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Insight from the frontlines
Reflections from our coordinators on where grassroots movements are at to help guide how organizations can best support.
One Year After the Finance Bill Protests: Was It Worth It?
Today, as the dust of those momentous days settles, Kenyans are asking: was it worth it? What did we gain, and how have we sustained those gains in the face of continued repression?
The Rise of Authoritarianism in India & Impacts on NGOs/grassroots groups
A poor education system, a society that does not know or value its history, that is excessively obsessed with capitalist growth and development, a society that allows hate and bigotry to fester unchallenged, is a society that can be made to give up its rights and its freedoms.
Gen Z Protests in Asia: Where Do We Go From Here?
The food sent from Manila to Jakarta was a small thing. It was also honest. Someone saw people in the street and decided to feed them. That impulse, to act across distance on behalf of people you may never meet because their situation and yours are connected, is where regional solidarity actually lives, in choices made in ordinary moments when no one is watching. But impulse alone does not build movements that last. Impulse is where it starts. Structure is what carries it forward.
