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Focus on the Global South @focussouth.bsky.social · 4d

The journey to justice continues. ⛵

Our solidarity isn't stopping. We're gathering on October 7 at the Palestine Embassy in Makati to keep the pressure on.
Be part of the wave. #SolidaritySailsOn

Oct 7 | Palestine Embassy, Makati 🇵🇭

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Focus on the Global South @focussouth.bsky.social · 18d

Join a special event co-hosted by Committee of 100 and the Foreign Policy Association, "Is Deglobalization Inevitable?"

For more information, visit www.committee100.org/events/is-de...

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Focus on the Global South @focussouth.bsky.social · 22d

[Statement] THAILAND: Authorities must overturn sentence against Chonthicha ‘Lookkate’ Jangrew, uphold freedom of expression

Read full statement: focusweb.org/statement-th...

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Focus on the Global South @focussouth.bsky.social · 25d

30 ปีแห่งการต่อสู้, ความสมานฉันท์, และความหวัง✊🌱
กันยายนนี้ ขอเชิญร่วมฉลองหมุดหมายการเดินทางของโฟกัสและร่วมกันจินตนาการถึง 30 ปีต่อไปข้างหน้า

📖 เปิดตัวหนังสือ – 24 กย. @seajunction.bsky.social
🏫 งานเสวนา – 25 กย. @ จุฬาลงกรณ์มหาวิทยาลัย (งานในห้องประชุมและออนไลน์)

🔗 ลงทะเบียนสำหรับงานเสวนา
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Focus on the Global South @focussouth.bsky.social · 25d

30 years of struggle, solidarity, and hope ✊🌱
This September, join us in celebrating Focus’ journey and envisioning the next 30 years.

📖 Book Launch – 24 Sept @seajunction.bsky.social
🏫 Conference – 25 Sept @ Chulalongkorn Uni (Hybrid)

🔗 Register for the conference
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Focus on the Global South @focussouth.bsky.social · Sep 9

You can read our August 2025 edition of FOCUS Dispatch on the link here: mailchi.mp/099b40dd4669....

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Focus on the Global South @focussouth.bsky.social · Sep 9

🆕 #FOCUSDispatch August 2025 is out! From mass protests and police brutality in Indonesia to global reflections on care as resistance to piercing indictments of corporate complicity in genocide—this month’s stories trace how power operates, and how movements push back with courage, clarity, & care 🫂

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Focus on the Global South @focussouth.bsky.social · Sep 8

🔗 Download the Care & Resistance zine at www.agrowingculture.org/care-and-res...

Focus on the Global South @focussouth.bsky.social · Sep 8

The invitation is clear: each of us who shares these aspirations must join in this work of collective creation and transformation with the courage to imagine and the commitment to act.

The world we dream of is possible, not because we wish it, but because we are already building it.

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Focus on the Global South @focussouth.bsky.social · Sep 8

🧵 THREAD

Our dreams of a better future are not destined to remain ideas, held tightly and safely in the realm of our hearts and minds. They are seeds we must plant in the soil of our reality, nourish with our collective labour, water with our acts of care, and strengthen through our resistance.

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Focus on the Global South @focussouth.bsky.social · Sep 4

Civil society across Asia and globally has joined in solidarity, amplifying calls for reform and resistance to repression.

At stake is whether the government chooses accountability and democratic renewal, or deeper repression.

🔗 Read Focus’ latest update: focusweb.org/democratic-s...

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Focus on the Global South @focussouth.bsky.social · Sep 4

NEW ARTICLE: Democratic Space Under Siege: Protests and Crackdown in Indonesia

Indonesia’s civic space is closing under repression, but movements are pushing back. The “17+8 People’s Demands” set timelines for urgent and long-term reforms that could reshape accountability and democracy.

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Focus on the Global South @focussouth.bsky.social · Sep 4

Download the Care & Resistance zine at www.agrowingculture.org/care-and-res...

CARE AND RESISTANCE | A Growing Culture

www.agrowingculture.org

Focus on the Global South @focussouth.bsky.social · Sep 4

“Care and Resistance” brings together five diverse movements — Abahlali baseMjondolo (South Africa), LILAK (Philippines), West Street Recovery (U.S.), MST (Brazil), and SPFT (Thailand) — to share how care is embedded at the core of their struggles.

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Focus on the Global South @focussouth.bsky.social · Sep 3

Stand in Solidarity with Indonesian Protesters against Inequality, Corruption, Repression, and Impunity!

Read the full statement: focusweb.org/stand-in-sol...

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Focus on the Global South @focussouth.bsky.social · Sep 2

Statement: From Allende to Albanese: The Legacies of Colonialism, Imperialism and the Struggle to Tame the Corporation

Read at focusweb.org/from-allende...

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Focus on the Global South @focussouth.bsky.social · Sep 2

“Care and Resistance” brings together five diverse movements — Abahlali baseMjondolo (South Africa), LILAK (Philippines), West Street Recovery (U.S.), MST (Brazil), and SPFT (Thailand) — to share how care is embedded at the core of their struggles.

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Focus on the Global South @focussouth.bsky.social · Sep 2

they have developed the ability to both resist immediate impacts of oppression, and also work together to dismantle the broader systems that perpetuate cycles of violence. Their fight is both local and global, enduring and transformative.

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Focus on the Global South @focussouth.bsky.social · Sep 2

Over decades and across generations, movements have built up their capacity to organise at multiple scales and confront violence in its many forms and sizes. From small, everyday acts of care and community-building to large-scale international mobilisations,

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Focus on the Global South @focussouth.bsky.social · Sep 2

🧵 THREAD

International solidarity renews hope and also proves that alternative worlds rooted in justice and care are not just possible — they are very much within our grasp.

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Focus on the Global South @focussouth.bsky.social · Sep 1

🔗 Download the Care & Resistance zine at www.agrowingculture.org/care-and-res...

CARE AND RESISTANCE | A Growing Culture

www.agrowingculture.org

Focus on the Global South @focussouth.bsky.social · Sep 1

“Care and Resistance” brings together five diverse movements — Abahlali baseMjondolo (South Africa), LILAK (Philippines), West Street Recovery (U.S.), MST (Brazil), and SPFT (Thailand) — to share how care is embedded at the core of their struggles.

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Focus on the Global South @focussouth.bsky.social · Aug 28

🔗Join us to discover how new worlds are taking root within the struggles for our shared liberation. Download the Care & Resistance zine at www.agrowingculture.org/care-and-res...

Focus on the Global South @focussouth.bsky.social · Aug 28

Through the “Care and Resistance” project, we garnered the practices five movements around the world use to sustain movements over time, understanding that today's struggles are seeding grounds for tomorrow's victories.

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Focus on the Global South @focussouth.bsky.social · Aug 28

While uprisings can spark short-term change, real social transformation comes from sustaining that energy over time. Movements look to the past for wisdom to guide their actions in the present and prepare for the future.

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