The laws have changed their names, but they are still laws of exception, and they still have the same consequences for dissidents: persecution, criminalization, repression, and imprisonment. Freedom of expression exists only for those who think the way they do.
“In our mouths, words become crimes.” Read More »
Stop! Take the time to think it through. Who’s holding power? Who can give you what you need in the campaign that you’re trying to win? How much power do you have to bring to bear to win the fight?
We Are More Than Them Read More »
Patience and self-irony are prerequisites to being able to acknowledge arguments against activist rituals and the atrophy of debate.
Critique and Panic Read More »
People grabbing history by the scruff of the neck and attempting to exercise their own political agency is incredibly inspiring. How can it not be, when we live in a culture which insists that we do not have the right to control our own lives?
For a Resurgence of Insurgent Dignity Read More »
It behooves people who are in contested cultural terrain to, well, contest it.
Don’t Let Nazis Have Nice Things Read More »
“Leonid Ilyich, no one is forgotten, nothing is forgotten. But it has so happened that I, a survivor of the Siege of Leningrad, awarded the medal For the Defense of Leningrad, and my husband, a veteran of the Great Patriotic War, have to huddle with our daughter in a sixteen-square-meter room on Lublin Alley.”
Surviving the Siege Read More »
We have to be braced, both in the sense that history gives us a framework for seeing what’s possible, but also in realizing that some of what’s possible is terrifying.
Tyranny: Consent and Resistance Read More »
Condemn all the states that are carrying out wars against innocent civilians in the Middle East. They all oppose the self-determination of the peoples of the region and their struggles for emancipation.
“Not leftists, those who stand with Assad!” Read More »
“It’s a rebellion, but that’s for the time being. We’ve been promised a crackdown in April, and those aren’t empty threats.”
On the Road with a Fed-up Trucker Read More »
“I’m glad so many people showed up to the rally. People realize that corruption is an evil, that something has to change. I hope the teenagers who went to the rally will keep involved in civic activism.”
The Kids Are Alright Read More »
