“Thousands of indigenous demonstrators, student volunteers and local residents launched a mass cleanup Monday of a Quito park where anti-austerity protesters fought police for days, leaving piles of burning tires, trees and construction material.”
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“Ecuador crisis weakens president, strengthens indigenous”
Posted in In The News, justice, power, revolt, the common
Tagged Ecuador
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor: “Five Years Later, Do Black Lives Matter?”
“Black lives can matter. But it will demand a struggle to not only change the police, but to change the world that relies on the police to manage its unequal distribution of the necessities of life.”
Lorissa Rinehart: “A Graphic Novel Looks at the Limits of Freedom in Revolutionary Cuba”
“In Goodbye, My Havana, the Cuban revolution’s prescribed limits of freedom are most evident in the relegation of women and LGBTQ individuals to the periphery, where their rights quickly erode and their personhood is more easily dismissed. The benefit of hindsight shows Castro’s regime working inward from there. Once it had stripped the most vulnerable of their rights, it was easier to impose a system of authoritarianism on the remainder of the populace.”
Posted in fiction, gender, justice, Nota Bene, revolution, rights, tragic politics
Tagged Cuba
“Ricardo Rosselló, Puerto Rico’s Governor, Resigns after Protests”
“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.”
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
