My book TROOP MOVEMENTS is coming soon. Check it out?

It’s about political struggles over fascism & war, the imperial & the carceral, class & race & global freedom.

www.pennpress.org/978151282990...

If you might want to assign it, or review it, or preorder it — please stay tuned, or get in touch!

Princeton and New York friends: I will be giving talks about my new book The First Right: Self-Determination and the Transformation of International Order, 1941-2000 at Princeton University on Monday April 13 and at NYU on Tuesday, April 14. DM me if you have time on the side. Hope to see you there!

🌟 NEW! Special Procedures – Fully updated

#UNSpecialProcedures are independent experts investigating human rights issues worldwide and supporting defenders.

ISHR’s updated guide explains how to engage them effectively.

👉 Read our explainer here: https://ow.ly/q0Kf50YBj3g

URGENT: Conscientious objector and human rights defender Yurii Sheliazhenko of Український Рух Пацифістів (Ukrainian Pacifist Movement) detained by authorities.

wri-irg.org/en/story/202...

Indonesia reviews firms in river basins after latest floods affect 7% of Bornean province BANJAR, Indonesia – Indonesia’s government continues to review mines and plantations in the river basins of southern Borneo, months after more than 7% of the population there was impacted by flooding…

With 4.4 million people facing annual floods, the Indonesian government is auditing firms in Borneo’s watersheds. Experts say restoring drainage capacity is key to protecting settlements from the runoff inundating the province every year.

Learn more in this report by Riyad Dafhi Rizki for #Mongabay

Human Rights Council members among least cooperative with UN experts.

Several sitting members of the HRC are among the States showing weak cooperation with UN Special Procedures. The pattern raises serious concerns about whether Council members are meeting expectations.

https://ow.ly/nhz250YCf17

Myanmar regime kills three in airstrikes on hospital in resistance stronghold The attack in Sagaing Region’s Budalin Township comes as the junta continues with its efforts to establish a new “civilian” government

The fuel crisis has not stopped Myanmar's Junta airstriking hospitals. myanmar-now.org/en/news/myan...

She Was a Key Voice of the 1990s Labor Movement in Nike’s Indonesia Factories. Today She Relies on Donations From Abroad. In 1992, Cicih Sukaesih led fellow Indonesian factory workers in a strike, part of a movement that led Nike to create its first code of conduct. She reflects on her achievements and what’s happened si...

NEW: Cicih Sukaesih helped bring worldwide attention to the working conditions at Nike suppliers in Indonesia.

“She helped to birth, I would argue, the Indonesian trade union movement within Nike’s supplier factories,” one labor activist said.

With @oregonian.com

Indonesia landslide death toll rises to 49, agency says The death toll from a landslide a week ago in Indonesia's West Java province has risen to 49, the country's main rescue agency Basarnas said on Saturday, with 15 still missing.

Indonesia landslide death toll rises to 49, agency says reut.rs/3M4zo1Y

Orgs, networks & individuals are calling for the immediate, unconditional release of Chantal Anicoche by the Armed Forces of the Philippines. Her continued detention constitutes serious violations of her rights and place her safety at grave risk. ichrp.net/sign-on-stat...

Resources for Resistance & Updates from WRL National Office: www.warresisters.org/civicrm/?civ...

We’re excited to announce the publication of our new book New Worlds in Old Shells, on 8th Oct. The book explores how movements can build vibrant, radical, liberating projects that meet the needs of their communities.

Launch webinar is on 22nd Oct, register here: wri-irg.org/en/story/202...

Between mid-June and mid-August, Prabowo’s push to re-write history as well as deepen his economic and strategic aims, has been going at pace.

Read TAPOL's quarterly update for all the latest, out now:

t.co/J6yfpkGi6D

In Prabowo’s Indonesia, the military is quietly creeping back into civilian life The retired general who is now president has established 100 new army battalions and plans more – and critics say the move has echoes of the country’s authoritarian past

"In the world’s third-largest democracy, the military’s expansion and its creep into civilian domains has drawn criticism from observers who say the move carries echoes of the country’s authoritarian past." www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

👍

Gaza Isn’t the First Genocide the US Has Denied — and Abetted From Guatemala to East Timor to Yemen, the US has a pattern of obfuscating and aiding crimes against humanity.

