Organized Resistance

My Friend David Graeber

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Rest in Power, Kevin Zeese (1955 - 2020)

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Kevin Zeese speaks at a rally for Chelsea Manning. By Ellen Davidson.
David Graeber, Caustic Critic of Inequality, Is Dead at 59

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David Graeber at his home in Manhattan in in 2005. A public intellectual, professor, political activist and author, he captivated a cult following that grew globally with each book he published over the last decade.Credit...Jennifer S. Altman for The New York Times
Amid Backlash and Disillusionment, A Slower Reckoning for the #MeToo Movement In India

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How the Floyd Protests Turned Into a 24-Hour ‘Occupy City Hall’ in N.Y.

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For almost a week, protesters have gathered in front of City Hall, many of them spending the night.
Pakistan To Hire Pandemic's Unemployed to Plant 10 Billion Trees

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Corporations Will Not Save Us: The Sham of Corporate Social Responsibility

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Police Break Up Zimbabwe "Mega-Demonstration" In Defiance Of Court Order

Friday's "mega-demonstration" marked the first time that Zimbabwe's fractured opposition joined in a single action to confront President Robert Mugabe's government in a decade.

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3 Reasons the Standing Rock Sioux Can Stop the Dakota Access Pipeline

For starters, this protest is about a competing idea for the future of the planet – and waves of people will show up to make that point.

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Mexico’s Striking Teachers Stand Firm Against State Repression

As the Mexican school year is starting, teachers in four states have refused to return to classes until a negotiated agreement changes the government’s program – and perpetrators of a massacre are held responsible.

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The Radicalism of Black Lives Matter

Again and again, the movement has challenged the abandonment of Black communities underlying a wave of police violence.

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Banlieues Debout Movement Targets Police Brutality, Economic Hardship In Paris Suburbs

The suburb-centric movement is a spinoff of Nuit Debout Paris, but functions independently of the horizontal, democracy-based protests from which it takes its name.

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Turkey At A Crossroads—From the July Coup to ISIS, A Country In Turmoil

If Erdogan manages to re-establish stability, he will have ensured the rise of a new brand of aggressive radical Islam – one fueled by the edicts of Wahabi dogma that promotes absolute theocratic control.

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Hong Kong protest leaders avoid prison

Three leaders of Hong Kong's Umbrella Revolution have escaped a jail sentence over their role in 2014 pro-democracy protests.

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Curing A Convenient Amnesia: Racism, Xenophobia and Nationalism In America

It may be an inconvenient and uncomfortable reality that U.S. leaders have systematically spread hate and intolerance – but the fact is nationalism, xenophobia and intolerance reflect our country’s true foundation.

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