#anti coup protester

[trustednewstribune]

Sudan arrests Communist Party figures as thousands protest coup

Sudanese security forces arrested leading anti-coup figures on Thursday, their party said, during protests by thousands against last year’s military takeover.

“Security forces raided the house of the political secretary of the Sudanese Communist Party Mohammed Mukhtar Al-Khatib,” the party said in a statement.

Another leading party member was also arrested at Khartoum airport, and the two men were taken to an “unknown location,” the party said.

The arrests came despite a pledge by coup leader Gen. Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan to free political detainees to set the stage for talks among Sudanese factions.

Last month, authorities released several anti-coup civilian leaders arrested in a crackdown.

The Communist Party members were detained following a trip to Juba, South Sudan where they met with rebel leader Abdel Wahid Nour who has refused to sign a landmark 2020 peace deal with the Sudanese government, according to the party statement.

They also visited rebel-held areas in South Kordofan controlled by Abdelaziz Al-Hilu, who also abstained from the 2020 deal, it said.

Thousands of protesters on Thursday took to the streets, mainly in Khartoum but also elsewhere, to again call for civilian rule in the latest rally against the October coup led by Gen. Burhan, according to AFP correspondents.

The pro-democracy Central Committee of Sudan Doctors said security forces fired tear gas “in large quantities” to quell the protests.

Regular mass demonstrations have rocked Sudan since the coup which derailed a fragile political transition set in motion after the 2019 ouster of longtime autocrat Omar Bashir.

Demonstrations have been met by a violent crackdown which has so far killed at least 95 protesters and wounded hundreds of others, according to medics.

The UN, along with the African Union and regional bloc IGAD, have been pushing to facilitate Sudanese-led talks to resolve the crisis after the northeast African country’s latest coup.

UN special representative Volker Perthes in late March said the country was heading towards “an economic and security collapse” unless its civilian-led transition was restored.

The military leader threatened to expel Perthes for alleged “interference” in the country’s affairs.

#SUDAN #ANTI-COUP PROTESTS #Volker Perthes

[akindplace]

The former president's supporters invaded our National Congress and causing chaos and depredation after the former extreme right president lost the elections and left Brazil to hide in the U.S. the act is clearly inspired in the capitol's invasion after Biden won. Many of them came to the capital of Brazil, Brasilia, in November, set fire to buses, cars, have been camping outside army headquarters asking for the army to take over power in a military coup.

Those supporters also planned to blow a bomb at the international airport, going so a far as to set it but the police intervened. They came over in caravans last night planning on attacking the city today, the national congress being public patrimony that is representative of the democratic power in Brazil, and those people are trying to incite o violent coup. The local government of Brasilia is already being accused of not taking enough measures to keep those violent anti democratic protesters out of the area. So far, it seems there is no police there yet, the cavalry seems to be on their way.

Please don't support these people claiming the elections were fraudulent. We have one of the best electoral systems in the world to avoid fraud. The ex president was from the extreme right, defended torture during our past military dictatorship and was in favor of said dictatorship. He is already being accused of one of the biggest corruption scandals in the history of the country. He lost the elections fairly because of his extremism, corruption and incompetence as president.

Also remember the former president has left the country and all his supporters to hide in the US. As said, he is already being accused of several corruption crimes, including regarding the pocketing the money that should go towards buying of covid vaccines and letting 700k people die while the health system collapsed.

Translation of the cnn headlines: "just now: protesters invade the national congress".

For now I can't find sources in English because this just happened now at the beginning of the afternoon of this Sunday, January 8th, but as soon as there are, I'll post them.

#tw violence #tw political coup #tw covid #tw death #tw fascism #tw genocide mention #tw política #tw bomb #Brazil #Brasilia

[southeastasianists]

A deadly stampede outside a passport office that took two lives and unending lines outside embassies - these are just some examples of what has been happening in Myanmar since the announcement of mandatory conscription into the military.

Myanmar's military government is facing increasingly effective opposition to its rule and has lost large areas of the country to armed resistance groups.

On 1 February 2021, the military seized power in a coup, jailing elected leaders and plunging much of the country into a bloody civil war that continues today.

