This last month has shown America that society will gladly tolerate vigilante violence, provided a vigilante chooses the right target.
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Rebel Cities 18: Eight Years After Jasmine Revolution, Jemna Is Tunisia's Oasis of Hope
A wave of protests and progress has swept the north African nation since its Jasmine Revolution ushered in the Arab Spring eight years ago. Tunisia is still blazing a democratic path forward.
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New Book Explores How Protesters—and Governments—Use Internet Tactics
The central question of technosociologist Zeynep Tufekci's new book, "Twitter and Tear Gas: The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest," is how digital media changes the reality and effectiveness of social protest.
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"Young People Are Losing Faith In Capitalism": An Interview with ROAR Magazine's Jerome Roos
Jerome Roos started ROAR Magazine just as the Arab Spring was getting underway, and today it has evolved into a global alternative news outlet covering social movements with a uniquely radical lens.
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5 Years On: Why the Occupations of 2011 Changed the World
The movements of the squares were a watershed moment that profoundly changed grassroots and institutional politics – they have enthused in equal measure as they have disappointed, both under-delivering and over-delivering on their promises.
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Act Out! [48] - Egypt from the Streets, fight back THIS Week & the Irradiated States of America
This week we passed the five-year anniversary of Tahrir Square, but do we even know – or care – what's happening there now, and do we see the parallels with what's going on right here? We speak with an Egyptian activist who sets the record straight.
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More than 1,000 Arrested In Tunisian Anti-Government Protests Five Years After Revolution
In demonstrations organized by the Union of Internal Security Forces, 300 of those detained had broken a strict curfew put in place nationwide last Friday after widespread looting and rioting broke out.
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Growing Dissent: The Coming Year Of Protest
The financial meltdown of 2008 led to widespread unrest that culminated in the protest movements of 2011. Yet far from addressing the systemic problems exposed by the crisis, government-backed elites have only doubled down.
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A New Era of Global Protest Begins
In line with the steady rise in social unrest over the past decade, it’s likely that we will witness an unprecedented escalation in large-scale citizen protests across the globe in 2016 and beyond.
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Arab Spring Revisited: What Did Tunisia's Nobel Prize Actually Reward?
By reassuring the political and economic elite, and backing the privatization process led by sponsors and donors, this month's Nobel Peace Prize could be considered "social peace at all costs."
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Social Media and Movements: Is the Love Affair Really Over?
Social media are monitored and controlled by large corporations – so can they also facilitate the kind of self-organization that defines radical politics?
