2006)
Chacha pag Wala na si Gloria (1 May 2006)
The 1997 Financial Crisis and Asian Progressives (1 May 2006)
Unstable Stalemate, Uncertain Game (1 May 2006)
Joel Rocamora (26 Jul 2005)
Formal Democracy and its Alternatives in the Philippines: (26 Jul 2005)
The World after September 11 (18 Jul 2005)
Constituent Assembly is Dead (18 Jul 2005)
Democracy and Communism (18 Jul 2005)
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