Thousands have been killed and the UN estimates that around 2.6 million people been displaced.

Young Burmese, many of whom have played a leading role protesting and resisting the junta, are now told they will have to fight for the regime.

Many believe that this is a result of the setbacks suffered by the military in recent months, with anti-government groups uniting to defeat them in some key areas.

"It is nonsense to have to serve in the military at this time, because we are not fighting foreign invaders. We are fighting each other. If we serve in the military, we will be contributing to their atrocities," Robert, a 24-year-old activist, told the BBC.

Many of them are seeking to leave the country instead.

"I arrived at 03:30 [20:30 GMT] and there were already about 40 people queuing for the tokens to apply for their visa," recalled a teenage girl who was part of a massive crowd outside the Thai embassy in Yangon earlier in February. Within an hour, the crowd in front of the embassy expanded to more than 300 people, she claims.

"I was scared that if I waited any longer, the embassy would suspend the processing of visas amid the chaos," she told the BBC, adding that some people had to wait for three days before even getting a queue number.

In Mandalay, where the two deaths occurred outside the passport office, the BBC was told that there were also serious injuries - one person broke their leg after falling into a drain while another broke their teeth. Six others reported breathing difficulties.

Justine Chambers, a Myanmar researcher at the Danish Institute of International Studies, says mandatory conscription is a way of removing young civilians leading the revolution.

"We can analyse how the conscription law is a sign of the Myanmar military's weakness, but it is ultimately aimed at destroying lives... Some will manage to escape, but many will become human shields against their compatriots," she said.

Myanmar's conscription law was first introduced in 2010 but had not been enforced until on 10 February the junta said it would mandate at least two years of military service for all men aged 18 to 35 and women aged 18 to 27.

Maj-Gen Zaw Min Tun, the spokesperson for the military government, said in a statement that about a quarter of the country's 56 million population were eligible for military service under the law.

The regime later said it did not plan to include women in the conscript pool "at present" but did not specify what that meant.

The government spokesperson told BBC Burmese that call-ups would start after the Thingyan festival marking the Burmese New Year in mid-April, with an initial batch of 5,000 recruits.

The regime's announcement has dealt yet another blow to Myanmar's young people.

Many had their education disrupted by the coup, which came on top of school closures at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic.

In 2021, the junta suspended 145,000 teachers and university staff over their support for the opposition, according to the Myanmar Teachers' Federation, and some schools in opposition-held areas have been destroyed by the fighting or by air strikes.

Then there are those who have fled across borders seeking refuge, among them young people looking for jobs to support their families.

In response to the conscription law, some have said on social media that they would enter the monkhood or get married early to dodge military service.

The junta says permanent exemptions will be given to members of religious orders, married women, people with disabilities, those assessed to be unfit for military service and "those who are exempted by the conscription board". For everyone else, evading conscription is punishable by three to five years in prison and a fine.

But Robert doubts the regime will honour these exemptions. "The junta can arrest and abduct anyone they want. There is no rule of law and they do not have to be accountable to anyone," he said.

Wealthier families are considering moving their families abroad - Thailand and Singapore being popular options, but some are even looking as far afield as Iceland - with the hope that their children would get permanent residency or citizenship there by the time they are of conscription age.

Others have instead joined the resistance forces, said Aung Sett, from the All Burma Federation of Student Unions, which has a long history of fighting military rule.

"When I heard the news that I would have to serve in the military, I felt really disappointed and at the same time devastated for the people, especially for those who are young like me. Many young people have now registered themselves to fight against the junta," the 23-year-old told the BBC from exile.

Some observers say the enforcement of the law now reveals the junta's diminishing grip on the country.

Last October, the regime suffered its most serious setback since the coup. An alliance of ethnic insurgents overran dozens of military outposts along the border with India and China. It has also lost large areas of territory to insurgents along the Bangladesh and Indian borders.

According to the National Unity Government, which calls itself Myanmar's government in exile, more than 60% of Myanmar's territory is now under the control of resistance forces.

"By initiating forced conscription following a series of devastating and humiliating defeats to ethnic armed organisations, the military is publicly demonstrating just how desperate it has become," said Jason Tower, country director for the Burma programme at the United States' Institute of Peace.

