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Business and Human Rights Centre @business-humanrights.org · 25/09/2026
Big Tech is shaping every aspect of our society, challenging the limits of domestic and regional legal frameworks. Our online roundtable will explore how a binding treaty on #bizhumanrights could address the challenges posed by tech. Register now: www.business-humanrights.org/en/events/be...
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European Trade Justice Coalition @eurtradejustice.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Big business is using secretive tribunals to threaten our collective future. The cases are all around the world. Which is why we're taking action globally. Join the global days of action to #stopISDS and let's act together for an #isdsFree world stopisds.global/en/
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Global Justice Now @globaljusticenow.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
WE SAY NO TO PALANTIR 🙅‍♂️ We and 120+ organisations and unions across Europe are calling on our governments and the European Commission to scrap all existing public sector contracts with Palantir. Read the open letter here: www.globaljustice.org.uk/wp-content/u...
Text reads: 120+ organisations and unions across Europe call on governments and the European Commission to SCRAP Palantir contracts. Palantir provides support to warmongers, drains our public wealth, deepens our dependence on tech billionaires. WE SAY NO TO PALANTIR.
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The Syllabus @the-syllabus.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
When the country’s unemployed youth were compared to “cockroaches," Abhijeet Dipke jokingly put out an online call: “What if all cockroaches came together?” Our video of the week explores the rise of India's Cockroach Janata Party. Feat. Anuradha Chenoy at @tninstitute.bsky.social buff.ly/zPgccvm
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Transnational Institute @tninstitute.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Two new #CitiesBeyondGrowth publications: an Educational Handbook for those wanting to replicate our urban post-growth training programme, and a Policy Primer with concrete recommendations for transforming cities. Both freely available. www.tni.org/en/publicati... www.tni.org/en/publicati...
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Cities Beyond Growth | Transnational Institute
As cities worldwide face deepening social inequality alongside unfolding ecological breakdown, it is time to chart a different course.Cities are where change is most needed and can have the greatest i...
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Transnational Institute @tninstitute.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
TNI's second director, Orlando Letelier, was assassinated in Washington DC on 21 September 1976. Fifty years later, the political significance of that crime remains undiminished. So too, perhaps more surprisingly, does the personal loss. www.tni.org/en/article/o...
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Politics Theory Other @poltheoryother.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Hamza Homouchene on the importance of situating the struggle for Palestinian liberation in the longue durée, and remembering that successful anti-colonial struggles of the past - from Algeria to Vietnam -were anything but linear:
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FREE @freefreeforum.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Algerian and Moroccan dockworkers refused to load the weapons bound for Vietnam. A Vietnamese minister wrote to Abd el-Krim in exile in Cairo and asked. They did it. Hamza Hamouchene, @tninstitute.bsky.social with the on the solidarities that broke French colonialism: youtu.be/Udn21BLLdkY
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Transnational Institute @tninstitute.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
In this podcast episode, Hamza Hamouchene offers a critical analysis of the Palestinian struggle for liberation: realprogressives.org/mnc-podcast-...
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Episode 391 - Towards Palestinian Liberation with Hamza Hamouchene
A critical analysis of the Palestinian struggle for liberation, examining Zionism as a settler-colonial project, Israel's role as a US imperial outpost, and the interconnected fight against global cap...
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Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) @corporateeurope.org · 05/08/2026
Miriyam Aouragh - Moroccan Dutch anthropologist and professor, as well as @tninstitute.bsky.social fellow - was on @democracynow.org on the events in Ceuta, addressing the complex causes that have been misportrayed by both the media and social media. 👉 www.democracynow.org/2026/8/3/mor...
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Why Did 60,000 Migrants Cross from Morocco into Spain’s Ceuta? Moroccan Dutch Professor Explains
An estimated 60,000 people from Morocco crossed into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta, on the African side of the Strait of Gibraltar, in an unprecedented mass movement last week. At least 72 people died ...
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Focus on the Global South @focussouth.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
What can be the way out, and are there any alternatives? Countries in the Global South face severe structural economic deficits that undermine their economic sovereignty, constrained by neo-colonial regulations. The current war in West Asia and the climate crisis aggravate this reality.
