This is institutionalizing the riot. Social benefit organizations can act as a ratchet. When smaller militant organizations push progress forward, larger more moderate ones hold and consolidate gains. The choice is simple: be divided and ruled, or act as part of an ecosystem and win.| CCF
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On September 1, twelve years after the Iranian regime and its Iraqi proxies carried out the brutal massacre at Camp Ashraf, the echoes of that day are reverberating across Iran in a manner the clerics in Tehran never anticipated. What was intended as a final, crushing blow to the Iranian Resistance and the People’s Mojahedin […] The post PMOI Resistance Units mark anniversary of Ashraf massacre with nationwide defiance appeared first on People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran.| People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran
In an escalating show of coordinated defiance, Iran’s “No to Executions Tuesdays” campaign marked its 84th consecutive week, expanding to encompass political prisoners in 51 prisons who undertook hunger strikes to protest the regime’s unabated use of capital punishment. Simultaneously, citizens and families of the condemned poured into the streets of dozens of cities across […] The post Iran’s ‘No to Executions Tuesdays’ movement expands to 51 prisons as nationwide protests er...| People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran
In an immediate response to a crime committed by Iranian regime’s security forces and plainclothes agents in Qazvin and the brutal beating of several impoverished young street vendors, Iran’s rebellious youth attacked several regime targets, stressing that suppression will be answered with fire: Incendiary attack on the Khomeini Relief Committee in Eqbaliyeh, Qazvin province. Incendiary […] The post Regime assault on street vendors in Qazvin sparks fiery backlash by Iran’s rebellious ...| People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran
On August 26, 2025, the municipality of the 17th arrondissement of Paris hosted a significant conference titled “Iran’s Uprising in the Face of the Execution Regime.” The event brought together distinguished international figures, including politicians, jurists, and human rights advocates, alongside members of the Iranian diaspora. Hosted by Mayor Geoffroy Boulard, the conference featured a […] The post Paris conference highlights Iran’s human rights crisis and growing support for d...| People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran
While the clerical regime in Tehran deploys bulldozers in a desperate attempt to erase the evidence of its past massacres, the flame of resistance is burning brighter than ever across the country. In the southeastern city of Zahedan, the recent activities of the PMOI Resistance Units serve as a powerful testament to this reality. Their […] The post While Iran’s regime erases graves, PMOI Resistance Units vow to hold criminals accountable appeared first on People's Mojahedin Organization o...| People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran
The eyes of Silwan represent the power of the dead for the living in Palestine. The post The Eyes of Silwan: The “Undefeated” Powers of Palestinian Struggle appeared first on Contending Modernities.| Contending Modernities
Post-flood restoration on the Željeznica River. Author’s photo. Editors’ note: This article is the last of a six-part series. You can read the entire series here: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, and Part 5. It seems that at every place in Bosnia-Herzegovina where there is a lovely river, there is a dire threat to its well-being. But just about everywhere, local people are mobilized to defend their livelihoods, their health, and the natural beauty that surrounds them. The post Grassroots ...| Lefteast
Typical view of Majevica hills as seen from Busija. Author’s photo. Editors’ note: This article is published in a six-part series. You can read the entire series here: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 5, and Part 6. International corporate invasion and the resistance against lithium mining In Bosnia, the quantities of minerals underground are often listed in the millions of tons. There are an estimated 1.5 million tons of lithium carbonate, 94 million tons of magnesium sulfate, and 17 ...| Lefteast
“Ozren is not for sale!” Author’s photo. Editors’ note: This article is published in a six-part series. You can read the others here: Part 1, Part 2, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6. Interethnic cooperation and resistance to mining around Mt. Ozren Take a country the size of West Virginia, half of it covered by mountains. Say those mountains contain thousands of tons of lithium, zinc, lead, nickel, cobalt, and many other strategic minerals. The post Grassroots Resistance to Environmental Dest...| Lefteast
Source of the Pliva River. Author’s photo. Editors’ note: This article is published in a six-part series. You can read the others here: Part 1, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, and Part 6. U tuđemu svetuBez oca i majkeBez brata, bez sejeSvaka tuđa zemljaTuga je golemaIn a strange landwithout my father, my mother without my brother, my sister every foreign landis a great sorrowLyrics from “S one strane Plive.” Autumn sun flickered through the leaves as my guide Peđa and I walked along the ...| Lefteast
