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To bother (with protest), or not?

Posted in Climate change, Eco-culture, Politics, tagged , , , , on December 4, 2015 | 2 Comments »

Writing in The Independent, “Left accelerationists” Alex Williams and Nick Srnicek make the case that we need not bother protesting the Paris climate summit. There are better things to do than that. They argue, first, that the negotiators won’t change anything under pressure, and probably won’t even notice that pressure coming from the streets. (Especially […]

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Post-Soviet riot grrls

Posted in Media ecology, Politics, tagged , , , , , on August 20, 2012 | 6 Comments »

While this doesn’t have much to do with the usual themes of this blog, it is an interesting case study of media culture and political protest (and one that my Ukrainian studies background qualifies me to comment on). It’s the case of Pussy Riot supporter Inna Shevchenko, an activist with the Ukrainian feminist protest group […]

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Wall Street occupation

Posted in Media ecology, tagged , , on September 26, 2011 | 6 Comments »

Why are the Wall Street protests not getting the media coverage similar events in other countries, or in Tea Party country, get? (Keith Olbermann asks this, below.)  Discuss. http://youtu.be/BSn-IgwQAGY More here and here.

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the chain of likes & loves

Posted in Politics, tagged , , , on June 30, 2010 | 1 Comment »

Governments (in this case, it was the Conservative federal government of Stephen Harper) like to host these big international gatherings; they think it builds their national and international prestige. Police like to provide the security for them; they get lots of $ for new toys and great opportunities to try them out. Protestors like, or […]

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trusting Obama or not

Posted in Politics, tagged , , , on April 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

With protests gearing up today to push the Obama administration away from its current timidity with its economic policies (see A New Way Forward and Democracy Now’s broadcast on it), it seems apropos to ask whether and to what extent the Obama administration should be trusted by progressives. Open Left, one of the better progressive […]

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