A forthcoming article in the Journal of Genocide Research, analyzes official statements, declassified documents and media reports across four cases that involve U.S. support for governments as they were committing atrocities incl. Indonesia in East Timor from 1975-1999

truthout.org/articles/gaz...

Launching next week in Dili! Read online free at pressbooks.pub/everydaydipl...

Launching next week in Dili! Read online free at pressbooks.pub/everydaydipl...

Restraints - Omega Research Foundation

🌍 Every day, all around the world, people are tortured using law enforcement equipment, including something as simple as a pair of handcuffs.

🔗 Learn more about the risks & concerns around the use of different kinds of restraints: omegaresearchfoundation.org/what-we-do/r...

https://tapol.org/

SIGN UP TO TAPOL UPDATES -

tapol.us18.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=...

Garment workers confront Nike over wages - NW Labor Press When three Indonesian factory workers visited Nike’s downtown Portland store May 27, they recognized parts of shoes that they cut or stitched.

Garment workers confront Nike over wages -

“I came to America to campaign for the rights of workers in Indonesia who were not paid by Nike during COVID," said Dedeh Nurhasanah.

Activists from GLJ, Portland Jobs with Justice + other groups invited shoppers to take a quiz about Nike production.

The great historian of Southeast Asia, Anthony (Tony) Reid, died yesterday in Canberra, aged 85. His studies transformed our understanding of Indonesia and the region. A professor at the ANU for many years, he also founded institutes at UCLA & NUS. And he was a lovely person

Indonesia new capital yet to spark electricity for low-income neighbors on Borneo RANGAN, Indonesia — Every night for three decades, Marwati would worry about snakes crawling out of the walls of her house near the east coast of Borneo. Today, a small rooftop solar panel powers a…

In a district that holds Indonesia’s biggest coal reserves and sits near the new national capital, the country’s largest construction site, a large share of households in Paser district remain without an electricity connection.

Pay-to-release program reduces shark deaths, but backfires in some cases Researchers behind an incentive-based fisheries program in Indonesia have reported a drop in shark and ray bycatch, but also warned of an unexpected rise in the intentional capture of these…

A pay-to-release program for threatened sharks and rays significantly reduced bycatch in Indonesia, with 71% of wedgefish and 4% of hammerheads released alive; but it also led some fishers to intentionally catch these species to claim incentives.

Indonesia signs $10bn deal to buy 48 Turkish Kaan fighter jets The landmark agreement includes co-production with Indonesia and marks Turkey’s largest-ever defence export

Indonesia signs $10bn deal to buy 48 Turkish Kaan fighter jets - www.middleeasteye.net/news/indonesia-signs-10b...

Lax Laws in Indonesia Turn Blind Eye To Animal Trafficking When Indonesian prosecutors went after the leader of an illegal wildlife syndicate operating near the Malacca Strait, they relied on the country’s then relatively new 2019 Quarantine Act to seek a …

Illegal #wildlife #crime is rampant in #Indonesia, from #birds to #orangutans, to coral. Trafficking online is worth $852.6mil USD per year. Indonesia is falling short on its response. Story via @360info_global #Boycott4Wildlife #extinction @palmoildetect

Indonesia expects to conclude free trade talks with EU by end of June Indonesia said on Saturday that free trade negotiations with the European Union, which have been ongoing for nine years, are expected to be concluded by the end of June.

Indonesia expects to conclude free trade agreement with the EU by end June
www.reuters.com/markets/comm...

Join the NYCPeace and Justice contingent on Saturday. Bring signs that highlight the issues below.

All of these films are excellent and worth viewing. @owasow.bsky.social has given a really important film fest to help understand this moment in a historical context, with deep, valuable lessons in how we meet and inform the present moment and resist this autocratic takeover
🧵

After three months in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody, a Filipino green-card holder who had been arrested at Seattle-Tacoma Airport has finally gone home.