By Khaled Barakat – Aug 13, 2025 Perhaps the late Iraqi poet Muzaffar al-Nawwab was| Orinoco Tribune – News and opinion pieces about Venezuela and beyond
by Paul Cudenec (who reads the article here) Over recent months I have been writing a lot about our belonging both to nature and to the living organism that is the cosmos. I have described some of the ways in which humans have traditionally expressed their awareness of this belonging and how we can sometimes … Continue reading Exposing the life-hating criminal conspiracy| winter oak
Ask Tina advises a writer struggling with novel revision and offers practical strategies to overcome their resistance. The post Ask Tina: How to Overcome Novel Revision Resistance appeared first on book inc.| book inc
30 days of detention have been ordered for nine residents of the western city of Užice following protests during which citizens broke through the police cordon. Ahead of the St. Vitus protest on June 28, police detained eight other individuals and accused them of planning to potentially "undermining the constitutional order" – in other words, terrorism. Seven of them received the same sentence as those from Užice. In total, 16 people are currently behind bars, three of whom are students. ...| Mašina English
Let's normalize sharing the tech we use - and the platforms we purposefully avoid. I'm sharing my tech stack in this post to let you judge for yourselves if I'm "walking the talk" when I discuss resistance to Big Tech.| Elena Rossini
* Karen Yourish, Annie Daniel, Saurabh Datar, Isaac White, and Lazaro Gamio, “These Words Are Disappearing in the New Trump Administration,” The New York Times, March 7, 2025, https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/03/07/us/trump-federal-agencies-websites-words-dei.html.| Wabash Center
1 Maccabees 2, Numbers 25:7-9, Psalm 106: 26-28. The first chapter of 1 Maccabees, which we considered in last episode, set the scene for us, and gave an overall picture of the atrocities suffered by the Jewish people under the oppression of the Seleucid king, Antiochus Epiphanes IV. Chapter two, which we will read inContinue reading "Light from the Readable Books 24: Maccabean Resistance and Remembrance"| Edith M. Humphrey
In a heinous act of state-sanctioned murder, the clerical regime in Iran has once again revealed its barbaric nature. On the morning of July 27, 2025, the| People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran
Resistance as a response to structure has been—and will be—an answer as long as structural systems, power dynamics, social frameworks, and institutional frameworks govern bodies. Scholars lik…| BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
Leila Faghfouri Azar and Shahin Nasiri discuss the hegemonic conceptual framings of genocidal violence, how they obscure neocolonial and genocidal warfare in the Middle East, and why foregrounding …| Legal Form
BEIJING (July 15): Some 20 kilometers southwest of Tian’anmen Square in Beijing, among the skyscrapers, speeding silver bullet trains, and a web of asphalt roads lies a patch of green. Here, time seems to slow down. A smoky-gray wall encloses a fortress-style town. Beyond its western gate, a stone bridge arches over the shimmering YongdingRead More| Borneo Post Online
Leader. Champion. Change agent. Political activist. Community organizer. Freedom fighter. These words only begin to capture the spirit of Calvin “Omar”| The Chicago Crusader
Technological platforms are not neutral. If we truly want to resist the digital coup that is currently under way, we need to normalize the use of free, open source solutions.| Elena Rossini
If we want the Fediverse to be sustainable and to emerge as the ethical alternative to Big Tech's social platforms we need to actively help it out. From the bottom up.| Elena Rossini
As I mentioned in a soybean article,corn earworms are early this year, populations are high, and moths are flying. A lot of growers, curious about how their corn might have po … Continue Reading| Corn News - NC State Extension
As wars erase homes and histories, family memory becomes resistance. From Ottoman Jabal Amel to neoliberal Beirut, this is a story of forgotten villages, exploited labor, silent women, and leftist dreams born in exile.| Untold Mag
Nate Holdren argues that both Trump and the legalistic opposition to his "lawlessness" are varieties of the same law-and-order politics.| Spectre Journal
We pen this editorial amidst growing authoritarianism and violence around the world, from the Israeli state’s continued genocide in Gaza to the unfurling fist of the Trump administration quashing immigration raid protests in Los Angeles. It seems we are experiencing what Nancy Fraser (2019)—paraphrasing Antonio Gramsci—refers to as an era in which “the old is… Read MoreHousing disputes, struggles, art and resistance in a time of violence »| Radical Housing Journal
By Gloria Muñoz Ramírez Subcomante Moisés during the Rebel and Revel Arte Meeting, Chiapas, April 2025. Photo: Luis Enrique Aguilar “The EZLN has plenty of ideas about what an organized and free pe…| Chiapas Support Committee
In a continued display of resilience against the Iranian regime's escalating use of capital punishment, prisoners across Iran marked the 72nd consecutive| People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran
