Spanning the Globe …
LESSONS FROM SOUTH OF THE BORDER: Pro-choice activists look for insights from activists in Brazil, Argentina, and Colombia” “It took 20 years for us, and we had many defeats. When we succeeded, it was because mobilization was huge.” (5/7/22)
★ THE NEOLIBERAL ORDER IS CRUMBLING: Or not. The question is whether activists can seize the moment. (4/13/22)
THE STANDARD: Global Health Watch releases its guide to healthy living in these parlous times. (4/27/22)
THE HEAVY PRICE: Half of the killings of activists globally in the last year were environmentalists. (4/7/22)
THE OLD PLAYBOOK: Norway’s Greenpeace chapter has attempted to block Russian vessels carrying oil. “I am shocked that Norway operates as a free port for Russian oil, which we know finances Putin’s warfare.” (4/25/22)
Afghanistan
WOMEN’S DEFIANCE: Facing a new age of repression, women in Afghanistan have taken to the streets as soldiers point machine guns at them. (1/24/22)
Armenia
WHERE WAS THE OUTRAGE? While supporting the global support for Ukraine, an Armenian reflects on the deadly silence during the genocide. (3/2/22)
Brazil
PROTESTING ECOCIDE: Brazilians protest bills to fast-track mining on indigenous lands, logging in the Amazon, and lax restrictions on pesticide use. (3/9/22)
Canada
★ BEFORE THE CONVOY: In 1907 Canadians, in the midst of an economic slump, natives in Vancouver rioted against the influx of Asians. The unrest offers familiar lessons on the role of media hysterics, populism, economic pressures, scapegoating, and political leadership. (5/10/22)
PLUS CA CHANGE: Language differences, long a controversy in Quebec, resurfaces. (3/3/22)PLUS CA CHANGE: Language differences, long a controversy in Quebec, resurfaces. (3/3/22)
ACTIVISTS OR PAWNS? The Canadian truckers protest is being funded by outside extremist forces, bent on chaos, public safety minister says. (2/16/22) Truckers distance themselves from Ottawa events.
O CANADA: The anti-vax trucker protests in Ottawa show the dangerous reach of America’s radical right. It’s not popular, if that matters. It’s an attempt to overthrow democracy. Meanwhile, the anti-antis are doxxing them. It’s absurd. Meanwhile, in the U.S., workers are losing millions. (2/11/22)
GANDHI’S LESSONS: The ways of civil disobedience, Canadian Truckers Edition. (2/18/22)
China
COMMIES ON CAMPUS: New findings about China’s influence campaign at American universities (7/27/22)
BEIJING SQUEEZES HONG KONG: Arrests of activists, including clerical leaders, send an ominous sign. (5/11/22)
MIXING SPORTS AND POLITICS: As we approach the 2022 Olympiad in China, a look back at more than a century of protest at the Games. (ND)
SUPPRESSING PROTEST AT THE OLYMPICS: The Chinese regime puts out the word that activists will face reprisals for speaking out on political issues at the Games. (1/19/22)
SHUT IT DOWN: Activists tell Tesla to shut its Chinese plant and “cease what amounts to economic support for genocide.” (1/4/22)
Colombia
DANGER ZONE: In Colombia, more than 150 members of Indigenous groups, advocates for rural communities, and trade unionists were killed in 2021. (1/18/22)
Colonialism
EXPORTING RACISM … AND ACTIVISM: Jim Crow laws were not limited to America. The U.S. brought segregation and caste systems to its colonial outposts like the Panama Canal Zone. In these outposts, anti-racist movements also developed. (2/18/22)
Cuba
RED SCARE? Has Cuba infiltrated the pro-choice movement? (7/11/22)
POST-CASTRO BACKLASH? Protests suggest history stirring on the island. With the Castro brothers gone and the Cuban government introducing market reforms, no one knows just how free Cuba might become. (8/13/21)
Haiti
KICKBACK: Missionaries’ plane burned by activists in Haiti. (3/29/22)
Iran
THE BASTILLE: Protesters in a Shiite battle take over Parliament. (7/30/22) Also see this.
