On Alternative Regionalism: "At a time when ASEAN dictators are turning democracies into mediocracies; Now more than ever, we need to join forces with young people from all over the region, leading the change by calling out lies and demanding real equality, justice & human rights for all." - Emilie Pradichit, Founder & Director of Manushya Foundation, Thailand What does Alternative Regionalism mean for you? Share us your thoughts; check out our Facebook page below! 👇 https://www.facebook.com/ASEANalternativeregionalism Join us at the Southeast Asian Grassroots Practices & Strategies towards an Alternative Peoples’ Regionalism (APF 2020's Convergence Space on Alternative Regionalism)! 🌈 ASEAN Peoples’ Forum 2020 November 5-7, 2020, Vietnam and Online For offline (Vietnam) and online (other countries) participants. kindly register on or before November 2, 2020, at http://apf2020.org.vn/registration For more information on the forum please visit: http://apf2020.org.vn/ Alternative Regionalism as a new convergence space within the ASEAN Peoples Forum, will continue the conversations, exchanges, and unities during the workshop in 2019 on Alternative Regionalism which resulted in a “Resolution on Alternative Regional Integration for Southeast Asian Peoples” which called for “a new vision for engagement by civil society with ASEAN based on people-to-people interactions rather than state-to-state relations or purely market-oriented interactions” which “shall lead to the establishment of a new peoples’ regional integration process.” [image: 122890698_111383837434233_6693883550016668670_o.jpg] For the UP CIDS Program on Alternative Development, *Jose Monfred C. Sy* Master of Arts (Philippine Studies) [ongoing] Bachelor of Arts (Comparative Literature) *University of the Philippines* [email protected] "Where do correct ideas come from? Do they drop from the skies? No. Are they innate in the mind? No. They come from social practice and from it alone." Mao Tse-tung, *Where Do Correct Ideas Come From?*