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Transition Security Project @transitionsec.bsky.social · 4h

While the US & Europe ramp up military spending, millions live in poverty.

Today, we launch Transition Security Project, investigating how militarisation makes us poorer and less safe amid climate crisis — and what genuine security could look like. 🧵

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Transition Security Project

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Transnational Institute @tninstitute.bsky.social · 2d

Two years into Israel's war of extermination, there can be no peace without accountability for the industrial-scale killing or justice for Palestinians, writes @dondeniamh.bsky.social.

www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/peac...

'Peace deal' or not, Gaza remains the holocaust of our time

Two years into Israel's war of extermination, there can be no peace without accountability for the industrial-scale killing or justice for Palestinians who continue to count their dead

www.middleeasteye.net

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Climate and Community Institute @cplusc.bsky.social · 6d

The official launch of @transitionsec.bsky.social is in just one week! Join CCI & @cmmonwealth.bsky.social
at the free inaugural panel event featuring our strategic co-dir @triofrancos.bsky.social:
🔗 shorturl.at/NwJCL

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María Tula @archisauvage.bsky.social · 10d

This course looks fantastic — I’ve just signed up! 🌱
Registrations are still open for those interested.

Transnational Institute @tninstitute.bsky.social · Jun 20

Join our six-week online course that invites you to reimagine urban life through the lens of post-growth thinking, an approach that recognises that more GDP doesn’t always mean better lives, especially when it comes at the cost of social equity and ecological survival. www.tni.org/en/event/cit...

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Ruth Hall @ruthhallplaas.bsky.social · 12d

What's driving land grabbing in the world today?

Our hot-off-the-press open access paper shows land grabbing is now shaped by:
1. geopolitics
2. financialization
3. climate policies

We set out why it matters, how people respond, and what's to be done @plaasuwc.bsky.social @tninstitute.bsky.social

The ‘return’ of land grabbing?

This introductory paper to the Special Forum on ‘The Return of Land Grabbing’ examines the evolving dynamics of land grabbing. We argue that land grabbing never disappeared but has persisted and tr...

www.tandfonline.com

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Transnational Institute @tninstitute.bsky.social · 13d

Animation by Boy Dominguez x Brisa Amir x Tom Estrera III

Narrated by professor Jun Borras

Resources:
www.tni.org/en/article/t...

academic.oup.com/edited-volum...

www.iss.nl/en/research/...

The politics of land | Transnational Institute

Land is central to contemporary debates about politics. Land sustains the livelihoods of millions through farming, livestock keeping, hunting and collecting. Such livelihoods are intimately bound up w...

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Transnational Institute @tninstitute.bsky.social · 13d

Land is life. Who has access to what land and under what conditions partly determines who gains and who loses. Land politics shape food, climate, labour, migration, democracy, and geopolitics. Democratizing land regimes is difficult but absolutely necessary for a just future.

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Transnational Institute @tninstitute.bsky.social · 15d

European-Indonesian civil society and unions speak out against EU-Indonesia trade deal, warning it endangers the environment, climate, and the rights of women, Indigenous Peoples, workers, small farmers & fishers. europeantradejustice.org/eu-indonesia...

EU-Indonesia deal: global civil society alliance calls for a stop

A European-Indonesian alliance of civil society organizations and trade unions criticises the political agreement on the EU-Indonesia free trade agreement being signed in Indonesia today. The organ…

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Transnational Institute @tninstitute.bsky.social · 27d

Land is at the heart of people’s livelihoods and cultures, and communities worldwide struggle to secure access against corporate and state power. The Oxford Handbook of Land Politics shows how land is never just about production but also about care, migration, and justice www.tni.org/en/article/t...

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Transnational Institute @tninstitute.bsky.social · 29d

Palestinian liberation is not simply a moral or human rights issue: it is a direct confrontation with US imperialism and fossil capitalism. Thus, Palestinian liberation must be at the core of global environmental and climate justice struggles. www.tni.org/en/article/e...

Ecocide, Imperialism and Palestine Liberation | Transnational Institute

The devastation in Gaza is not only genocide but also ecocide: the deliberate destruction of an entire social and ecological fabric. From poisoned soil and decimated farmland to collapsing water syste...

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Transnational Institute @tninstitute.bsky.social · 29d

Did you know that EU countries can get sued for billions by foreign investors just for protecting national security, sanctioning war profiteers and climate action?

Read our new stories to learn more about ISDS and its devastating consequences for democracy, people and the planet: 10isdsstories.org

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Luciana Ghiotto @lughiotto.bsky.social · Sep 15

Extractivism and Corporate Privileges in the #Milei Era:
An Analysis of the Large Investment Incentives Regime (RIGI)

The #RIGI has been the government's major bet to attract investments

Have the RIGI objectives been fulfilled after 1 year?

