Saltwater Sip is back tonight with Joseph Purugganan calling from Quezon City, an activist, musician and co-director at Focus on the Global South

The episode covers strategic anti-corruption protests, colonial infrastructure for flood control, dynastic nepo babies, "post-independence" oligarchs, developmental paradox, resource curse, land-sea grabbing, mining corporate bribery, criminalisation of farmers, agrarian resistance, militarised critical minerals, economic statecraft and La Via Campesina movement