The Shifting Geography of Protest (Redux)

Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion Map of Earth

Long ago, and in all four of our print editions, the OTC ran a feature called “The Shifting Geography of Protest: A Global Digest,” in which we listed and summarized all the different areas of the world in which protests had erupted. The feature was inspired by a blog written by the late, distinguished sociologist …

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The shifting geography of protest: a global digest

Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion Map of Earth

OCCUPIED TUCSON CITIZEN The distinguished sociologist Imannuel Wallerstein recently wrote of the “rapidly and constantly shifting geography of protest” that has been sweeping the world since the onset of the Great Recession. In his reckoning, one protest “pops up here and then is either repressed, co-opted, or exhausted,” after which another protest pops up somewhere …

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CHILE: Otra educación es posible

Movilización estudiantil de 2011 en Chile: marcha del 30 de junio de 2011

AGENCIA LATINOAMERICANA DE INFORMACIÓN — [English] En la última década, sudamérica ha sido la vanguardia de la izquierda global. El movimiento de los estudiantes de Chile no es una excepción. Este artículo merece atención por que es un ejemplo de la visión que nuestras ocupaciónes en los EE. UU.—Ed En Chile, “la educación está fuertemente …

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