Protest

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• 3/26/2023
  

  An American Witness to the European Movement Against the Iraq Invasion

  by Brian Sandberg

  The European Social Forum, held in Florence in November 2002, didn't stop the US invasion of Iraq. But it did usher in an era of pan-european civic action that remains powerful today. 

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• SOURCE: CNN
  3/18/2023
  

  Kendi: "Anti-woke" Part of Backlash Against Antiracist Protest Movements

  Critics have charged that Ibram X. Kendi's writing portrays racism as an all-powerful and unchangeable force in American society. He says that, in fact, understanding racism as "constructed" means it can be deconstructed. 

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• SOURCE: Miami Herald
  2/17/2023
  

  Florida Students Plan Walkouts in Protest of Administrators' Cooperation With DeSantis Trans Crackdown

  Six colleges are known to have complied with a request by the governor's office for information about health services provided to transgender students, which student leaders say is part of a threat to gender-affirming healthcare in the state. 

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• SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
  2/14/2023
  

  Atlanta's HBCU Students Call on Administrators to Oppose "Cop City"

  Students say that the proposed training facility in south Atlanta will prepare more police to engage in paramilitary suppression of protest and denounced statements by administrators pledging support for "Cop City." 

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• SOURCE: Black Perspectives
  2/14/2023
  

  HBCUs and the 1950s Red Scare

  by Candace Cunningham

  South Carolina officials were able to use the purse strings to coerce public HBCU administrators to expel student activists. When private HBCUs became centers of sit-in organizing, state legislators turned to accusations of Communism. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  2/14/2023
  

  The Network Helping Russia's War Resisters Escape

  “In a situation where everyone is against you, including your own relatives, who think that you are a traitor and are ready to hang you from the nearest lamppost, I was extremely pleased to discover that there are people who don’t know you at all, who’ve never seen you, and they are ready to help,” said Oleg Zavyalov, 31.

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• 2/12/2023
  

  Russia's Courageous War Resisters

  by Lawrence Wittner

  While most Russians have chosen silence in the wake of Putin's harsh anti-dissent measures, and many military-aged men have opted to leave the country, a core of protesters have braved violence and imprisonment to denounce the Ukraine invasion. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  1/29/2023
  

  Do French Pension Protests Reveal a Lazy Nation?

  by Robert Zaretsky

  French workers are among the most productive in Europe, but today's protests over a potential increase in the retirement age show a long tradition of defending the value of leisure as the chance to pursue one's own ends outside of paid labor. 

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• SOURCE: Truthout
  1/30/2023
  

  Refuse a Return to "Normalcy" after Police Killings

  by Austin McCoy

  Refusing to accept avoidable death as part of American life—from COVID or police violence—is the foundation of change. Americans need to organize a national day of mourning in the form of a work stoppage. 

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• SOURCE: The China Story
  12/19/2022
  

  China's 2022: Protest, Ceremony, and Surprise

  by Jeffrey Wasserstrom and William Yang

  China's recent oscillations between official ceremonies of authority and insurgent protests presents a complex picture of a Chinese Communist Party struggling to maintain authority despite its formidable mechanisms of surveillance and coercion. 

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• SOURCE: The China Project
  12/7/2022
  

  The 1979 Formosa Incident Sparked Taiwan's Democracy Movement

  by James Carter

  An explainer of the wave of protests that began on December 10, 1979, that disrupted the one-party authoritarian rule of the Kuomintang in Taiwan.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  11/24/2022
  

  Despite Defeat, Iran's Footballers Won

  by Golnar Nikpour

  Iranian players' show of solidarity with protesters facing government repression has been more important than the results on the pitch. 

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• SOURCE: CNN
  12/1/2022
  

  For Chinese Protesters, Blank Pages are the Punch Line. What's the Joke?

  by Christopher Rea and Jeffrey Wasserstrom

  To understand the current Chinese protests, consider the nation's traditions of creative, surreptitious, and subversive political humor. 

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• SOURCE: The Baffler
  10/5/2022
  

  Two Years After George Floyd: What Next?

  by Austin McCoy

  Despite the massive insurgency of 2020, activists struggle as news media amplify reactionary moral panics about history curricula and crime to justify increasing the funding and power of police departments that have seen superficial reforms at best. 

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• SOURCE: Jacobin
  8/28/2022
  

  Recovering the Core Radicalism of the Civil Rights Movement: An Interview with Glenda Gilmore

  by Robert Greene II

  Cold war histories of civil rights have obscured the key role of communists and other radicals in establishing the economic demands of the movement and the practice of interracial mobilization. 

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• 8/28/2022
  

  The Chicano Moratorium in East LA and Ventura County

  by Frank P. Barajas

  Chicano Moratorium commemorations continue today in communities in and out of East Los Angeles as they mark a history that centers on the experience of ethnic Mexican and Latinx peoples in the US to inspire and reinspire the young and old, to continue their struggle to realize the ideal of justice for all.

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• SOURCE: Texas Tribune
  6/22/2022
  

  Before the Tragedy, Uvalde Was the Site of a Major School Walkout. Will That History Be Lost?

  In 1970, ethnic Mexican students at Uvalde High School staged a six-week school boycott to protest persistent segregation and pervasive disrespect from teachers and administrators. 

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• SOURCE: The Nation
  5/24/2022
  

  Historian Donna Murch on the Long History that Led to BLM

  "In terms of repression and resistance, it takes people and communities time to understand what is happening to them."

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• SOURCE: NextCity
  5/23/2022
  

  Virginia's Governor Took Away the Most Important Piece of Protest Art in the Country. What Should He Have Done?

  Outgoing governor Ralph Northam removed the graffiti-covered pedestal of the former Robert E. Lee monument, which has become a site of community gathering and a public forum to express alternative visions of history. Cities should try to encourage such openness (if not spray-painting). 

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• 5/15/2022
  

  Excerpt: Inside the Gwangju Uprising, a Key Moment for South Korean Democracy

  by Gwangju Democratization Movement Commemoration Committee

  Government forces sprung into action to violently suppress a pro-democracy protest of students and workers in Gwangju, South Korea on May 18, 1980.