Lisa VeneKlasen is the co-founder and executive director of JASS (Just Associates), an international feminist organization driven by regional networks in Mesoamerica, Southern Africa and Southeast Asia focused on equipping organizers and retooling women’s movements for justice and equality. A long-time activist, strategist and popular educator working with economic and social justice movements and NGOs around the world, she wrote A New Weave of Power, People and Politics: The Action Guide for Citizen Participation and Advocacy 2002/2006. JASS's forthcoming publication is Making Change Happen: Power in Action.
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Published in: democraciaAbierta¡Berta Vive! Lecciones de la resistencia en HondurasSeis lecciones clave de cinco dirigentes hondureños para llevar adelante una lucha que es global, en el primer...
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Published in: 50.50Berta Vive! Lessons from Honduras on resistanceA year on from the assassination of indigenous leader Berta Caceres, five Honduras leaders give key lessons on...
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Published in: 50.50Climate and Indigenous Peoples: the real dispute at the UNWith both the World Conference on Indigenous Peoples and the Climate Summit underway at the UN, far more important...
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Published in: 50.50Citizen action and the perverse confluence of opposing agendasWhen opposing political interests are using the same terms and tactics in diametrically opposed agendas, Lisa...