I wanted to write about current fascist narratives - our new normal in 2025. But I feel too depleted, following these unfold - and seeing so little resistance.| Katri Bertram
As a follow-up to the last demonstrations in Italy, Enrico Fletzer – former ENCOD chairman – is informing us about the next steps to be taken in Italy by the large movement of resistance against the neofascist government headed by Meloni. The Italian social movements backed by the Metal workers Union FIOM and the main …| ENCOD
In this blog SMK’s new interim CEO, Katie Roberts talks about the quieter, but no less challenging approach to social change that starts with each one of us.| Sheila McKechnie Foundation
Reach out, speak out, stay informed, be honest| Living Out Loud
With planters rolling, we urge growers to think about thrips management now.This article will cover 1) the Thrips Infestation Predictor and 2) insecticide management best prac … Continue Reading| Cotton News - NC State Extension
Rest can become a radical act in a world that often equates our worth with productivity, especially for Autistic or otherwise neurodivergent people navigating the tides of burnout, where even our ways of resting may look different.| Autistic Realms
In this blog SMK’s new interim CEO, Katie Roberts talks about the quieter, but no less challenging approach to social change that starts with each one of us.| Sheila McKechnie Foundation
How precious are we all going to be about violence against this evil regime?| Political Orphans
“Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art—the art of words.” National Book Awards speech exce…| Ekostories by Isaac Yuen
Take down Twitter and you can ruin Elon Musk.| Political Orphans
Either America will be guided by constitutionalism or by the historicist understandings of the revolutionary Left.| The American Mind
Ridley Scott’s latest film Gladiator II has reignited interest in the legendary gladiators of ancient Rome, portraying them as symbols of defiance against tyranny. Audiences cheer for their strength and resilience, seeing them as heroes who fought for justice and freedom. Yet, in today’s world, those who engage in similar resistance are often labeled as| street art united states
The second Trump administration's attack on trans people is in full swing. Within hours of taking office for the second time, the president signed an executive order that described trans people as "ideologues who deny the biological reality of sex" and accused them of attacking not just the laws of biology but the safety of…| Blog of the APA
On Sunday, February 23, 2025, the Supreme Court of Iran’s regime rejected the request for retrial of the death sentences of political prisoners Behrouz| People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran
None of us will be safe, no matter where we hide, until this menace is destroyed.| Political Orphans
We can expect the next few years to be Springtime for Assholes, as thieves, cheats, lunatics and rapists enjoy their time in the sun.| Political Orphans
TEHRAN, Oct. 16 (MNA) – The Islamic Resistance in Iraq has targeted a key Israeli position in central occupied Palestine with an advanced drone, media outlets have reported.| Mehr News Agency
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On the anniversary of British Emancipation on August 1, 1834, revisiting an old post on freedom and abolitionism in the steampunk Atlantic–or lack thereof. Image: Broadside advertising abolit…| Phenderson Djèlí Clark
From El Capitán, EZLN, original here. The fig tree rubs its wind with the sandpaper of its branches,and the forest, cunning cat, bristles its brittle fibers. (Romance Sonámbulo.Federico García Lorca) Yes, the wind and the mountain seem to have known each other...| Chiapas Support Committee
In 1866, Lord Brownlow of Ashridge House tried to enclose a third of Berkhamsted Common by putting in iron fences “without any openings and entirely regardless of public rights of way”. But the Commons Preservation Society got together a bunch of workmen and labourers to come up on a special midnight train from London and […]| Three Acres And A Cow
This is my first interview in 4 months. I’ve been on a hiatus in order to focus more on home-life priorities since (in case y’all haven’t noticed) modern life is pretty darn crazy…| Dissident Mama
He thought of the SS man whose flat they were renovating, how he talked excitedly about his wife’s arrival, no doubt imagining her joy when she saw the new kitchen.| A Thinking Person, a.k.a. Cogit8R
How to Check the Earth - Ground Resistance using Different Methods? 2-Wire, 3-Wire and 4-Wire (Wenner Method) to Test and Measure Ground Resistance| ELECTRICAL TECHNOLOGY
We, Gaitho and Miriam, are two Black radical feminist researchers living in Europe. We met during the 2021 Black Europe Summer School (BESS) The post The Black Europe Summer School: Space as Revolution first appeared on Young Feminist Europe.| Young Feminist Europe
“On top of the monument a heroic-sized allegorical figure typifies the South. She holds in her extended right hand a laurel wreath with which to crown the dead; her left hand rests on a plows…| Dissident Mama
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If you’re in need of a last-minute Christmas gift for that Dixian or Copperhead on your nice list, or even for (or more especially for) that Yankee on your naughty list, look no further. R…| Dissident Mama
“For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.̶…| Dissident Mama
