Judging by the number of participants, the mobilisation to free the 21 workers, union leaders and activists who were arrested during the early January crackdown by the armed forces on striking workers is not really gaining momentum. Only the infatigable ladies from Boeung Kak lake and monks from the Independent Monk Network for Social Justice […]
In an attempt to put pressure on factory owners and the government to obtain a wage of 160$ for the garment factory workers as well as the release of 21 workers, union leaders and activists jailed after January 2nd and 3rd crackdown on striking workers, several unions organised the first day of an overtime strike, […]
Choreographer Manou Phuon continues her investigation on how to use khmer boxer’s moves into a contemporary dance narrative with the dancers from Amrita Performing Arts. For those who know about khmer boxing it might seem obvious but it isn’t. It is about trial and error. It is about analysis and perfection. It is about coordination. […]
Members of the Borei Keila community, on this International Day of Social Justice, collected a bowl of soil from the place they were violently evicted from in 2012 and, after a few prayers, brought it to the Preah Ang Dongker riverside pagoda to rest in the urns in which revellers stick their joss sticks whent […]
Choreographer Manou Phuon digs into her cambodian roots again by working on a piece inspired by khmer boxing. ‘Khmeropédies’, her previous three choreographies she put together with the Amrita Performing Arts dancers, were stretching or liberating the extremely codified traditional khmer ballet repertoire through her contemporary dance background. See more about ‘Khmeropédies’ HERE and HERE. […]
It is the type of question which will pop up during an open forum moderated by But Bunthen, Leader of the Independent Monk Network for Social Justice (IMNSJ), and organised by the Boeung Kak lake community who invited Y. Vireak, Director of CLEC and human rights Advocate, Tep Vanny, Land Rights Activist, Kem Ley, Researcher […]
The very few people who were symbolically occupying an unfinished building which was promised to the Borei Keila community more than 2 years ago if the development company Phanimex had not ‘unfortunately’ run out of money to finish the last 2 of 10 buildings, were roughhandedly expelled at 6:30 AM by municipal guards wearing ‘Lucky’ […]
As if we didn’t know… Members of the Borei Keila community, after a recent disagreement with the local authorities on the size of a piece of relocation land and their following occupation of a building which was promised to them at the very beginning of their endless land issue, were allowed to meet with the […]