Based in the United States, IEN was formed by grassroots Indigenous peoples and individuals to address environmental and economic justice issues.

FIAN is an international human rights organization that has advocated for the realization of the right to food for more than 20 years. FIAN consists of national sections and individual members in over 50 countries around the world. FIAN is a not-for-profit organization without any religious or political affiliation and has consultative status to the United Nations.

Harris Gleckman is a senior fellow at the Center for Governance and Sustainability at the University of Massachusetts Boston and Director of Benchmark Environmental Consulting. Gleckman has a PhD in Sociology from Brandeis University. He was a staff member of the UN Centre on Transnational Corporations, head of the NY office of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, and an...

Hilary Wainwright is a leading researcher and writer on the emergence of new forms of democratic accountability within parties, movements and the state. She is the driving force and editor behind Red Pepper, a popular British new left magazine, and has documented countless examples of resurgent democratic movements from Brazil to Britain and the lessons they provide for progressive politics....

The CEDD was created in the context of the growing evidence that international policies on drug control have not decreased drug use, have not stopped the cultivation of crops for illicit markets, and have not reduced drug trafficking. The effects of drug laws fall disproportionately on the most vulnerable and disadvantaged peoples, and have the undesired consequence of overwhelming the criminal...

David Bewley Taylor is the founding Director of the Global Drug Policy Observatory at Swansea University, UK.  He has been researching various aspects of drug policy for over twenty years with his main areas of interest being US drug policy, the UN and international drug policy and more recently counter narcotics strategies in Afghanistan....

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Jennifer C. Franco is a research associate in the Agrarian and Environmental Justice as well as the 'Myanmar in Focus' Programmes of TNI, and an adjunct professor at the College of Humanities and Development Studies (COHD) of the China Agricultural University in Beijing....

Dag Hammarskjold Foundation’s work is guided by the search for ‘Another Development’ in support of democracy, human rights and security based on the social and economic transformation of institutions and societies.

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.