Mr Tower expects the move to fail because of growing resentment against the junta.

"Many youth dodging conscription will have no choice but to escape into neighbouring countries, intensifying regional humanitarian and refugee crises. This could result in frustration growing in Thailand, India, China and Bangladesh, all of which could tilt away from what remains of their support for the junta," he said.

Even if the military does manage to increase troop numbers by force, this will do little to address collapsing morale in the ranks. It will also take months to train up the new troops, he said.

The junta had a long history of "forced recruitment" even before the law was enacted, said Ye Myo Hein, a global fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.

"So the law may merely serve as a facade for forcibly conscripting new recruits into the military. With a severe shortage of manpower, there is no time to wait for the lengthy and gradual process of recruiting new soldiers, prompting [officials] to exploit the law to swiftly coerce people into service," he said.

Even for those who will manage to escape, many will carry injuries and emotional pain for the rest of their lives.

"It has been really difficult for young people in Myanmar, both physically and mentally. We've lost our dreams, our hopes and our youth. It just can't be the same like before," said Aung Sett, the student leader.

"These three years have gone away like nothing. We've lost our friends and colleagues during the fight against the junta and many families have lost their loved ones. It has been a nightmare for this country. We are witnessing the atrocities committed by the junta on a daily basis. I just can't express it in words."

#Southeast Asia #Burma #Myanmar #Military Junta

[qqueenofhades]

Dare you to, on the second-last day of Pride Month, write a big effortpost about all the people that Pride Month either moved to the Find Out stage or proceedings or flat-out assassinated. A necessary part of this post would be bemoaning that Pride Month missed Kissinger or some other monster. The reason would be to dare the universe to render your effortpost out of date by sniping someone just before the end of the month, after you post. Please, I beg of you, goad the universe into taking out one or two more than it intended!

Oh, I will do that right now for free!

JUNE 2023: Great month for justice, bad month for assholes!

Pat Robertson, notorious conservative Christian activist and long-time hate preacher: dies on June 8

Ted Kaczynski, aka the Unabomber, conducted a decades-long campaign of mail bombings and domestic terrorism in the name of protesting technology: dies on June 10

Silvio Berlusconi, notorious far-right ex-Italian PM and general fantastically corrupt shitheel: dies on June 12

Stockton Rush, billionaire libertarian businessman who actively ignored 1000 safety warnings about his crappy product and fired a whistleblower for saying so, notably got himself and 4 other people killed on June 18 and joins the hallowed Wikipedia list of inventors killed by their own invention

Honorable-not-quite-June-but-close mention: James G. Watt, Ronald Reagan's secretary of the interior and a rabid anti-environmentalist, died on May 27

John Eastman: conservative lawyer who actively advised and encouraged Trump to stage a coup: facing disbarment hearings in California

Oh yeah, that guy Trump: on June 8, was charged with 31 federal criminal counts under the Espionage Act, relating to his crimes with classified documents; 37 charges overall, which takes his felony haul to 71 (and counting);

Vladimir Putin: is not gonna have a fun time over the next few days over the fallout from the Wagner mercenary rebellion;

Andrew Tate, flagrant misogynist asshole: officially charged with rape and human trafficking in Romania;

Ron DeSantis: lost literally THREE different lawsuits over his terrible anti-LGBTQ laws; collapsed in the polls and his campaign is allegedly "close to being over" because he's so bad at it;

State of Arkansas: likewise had its attempted ban on gender-affirming care for minors permanently struck down

Marjorie Taylor Greene: the crazy House Freedom Caucus doesn't like her anymore, apparently, and wants to "purge" its members, including her (lolololol)

Man, that's all well and good, but it's really a shame that Pride Month 2023: This Time It's Personal didn't put a cherry on top by offing Henry Kissinger, or like, Clarence Thomas or Samuel Alito (or both, both, both is good)

Come on, Pride Month 2023.

What are you, a PUSSY?

#recklessprudence #ask #i WILL update this as needed #unless pride month 2023 wimps out #ahem #come on prove me wrong #you know you want to

[lateantiquechud]

SHIT, EVEN LEFTISTS STORMED THE CAPITAL, NOBODY CARED.

