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.
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When the People Rose: How the Intifada Changed the Political Discourse around Palestine
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A little bit of African thinking
9 June 2022, by siawi3The profound influence, often underplayed, that great African revolutionary Amílcar Cabral had on Brazilian educator and philosopher Paulo Freire.
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India: Project ‘Erase Nehru’ Critical to BJP’s Hindu Rashtra Plans
18 November 2021, by siawi3Even 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 -
29 mai 2021, par siawi3 -
A Tribute to Mike Davis, socialist geographer and historian
31 October 2022, by siawi3Remembering the work of Mike Davis
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Pussy Riot, retour sur une révolution russe
23 janvier 2022, par siawi3En 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”.
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USA: Erasing History: The National Archives Is Destroying Records About Victims of Trumps ICE Policies
10 February 2020, by siawi3This was only the latest example of a great and growing threat to our nations 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.
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USA: Joint Statement on Legislative Efforts to Restrict Education about Racism and American History
22 July 2021, by siawi3A 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