Heute vor 80 Jahren wurde der bedeutende französische #Historiker Marc Bloch wegen Beteiligung in der #Résistance von einem #Gestapo-Kommando bei #Lyon erschossen.
I've only read a few Palestinian prisoners stories and I have to stop each time. I'm usually one who can sit and read for hours. It's devastating but necessary reading - we MUST get these stories to as many eyes as possible.
"Monsters exist, but they are far too few in number to be truly dangerous; the most dangerous monsters are ordinary men, functionaries ready to believe and obey without discussion.
Primo Levi
‘The problem is not disobedience, it is obedience.’
Howard Zinn
‘The real question is not to know why people rebel, but why they don’t rebel.’
Wilhelm Reich
Disobey The Philosophy of Resistance by Frédéric Gros
In this provocative essay, Frédéric Gros explores the roots of political obedience. Social conformity, economic subjection, respect for authorities, constitutional consensus? Examining the various styles of obedience provides tools to study, invent and induce new forms of civic disobedience and protest.
Break 'Em Up: Recovering Our Freedom From Big Ag, Big Tech, and Big Money by Zephyr Teachout, 2020
"[We need] a grassroots, bottom-up movement that understands the challenge in front of us, and then organizes against monopoly power in communities across this country. This book is a blueprint for that organizing."
―From the foreword by Bernie Sanders.
🗣 The IHC is one of the institutions organising the seminar "Ecologies of Movement: Retracing Empire & Dynamics of Resistance", whose call for participants is open until 15 April.
Any of the Palestinian memoirs/biographies are great in so many ways. You can come in with little idea of the Middle East and get a human story as well as where that falls in the history/context of something people call complicated, but isn't.
📰 Fernando Rosas was one of the people interviewed by Universitetsläraren, with whom he spoke about his experience as a political prisoner in the Peniche Fort, as a lecturer at the dawn of democracy in the university, and about the foundation of the IHC in the 1990's.
One shows humor in the face of such circumstances as Palestinian refugees face and another shows that this carnage (by Israel) you see today has been happening a very long time (British+Zionists).
As coups are one of the primary ways through which dictatorships are installed, this piece details measures that civilians, civil society, and governments can take to prevent and block coups d'état and executive usurpations. It also contains specific legislative steps and other measures that governments and non-governmental institutions can follow to prepare for anti-coup resistance.
Algorithms of Resistance
The Everyday Fight Against Platform Power
How global workers, influencers, and activists develop tactics of algorithmic resistance by appropriating and repurposing the same algorithms that control our lives.
Palais de justice historique à #Lyon, dit aussi palais des 24 #colonnes.
Construit entre 1835 et 1847 par Louis-Pierre #Baltard, il abrite un décor classé #MonumentHistorique
Les merveilleux albums de #plans sont conservés aux #Archives du département du #Rhône et de la #Métropole de Lyon, où j'ai eu la chance de les étudier lors de la #rénovation du palais.
Mai 2023
#Manifestation du 8 mai 2023 contre Macron venu rendre hommage à #JeanMoulin à la prison de Montluc.
Ambiance joyeuse et déterminée malgré les gazages répétés, y compris dans une trémie rue Garibaldi.
Delighted to announce that The urban life of workers in post-Soviet Russia is out now! The final blog post in the series about the book tells about its contents.
The story of one woman who Israel calls terrorist and prisoner. This is not the exception, it's the norm. She was released in the hostage deal. She was moving furniture, her car malfunctioned, caught fire. Instead of helping her get medical care, Israeli soldiers watched her burn, accused her of terrorism & arrested, interrogated & tortured her.