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• When the People Rose: How the Intifada Changed the Political Discourse around Palestine
  21 December 2020, by siawi3

  December 8, thirty-three years ago, the First Palestinian Intifada (uprising) broke out. Thousands of Palestinians, mostly youth, were killed by the Israeli army during the seven years of Intifada, where Israel treated non-violent protesters and rock-throwing children, who were demanding their freedom, as if enemy combatants.

• A little bit of African thinking
  9 June 2022, by siawi3

  The profound influence, often underplayed, that great African revolutionary Amílcar Cabral had on Brazilian educator and philosopher Paulo Freire.

• India: Project ‘Erase Nehru’ Critical to BJP’s Hindu Rashtra Plans
  18 November 2021, by siawi3

  Even if the BJP rewrites India’s past, there are international records and histories that it cannot easily touch. Nehru cannot be erased without striking off the first 17 years of independent India from all records. However, because his erasure in India is vital to RSS-BJP’s Hindu Rashtra plans, it will keep trying. George Orwell articulated this best in “1984”: Those who control the present control the past, and those who control the past control the future.

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  29 mai 2021, par siawi3
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  29 mai 2021, par siawi3
• A Tribute to Mike Davis, socialist geographer and historian
  31 October 2022, by siawi3

  Remembering the work of Mike Davis

• Pussy Riot, retour sur une révolution russe
  23 janvier 2022, par siawi3

  En février 2012, trois membres de ce groupe punk féministe font irruption dans une cathédrale moscovite pour chanter une prière contre Vladimir Poutine. L’événement et surtout la répression qui s’ensuit vont changer la Russie. Ils ont inauguré une ère de conservatisme moral et culturel qui dure encore aujourd’hui. Des militants ultraorthodoxes organisent des prières de rue contre les “blasphématrices” Pussy Riot. Au procès, des accusations de “gigotements démoniaques”, et même la mention dans l’acte d’accusation d’“insulte aux valeurs séculaires de l’Église orthodoxe russe”.

• USA: Erasing History: The National Archives Is Destroying Records About Victims of Trump�s ICE Policies
  10 February 2020, by siawi3

  This was only the latest example of �a great and growing threat to our nation�s capacity to protect and learn from history.� The National Archives reportedly is allowing millions of documents, including many related to immigrants� rights, to be expunged.

• USA: Joint Statement on Legislative Efforts to Restrict Education about Racism and American History
  22 July 2021, by siawi3

  A white-washed view of history cannot change what happened in the past. A free and open society depends on the unrestricted pursuit and dissemination of knowledge.

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  20 juillet 2021, par siawi3

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