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Just Futures Collaborative Dispatch (February 2025)
Introduction: Why should we care?
Just Futures Collaborative is a global endeavour to build bridges between movements and movement-actors, across regions, who are challenging criminalization and imagining just futures. Our work intentionally defies and disrupts false binaries and borders. It is with this lens that we have observed that international human rights instruments and the international gender justice and human rights funding landscape - with dire consequences to activism globally - are being dismantled by the new government in the United States, as it joins Italy, Hungary, the Netherlands and others with a diminished commitment to official development assistance. We are also alarmed as our families, friends, colleagues and communities on-the-ground in the United States are devastatingly affected and pushed to even further precarity through new US national policies that could exacerbate the impact of criminalization.
The impact of the current direction of US policies on the entire world and on already marginalized communities everywhere - be it through promoting anti “gender ideology" action, eliminating a commitment to promoting diversity, retracting commitments to public health, the rapid reshaping of the global economic order, or divestment from urgent climate action - cannot be understated.
There is no greater reminder to us than this moment that our problems cannot be solved in a real way as long as we are working solely within false nation-state borders, issue-based silos, or fractured movement domains.
This article has been prepared in conversation with our Steering Committee.
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