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Just Futures Collaborative Dispatch II (April 2025)
Introduction: Refuse, Resist, and Redefine the Path Forward
At Just Futures Collaborative, we are increasingly concerned about the widespread fear and panic that is gripping our movements. The sweeping legal and policy changes (or intended changes) by the new US administration - with their impact felt across the United States and the world - make it difficult to suppress a sense of hopelessness and helplessness.
Major shifts in the international development landscape and in the progressive private funding ecosystem are exacerbating our collective alarm. UN agencies, other member states, private funders, educational institutions and visible non-profit organizations are becoming more risk-averse and in some cases, preemptively capitulating to the US government’s demands and to its political ethos.
But what is the lesson we have learned from our collective histories of other regimes similar to this one? Capitulating won’t make this system work for us.
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