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Transnational Institute @tninstitute.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Our militarism project coordinator Josephine Solanki reveals how border agency Frontex has gained money, weapons, personnel, and influence. The conversation connects migration, war, corporate profit, climate injustice—and asks what a fairer system could look like. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nt5o...
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Talk World Radio: Josephine Solanki on Militarized European Borders
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Transnational Institute @tninstitute.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
"A book from the movement... It reminds readers that empires can be defeated, colonial orders can collapse and solidarities can be rebuilt after long periods of retreat." Middle East Eye reviewed our new book Towards Palestinian Liberation. www.middleeasteye.net/discover/tow...
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Towards Palestinian Liberation: How resistance travels across borders
A new collection of essays places the struggle against Israel in a global context
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Climate Action Network Canada @canrac.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Join us next week for Part 1 of our Trade & Climate Webinar Series! In this first webinar, we will dig into one of the most powerful and least understood tools the fossil fuel & mining industries use to block climate policy: #ISDS. 📅 July 15th 🕐 1pm ET / 10am PT 📍 Register: shorturl.at/md2Zc
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Transnational Institute @tninstitute.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
From one local initiative in 2015 to 177 pharmacies nationwide, Chile’s popular pharmacies show how public ownership and citizen demand can expand access to affordable medicines: www.tni.org/en/article/t...
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The Syllabus @the-syllabus.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Through sourcing drugs via the national public procurement agency, Chile's ‘popular pharmacies’ reduced medicine costs and advanced health care as a right for all. Our essay of the week details this popular pharmacy model. By Camila Cea Moore et al. at @tninstitute.bsky.social buff.ly/2PW1xpM
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Transnational Institute @tninstitute.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
'The hope of the people cannot be defeated: the struggle for land, peace and sovereignty continues.' ✊ viacampesina.org/en/2026/06/l...
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La Via Campesina Declaration of Solidarity with the Colombian People
La Vía Campesina express profound solidarity with the Colombian people, and with the peasant, indigenous, Afro-descendant, workers’, women’s, youth and grassroots organisations that for years have bee...
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Nick Dearden @nickdearden.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
On this week’s CounterPower, I’m talking about the global fight against Big Tech Empires. It was such a pleasure to talk to Sofia Scasserra of @tninstitute.bsky.social and Anita Gurumurthy of @itforchange.bsky.social 👇   www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5Mx...
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Resisting Big Tech Empires: The Fight for the Future
YouTube video by COUNTERPOWER
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Transnational Institute @tninstitute.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
What does cancer research have to do with the climate crisis? For Hamza Hamouchene, everything. Drawing on his journey from lab to activism, he shows how the same capitalist logic — treating symptoms, protecting profits — is killing us twice. www.tni.org/en/article/f...
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Transnational Institute @tninstitute.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Transition, but on whose terms? Hamza Hamouchene and Saber Ammar in Al Jazeera on Tunisia’s renewable energy shift: the question is not only moving to renewables, but whether it strengthens sovereignty and deepens dependency. www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...
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Why Tunisia’s renewable energy strategy is facing resistance
Giving concessions for renewable projects to foreign corporations will not help solve the country’s energy crisis.
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Institute for Policy Studies @ips-dc.org · 18/06/2026
NEW: The investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) system has been used by mining and energy companies to sue Guatemala for hundreds of millions of dollars amid conflicts over local communities’ defense of water, land, and Indigenous rights. Read more from IPS and @tninstitute.bsky.social: #StopISDS
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REPORT: Defending Water and Land, Facing Million-Dollar Lawsuits: The Cost of Investor Protection in Guatemala - Institute for Policy Studies
Defending Water and Land, Facing Million-Dollar Lawsuits: The Cost of Investor Protection in Guatemala
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Transnational Institute @tninstitute.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
The EU's military spending is set to increase by more than 400% in the next budget cycle. But redirecting tax money into weapons will not solve the social, economic, ecological, and political crises facing Europe and the world. On the contrary, it deepens them. www.tni.org/en/publicati...