AND BEFORE YOU SAY: "B-B-BUT WE WUZ PROTESTING FOR PEACE AND NOT TO COUP LE GOVERNMENT".

1. THERE IS NO PROOF JAN 6 PROTESTERS WANTED TO COUP ANY GOVERNMENT, THERE IS NO PROOF THAT THE AGITATION WAS EVEN LEAD BY SOMEONE, AND NO, SOME SCHIZO ON TWITTER SAYING "OVERTURN THE FAKE ELECTION" OR SOME SHIT LIKE THAT ISNT PROOF

2. I'D THINK THAT IN THE EYES OF THE LAW THIS WOULD BE THE SAME THING ANYWAYS

SO NOT ONLY THE NEOLIBERAL PAWNS HAVE BURNT THEIR OWN COUNTRIES, SMALL BUSINESS AND CITIES TO THE GROUND, THEY HAVE THE GALL TO CLAIM MORALITY AND CALL ACTUALLY ANTI-ESTABLISHMENT PEOPLE "TRAITORS".

#leftism #january 6th #neoliberalism

[lizardsfromspace]

A merry fuck you to

The pro-forced birth activists who spent decades bombing clinics & murdering doctors and then going "oh no, that's not what we meant at all ;)" handwringing about Jane's Revenge & how anti-abortion people :( are threatening vandalism :( this is so scary and dark :(

A media that seemingly forgot all pro-forced birth violence and joined them in handwringing about how some graffiti is A Sign Of How Divided We've Become. What's a Dr Tiller, the mean leftists put some graffiti on a wall

The centrists condemning the same by saying "um we won't 'take action', we'll win this AT THE BALLOT BOX!" Legit saw someone saying they may protest, but what matters is winning this at the polls

Those same people refusing to codify Roe into law in any time they had the votes to do so bc it was Too Divisive and it was Already Settled and not worth broaching (meanwhile, the right is already talking about trying to enact a federal ban, and the court is already discussing overturning the legality of gay marriage, contraceptive legality, and gay sex)

The justice who proposed that's wife supported a fascist coup to overthrow the government btw and I guess nothing's going to happen with her or him?

The lawyer-brained assholes trying to explain blatantly partisan decisions as some Austere Legal Doctrine, even when the actual legal doctrine is absurd nonsense like "if a right wasn't written down explicitly in the 1700s, it can't exist, no matter if the right entails things that didn't exist then

#abortion #uspol #us politics

[irhabiya]

hey could I ask where I could learn more about the arab spring? I can’t find many resources and most of them are very American. I’m asking partially because my parents mentioned a massacre that happened at a mosque around that time, but I can’t find much of that? They used to study in Egypt which is why they were horrified to hear about the brutality those years ago. Sorry if this sounds disrespectful you can ignore it if so. I just want to better understand the unrest in Egypt that I assume is still ongoing today with Sisi

hi sweetheart <3 this isn't disrespectful at all don't worry

unfortunately i don't really have any specific resources i can point you towards that aren't riddled with usamerican propaganda or leave out key details but i remember reading this article from a while back and it was pretty succinct. read it with a discerning eye and lmk if you have any further questions about the points they raised

the massacre your parents are referencing is probably the Rabaa massacre which happened in august of 2013, the biggest massacre in modern egyptian history. military and police forces killed an estimated 1000 protestors, most of whom were supporters of the muslim brotherhood, some others were simply opposed to the military regaining power.

the main key points you need to understand about egypt's modern history, contemporary history, and the arab spring as a whole, are the following:

egypt had been effectively ruled by a military ruling class since the 50's. nasser's presidency oversaw anti-imperialist policies and policies favoring the working class, but he basically laid out groundwork for 70+ years of military dictatorship

anwar al saddat's presidency involved lots of dramatic changes to our domestic and foreign policies, namely privatization of many sectors, introducing neoliberalism to the country, signing the camp david agreements with israel

mubarak's presidency was essentially a 30 years long continuation of sadat's neoliberalism and corruption, things got worse by the day for your average working class egyptian

the 2011 25th of january revolution in egypt was sparked due to worsening living conditions, and protests igniting many of the neighboring countries. namely tunisia, where street vendor mohammed bouazizi self immolated in protest of harassment he had been receiving from government officials.

