Category Archives: emergency

Billy Anania: “The Viral Artwork Emerging From Hong Kong’s Protests”

Posted on January 6, 2020 by

“In Hong Kong, the ongoing protest movement immortalizes its political action in real time through art. … Art and politics are uniquely linked in the city, reinforcing the youth-driven struggle against human rights abuses.”

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Noah Shusterman: “Scenes from Hong Kong: Revolution of Our Time, Histories in Real Time”

Posted on January 6, 2020 by

“The Hong Kong protesters are on the front lines of the global fight against authoritarianism.”

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Robin Wright: “The Story of 2019: Protests in Every Corner of the Globe”

Posted on December 31, 2019 by

“When historians look back at 2019, the story of the year will … be the tsunami of protests that swept across six continents and engulfed both liberal democracies and ruthless autocracies. Throughout the year, movements have emerged overnight, out of nowhere, unleashing public fury on a global scale—from Paris and La Paz to Prague and Port-au-Prince, Beirut to Bogota and Berlin, Catalonia to Cairo, and in Hong Kong, Harare, Santiago, Sydney, Seoul, Quito, Jakarta, Tehran, Algiers, Baghdad, Budapest, London, New Delhi, Manila, and even Moscow. Taken together, the protests reflect unprecedented political mobilization.”

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Antonia Malchik: “Riot acts”

Posted on December 23, 2019 by

“History shows that tumult is a companion to democracy and when ordinary politics fails, the people must take to the streets.”

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Kylo V. Nèr: “Delenda est”

Posted on December 18, 2019 by

“There is no need to redeem the sins of the world in this way; there is nothing to redeem. There is no need to work for better days, to offer generations to come a haven purified of our turpitude, to make ourselves worthy of who has not yet come. There is nothing but to destroy. Let it be destroyed. Without hatred, but without hesitation. Without acrimony, but without trembling.  Delenda est.”

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“Everything is burning already; Let us burn together!”

Posted on November 29, 2019 by

“if we want peace, we will first go through war.  It is total war, planetary, nature defending itself against the civilisational monster; riotous war, protean, of a world bursting with rage to live against the costumed puppets that bleed it white. This war is already taking place everywhere, and is intensifying devilishly in the immense revolutionary leap that is drumming at the golden gates of the great spawning.  All countries are rising up.”

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A statement: “Leftists worldwide, stand by the protesters in Iran!”

Posted on November 27, 2019 by

“The following is a statement by the Iranian leftist diaspora in the United Kingdom, France and Germany who have formed a loose coalition of academics and militants to express their support for the ongoing popular uprising in Iran.”

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Jeffery R. Webber & Forrest Hylton interviewed on the Coup in Bolivia

Posted on November 17, 2019 by

“In a regional perspective, we might situate the Bolivian coup more or less mid-way between the “hard” military coup in Honduras in 2009, and the “soft” parliamentary coups against Fernando Lugo in Paraguay in 2012 and Dilma Rousseff in Brazil in 2016, with a crucial difference—in Bolivia, the far right co-opted and hijacked mass centrist protest by urban middle classes that preceded the coup, pushing it in a violent direction.”

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Raul Zibechi: “Bolivia: The Extreme Right Takes Advantage of a Popular Uprising”

Posted on November 17, 2019 by

“If there is anything left of ethics and dignity in the Latin American left, we should be reflecting on power, and the abuses committed in its exercise. As feminists and Indigenous people have taught us, power is always oppressive, colonial and patriarchal. That is why they reject leaders (caudillos), and why communities rotate their leaders so that they don’t accumulate power. We cannot forget that in this moment there is a serious danger that the racist, colonial and patriarchal right manages to take advantage of this situation to impose rule and provoke a bloodbath.”

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“This May Be The Largest Wave Of Nonviolent Mass Movements In World History. What Comes Next?”

Posted on November 17, 2019 by

“Around the globe, mass nonviolent protests are demanding that national leaders step down. Evo Morales, Bolivia’s three-term leftist president, is the latest casualty of mass demonstrations, after being abandoned by the military. Beyond Bolivia, people are rising up against their governments in places as varied as Chile, Lebanon, Ecuador, Argentina, Hong Kong, Iraq and Britain. This follows remarkable protests in Sudan and Algeria in the spring, in which protest movements effectively toppled entrenched dictators, and in Puerto Rico, where a mass movement deposed an unpopular governor. Beyond Puerto Rico, the United States has also hosted a steady stream of protest since January 2017 against the Trump administration and its policies.”

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