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Social Movements In Times Of Pandemic: Another World Is Needed

March 27, 2020 Donatella Della Porta, Opendemocracy.net Strategize! Pandemic, Social Movements, Solidarity

Times of pandemic bring big challenges for the activists of progressive social movements. They are not a time for street activism or politics in the squares. Freedoms are restricted, social distancing makes the typical forms of protest impossible to carry out. Mobilization is not only difficult in public places but also in our places of work, given the very strict limitation on the right to meet and the reduced opportunity for face-to-face encounters. The continuous emergency constrains our mental spaces, challenging our creativity. Individual and collective resources are focused on everyday survival. Hope, that stimulant for collective action, is difficult to sustain, while fear, that so discourages it, spreads. Crises might trigger selfish defensive choices, turning the other into an enemy.

In Coronavirus Crisis, 575 Groups Urge Halt To Electricity, Water Shutoffs

March 21, 2020 Staff, The Center for Biological DIversity Resist! COVID-19, Energy, Social Movements, Utilities, Water

WASHINGTON - More than 575 utility justice, labor, faith, consumer and environmental groups urged state governors, mayors and utility regulators today to put a moratorium on electricity and water-utility shutoffs in response to the coronavirus crisis and resulting job losses. Today’s letter also called for deeper policy changes that deploy distributed solar and establish percentage-of-income water-payment systems to address the systemic issues leading to shutoffs.

Love (And Mutual Aid) In The Time Of Coronavirus

March 19, 2020 Eleanor Goldfield, Artkillingapathy.com Organize! Coronavirus COVID-19, Mutual Aid, Social Movements

I got an email from energy company Pepco today saying that they have “suspended service disconnections” and are “waiving new late payment fees through at least May 1…” When I called American Airlines yesterday in order to cancel my upcoming flights, they told me that I can call and re-book travel to any destination for that same amount before the end of this year without incurring any change fees.

Coronavirus Is A Historic Trigger Event — And It Needs A Movement To Respond

March 19, 2020 Paul Engler, Wagingnonviolence.org Organize! Coronavirus, COVID-19, Social Movements

Even in times of social distancing, building a collective, social response to the pandemic is our only salvation. There are times in history when sudden events — natural disasters, economic collapses, pandemics, wars, famines — change everything. They change politics, they change economics and they change public opinion in drastic ways.

Is XR America Going To ‘Make XR Great Again,’ Or Is It An XR EXIT?

March 11, 2020 Cherri Foytlin, Acherrifoytlinblog.com Organize! Environment, Extinction Rebellion, Reform, Social Movements

Before that hot, muggy, South Louisiana summer of 2016, I had considered myself more of a witness to the climate movement than affected community. I mean sure, Louisiana loses a football field of land every 45 minutes due to disappearing wetlands and rising seas. I doubt most people can wrap their heads around that, I know I couldn’t – not really.

The Climate Movement Has Gained Unprecedented Momentum Since 2018

March 9, 2020 By Sharon Zhang, Truthout.org Resist! Climate Change, Fossil Fuels, Social Movements

The climate movement has started gaining momentum, and the oil and gas industry is getting scared. Fossil fuel companies have been ramping up their ad buying, placing loads of ads on social media, in magazines, and even at the global climate summits. Meanwhile, in Australia, a recent report found that the fossil fuel industry doubled its political donations over the past four years.

Over 3500 Landless Women To Occupy Brasilia At 1st National MST Women’s Meeting

March 9, 2020 Staff, Brasil de Fato Resist! Brazil, Land, Social Movements, Women

With the motto, “Women in the Struggle: Sowing Resistance”, around 3500 women will occupy Brasilia, between the 5th and 9th of March, during the 1st National Landless Women’s Meeting. This is the first time in the history of the Landless Workers Movement (MST) that a meeting is spearheaded exclusively by rural women.

