“Gov. Ricardo A. Rosselló of Puerto Rico announced his resignation on Wednesday night, conceding that he could no longer credibly remain in power after an extraordinary popular uprising and looming impeachment proceedings had derailed his administration.”
Category Archives: justice
“Ricardo Rosselló, Puerto Rico’s Governor, Resigns after Protests”
Posted in democracy, emergency, governance, In The News, justice, power
Tagged Puerto Rico
Jacques Fradin: “The insurrection of the yellow vests and the revolution of the revolution”
“The uprising of the yellow vests can be interpreted as a resurgence of the oldest movements of revolt … Or, rather, this uprising can also be interpreted as the first insurrection of a new revolutionary era, the era of the revolution of the revolution – symptomatic of a new political era that emerges by dissolving or destituting liberal hegemony.”
Posted in anarchism, autonomy, democracy, disengagement, justice, Nota Bene, revolution
Tagged France
Tasos Theofilou: ‘“I am not innocent”: Writings from a Greek prison’
“Theofilou gives testimony on the brutality of prison life, and its centrality in contemporary capitalism, through a blur of memoir, social commentary and free verse. His work centers on exposing the conditions of widespread exploitation and social struggle that persist in Greece as a result of the debt crisis — in prisons as well as in mainstream society.”
Julius Gavroche: “From extinction rebellion to desirous rebellion”
“From the Extinction Rebellion movement, we learn that we are in the midst of an ecological emergency.”
Posted in autonomy, governance, justice, Nota Bene, power
Tagged assemblies, Britain, environment
Cinzia Arruzza & Paula Varela: “Long Live the Women’s Committee”
“A dispatch from an embattled worker-run factory in Buenos Aires, where a militant women’s committee has linked the fight in the factory to the broader feminist struggle beyond its doors.”
David D. Kirkpatrick: “Hopes Raised during the Arab Spring are being Revived Across North Africa”
“The hopes inspired by the Arab Spring uprisings of 2011 soured long ago. But across North Africa, the reverberations are coursing through the region once again, shaking autocratic governments and posing new questions about the future. Veterans of the Arab Spring struggles say the scenes feel like flashbacks to chapters of a common story. … But the setbacks and disillusionment are familiar as well.”
Posted in freedom, governance, In The News, justice, power, resistance, rights, tragic politics, tyranny
“The gilets jaunes: A question of time”
“A reflection on the re-appropriation of time as the revolution within the yellow vests insurrection.”
Posted in emergency, freedom, justice, Nota Bene, performance, power, resistance, revolt
Tagged France
Enzo Traverso: “Understanding the Gilets Jaunes”
“A self-organized movement deprived of any tradition and historical memory learns from its experience and its own mistakes; it does not accept lessons from outside and has its own times of apprenticeship. Unfortunately, I am not sure they have much time.”
lundi matin: “The gilets jaunes: Creative violence against State brutality”
“The brutality of finance, of capitalism, pushes bodies into the streets, to hunger, to suicide, to oblivion, to boredom. Violence, in this sense, is only a process of emancipation of constrained bodies against the economic relations which surround them.”