@tninstitute.bsky.social

www.tni.org/en/article/e...

Extractivism and Corporate Privileges in the Milei Era | Transnational Institute

Argentina's Large Investment Incentives Regime (RIGI) has been the Javier Milei government's major bet to attract investments. But, after one year in force, have the RIGI objectives been fulfilled? Ho...

www.tni.org

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Transnational Institute @tninstitute.bsky.social · Sep 15

We don’t need more detention & deportation flights. We need investment in housing, schools & healthcare.

Civil society calls on the EU to withdraw this Regulation and build policies rooted in dignity, care & solidarity.

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Transnational Institute @tninstitute.bsky.social · Sep 15

3️⃣ Surveillance & punishment:

From racial profiling & raids, to GPS tagging & phone surveillance, to punishing people for being “uncooperative” - this is about control, not care.

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Transnational Institute @tninstitute.bsky.social · Sep 15

We don’t need more detention & deportation flights. We need investment in housing, schools & healthcare.

Civil society calls on the EU to withdraw this Regulation and build policies rooted in dignity, care & solidarity.

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Transnational Institute @tninstitute.bsky.social · Sep 15

2️⃣ Expansion of detention

Detention could be extended up to 24 months - even for children. This creates profits for private contractors while destroying people’s health & dignity.

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Transnational Institute @tninstitute.bsky.social · Sep 15

1️⃣ Deportations without ties:

The proposal allows people to be deported to countries they’ve never set foot in. Families & communities would be torn apart, with lives pushed into danger & limbo.

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Transnational Institute @tninstitute.bsky.social · Sep 15

🚨 The EU’s new “Return Regulation” is in reality a Deportation Regulation.

It expands detention - including in offshore sites - fuels racial profiling & strips away rights.

Here’s why civil society is united in rejecting it ⬇️

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Transition Security Project @transitionsec.bsky.social · Sep 10

🚨 ONLINE EVENT

Join us for a free panel on the war economy, the climate impacts of war & the geopolitics of the climate transition.

Speakers: @stephensemler.bsky.social, @triofrancos.bsky.social & @iliasalami.bsky.social, chaired by @lalehkhalili.bsky.social

📅 16 Oct 6PM BST
🔗 shorturl.at/NwJCL

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Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) @corporateeurope.org · Sep 10

The #SOTEU speech has started, shall we guess how many times we'll hear the word "competitiveness"?

We need #rulestoprotect people and the environment, not profit!

multimedia.europarl.europa.eu/en/webstream...

Debate on the State of the European Union 2025 (with nametags of the speakers) - Multimedia Centre

The multimedia platform of the European Parliament is the official public available repository of the media production of the Secretariat of the European Parliament, managed by the Directorate-General...

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TIDE Centre Oxford @tidecentre.bsky.social · Sep 8

Civil society must be at the heart of industrial policy. Last week in Johannesburg, @tninstitute.bsky.social @tninstitute.bsky.social and Trade & Industrial Policy Strategies, brought 45+ leaders from 22 countries together to chart paths for equity and sustainability in green transformation

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Jen Moore @jenmoore2.bsky.social · Sep 8

From NACLA’s Green Capitalism in the Americas, we look at foreign investment in solar energy in Honduras that led to persecution of communities starting under the narcodictatorship and now $1,6 billion in claims over modest reforms. @tandfresearch.bsky.social

www.tandfonline.com/eprint/HFMVI...

The Sinister Side of Solar Energy in Honduras

Published in NACLA Report on the Americas (Vol. 57, No. 3, 2025)

www.tandfonline.com

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Luciana Ghiotto @lughiotto.bsky.social · Sep 4

Extractivism and Corporate Privileges in the #Milei Era -
An Analysis of the Large Investment Incentives Regime #RIGI

My piece on the new law that protects foreign and national big investments in #Argentina #ISDS

@tninstitute.bsky.social

www.tni.org/en/article/e...

Extractivism and Corporate Privileges in the Milei Era | Transnational Institute

Argentina's Large Investment Incentives Regime (RIGI) has been the Javier Milei government's major bet to attract investments. But, after one year in force, have the RIGI objectives been fulfilled? Ho...

www.tni.org

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Transnational Institute @tninstitute.bsky.social · Sep 4

This September, Sri Lanka will host the Nyéléni Global Forum for Food Sovereignty in Kandy. 500+ delegates from 96 countries will gather to reclaim land, water & seeds from corporate control and put them back in the hands of communities. www.sundayobserver.lk/2025/08/31/o...

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Transnational Institute @tninstitute.bsky.social · Sep 3

Puerto Rico’s inspiring community-led responses to hurricanes, climate change and a deep economic and political crisis, offer important insights for social movements worldwide fighting against new forms of neoliberal authoritarianism. www.tni.org/en/article/r...

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