<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------</div><div style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space"><div><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0)"><b>From: </b></span><span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,sans-serif">Focus on the Global South <<a href="mailto:info@focusweb.org" target="_blank">info@focusweb.org</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0)"><b>Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,sans-serif"><b>COVID Bulletin 06: Transform the system</b><br></span></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0)"><b>Date: </b></span><span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,sans-serif">8 October AD 2020 09:17:58 GMT+5:30<br></span></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0)"><b>To: </b></span><span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,sans-serif"> <<a href="mailto:s.guttal@focusweb.org" target="_blank">s.guttal@focusweb.org</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0)"><b>Reply-To: </b></span><span 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style="word-break:break-word;color:rgb(32,32,32);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:14px;line-height:21px;text-align:left;padding:0px 18px 9px;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal"><h1 style="display:block;margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(16,105,27);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:26px;font-style:normal;font-weight:bold;line-height:32.5px;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:center">COVID Bulletin 06: Transform the system</h1><div style="text-align:center"><br>October 8, 2020 <br> </div><div style="text-align:left"><span>The disruption unleashed by the pandemic is far from over; broken regional and global supply chains are yet to be fixed, and new jobs are elusive as the global economy continues to stumble. The big question is whether these vulnerabilities, laid bare by COVID-19, might enable strategic economic transformations?<br><br>Walden Bello<span> </span><a href="https://focusweb.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=27684a7b810781b8c99f577fd&id=eeb6b8c653&e=817d5b9fb3" style="color:rgb(0,124,137);font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">highlights three areas</a><span> </span>where such a transformation could take place. By breaking the reliance on global supply chains, countries could relocalize both industrial and agricultural production. Secondly, he argues that countries such as the Philippines need to urgently create domestic employment opportunities by making local wages more attractive. This will reduce the need for people to work abroad. The third challenge is to take advantage of the pandemic to push economies toward a radical reduction in carbon emissions, with the onus being on developed countries respecting global justice and equity.<br><br>In these dark times, we can draw strength, inspiration, and hope from the reignited grassroots solidarities, defiant mobilizations, valiant resistances, and peoples’ alternatives for a more just, democratic, egalitarian, and peaceful world. Galileo de Guzman Castillo, Joseph Purugganan, and Bianca Martinez write about the<span> </span><a href="https://focusweb.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=27684a7b810781b8c99f577fd&id=9325777f65&e=817d5b9fb3" style="color:rgb(0,124,137);font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">robust mobilizations by popular movements</a><span> </span>in the Philippines in the past months, despite a stringent militarized lockdown.<br><br>India’s peasant movements have also erupted in protests and called for mass civil disobedience in opposition to the abrupt passing of three new laws that deregulate agricultural markets, enabling corporate concentration at the cost of remunerative prices for small peasants. Focus joined a People’s Parliament convened by civil society, which articulated an alternative agenda for India’s crisis-ridden agriculture sector. Focus also released two short explainer videos covering these issues. The<span> </span><a href="https://focusweb.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=27684a7b810781b8c99f577fd&id=a90cf76399&e=817d5b9fb3" style="color:rgb(0,124,137);font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">first video</a><span> </span>summarizes the demands of the agriculture session of the People’s Parliament in late August. The<span> </span><a href="https://focusweb.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=27684a7b810781b8c99f577fd&id=22622d263a&e=817d5b9fb3" style="color:rgb(0,124,137);font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">second video</a><span> </span>explains why millions of Indian farmers have been blocking roads and railways in response to Prime Minister Modi’s pro-corporate, anti-farmer reforms.<br><br>The Philippines has one of the world’s most advanced laws for protecting the rights and resources of its indigenous population, but numerous challenges obstruct the implementation of the law to its full potential. In a paper presented at Chulalongkorn University on September 18, Walden Bello offers six ways in which this progressive law has been<span> </span><a href="https://focusweb.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=27684a7b810781b8c99f577fd&id=330c75ccfe&e=817d5b9fb3" style="color:rgb(0,124,137);font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">subverted by elite interests</a>.<br><br>In Cambodia, the economic damage wrought by COVID-19 has exacerbated existing injustices, such as the country’s notorious record of grabbing farmers’ land and handing it over to corrupt officials and corporations. Farmer and land rights activist Oum Samorl describes in exasperating detail the process of<span> </span><a href="https://focusweb.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=27684a7b810781b8c99f577fd&id=d55168e254&e=817d5b9fb3" style="color:rgb(0,124,137);font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">trying to recover her family’s land</a><span> </span>from various levels of authority, only to be rebuffed and forced to endure the pandemic and its hardships with no land, no work, and a growing pile of debts.