Brian Ashley, editor of Amandla magazine, believes in the importance of linking the climate crisis with other pressing struggles. In South Africa people are faced with mass unemployment, a housing crisis and land issues. In order to make the clima…

Yao Graham expresses his concern about the new scramble for Africa at the TNI Fellows Meeting 2011. Graham is the Executive Director of the Third World Network, a research and advocacy organisation based in Accra, Ghana….

Susan George is Chairperson of TNI. She introduces the 2011 Fellows Meeting. When talking about sharing the pie, dividing resources, what are your expectations of the Rio+20 Summit?I don’t expect much from…

Andy Storey, lecturer at University College Dublin and chairperson of Action from Ireland, questions the validity of the euro. He argues that the monetary union was designed to foreclose democracy.

Phyllis Bennis is the director of the New Internationalism Project at the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) in Washington, and a Fellow at the Transnational Institute (TNI) in Amsterdam. At the 2011 TNI Fellows Meeting (3-4 June) she talked about…

The dust has settled. Shaheer George is finally able to look back at the recent events in Egypt and does so at the TNI Fellows Meeting in Amsterdam (3-4 June 2011). George is an Egyptian youth activist, active in pro-democracy groups including the…

Salwa Ismail is professor of politics at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. At the TNI Fellows Meeting in Amsterdam (3-4 June), she discussed the differences between the revolutions in Egypt and Syria….

Maryann Manahan, researcher with Focus on the Global South, discusses the issue of water grabbing at the TNI Fellows Meeting 2011. How does this knowledge about water grabbing influence your work with loca…

The land is clear, empty. Pictures appear on the screen as Jun Borras talks and they show nothing – just barren land. Borras is talking about global land grabs at the TNI Fellows Meeting (3-4 June). He talks about the new bad guys, the big co…

Jun Borras is Associate Professor in Rural Development, Environment and Population at the Institute of Social Studies (ISS). At the 2011 Fellows Meeting of the Transnational Institute, Borras talked about land grabbing. He has spent the last few y…