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Transnational Institute @tninstitute.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Since 2017, the EU has rapidly expanded its military role and increased its support for the arms industry. The current seven-year EU-budget is the first to include significant military spending. But this budgetary shift comes at a price, as our new factsheets show. www.tni.org/en/publicati...
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Transnational Institute @tninstitute.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
🚨Essential Concepts of Land Politics: An A–Z Guide is now freely available in Open Access. The book advances a holistic understanding of land politics as inseparable from the politics of food, climate, labour, citizenship, and geopolitics. www.tni.org/en/publicati...
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Transnational Institute @tninstitute.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Join Makan & TNI's joint upcoming online lecture: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Transnational Institute @tninstitute.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Join us with @attac.org and @corporateeurope.org as we gather to celebrate the life and legacy of Susan George. Register now: eu01web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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Transnational Institute @tninstitute.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Land grabbing did not disappear when the headlines faded. Across the world, corporations, investors and states continue to reshape control over land and resources, often through quieter, normalized processes. www.tni.org/en/article/l...
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IPES-Food @ipes-food.org · 11/05/2026
🚀Just launched: THE NEW GEOPOLITICS OF FOOD💥 Food prices & hunger are rising. Crisis after crisis exposes how fragile our global food systems have become. But governments have tools to stabilise markets & reduce vulnerability. We call it resilient self-reliance. 📘 ipes-food.org/report/the-n...
The New Geopolitics Of Food - Navigating policies for resilient self-reliance
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Prof Lisa Schipper 🌍🍉💪 @lisaschipper.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
This is really grim. Imagine a different world. @tninstitute.bsky.social
A slide from a presentation that describes what NATO's 3.5% spending target would pay for. NATO’s new 3.5% GDP spending goal would lead to a total military expenditure of US$13.4 trillion by 2030, a US$2.6 trillion increase above current expenditure. This can cover nearly three years worth of climate finance needs of developing countries at $1 trillion a year or pay outright for the world’s global electricity grid to be made Net Zero compatible by 2030.
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Transnational Institute @tninstitute.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
A Spanish cultural centre in the Netherlands has been seized to pay off a Japanese company - this story shows why international arbitration is insane: www.euronews.com/culture/2026...
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Instituto Cervantes headquarters in Utrecht seized due to debts
A Dutch court authorised the seizure of the headquarters of the Cervantes Institute in Utrecht for non-payments resulting from the cut in renewables approved by the Spanish government in 2013.
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Transnational Institute @tninstitute.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Tunisia’s green transition is often framed as opportunity. This report asks: opportunity for whom, and on what terms? www.tni.org/en/publicati...
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Transnational Institute @tninstitute.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Remembering is resistance. On International Day of Peasant Struggles, we honor land defenders killed for justice, connect past and present violence, and affirm memory as defiance against exploitation, dispossession, and ecological destruction. www.tni.org/en/article/c...
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GRAIN @grain.org · 17/04/2026
With land inequality deepening across the world, the ICARRD+20 held in Cartagena late February helped build a united front to democratise who has access to and controls land, reports Jun Borras of @tninstitute.bsky.social farmlandgrab.org/33423
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ICARRD+20 and the emerging global coalition behind the 4Rs
Amid deepening land inequality and ecological crisis, the 4Rs - land recognition, redistribution, restitution and regulation - are pillars for democratizing land and advancing systemic transformation,...
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Transnational Institute @tninstitute.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Kali Akuno, co-founder of Cooperation Jackson and a lifelong movement builder, is facing a serious and urgent health crisis. For decades, Kali has shown up for our movements. It’s our turn to show up for him! chuffed.org/project/1771...
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Stand with Kali Akuno: Help a Movement Builder Heal
Kali Akuno—co-founder of Cooperation Jackson and a lifelong movement builder—is facing a serious and urgent health crisis. He needs immediate access to specialized cardiac care that he simply cannot g...
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Transnational Institute @tninstitute.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Italy, the birthplace of fascism teaches us that fascism evolves within democracy and adapts to new economic and political conditions while preserving its core function of defending capital and hierarchy, writes @irenecrestanello.bsky.social: www.tni.org/en/article/f...