<br><br>In the past month, three op-eds by Focus staff appeared in the pages of regional media outlets. Writing for FORSEA, Walden Bello and Jacob Goldberg outline<span> </span><a href="https://focusweb.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=27684a7b810781b8c99f577fd&id=1c9a5c1ca2&e=817d5b9fb3" style="color:rgb(0,124,137);font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">10 steps to avert global financial collapse</a><span> </span>in the wake of COVID. Also for FORSEA, Joseph Purugganan<span> </span><a href="https://focusweb.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=27684a7b810781b8c99f577fd&id=25c62ff5e3&e=817d5b9fb3" style="color:rgb(0,124,137);font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">argues for the withdrawal of the Philippines’ EU trade privileges</a><span> </span>in response to President Duterte’s ever-worsening human rights record. For Southeast Asia Globe, Jacob Goldberg reflects on the need for<span> </span><a href="https://focusweb.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=27684a7b810781b8c99f577fd&id=212ba8a0c8&e=817d5b9fb3" style="color:rgb(0,124,137);font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">regional solidarity among Mekong communities</a><span> </span>affected by environmental destruction, corporate land grabs, and intimidation of activists.<br><br>In solidarity,<br><br><strong>Focus on the Global South</strong></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" id="m_-1764935184495080828m_-3114690340669355603templateFooter" style="background-color:rgb(250,250,250);background-image:none;background-size:cover;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;padding-top:9px;padding-bottom:9px;background-position:center center;background-repeat:no-repeat no-repeat"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="border-collapse:collapse"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="padding:9px"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="border-collapse:collapse"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="padding:0px 9px"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="264" style="border-collapse:collapse"><tbody><tr><td align="center" valign="top"><a href="https://focusweb.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=27684a7b810781b8c99f577fd&id=0072b3360d&e=817d5b9fb3" title="" target="_blank"><img alt="" src="https://mcusercontent.com/27684a7b810781b8c99f577fd/images/dbfc4047-dd82-4348-b4bb-d5b51d02812b.jpg" width="264" style="border:0px;height:auto;outline:none;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:bottom;max-width:1200px;border-top-left-radius:0%;border-top-right-radius:0%;border-bottom-right-radius:0%;border-bottom-left-radius:0%"></a></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="right" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="264" style="border-collapse:collapse"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="word-break:break-word;color:rgb(101,101,101);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:13px;line-height:19.5px;text-align:center"><h1 style="display:block;margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(16,105,27);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:26px;font-style:normal;font-weight:bold;line-height:32.5px;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:left">COVID-19, Distorted Development, and Degrowth </h1><div style="text-align:left"><br>COVID-19 provides an opportunity for countries to relocalize both industrial and agricultural production. This would not only reduce supply disruptions during emergencies. It would revitalize economies by reviving local industries and local agriculture and bring back decent jobs that have been lost to job-displacing and wage-reducing supply chains.<span> </span><a href="https://focusweb.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=27684a7b810781b8c99f577fd&id=f41f9215d8&e=817d5b9fb3" style="color:rgb(101,101,101);font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">Read more</a>.</div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="border-collapse:collapse;table-layout:fixed!important;min-width:100%"><tbody><tr><td style="min-width:100%;padding:18px"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="border-collapse:collapse;min-width:100%;border-top-width:2px;border-top-style:solid;border-top-color:rgb(234,234,234)"><tbody><tr><td><span></span></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" 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style="border-collapse:collapse"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="word-break:break-word;color:rgb(101,101,101);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:13px;line-height:19.5px;text-align:center"><h1 style="display:block;margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(16,105,27);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:26px;font-style:normal;font-weight:bold;line-height:32.5px;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:left"><span style="font-size:25px">Collective struggle, collective strength</span></h1><div style="text-align:left"><br>In the midst of darkness besetting our world, let us draw hope from the reignited grassroots solidarities, and people’s alternatives for a more just, and peaceful world.<span> </span><a href="https://focusweb.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=27684a7b810781b8c99f577fd&id=c13fdc9ba4&e=817d5b9fb3" style="color:rgb(101,101,101);font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">Read more</a>.</div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table 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href="https://focusweb.