Walden Bello

Walden "Walden" Bello

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Walden "Walden" Bello

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Walden Bello is an intellectual and activist from the Philippines, who has emerged as one of the leading critics of the current model of economic globalisation. As a human rights and peace campaigner, academic, environmentalist and journalist, he has made a major contribution to the international case against corporate-driven globalisation.
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Walden Bello has authored or co-authored 23 books and numerous monographs and articles. The most recent are the following: Counterrevolution: The Global Rise of the Far Right (Fernwood, 2019) Paper Dragons: China and the Next Crash (Zed, 2019) “Counterrevolution, the Countryside, and the Middle Class: Lessons from Five Countries,” Journal of Peasant Studies, Vol. 45, 2018, Issue 1 Capitalism’s Last Stand (Zed, 2013) Food Wars (Verso, 2009) Dilemmas of Domination: The Unmaking of the American Empire (Henry Holt, 2005)
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Walden Bello is currently the International Adjunct Professor of sociology at the State University of New York at Binghamton and Co-Chairperson of the Bangkok-based research and advocacy institute Focus on the Global South.
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A human rights activist since the Marcos era, he is currently active in opposing alleged anti-human rights policies of the administration of President Rodrigo Duterte.
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He was arrested repeatedly and finally jailed by the US authorities in 1978 for leading the non-violent takeover of the Philippine consulate in San Francisco. He was released three weeks later after a hunger strike to publicise human rights abuses in his home country.
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Bello has campaigned for years for the withdrawal of US military bases in the Philippines, Okinawa and Korea, and has helped set up several regional coalitions dedicated to denuclearization and demilitarization, and a new kind of security plan based on meeting people’s needs.
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In 2007, Bello was elected to the House of Representatives of the Philippines as a representative of Akbayan or Citizens’ Action Party. After the Supreme Court ruled in his favor, he assumed his seat in February 2009 and served as a congressman for six years, until March 19, 2016. Bello was chairman of the House Committee on Overseas Workers’ Affairs for five years, during which he successfully pushed for laws benefiting migrant workers, rescued Filipino workers trapped in war zones, and prosecuted government officials preying on women workers.
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He was a principal author of a number of key laws, including the Reproductive Health Law, Agrarian Reform Extension Law, and Compensation for Victims of Human Rights Abuse Law. He resigned before the end of his third term in protest at the policies of the administration of President Benigno Aquino III.
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Eight Fast Facts

Walden "Walden" Bello

Fast Fact 1

Walden Bello is an intellectual and activist from the Philippines, who has emerged as one of the leading critics of the current model of economic globalisation. As a human rights and peace campaigner, academic, environmentalist and journalist, he has made a major contribution to the international case against corporate-driven globalisation.

https://rightlivelihood.org/the-change-makers/find-a-laureate/walden-bello/

Fast Fact 2

Walden Bello has authored or co-authored 23 books and numerous monographs and articles. The most recent are the following: Counterrevolution: The Global Rise of the Far Right (Fernwood, 2019) Paper Dragons: China and the Next Crash (Zed, 2019) “Counterrevolution, the Countryside, and the Middle Class: Lessons from Five Countries,” Journal of Peasant Studies, Vol. 45, 2018, Issue 1 Capitalism’s Last Stand (Zed, 2013) Food Wars (Verso, 2009) Dilemmas of Domination: The Unmaking of the American Empire (Henry Holt, 2005)

https://www.binghamton.edu/sociology/faculty/profile.html?id=waldenbello

Fast Fact 3

Walden Bello is currently the International Adjunct Professor of sociology at the State University of New York at Binghamton and Co-Chairperson of the Bangkok-based research and advocacy institute Focus on the Global South.

https://waldenbello.org/about-walden/

Fast Fact 4

A human rights activist since the Marcos era, he is currently active in opposing alleged anti-human rights policies of the administration of President Rodrigo Duterte.

https://waldenbello.org/about-walden/

Fast Fact 5

He was arrested repeatedly and finally jailed by the US authorities in 1978 for leading the non-violent takeover of the Philippine consulate in San Francisco. He was released three weeks later after a hunger strike to publicise human rights abuses in his home country.

https://waldenbello.org/about-walden/

Fast Fact 6

Bello has campaigned for years for the withdrawal of US military bases in the Philippines, Okinawa and Korea, and has helped set up several regional coalitions dedicated to denuclearization and demilitarization, and a new kind of security plan based on meeting people’s needs.

https://waldenbello.org/about-walden/

Fast Fact 7

In 2007, Bello was elected to the House of Representatives of the Philippines as a representative of Akbayan or Citizens’ Action Party. After the Supreme Court ruled in his favor, he assumed his seat in February 2009 and served as a congressman for six years, until March 19, 2016. Bello was chairman of the House Committee on Overseas Workers’ Affairs for five years, during which he successfully pushed for laws benefiting migrant workers, rescued Filipino workers trapped in war zones, and prosecuted government officials preying on women workers.

https://waldenbello.org/about-walden/

Fast Fact 8

He was a principal author of a number of key laws, including the Reproductive Health Law, Agrarian Reform Extension Law, and Compensation for Victims of Human Rights Abuse Law. He resigned before the end of his third term in protest at the policies of the administration of President Benigno Aquino III.

https://waldenbello.org/about-walden/
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