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The Syllabus @the-syllabus.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Universities in Europe have become key enablers of the continent’s border regime. Our hidden gem of the week unpacks the‘border-industrial-academic complex’ entangling academia, the security industry, and state power. By Mark Akkerman at @tninstitute.bsky.social buff.ly/Jr1WvIc
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Transnational Institute @tninstitute.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Could feminist care ethics provide a framework for listening and engaging with far-right supporters, that could build understanding, relationship and ultimately undermine fascist support? www.tni.org/en/article/i...
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Transnational Institute @tninstitute.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Authoritarianism isn’t just about institutions—it reshapes land, water, forests, and energy to entrench power and dispossess communities. In India, this has intensified under BJP rule, where extractive development aligns with Hindutva’s majoritarian vision. www.tni.org/en/article/a...
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Transnational Institute @tninstitute.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
The night Brazil said no to Trump (and changed the internet forever) www.tni.org/en/article/t...
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Transnational Institute @tninstitute.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
What is called Palestine’s centrality is not a hierarchy of suffering. It is where imperial power concentrates and where resistance reveals connections across struggles, making visible how liberation in one place is tied to liberation elsewhere. www.tni.org/en/article/p...
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Transnational Institute @tninstitute.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
TNI Associate Researcher @dondeniamh.bsky.social travelled to Havana last month as part of an international medical aid convoy. Although exhausted by life under the blockade, Cubans are defiant, she writes in @irishexaminer.bsky.social. www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
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Life goes on in Cuba despite brutal US blockade
Niamh Ní Bhriain travelled to Havana last month as part of an international medical aid convoy. Although exhausted by life under the blockade, Cubans are defiant, she writes
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Transnational Institute @tninstitute.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Israel has branded itself as the “Start-up Nation,” projecting a glossy, tech-optimist state. This techwashing serves a fascist agenda, securing international legitimisation of the ongoing colonisation of Palestine, while inspiring authoritarian, tech-dystopias worldwide. www.tni.org/en/article/t...
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Transnational Institute @tninstitute.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
In today’s global food system, migrant farmworkers remain central yet exploited. This longread details why we need strong alliances between migrants, peasants, farmers, and food sovereignty movements worldwide. www.tni.org/en/article/m...
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Transnational Institute @tninstitute.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
New report: The EU paid universities more than €100 million to build Europe’s border regime Universities provide research, analysis, data and technology for border and migration control - and lend an illusion of scientific legitimacy to ethically questionable policies. tni.org/borderlabs
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Transnational Institute @tninstitute.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
This webinar brings together movements and critical voices to unpack a widening war driven by US imperial power and Israeli expansion, now stretching from Gaza into Iran and Lebanon with profound consequences for the region and beyond. www.tni.org/en/event/the...
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Transnational Institute @tninstitute.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
The rise of authoritarian leaders worldwide is the result of an economic and political system of neoliberalism running out of steam and unable to tackle the crises of inequality, precarity, climate collapse and social anxiety that it has created. www.tni.org/en/article/t...
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Transnational Institute @tninstitute.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
We may think of today’s far right as climate deniers and fossil fuel cheerleaders with little regard for nature, but there are strands of the far right movements that link nature, territory, and identity in ways that reinforce exclusionary politics: eco-fascism. www.tni.org/en/article/t...
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Transnational Institute @tninstitute.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
The current world order is cracking under the weight of corporate power, debt, and militarization. Across the Global South, movements and thinkers are asking what comes next and how international cooperation can serve peoples rather than empires. www.tni.org/en/article/t...
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Transnational Institute @tninstitute.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Morocco’s green industrial path faces structural barriers rooted in dependence and extractive growth. A transition that works begins with public investment and local control. www.tni.org/en/publicati...
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Transnational Institute @tninstitute.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
What is behind the increasing criminalisation of migrants and those standing in solidarity with them? Josephine Solanki who anchors our borders work will speak at @world-beyond-war.bsky.social's Virtual Film Festival. Sign up here: worldbeyondwar.org/filmfest2026/
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