Coinciding with the 40th SADC Summit and as part of the SAPSN People’s Summit (19-20 August 2020), the People’s Dialogue organised a series of regional meetings together with Southern Africa [ … ]
[August 2020] Global Webinar on the Right to Say No – Opening of the series
A global webinar series is to be held between August and October 2020 on the Right to Say No. It follows from the Thematic Social Forum (TSF) on Mining and [ … ]
Mining Exempt from Lockdown: are the employees and communities safe? – Case of Zimbabwe
By Simiso Mlevu, from CNRG website As COVID-19 spreads around the world, governments are responding by putting in place measures aimed at curbing the novel virus. In Zimbabwe, President [ … ]
[April -May 2020] Webinar Series on the COVID19 pandemic
The coronavirus is both a symptom and factor of the intensifying crisis of civilization. It is exposing all the pre-existing fault lines of the global capitalist system, not least [ … ]
[April 2020] Covid19 in the Age of Extractivism and the Care Economy
The People’s Dialogue has started to host a number of webinars to take forward our approach and perspective that the coronavirus is both a symptom and factor of the intensifying [ … ]
Re-imagining Solidarity and Hope
Re-imagining Solidarity and Hope is the title of our 2018-2020 project. The starting point is the need to find strategies and methodologies for dialogue that transcend geopolitical boundaries, including different [ … ]
Thematic Social Forum FINAL STATEMENT
FINAL STATEMENT THEMATIC SOCIAL FORUM ON MINING AND EXTRACTIVIST ECONOMY JOHANNESBURG, 12-15 NOVEMBER 2018 BEYOND EXTRACTIVISM: RECLAIMING PEOPLES POWER, OUR RIGHT TO SAY NO! We, the participants of the Thematic [ … ]
Thematic Social Forum on Mining and Extractivist Economy: an outstanding success that builds a platform for continuity
Peoples Dialogue In the face of an intensifying assault on nature, the relentless drive to displace people from their lands for mining and other extractivist projects as well as the [ … ]
[November 2018] Thematic Social Forum on Mining and Extractivist Economy
The first “Thematic Social Forum on Mining and Extractivism” took place in Johannesburg, South Africa, 12 – 15 November 2018. In the last fifteen years the expansion, consolidation and intensification [ … ]
Thematic Social Forum – ACTION AGENDA
THEMATIC SOCIAL FORUM ON MINING AND EXTRACTIVIST ECONOMY JOHANNESBURG, 12-15 NOVEMBER 2018 BEYOND EXTRACTIVISM: RRECLAIMING PEOPLES POWER, OUR RIGHT TO SAY NO! TSF Action Agenda Background of the process We [ … ]