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• Africa: What comes after national liberation movements?
  18 January 2022, by siawi3

  History shows us that the decline of national liberation movements is inevitable. It also shows us that without undertaking the political work to build progressive alternatives, moving from one political epoch to another can be a movement from the frying pan into the fire.

• Challenges for the Russian anti war movement
  20 March 2022, by siawi3

  Budraitskis covers the recent protests in Russia, the Kremlin’s propaganda and censorship efforts, and the geopolitical pressures that might have shaped Putin’s strategy thus far.

• UK-India: How I Endured British Racists and Survived to Tell the Tale
  5 December 2021, by siawi3

  For an Indian growing up in the UK in the 1960s, racism was an everyday experience ranging from schoolyard taunts at best to threats of violence and persecution at the worst.

• Israeli anti-Apartheid activist Neta Golan: “In solidarity with the Palestinian detainees, I refuse to show up in court!” - The judge issues an arrest warrant against her.
  24 February 2022, by siawi3

  "The court that allows me rights as a Jew by virtue of my ethnic origin, and does not offer the same rights to indigenous people of another origin, is part of a discriminatory system that aims to encourage the preservation of a Jewish majority between the river and the sea. The same system commits criminal acts for the purpose of maintaining a regime of control by one racial group over another racial group and their systematic oppression. This is the definition of the crime of apartheid. And I’m not willing to cooperate with this crime.”

• Because ’Publishing Is Not a Crime,’ Major Newspapers Push US to Drop Assange Charges
  30 November 2022, by siawi3

  “This indictment sets a dangerous precedent, and threatens to undermine America’s First Amendment and the freedom of the press,” The Guardian, The New York Times, and other media outlets warned.

• India: Firing of art professor for showing a 14-century painting of Prophet Muhammad condemned: MPAC
  11 January, by siawi3

  Intolerance of all forms hits academic: On January 9, 2023 the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC) has condemned the “firing of an art professor, Erika López Prater, from Hamline University on the grounds of showing a fourteenth-century painting depicting the Prophet Muḥammad.” The statement is not just a statement of support for the professor but also urges the university to reverse its decision and to take compensatory action to ameliorate the situation.

• France: � Let�s wake up �, by Omar Sy
  7 June 2020, by siawi3

  Would these men have died if they had not crossed the path of the police?

• Toppling statues as an act of historical redemption
  14 July 2020, by siawi3

  The attack against such figures is far from misguided vandalism, but part of an ongoing reckoning with historically ingrained patterns discrimination and racism. These acts stand for a rejection of historical closure, and hold open possibilities of a genuine reconciliation with the past.

• Singapore: “A National Coming Out”: 10 Years Since Repeal 377A
  10 August 2021, by siawi3

  10 years after an attempt to repeal an anti-gay law, Singapore’s LGBTQ activists are still seeking equality.

• UK: Protester in Colston statue trial asks ‘how long must you ask to be heard and not be listened to?’
  26 December 2021, by siawi3

  “(The council) had long enough to recognise how much harm a monument to a slave trader does in a very multi-cultural city – it doesn’t take much to realise that harm.” “Over 100 years of dissent – someone should have listened.”

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