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=27684a7b810781b8c99f577fd&id=2ac529a68b&e=817d5b9fb3" title="" target="_blank"><img alt="" src="https://mcusercontent.com/27684a7b810781b8c99f577fd/images/cc247c22-e20c-4b6c-a580-ea1fd1d8a44e.jpeg" width="264" style="border:0px;height:auto;outline:none;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:bottom;max-width:1200px;border-top-left-radius:0%;border-top-right-radius:0%;border-bottom-right-radius:0%;border-bottom-left-radius:0%"></a></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="right" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="264" style="border-collapse:collapse"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="word-break:break-word;color:rgb(101,101,101);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:13px;line-height:19.5px;text-align:center"><h1 style="display:block;margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(16,105,27);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:26px;font-style:normal;font-weight:bold;line-height:32.5px;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:left">The subversion of the Philippines’ Indigenous People’s Rights Act</h1> <div style="text-align:left">The Philippines is one of the few countries where the tenurial rights of indigenous people are explicitly protected by law. However, the IPRA has proven to be a very weak protection on the ground for indigenous communities who continue to be displaced.<span> </span><a href="https://focusweb.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=27684a7b810781b8c99f577fd&id=8ab04f061b&e=817d5b9fb3" style="color:rgb(101,101,101);font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">Read more</a>.</div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="border-collapse:collapse;table-layout:fixed!important;min-width:100%"><tbody><tr><td style="min-width:100%;padding:18px"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="border-collapse:collapse;min-width:100%;border-top-width:2px;border-top-style:solid;border-top-color:rgb(234,234,234)"><tbody><tr><td><span></span></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="border-collapse:collapse"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="padding:9px"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="border-collapse:collapse"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="padding:0px 9px"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="264" style="border-collapse:collapse"><tbody><tr><td align="center" valign="top"><a href="https://focusweb.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=27684a7b810781b8c99f577fd&id=f9abd60ea8&e=817d5b9fb3" title="" target="_blank"><img alt="" src="https://mcusercontent.com/27684a7b810781b8c99f577fd/images/7179e8fc-098d-4004-ac7b-a6a4b4170811.jpg" width="264" style="border:0px;height:auto;outline:none;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:bottom;max-width:1200px;border-top-left-radius:0%;border-top-right-radius:0%;border-bottom-right-radius:0%;border-bottom-left-radius:0%"></a></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="right" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="264" style="border-collapse:collapse"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="word-break:break-word;color:rgb(101,101,101);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:13px;line-height:19.5px;text-align:center"><h1 style="display:block;margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(16,105,27);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:26px;font-style:normal;font-weight:bold;line-height:32.5px;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:left">Our disease is landlessness</h1><div style="text-align:left"><p style="margin:10px 0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(101,101,101);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:13px;line-height:19.5px;text-align:left">Cambodian farmer Oum Samorl and her family lost their farm to a corporate land grab 15 years ago. They have never stopped feeling the loss, especially during the pandemic.<span> </span><a href="https://focusweb.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=27684a7b810781b8c99f577fd&id=c432ad9ee3&e=817d5b9fb3" style="color:rgb(101,101,101);font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">Read more</a>.</p></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="border-collapse:collapse;table-layout:fixed!important;min-width:100%"><tbody><tr><td style="min-width:100%;padding:18px"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="border-collapse:collapse;min-width:100%;border-top-width:2px;border-top-style:solid;border-top-color:rgb(234,234,234)"><tbody><tr><td><span></span></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="border-collapse:collapse"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="padding:9px"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="border-collapse:collapse"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="padding:0px 9px"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="264" style="border-collapse:collapse"><tbody><tr><td align="center" valign="top"><a href="https://focusweb.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=27684a7b810781b8c99f577fd&id=90810b9ae0&e=817d5b9fb3" title="" target="_blank"><img alt="" src="https://mcusercontent.com/27684a7b810781b8c99f577fd/images/9bb3e045-abb5-4fd1-98eb-97f5bc41af9f.jpeg" width="264" style="border:0px;height:auto;outline:none;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:bottom;max-width:264px;border-top-left-radius:0%;border-top-right-radius:0%;border-bottom-right-radius:0%;border-bottom-left-radius:0%"></a></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="right" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="264" style="border-collapse:collapse"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="word-break:break-word;color:rgb(101,101,101);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:13px;line-height:19.5px;text-align:center"><h1 style="display:block;margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(16,105,27);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:26px;font-style:normal;font-weight:bold;line-height:32.5px;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:left">After COVID: 10 Steps to Avert Global Financial Collapse</h1><div style="text-align:left"><p style="margin:10px 0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(101,101,101);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:13px;line-height:19.5px;text-align:left">In the US and China, volatile stock markets, property bubbles, and unregulated shadow banking sectors could trigger the next global financial implosion. 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