Congratulations to Paul Sein Twa – Executive Director of Salween Peace Park and friend of Saw O Moo, recipients of the 2018 Paul K. Feyerabend Award – who has now received the 2020 Goldman Award – the most important environmental award in the world.
The Board of the Paul K. Feyerabend Foundation is proud to congratulate Paul Sein Twa –elected President of the Salween Peace Park (SPP) and friend of Saw O Moo, recipients of the 2018 Paul K. Feyerabend Award. Paul has just … Read more
Conserving the language and culture of the Vadda people of Sri Lanka – important steps to keep alive their identity and solidarity
The Vadda are an aboriginal people in Sri Lanka, known to have inhabited the island well before the arrival of the Aryans. Currently, they live in scattered spots and some groups have mixed with other ethnic groups in the country. … Read more
LIHE: assisting communities toward active self-governance in Yunnan (China)
For over ten years, Lijiang Institute of Health and Environment (LIHE) has dedicated itself to supporting self-governance and endogenous development for ethnic minority communities in Mt. Laojunshan area, within the Three Parallel Rivers World Heritage Site of Yunnan (China). Their … Read more
Henri Rakotoson: unity is strength for Madagascar’s communities!
Henri Rakotoson is a most active leader in defending the rights of local communities to a dignified life through equitable access to land, water and other gifts of nature. He leads actions in his community, but also at the national … Read more
Prof. Mazin B. Qumsiyeh: courageous spinner of solidarity in and with Palestine!
Prof. Mazin B. Qumsiyeh– or Mazin, as many prefer to call him– is an inventive, gentle, untiring ‘spinner of solidarity’ who well fits the contemporary electronic modes of communication/ existence. For years he has tirelessly diffused throughout the world a … Read more
Community Radio Brisas del Sur: strengthening local and indigenous governance in the mapuche-chono Antunen Rain community on the Aysén coast, Chile
This initiative will implement a communication strategy to strengthen local and indigenous governance in the Huichas archipelago, off the coast of the Aysén region in Chilean Patagonia. The project will have a positive impact on three levels.
At the local … Read more
Community solidarity in reaction to COVID 19 in Paute (Ecuador)
Since early 2020, all countries in the world have been progressively affected by the COVID 19 pandemic, a disease whose impact is felt most severely by poor and disadvantaged communities. Importantly, the disease requires a strong sense of mutual care … Read more
Cross-village solidarity and economic security through beekeeping and participatory quality control in Xiengkuang (Lao PDR)
The Sai Nam Pian, or Pian Stream, comprises ten communities which are well known for forest beekeeping in Xiengkuang, a northeastern province of Lao PDR. The Phosy community is one of such communities that gradually organized itself around the production … Read more
A powerful and moving statement by Felipe Gomez Gomez, 2012 Paul K. Feyerabend Laureate
A powerful and moving statement has been prepared and offered by Felipe Gomez Gomez, 2012 Paul K. Feyerabend Laureate, in the occasion of the 2020 Day of the Earth.
The Savings and Loans Cooperative Jardin Azuayo (Ecuador)
The Savings and Loans Cooperative Jardin Azuayo (Ecuador) celebrates decades of service and joint learning and is more needed than ever. A wonderful volume illustrated by Hernan Rodas Martinez – laureate Paul K. Feyerabend 2007 –describes the history of the … Read more
