Category: Power Building
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#FeesMustFall in Nigeria
The current crisis in education demands a bold response: student resistance must evolve beyond local campus struggles. It is time to embrace the anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist spirit that marked the heydays of a vibrant NANS, understanding that the fate of public education is inextricably linked to the broader struggle for social justice.
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‘It is hijacking my brain’ – How to Help People Addicted to Social Media to Cut the Craving
Problematic social media addiction is associated with a host of negative effects including moodiness, anxiety and an excessive amount of time and energy spent on or thinking about social media. People with clinical social media addiction levels experience those same effects but to a great degree, with their habit patterns around social media resembling that…
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Women in South Africa’s Armed Struggle: new book records their stories
In her book Guerrillas and Combative Mothers, political and international studies academic Siphokazi Magadla uses life history interviews to offer firsthand insights into women’s participation in the armed struggle against apartheid in South Africa from 1961 until 1994. She also examines the texture of their lives in the new South Africa after demobilisation. Magadla interviewed…
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Socializing Energy
To regain lost momentum for an energy transition, climate and energy justice campaigners can learn from Berliners’ victorious referendum in support of a radical expropriation housing in 2021. This not only followed a strategy that put the costs on the corporations rather than people, it also goes beyond traditional public ownership to explore models of…
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UE Support for Ceasefire Was Built on Decades of Membership Education and Debate
Our union, the United Electrical, Radio & Machine Workers of America (UE), was able to mobilize quickly on this critical issue because we have a strong tradition of international solidarity and taking a critical view of U.S. foreign policy. When Israel launched its brutal assault on the people of Palestine in the wake of the…
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How we can end atrocities in Gaza and beyond
Ordinary people can fix the broken postwar international system and deliver global justice to Palestinians and oppressed people worldwide. Written by Shimri Zameret and published by Waging Non Violence on January 5th, 2024 under CC BY 4.0 In the past few weeks, the number of innocent Palestinian civilians killed in attacks by the Israeli government…
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From Picket Lines to Plot Lines
Written by Sonali Kolhatkar, published by Yes! Magazine on August 4th, 2023 under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Hundreds of thousands of creative workers in the film and television industry are currently flexing their labor power. For the first time in more than 60 years, the Writers Guild of America (WGA) and the Screen Actors Guild (which merged with the…
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Why protest if it doesn’t make a difference?
Written by David J. Bailey of the University of Birmingham, published by the conversation.com on March 2nd, 2024, CC BY-ND 4.0 The current global wave of protest calling for a ceasefire in Gaza has included mass demonstrations, street blockades, and efforts to disrupt arms manufacturing. This continues a decade-long trend of rising protest around the…
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100 years of radio in Africa: from propaganda to people’s power
Sisanda Nkoala, University of the Western Cape; Christina Chan-Meetoo, University of Mauritius; Jacinta Mwende Maweu, University of Nairobi; Marissa J. Moorman, Indiana University; Modestus Fosu, Ghana Institute of Journalism, and Stanley Tsarwe, University of Namibia for The Conversation, CC BY-ND 3.0 Radio is thriving across Africa. Exact figures are difficult to come by because audience…
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New York’s Tenant Unions are Playing the Long Game
Tenant unions fight evictions, rent overcharges, disrepair, and landlord harassment. They also may fight for legislation, and for pro-tenant electeds. While labor unions wield the power of the shop floor, the site of production, tenant unions wield the power of the home—the site of social reproduction. In each case, their greatest leverage comes from the…
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