MAEW - Mekong-ASEAN Environmental Week

05/10/2024

Thank you to all who made MAEW2024 happen and beautifully end. Many of us continued to support bringing more new and young faces to MAEW, which is opening up many more opportunities and possibilities to get the public's understanding to the Mekong and Southeast Asia's environmental situation, problems, and solutions. Until we meet again!

Follow MAEW 2024's sessions on MAEW's YouTube Channels;
In English https://www.youtube.com/-aseanenvironme2050
Thai Language https://www.youtube.com/-zz4hx

Photos: Non Tananchai and MAEW

04/10/2024

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04/10/2024

In line with the 6th Annual MAEW - Mekong-ASEAN Environmental Week, Focus on the Global South invites you to join us in a learning workshop on the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and other People Working in Rural Areas (UNDROP)!

In this space, we will talk about the rich history of struggle that led to the passage of UNDROP and the bundle of rights that can be claimed by the rural sector under it. We will also have panel discussion with movement leaders from the region to share with us critical issues from the grassroots, and explore ways on how the UNDROP can help address them. Lastly we, invite your strategize with us on how we can effectively mainstream UNDROP into policies and advocacy campaigns. ✊

This event is co-organized with the Social Research Institute of the Social Research Institute - สถาบันวิจัยสังคม จุฬาลงกรณ์มหาวิทยาลัย, La Via Campesina - South East and East Asia, สมัชชาคนจน Assembly of the Poor, SERIKAT PETANI INDONESIA, and with support from CCFD-Terre Solidaire.

The event will be organized in hybrid format.

On-site venue: CU Innovation Hub, Chulalongkorn University
For Zoom registration, scan the QR code or click the link below. See you there!!!

https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIqcOyupjIuGdIuPosoRqEl_0THR93n0fzo #/registration

04/10/2024

Book a date with us tomorrow!

Focus on the Global South - Chulalongkorn University Social Research Institute (CUSRI)’s Research Collaboration on the History of Development from Grassroots Perspective invites you to join our roundtable discussion, "Sound of the Struggles and His/Herstory” where Mekong and Southeast Asian peoples and movements will share their creative works in integrating sound in their struggles for peace, human and environmental rights, and in documenting various peoples' experiences -- especially under repressive conditions -- of wars and conflicts over natural resources.

🗓 28 SEPTEMBER 2024
🕔 10:00am - 11:30am Thailand time (GMT+7)
📍 Creative Space, Student Christian Center

Social Research Institute - สถาบันวิจัยสังคม จุฬาลงกรณ์มหาวิทยาลัย
MAEW - Mekong-ASEAN Environmental Week BEAM Education Foundation Reverberation area The Messenger Band Cambodia

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29/09/2024

Sunday, September 29 - MAEW2024: Until Next Year!

10:00-12:00 pm
SEA Junction, 4th Floor, Bangkok Art and Cultural Center (BACC)

Panel discussion “THAI BAHT-MYANMAR GAS: The Neighbor's Talk”

Speakers;
• Representative from Blood Money Campaign, Myanmar
• Wora, Sukraroek, ETOs Watch Coalition
• Teerachai Sanjaroenkijthaworn, ETOs Watch Coalition
• Bencha Saengchantra, the ex-House of Representative member

Moderator: Wichai Juntavaro, Spirit in Education Movement

10:00 am-12:00 pm

Small meeting room, 6th Floor, The Church of Christ in Thailand

Interactive workshop “Water Data Sharing session: the co-design for Actionable and Accountable water data sharing in Tonle Sap Great Lake with a ‘bottom-up’ system

Resource person:
• Srey Lakh Mech, Oxfam
• Associate Professor Carl Middleton, Center for Social Development Studies, Chulalongkorn University

1:30-4:00 pm

Meeting Room 3, 6th Floor, The Church of Christ in Thailand Building (in the same compound as the Student Christian Center: SCC)

MAEW 2024 Closing session

Performances
• Violin and visual performance by Phoe San, a violinist from Myanmar
• Sitha music by Napon Phatham, The Silence House, Ubon Ratchathani Province
• The Messenger Band, Cambodia

Summarize the highlighted issues of MAEW2024 by representatives of groups in MAEW2024.

