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Archives: Dissent
What the Civil Rights Movement can teach us about Resistance in Age of Trump
By Jon Else | ( Tomdispatch.com) | - - On a glorious afternoon in August 1963, after the massive March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom wrapped up on the national mall,…
In Erdogan’s Turkey, an Artist is Jailed for Painting Reality
TeleSur | - - A Turkish court has handed down a two-year, nine-month and 22-day jail sentence to a Kurdish artist because of her painting of a Kurdish village being razed by…
I Am an Enemy of the People (Feffer)
By John Feffer | ( Foreign Policy in Focus ) | - - If Trump cracks down on journalists, there might be less uproar than you'd think. Even before the election of…
To Counter Normalization, deflect Elite tactics to dampen Outrage
By Brian Martin | ( Waging Nonviolence ) | - - The Trump administration’s policies have already triggered public outrage and massive opposition. To understand the techniques that make opposition effective, it…
Turkey’s Coup aftermath and Human Rights: A Feminist Perspective
By Banu Gökarıksel | ( Duke University Blog ) | - - Feminist critiques of political power reveal the central function of gender, sexuality, and difference in maintaining that power. Yet, in…
Iran’s Oscar-Winning Director Hopes Anti-Fascist Movement Grows
TeleSur | - - "We believe there is no best country, best gender, best religion or best color,” the directors of the five Oscar foreign films nominees wrote in a joint statement.…
Turkey’s Long Nightmare: Remembering the Night of the Coup
Cüneyt Özdemir | (Duke University Middle East Studies Center | - - Cüneyt Özdemir is a columnist and investigative journalist with 28 years experience reporting from Turkey and the Middle East. An…
The Superbowl of American Values: Kaepernick and the Touchdown of Dissent
By Robert Lipsyte | (Tomdispatch.com) | - - The Super Bowl is superfluous this year. Who needs a reality show about violence, domination, and sexism, not to mention brain damage, now that…
The Sadism of Racist Exclusion: Courts Temporarily Block Trump
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Picking on immigrants and refugees is the act of a sadistic bully, since they are the one fairly large group of residents of…
In a Dark Time, the Eye Begins to See: Going Local, remaining Indivisible
By H Patricia Hynes | (Informed Comment) | - - “In a dark time, the eye begins to see.” Writing decades ago, the poet Theodore Roethke could not have foreseen these dimmest…
Protesters Face Increasing Criminalization in Trump Era
TeleSur | - - Changes aim to hit protestors with criminal records and beefed up fines and impunity for police who accidentally kill them. Donald Trump was officially sworn in Friday as…
The left’s response to Trump and US Neofascism must be international
By Sayantan Ghosal | (The Conversation) | - - With Donald Trump’s inauguration as American president, one more event considered by many to be beyond the realm of possibility has come to…6 Lessons From Nonviolent Organizing for Resisting Trumpism
The Beautiful Trouble Team | ( Waging Nonviolence ) | - - Trouble vs. Trump Drawing from the Beautiful Trouble and Beautiful Rising toolboxes, here are six key concepts that may prove…
A Living Wage & a Right to Live: Resisting a government of Generals and Billionaires
By Rebecca Gordon | (Tomdispatch.com) | - - Many of the folks I know are getting ready to play serious defense in 2017, and they’re not wrong. Before we take up our…
As Trump guns for Iran Deal, can its Reformists survive death of Hashemi-Rafsanjani?
By Farhang Jahanpour | (Informed Comment) | - - Ayatollah Akbar Hashemi-Rafsanjani’s death on Sunday January 8 in Tehran at the age of 82 marks the end of an era in Iran’s…
Meryl Streep calls out Trump: Having Bully-in-Chief Coarsens whole Culture
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Occasionally entertainment and politics intersect, often hitting a false note. You never want your screenplay to be, as they say in Hollywood, "on…
Can Popular Mobilization & Sanctuary stop Trump’s Deportation Plans?
By Lauren McCauley, staff writer | (Commondreams.org) | - - Cost, impossible logistics, political opposition, and community resistance could spell the end of the president-elect's anti-immigrant scheme. President-elect Donald Trump built his…
5 Surprising Signs of Positive Change in 2016
Sarah van Gelder | (Yes! Magazine) The election divided the year into “before” and “after.” But there remain signs of hope for 2017. It was a year blown up by the election…