Category Archives: tyranny

“The Photos that Captured the First Day of the Soviet Invasion of Czechoslovakia”

Posted on October 4, 2018 by

“August 21, 1968 at the Czech Center New York features 20 images of dynamic photo-reportage capturing the first day of the Soviet Invasion of Czechoslovakia.”

Posted in Blog, defeat, fine arts, revolt, tyranny

Rebecca Solnit: “All the Rage: What a literature that embraces female anger can achieve”

Posted on September 29, 2018 by

“Instead of a theory of male anger, we have a growing literature in essays and now books about female anger, a phenomenon in transition.” Rebecca Solnit on three new books about women’s anger.

Posted in Blog, fraternity, gender, justice, power, revolt, tyranny

Dilar Dirik: “Women’s Internationalism against Global Patriarchy”

Posted on September 29, 2018 by

“From the earliest rebellions in history to the first organized women’s strikes, protests and movements, struggling women have always acted in the consciousness that their resistance is linked to wider issues of injustice and oppression in society.  Whether in the fight against colonialism, religious dogma, militarism, industrialism, state authority or capitalist modernity, historically women’s movements have mobilized the experience of different aspects of oppression and the need for a fight on multiple fronts.”

Posted in agonism, ethics, fraternity, gender, Nota Bene, power, resistance, revolt, rights, tyranny

“Nicaragua: A rebellion at a crossroads”

Posted on August 5, 2018 by

“After three months of demonstrations, blockades, and street fighting, the Ortega government has succeeded in clearing the roads and driving many dissidents and rebels out of the country, but not at suppressing the revolt entirely.”

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“What is Happening in Nicaragua Right Now?”

Posted on August 3, 2018 by

“Nonviolent civil disobedience relies first and foremost on the will of its proponents not to take up arms, and this will seems unbreakable. This is why we must open our eyes to what is happening in Nicaragua. If a transition from dictatorship to democracy can be achieved without a civil war, we will avoid the risk—so often a reality—that from the country’s ruins a new tyrant will rise up to take the place of the tyrant who was violently overthrown.  Achieving change through a civilian uprising will allow us, for the first time, to build stable institutions, develop an independent judicial system, and choose a new government in free and transparent elections. Then we will finally be on the path to modernity.”

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“Tyrant: Shakespeare on Politics” by Stephen Greenblatt (2018)

Posted on August 2, 2018 by

“We learn not simply what Trump tells us about Shakespeare but what Shakespeare tells us about Trump. Illuminating scene after scene, Greenblatt is especially fine on the mechanisms of tyranny.”

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John Ferling: “Forget a new civil war. We need a new American revolution.”

Posted on August 2, 2018 by

“More than 200 years later, the United States may well be losing the American Revolution.”

Posted in democracy, founding, freedom, governance, Nota Bene, power, revolution, tyranny

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The Far Right is Talking about a Second Civil War

Posted on August 2, 2018 by

“Far-right voices are frothing about a looming civil war” – ThinkProgress

“Stop making second American Civil War clickbait” – Vox

 

 

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Benjamin Studebaker: “Why Rebellions and Revolutions don’t Work Very Well”

Posted on July 5, 2018 by

“An unease is spreading, but it is not the unease in which people see the slavery for what it is, grab their pitchforks, and rebel. The bio/soc technology is too strong for that now, and the massive advancements in sur/co technology over the last century would make any such rebellion short-lived. No, it is a different sort of unease–a sense that things aren’t working, that something is wrong, but the cause is unclear.”

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Mason Herson-Hord: “Lessons from the First Palestinian Intifada”

Posted on May 27, 2018 by

‘There was much more to the First Intifada than mass protests. A less visible constellation of community organizations and networks made the uprising possible and, through a combination of grassroots democracy and what we would now call the “solidarity economy,” sustained the movement over years. This strong organizational bedrock stands out among popular movements, and is worth revisiting at a time where radical organizers from Barcelona to Kurdistanto Jackson, Miss., are taking up a similar strategy.’

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