A phoenix is a bird that never dies; it burns itself only to always rise from the ashes and live once more. Such is the resoluteness of will despite the thistles and thorns of injustice as depicted by the circle of barbed wire, the will that remains steadfast in the right to live with independence. The three-forked tail of the phoenix, positioned inside the circle to form a shape resembling the peace sign, represents our guiding principle: a compass pointing towards peaceful coexistence.
Latest from the People’s Will Archive
- 2024 Report of the Ratsadonprasong Fund, Part 3: The Costs of Travel
Our protocol for support for the costs of travel for accused, defendants, and detainee relatives. At the three-year mark of the Ratsadonprasong Fund under the Siddhi-Issara Foundation’s care, this category of support just reached eight figures in total expenses (10 million baht, or about 300,000 US dollars). - 2024 Report of the Ratsadonprasong Fund, Part 2: Until Incarceration Ends
Our categories of support to detainees and their families that stretch backward in time to the 2014 coup as well as forward to the decades to come. - 2024 Report of the Ratsadonprasong Fund, Part 1: A Drainpipe for Money
The central issue of the year is the redistribution or “draining” of funds, which shall go at a faster rate than bail returns. Most of that money has been going to detainees and their families after sentencing; the situation is such that their right to bail is no longer the answer, now that their exercise of that right to have their day in court has turned out this way.