29/09/2024

This morning! 10am onward

Interactive workshop “Water Data Sharing session: the co-design for Actionable and Accountable water data sharing in Tonle Sap Great Lake with a ‘bottom-up’ system

Resource person:
Srey Lakh Mech, Oxfam in Cambodia

Associate Professor Carl Middleton, Chulalongkorn University

At the 6 floor meeting room, Christian Church of Thailand, Huachang bridge.

28/09/2024

Our 2nd Panel today is a panel discussion "International Financial Institutions: Investments in Southeast Asia and the Stories Behind Them” with the following speakers; Sutharee Wannasiri, Accountability Council, Toshi Doi, Mekong Watch and Carlo Manalansan, International Accountability Project. We have the help of Ish*ta Chakrabarty, Accountability Counsel to act as our moderator.

28/09/2024

MAEW2024's "The Young Day"
28 September 2024
Performances;
• Violin and visual performance by Phoe San, a violinist from Myanmar
• Music by “Samanchon” (The Ordinary People)
Discussion: “Behind the Lens - Meet the Photographers of the Exhibitions”
• Rerngrit Kongmuang, photographer of the photo exhibition “Echoes from the Mekong River: Communities in Transition”
• Janjira Ditcharoen, photographer of a photo series comparing the fishing community in Khong Chiam District, Ubon Ratchathani Province
• Thananchai Kaewsowattana, photographer of a photo series of the people living in the Tonle Sap Lake area
• Naphasorn Thawila, photographer of Had Pai community, Chiang Khong District, Chiang Rai Province, a Tai Lue ethnic community who live along the Mekong River
• Pimpakaporn Pornpeng, the member of GMT+ Collective Art and narrator of the exhibition “Art and Environment, Living in the Anthropocene”
Moderator: Chanang Umpharak, The Mekong Butterfly

https://youtube.com/live/0rUJPwDBPOo?feature=share

27/09/2024

Register to join us!

Storytelling/discussion “SHERO Journey of Storytelling”

3:00-4:30 pm
Creative Space, Student Christian Center (SCC), Bangkok

Co-organize: Oxfam in Cambodia/alliances

This session will consist of Storytelling, discussions, and interactive activities. Participants will gain a deeper understanding of Indigenous women's resilience, strength, and leadership in environmental and social justice movements.

**Representatives/network members from Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam will attend this session.

Moderator: Socheata Sim, Oxfam

27/09/2024

Arriving!

MAEW2024's "The Young Day"
28 September 2024

Performances;

• Violin and visual performance by Phoe San, a violinist from Myanmar
• Music by “Samanchon” (The Ordinary People)

Discussion: “Behind the Lens - Meet the Photographers of the Exhibitions”

• Rerngrit Kongmuang, photographer of the photo exhibition “Echoes from the Mekong River: Communities in Transition”
• Janjira Ditcharoen, photographer of a photo series comparing the fishing community in Khong Chiam District, Ubon Ratchathani Province
• Thananchai Kaewsowattana, photographer of a photo series of the people living in the Tonle Sap Lake area
• Naphasorn Thawila, photographer of Had Pai community, Chiang Khong District, Chiang Rai Province, a Tai Lue ethnic community who live along the Mekong River
• Pimpakaporn Pornpeng, the member of GMT+ Collective Art and narrator of the exhibition “Art and Environment, Living in the Anthropocene”

Moderator: Chanang Umpharak, The Mekong Butterfly

Introduction: “Board Game - Impacts of Dam Construction on Animals
and Plants in the Mekong River'
• Jiran Fuengnak
• Wiraya Wichayaprasertkul and;
• Napat Chantalun

Introduce the team by Hadsawat Rattanakachen, Project SEVANA South-East Asia and Lalita Waisinittham