Ireland
IS HELL FREEZING OVER IN IRELAND? If Sinn Fein wins in Northern Ireland, can a unification of Ireland be far behind? (5/4/22)
Korea
BREACHING THE HERMIT KINGDOM: Let a million leaflets fall. South Korean activists deliver their message with balloon drops. (4/28/22)
BARRIERS TO RESPOND TO BLOCKAGE: Mexican truckers construct barriers to roads to the U.S. to protest onerous and time-consuming searches of commercial traffic by the Texas governor. (4/12/22) Abbott doubles down.
Mexico
BEYOND THE BASICS: Colleges in Mexico teach civics with conscience. A new book concludes: “The very schools meant to shape a loyal citizenry became hotbeds of radicalism.” (2/22/22)
‘DISAPPEARED’: That ugly word from the 1970s and 1980s surfaces as climate-crisis activists in Mexico are nowhere to be found. (5/11/22)
Palestine
SHUT IT DOWN: Activists confront the “Israeli war machine,” beginning with the producer of arms. (5/12/22)
REMEMBERING BISHOP TUTU: The South African cleric played a key role in overturning apartheid but also took up the cause of Palestinians. (12/30/21)
Russia
WHEN THE PRESS ISN’T FREE: Create coded systems for sharing ideas–just what Russian journalists are doing in state media.
ESCAPING PUTIN: A leader of Pussy Riot leaves Russian under disguise. (5/11/22)
BANNING DISSENT: Putin shuts down Memorial, Russia’s oldest civil rights group, charging it with being a “foreign agent” and depicting the Soviet Union too negatively. (12/28/21)
PUTIN’S CULTURAL ARMY: Promoting white supremacy across the globe. (3/6/22)
COLLATERAL DAMAGE: Environmentalists in Russia face impossible conditions. (3/9/22)
THE WHISTLEBLOWERS’ TAKE: Fiona Hill holds TFG responsible for Russia’s assaults on Ukraine’s sovereignty, as Alexander Vindman says TFG encouraged the war. (2/21/22)
DIPLOMATIC ACTIVISM: G-20 delegates walk out on Russian speaker. (4/20/22)
SHROUDING THE EMBASSY: The protest at the Russian Embassy over the invasion of Ukraine. (4/14/22)
PUTIN’S WEAKNESS: The Russian autocrat has no power that others do not give him. (3/22/22)
STOPPING RUSSIAN ASSETS: Greenpeace aims to halt the dozens of Russian oil shipments headed towards the US and Europe. Stopping thewar is only the beginning. The bigger goal is to con front the climate crisis. (3/22/22)
ANTI-WARRIORS IN RUSSIA: Protesting the Ukraine invasion in Russia: Creativity and conviction meet oppression. (3/20/22)
HIT ‘EM WHERE IT HURTS: Activists arrested after occupying the French villa of Putin’s ex-son-in-law. Others arrested at Oleg Daripaska’s London mansion. (3/14/22)
THE PEOPLE CAN WIN: Russian protests are getting bigger. They could end the war in Ukraine, says Erica Chenoweth of Harvard’s Kennedy School. (3/13/22)
ALL POLITICS IS PERSONAL: Discovering bleached coral on a diving adventure devastated Vidhi Bubna–and drove her to activism. “It’s like a graveyard down there,” she said. “It made me feel guilty.” (3/10/22)
TICK TOCK, VLADIMIR: Or should we say TikTok? How the social media site undermines Putin. (3/22/22)
MARTYRS IN RUSSIA: Thousands of activists arrested in protests inmates Russia. (3/7/22)
TIME FOR A SHUTDOWN: Followers of Alexei Navalny call for mass civil disobedience in Russia. (3/2/22)
OXYMORON? Maybe so, but corporations have embraced activism in the wake of Putin’s attack on Ukraine. (2/28/22)
STANDING FOR UKRAINE: Activists across the world (including Russians who would face 20 years in jail) fill the streets in opposition to Putin’s war. Also: Also see this and this and this. (2/27/22)
MAPPING DISSENT: Global protests against Putin’s war on Ukraine. (2/25/22)
Sudan
COUPMILOCRACY: In Sudan, mass protests dislodge a president–and the military takes over. (1/3/22)
Ukraine
CANNES PROTEST: Woman interrupts red-carpet ceremony to protest against rape and sexual violence in Ukraine. (5/21/22)
U.K.
JUSTICE BEHIND BARS: Charges withdrawn against wardens after their protests of “powderkeg” conditions at a U.K. prison. (4/19/22)