LIVESTREAM. Decolonising Science: Anti-imperialism and Community Research in the Philippines

We are excited to invite you to a livestream podcast featuring leaders of AGHAM in the Philippines.

Join us for a conversation with three officers of the radical science organization AGHAM. Learn how Advocates of Science and Technology for the People (AGHAM) members are fighting for climate and environmental justice and the de-militarisation of science, while engaging in community-based advocacy for research and education.

📅 Date: Saturday, 30 August 2025

🕒 Time: 12:00 UTC (20:00 Manila)

📡 Livestream on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@IUScientists

Guests 

– Cleng Julve, AGHAM General Secretary 

– Chuckie Calsado, AGHAM Chairperson

– Jenna Rodriguez, AGHAM Advocacy and Alliances Head

Possible discussion topics

• How AGHAM evolved from a campus collective into one of Asia’s most influential scientist-activist networks.

• The state of Philippine science: chronic under-funding, brain-drain, and how AGHAM fights for a pro-people research agenda.

• Militarism in the Philippines: new U.S. bases, red-tagging of researchers, and strategies to defend scientific integrity.

• Climate chaos in the archipelago: coral loss in the West Philippine Sea, record typhoons, and community-led citizen-science responses.

• International solidarity: how scientists across the world can amplify climate justice and peaceful multipolarity and share resources and expertise.