Board Game session (1) (Four people in each group. All three groups)

With Sitha music by Napon Phatham, The Silence House, Ubon Ratchathani Province

“Writing Environmental Stories”

• Short story “Vern Pla” by Kittipop Kaewsuwan
• Article “How dams disrupting lives along the Mekong River in Northeastern Thailand” By Thannaree Promsiri

Commentator: Witayakara Sowattara, Writer and the owner of Philadephia Bookshop, Ubon Ratchathani

Moderator: Janjira Ditcharoen

Series of Documentary Films and a Discussion with the Filmmakers

• Short film “Tonle Sap — A Sound of Dying Lake” by Kawin Sirichanthakul
• A series of short films by EcoCupid “What the Young is trying to do for environment,” about groups in Vietnam, Malaysia, and Thailand
• Short film about the Kaeng Sua Ten Dam by Naphasorn Thawila

Moderator: Chalermchai Watjang, Land Watch Thai

Film Screening and discussion with the filmmakers of “Stories from the Mekong,” a project empowering young filmmakers in Thailand to produce documentaries that bring visibility to the lives of local communities.

• “Moving Sand” by Mind Media Team, Laos PDR
• “The State of the Powerless”, A film by Cat on the Rooftop Team about Tamui village in Ubon Ratchathani Province, Thailand
• “Light of the Mekong”, A film by Kratibbai Home Studio Team from Udorn Thani province, Thailand. It is about the Kok Wow community, located along the Mekong River at the Pak Chom Dam project site.

A discussion with the filmmakers;

• Yingyong Wongtakhi, winner of the Best Documentary Award from the Entertainment Critics Association, 2023 director of the documentary film “The State of the Powerless”
• Athidxay Bouandaoheuang, a filmmaker from Lao PDR, director of the documentary film “Moving Sand”
• Mingkwan Thuat, a female documentary director who drives public communication work in the Northeast, director of the documentary film “Light of the Mekong”

• Urupong Raksasat, production consultant for the project “From the Middle of the Mekong to the City” and a well-known film director
• Ormboon Thipsuna, content consultant for the project “From the Middle of the Mekong to the City”, president of the Mekong Community Organization Network Association, 7 Northeastern Provinces

Moderator: Thirayut Wirakham, The documentary film production project manager

27/09/2024

Our next panel is starting soon!
At 6pm, SEA Junction as part of MAEW - Mekong-ASEAN Environmental Week will host a panel "Strategizing Collective Responses to Intensified Attacks on Defenders of Rights to Land, Water and Livelihood: Local Site-Based Struggles and Beyond"
Featuring speakers from;
• Forum-Asia
• International Accountability Project
• Asia Pacific Network of Environmental Defenders
• Right Energy Partnership and;
• Asia Indigenous Peoples Network on Extractive Industries and Energy
Co-Moderator: Gary Lee and Tanya Lee Roberts Davis, International Rivers

Hope to see you soon!

27/09/2024

Across the globe, people continue to reel from the impacts of multiple crises—rising costs of living, climate crisis, wars, and the use of violence against people for private wealth accumulation. In response, massive protests have been erupting in different parts of the world.

In light of these, Focus on the Global South and Progressive International will organize a forum to discuss contemporary trends and challenges and how progressive movements can seize the opportunity presented by popular discontent to rebuild a new world grounded on social justice.

Prof. Walden Bello will be the moderator of the discussion. Other panelists are Varsha Gandikota-Nellutla (Progressive International) and Prof. Peter Rosset (Visiting Scholar, Chulalongkorn University Social Research Institute) to cover perspectives from International Movement and Latin America.

🗓 28 SEPTEMBER 2024
🕔5:00pm - 6:30pm Thailand time (GMT+7)
📍SEA Junction, Bangkok Art and Culture Centre

Progressive International Social Research Institute - สถาบันวิจัยสังคม จุฬาลงกรณ์มหาวิทยาลัย Peter Rosset