Beautiful Trouble exists to make nonviolent revolution irresistible by providing an ever-growing suite of strategic tools and trainings that inspire movements for a more just, healthy, and equitable world.

Lavinia Steinfort is a critical geographer and political activist. A s a researcher at the Transnational Institute (TNI) she is working on public alternatives such as (re)municipalisation of public services, a just transition towards energy democracy and transforming finance for the 99%. Lavinia is co-implementing the mPOWER project that facilitates peer learning among European cities for...

Wij zijn niet tegen “Europa”,  maar … “Europa” is  tegen ons! Dit bewustzijn is stilaan aan het doordringen bij een groeiend aantal  mensen, bij vakbonden en sociale bewegingen. Het  heeft lang geduurd, en is bijlange nog niet sterk genoeg in de geesten aanwezig, en dit om allerlei redenen. Veel Europese beslissingen worden ver van de openbaarheid voorbereid in...

Herbert Villalon Docena es doctorando en Sociología en la Universidad de California, Berkeley, y miembro de un grupo de trabajadores en las Filipinas, Bukluran ng Manggagawang Pilipino (Solidaridad de Trabajadores Filipinos). Antes de iniciar sus estudios de posgrado, Herbert trabajó como investigador y organizador de campañas en Focus on the Global South.

Leigh Phillips es periodista, especializado en la Unión Europea y en ciencia. Excorresponsal en Bruselas del diario digital EUobserver, Phillips también ha publicado sus crónicas en muchos otros medios, como The Guardian, Nature, The Daily Telegraph, The Globe and Mail, y Red Pepper.

Nick Buxton is a communications consultant, working as a publications editor and supporting online learning and support of activist scholar communities for TNI. He works actively on issues of climate change, militarism and economic justice and is co-editor of  The Secure and the Dispossessed - How the military and corporations are seeking to shape a climate-changed world (Pluto Press,...

Het comité Ander Europa is een samenwerking van Nederlandse en Vlaamse linkse activisten met diverse achtergronden, maar verenigd rond dezelfde overtuiging en bekommernis: de Europese Unie (EU) is niet het Europa dat we willen, integendeel, het is een ondemocratische politieke structuur, die grotendeels aan de controle van burgers en zelfs van nationale parlementen ontsnapt, en die haar...

Nederland krijgt een progressieve burgerbeweging -DeGoedeZaak- die onafhankelijk is van politieke partijen, de belangen van progressief Nederland verdedigt en in staat is druk uit te oefenen op onze leiders. Een beweging die strijdt voor concrete maatschappelijke verandering en die bouwt aan een eerlijke, inclusieve, duurzame en democratische samenleving. www.degoedezaak.org

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Thomas Marois es profesor del Departamento de Estudios del Desarrollo en SOAS (Universidad de Londres), especializado en el ámbito de la economía política comparativa y la financiación para el desarrollo.

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Based in Amsterdam, David works as an independent researcher and writer. As an associate of the Norwegian think-tank NOREF, he currently focuses on public control over transnational flows affecting societies on the global periphery. Professional activities since 1970 provided a basis for books and articles on the politics of foreign aid, and on Africa, particularly Angola and South Africa....

Tax Justice NL is een netwerk van negen Nederlandse maatschappelijke organisaties: Oxfam Novib, Oikos, SOMO, Cordaid, Both Ends, Max van der Stoel Foundation, Transnational Institute, Action Aid en ICCO Coöperatie....

Mark Akkerman is a researcher at Stop Wapenhandel (Dutch Campaign Against Arms Trade) and is actively involved in TNI's research on border militarisation. He has also written and campaigned on topics as arms exports to the Middle East, the private military and security sector, greenwashing arms trade and the militarisation of climate change responses.

Tom Reifer is currently Professor of Sociology and Chair of the Sociology Department at the University of San Diego and publishes widely on global peace and social justice issues. He has also been a long-time activist in the anti-nuclear movement as well as a rank and file trade union activist. His specialty is the study of large-scale, long-term social change and world-systems analysis. ...

Satoko Kishimoto was an environmental activist and active in the youth environmental movement in Japan in the 1990s. She began working with TNI in 2003, at the time of 3rd World Water Forum held in Kyoto, Japan. TNI successfully organized a seminar on Alternatives to Water Privatisation, which was the starting point of the Water Justice Project. In 2005, the Reclaiming Public Water (RPW)...

Saturnino 'Jun' M Borras Jr. is a Filipino political activist and academic who has been deeply involved in rural social movements in the Philippines and internationally since the early 1980s. He was part of the core organising team that established the international peasant movement La Via Campesina and has written extensively on land issues and agrarian movements. He is currently a...

Mayo Fuster Morell is the Dimmons director of research on socioeconomical innovation, commons and collaborative economy at the Internet Interdisciplinary Institute of the Open University of Catalonia. Additionally, she is  affiliated to the faculty at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University, and at the Institute of Governance and Public Policies at the Autonomous...

Luciana Boiteux de Figueiredo Rodrigues  is a Doctor of Criminal Law, and is currently an Assistant Professor of Criminal Law at the Federal University of Río de Janeiro.  She is the coordinator of the Policy Research Group on Drugs and Human Rights at the same university.  She also works with the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies on Psychoactive Drugs ( Núcleo de Estudios Interdisciplinares...

Raúl Alejandro Corda  received a law degree from the University of Buenos Aires (UBA) in 1998.  He is now a teacher and researcher at the UBA.  Since 1993, he has worked in the national judiciary, and has been the Secretary of Justice in the Federal Criminal Jurisdiction since 2001.  Corda is a member of  Intercambios AC , an NGO that works on drug policy issues.