Tag: protest

Revolution in Myanmar

Arena Quarterly no. 8

Nick Cheesman

Dec 2021

Whereas the military junta sanctions its violence through a conception of state sovereignty as commandment, its opponents upend this repressive notion of power by investing the popular will, the power to constitute political order anew, in theirs.

French Crack Down on Protestors: Solidarity and Violence

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Jyhene Kebsi

20 May 2021

…many people have been asking: ‘Would the protest have been banned if it had been pro-Israel?’

Protests in the city of fear: Hong Kong’s anti-government movement under the COVID-19 pandemic

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Victor Cheng

25 Mar 2021

a girl’s voice called out from within the crowd. In Cantonese, she cried ‘Liberate Hong Kong’. Her chant echoed from the building walls and amplified her voice. The crowd responded swiftly, chanting in unison: ‘Revolution of Our Time’.

The Conviction of Protest: Sedition and the Farmers Protest

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Simona Sawhney

4 Mar 2021

Both sedition, the charge of publicly expressing disagreement with or hatred for the king, and its twin, loyalty or love for the state, belong to a political space predicated on the king’s exclusive embodiment of sovereignty and hence on the violent suppression of disagreement.

Indian Farmers Resist Neoliberalism

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Vikas Rawal

4 Mar 2021

It is noteworthy that, while farmers have built solidarity across states, between different classes of rural society, and between different castes and communities, the ruling party and its machinery have been working overtime to create divisions between organisations and communities, and accusing the movement of infiltration by separatists and terrorists.

Fracking on Trial in the Northern Territory

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Lauren Mellor

19 Nov 2020

As carbon dioxide in our atmosphere pushes 410 parts per million, fuelling a dangerous climate emergency, the world simply cannot afford to let the Northern Territory become the fossil-fuel industry’s next fracking frontier.

Kettling for COVID: Police and protest in Melbourne

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Alison Caddick, Grazyna Zajdow

12 Nov 2020

…police forces everywhere have been militarising their equipment, procedures and general outlook. They have been taking on the strategies of special operations forces, influenced by discourses of terrorism, learning new and terrifying tactics…

The Little Girl who stood up for Peace

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Kiran Mohandas Menon, Eduardo B. Toledo

29 Oct 2020

Decades after its original run, Mafalda, the adored comic strip created by the late Argentinian cartoonist Quino, remains timely and potent.

Plagued by Chaos: An Inside View on the Anti-lockdown Protests

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Scobie M

22 Oct 2020

As lockdown restrictions slowly ease, a peruse of the encrypted networks used by anti-lockdown protesters reveals the extent to which confused allegiances and conspiracy theories have plagued the movement.

American Dream

Arena Quarterly no. 2

Alison Caddick

Jul 2020

Not just precarity but destitution threatens under conditions of COVID, and especially in the United States it threatens people of colour.

Where the Mind Is Without Fear…

Arena Quarterly no. 2

Subarno Chattarji

Jul 2020

Universities in India are a microcosm of wider social desires and domains. What we are seeing playing out in universities are the fear and competitive hatred seen throughout Indian society under its present leadership.

Abolishing the police is the first step to a new society

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Karin Zhu

30 Jun 2020

The police are responsible for stopping previous movements to reimagine or change the world. To imagine a new society—which is more important than ever as climate change looms—we need to first remove the barrier that is stopping movements from gaining momentum.