The Long Haul Toward Justice And Peace: A March From Delhi To Geneva Underway

March 5, 2020 By Amber French, Nonviolent-conflict.org Create! India, March, Social Movements

On October 2, 2019—150 years to the day after the birth of Mohandas Gandhi—50 people from the Gandhian organization Ekta Parishad departed from the Raj Ghat memorial, dedicated to Gandhi, in Delhi. It was Day One of what will be a year-long journey on the Global March for Justice and Peace. With a jaw-dropping itinerary of 11,000 kilometers winding through 10 countries on the way to Geneva...

Rising Popular Movements In India

February 29, 2020 By Harsh Mander, Indianexpress.com Resist! India, Social Movements

The other part of the movement, therefore, must be to deepen our unity and solidarity. It must address not just the state but each of us. In the end, the kind of country we become will be determined not by law or court judgments, but by whether love or hate colonises our hearts. The Indian people have risen. Resolute both in their solidarity and their resistance, in cities and towns...

The 2020s Tasks Of Chavistas To Build A Popular Movement In Venezuela

February 29, 2020 By Gerardo Rojas, Venezuelanalysis.com Strategize! Latin America, Regime Change, Social Movements, Venezuela

A new year has begun, and once again in Bolivarian Venezuela we find it tremendously difficult to sustain our levels of joy and quality of life amid the attacks and contradictions. Alongside Chavez and Bolivar, the popular movement flies the flags of socialism. It is our job to also raise the banners of unity and struggle, as well as coherence, in the defence of a project which we assume to still be alive.

Can The Arab Uprisings Move Toward A Successful Revolution?

February 28, 2020 Joe Gill, Middleeasteye.net Strategize! Middle East, Social Movements, Uprisings

Week after week, the protesters return to the squares, blockading streets and highways, attempting to tear down the barriers erected to protect the centres of state power. They face bullets, batons and tear gas. The struggle of revolutionary masses against their discredited regimes continues from Beirut to Baghdad to Algiers.

Keep Acting Out!

February 27, 2020 Eleanor Goldfield, Occupy.com Resist! Media, Social Movements

The end of an era – a look back and a look ahead, to work that's been done, and all yet to come. It's been almost five years of Act Out! and while this chapter is ending, this book is far from written. We're gearing up for deeper dives – beyond surface headlines and rapid fire news cycles – and we want you to be a part of it.

The Movement To Replace Neoliberalism Has Lost A Battle, But We Can Still Win The War

February 24, 2020 Antonia Jennings, Opendemocracy.net Create! Neoliberalism, New Economy, Social Movements

Now is not the time for despair. Neoliberalism is limping to its death, and it’s up to us to make sure that what comes next isn’t something worse. Get ready for a decade of unprecedented change at an unprecedented pace. Our overlapping and interrelated environmental, justice and democratic crises are going to mature into their next iteration – perhaps in the form of barbarism, maybe ethno-nationalism, or hopefully something more equal and sustainable.

More Than Symbolism Needed To Advance Indigenous Rights

February 22, 2020 By Sherri Mitchell, Nativenewsonline.net Strategize! Indigenous Peoples, Social Movements

Today’s society has become adept at utilizing symbolic acts to divert attention from the substantive work needed to make real change. They have become the just-add-water staple food of many modern social movements. And, like their ramen counterparts, they are completely devoid of nutritional value. Symbolism provides a needed distraction from the sense of hopelessness and despair that many are feeling at this time...

When Emptying The Streets Is Safer Than Filling Them

February 13, 2020 Rivera Sun, Wagingnonviolence.org Strategize! Nonviolent, Revisionism, Social Movements

In the United States, street protests are a go-to method for expressing dissent. They’re familiar, frequent, and they make great photo-ops for news networks — especially compared to other, less flashy types of nonviolent action. (It’s hard to take a picture of a boycott.) But their notoriety means that many of us don’t know our other options, and if the riot police come out in force — as has happened in numerous campaigns from the civil rights movement to women’s suffrage to labor struggle — it’s helpful to have other, safer types of actions up your sleeve.

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