Popular Resistance

The Popular Resistance Newsletter is out. A bit late due to our travels. One day left to sign on to the UN resolution against unliateral coercive measures (aka state sanctions) before the vote!https://popularresistance.org/on-armistice-day-work-for-and-celebrate-peace/ …

Public debt as a means of corrupting government administrations, avoiding taxation of the rich, draining the public purse, and confiscating the wealth of other nations is a centuries-old practice that's ongoing in #Lebanon. #LebanonProtests #Corruptionhttps://popularresistance.org/lebanon-protests-the-people-want-the-downfall-of-the-bank/ …

Visible displays of aggregated people power had a profound effect on those politicians’ actions. When politicians put their fingers to the wind, the repeated rumble from the masses is what fills the sails of change! @WomenMarch4Paz @sunrisemvmt @XRebelDChttps://popularresistance.org/americas-streets-and-squares-are-waiting-massive-rallies-work/ …

Incorrectly compared with the events of the #ArabSpring, the ongoing 8 month movement in #Algeria seeks radical change by peaceful means. #Hirak protestors do not respond to the state violence, and also, the movement does not have representatives.https://popularresistance.org/algerian-hirak-is-neither-a-revolution-nor-a-social-movement/ …

There may be people who, dismayed by the perceived chaos of the last few weeks, want to steer @ExtinctionR from the top. But that is NEVER the right reaction to mistakes. The people must learn as a whole; fear and control must not dominate. @XRebelDChttps://popularresistance.org/love-and-rage-in-extinction-rebellion/ …

The action to shutdown public transport at rush hour exposed weaknesses in @ExtinctionR's strategy and decision-making process. BUT the vast majority of rebels were opposed to this action and XR values openly challenging itself. Hopefully growth follows.https://popularresistance.org/intersectional-strategies-for-rebellion/ …

#PowerToLive is a grassroots campaign launched in the days leading up to the Oct. 26 #pgeshutdown. For the disability community — many of whom depend on electric devices like ventilators, CPAP machines & wheelchairs — losing power can be life-threatening.https://popularresistance.org/how-pges-power-shutoffs-sparked-an-east-bay-disability-rights-campaign/ …

The breaking point in the coup was the mutiny of units of the #Bolivia National Police, which began in several cities until it reached the center. Thus, the epicenter of national political power was freed to be taken by opposition groups. #EvoMoraleshttps://popularresistance.org/bolivia-the-right-hastens-the-coup-against-evo-morales/ …

Morales was forced to resign after he suffered the collapse of his cabinet with massive resignations. Political allies and the National Police have gone over to the side of the opposition. #Bolivia is in a complete crisis. #EvoMoraleshttps://popularresistance.org/evo-morales-resigns-in-the-face-of-fascist-attacks/ …

Check out a new episode of @ClearFOGMedia podcast! We speak with @AndreVltchek, a revolutionary, internationalist and globetrotter who fights against Western Imperialism. @Blacks4Peace @blkagendareport @codepink @answercoalition @backboneproghttps://popularresistance.org/a-deeper-look-at-uprisings-around-the-world/ …

The Bolivian tragedy teaches us lessons that grassroots social and political forces must learn and etch into our consciences. We MUST study the manuals published by US agencies disguised as academics in order to detect signs of an offensive.https://popularresistance.org/five-lessons-from-the-us-supported-coup-in-bolivia/ …

As of 4 p.m. EDT on Nov. 10, President Evo Morales resigned his office in #Bolivia, pushed out by a counterrevolutionary coup d’état backed by Washington. Morales took this step as the best of bad choices after consultation with supporters. #ElMundoconEvohttps://popularresistance.org/us-backed-coup-deposes-evo-morales-in-bolivia/ …

.@SierraClub took a positive step from bourgeois lifestyle environmentalism to a more genuine red-green understanding! (Though they still have a way to go.) The Sierra Club is a member-based NGO that CAN continue to improve, unlike top down NGOs.https://popularresistance.org/sierra-club-takes-a-commendable-turn-on-population-climate-change-and-inequality/ …

There is nothing that makes Haitians, Chileans and Ecuadoreans unique in the world. Americans have a proud history of resistance which led to social and political change. Let us remember that we too can take to the streets. @freedomrideblog @Blacks4Peacehttps://popularresistance.org/the-us-needs-protests/ …

Inviting direct US military intervention into #Mexico’s internal affairs is not the solution to illegal drugs. The solution is for the US to re-situate demand for recreational drugs from violent and corrupt “black markets” to peaceful legal markets.https://popularresistance.org/mexico-one-failed-drug-war-does-not-justify-another/ …

The US military has released 1.2 billion metric tons of greenhouse gases since 2001. When institutions invest in weapons corporations, not only are they investing in war, but they are investing in the #ClimateCrisis. #firedrillfriday @Janefonda @codepinkhttps://popularresistance.org/we-must-dismantle-the-war-machine-to-avoid-the-climate-catastrophe/ …

The central project of modern #China, and in particular Xi’s “national rejuvenation,” is to never again fall behind the West in technological achievement, as it did in the 19th and early 20th centuries, which invited imperial domination.https://popularresistance.org/criticize-but-dont-demonize-china/ …

The pathway to victory for the #climatestrike is building an international movement of people acting in their capacity as workers to disrupt the economy significantly enough that politicians are forced to cave to the demand for a #GreenNewDeal.https://popularresistance.org/climate-strikers-walked-out-of-school-next-lets-walk-off-the-job/ …

We must look further, beyond resistance, and towards building an alternative that is anti-neoliberal, anti-racist, anti-patriarchal, and post-capitalist where we are able to produce a new system and new subjectivities. What is the utopia of our time?https://popularresistance.org/latin-america-the-caribbean-between-the-neoliberal-offensive-and-new-resistances/ …