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Govt gets Fs for protecting women
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 09/03/2020
» If you fail but still keep trying to reach your goal, that is noble. But if you keep telling the world you are trying to do good but are the actual perpetrator, then you are not just a hypocrite. When it involves violence and death, you are a criminal.
Why violence persists in our forests
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 10/06/2019
» In the corridors of power, as female politicians in opposite camps were wrangling over what-you-should-wear for their first day in the parliament, some 350 kilometres from Bangkok, 61-year-old peasant Sinuan Pasang was thrown into jail for trying to protect her land.
Forests cannot grow on state violence
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 16/03/2019
» Millions of forest dwellers will soon be subjected to more severe state repression than Thai Muslims in the deep South under the suffocating emergency law.
Autocratic bureaucracy is killing us
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 18/02/2019
» Big business won. Again. We should not be surprised nor disappointed at the government's decision to support the weed killer paraquat which poisons the environment and makes us sick. We should be angry.
Lawsuits aggravate forest poor's plight
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 23/07/2018
» The polluters must pay. Most definitely. But when state authorities encroach on indigenous peoples' customary land, send them to jail for living in "protected" forest and -- on top of that -- demand exorbitant compensation for causing global warming, this is not the "polluters pay" policy. This is oppression beyond being unjust. It's pure malice.
Getting to the root of the problem
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 21/07/2018
» In search of a solution to deforestation and the persisting rights conflicts between Thai forest dwellers and state authorities? Meet Sant Khamkhum. This owner of a small farm in northern Uttaradit province believes he has the answer to one of the country's biggest problems.
It's time to end land rights double standards
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 03/05/2018
» While the judiciary's scandalous housing estate in the sacred forest of Doi Suthep is receiving tacit government support, the military is rounding up community leaders in the North to prevent them from joining street protests in Bangkok to stop violent forest evictions.