it's important to note here that even before the protests in tunisia, there had been dissent from the egyptian working class, many factory workers went on strikes in protest such as in mahalla

the 2011 revolution was not ideologically coherent, in the sense that everyone, from all different political ideologies joined in, from the Muslim brotherhood to leftist coalitions. this will be important for understanding why it fell short of achieving long term goals. it managed to force hosni mubarak to step down

the MB's candidate, mohammed morsi won the 2012 elections, which sparked a lot of upheaval from leftists, liberals and religious minorities such as copts.

in june of 2013, mass protests broke out against his regime demanding that he step down from power, the us-backed military hijacked the protests and enacted a coup which reinstalled the military regime with sisi as president. protestors of the new regime, whether in support of morsi or not, were massacred in Rabaa and other locations leaving an estimated 1000 protestors dead

it's important to note here that it was later revealed that certain groups which were involved in the 2013 counter-revolution were funded and backed by gulf states (mainly the UAE iirc, i need to fact check that though). there was a marked increase in organized violence from these groups (tamarod was one of them) out of nowhere and it all played out in the military's favor in the end, which isn't a coincidence considering who are their biggest allies in the region. i don't think this was covered in the article above

there has been unprecedented efforts of censorship in the country since then, a complete crackdown on dissent. journalists get jailed for tweeting things opposed to the regime all the time. egyptian prisons (which aren't exactly known to be the most humane) are filled with political prisoners. this current regime is the one the US and their gulf allies backed and endorsed, we get billions of dollars in military aid from the US in exchange for carrying out their imperialist interests in the middle east. as for living conditions, it only gets worse by the day for your average egyptian. most major cities are riddled with slums, inflation is through the roof, unemployment is high, most people can barely afford basic necessities, our infrastructure is in desperate need of maintenance and renovations, our economy is almost entirely financed by the US (even putting military aid aside), the UAE, and saudi arabia. and we're drowning in debt. we take imf loans like, every other month lmfao it's bad

a lot happened within the span of 3 years, this is all not to say that the MB were good, not in the slightest. but the US once again interfering with a foreign country's domestic affairs to secure their interests has resulted in nothing but devastation for the overwhelming majority of the people living here.

as for the arab spring as a whole, i think it's disingenuous when people dismiss its entirety as western backed conflict. even though a lot of it is exactly that (see: libya), especially in countries where the revolutions kind of bled into them rather than already having brewing tensions from working class people suffering worsening conditions. in tunisia and egypt, there was already a lot unrest within their populations over material conditions, which is why i mentioned the mahalla strikes. it's a shame our revolution didn't have more coherent, stronger socialist organizers, it's a shame it was killed and hijacked before we ever got to reap its benefits

#egypt #inbox #phd in yappology over here jesus christ😭 #this is as concise as i can summarize everything but do lmk if you have any questions about certain details! #25jan

[itstokkii]

I've been considering making this post for a while but hesitated since I don't wanna beat a dead horse.

I'd like you to look at this post looking back at the Andijan massacre. What started as people protesting issues like distribution of gas, electricity, and other human needs and rights ended in a bloodbath. A cousin of mine told me schools taught it as "the national guard protecting civilians from Islamist terrorists."

I'd also like you to look at this paper by the Human Rights Watch on the torture and persecution of Uzbek Muslims like me during Islam Karimov's 20 years of dictatorial rule. Even Uzbek Muslims outside of Uzbekistan weren't safe. Multiple family friends of mine were randomly tackled to the ground and arrested by Korean Police on accounts of "domestic terrorism" in Uzbekistan, and some were only released about 5 years ago.

You weren't allowed to wear hijabs(even in Islamic universities), openly pray, read the Quran, or do anything religious. Someone would always be there watching to report you.

I wasn't allowed to go outside by myself around my neighborhood due to Uzbek government agents kidnapping the children of Uzbek diaspora abroad. I wasn't allowed to wear a hijab until after we went to Uzbekistan 2 years after Karimov's regime ended, and we made sure it was safe there and back. I wasn't even allowed to visit the country to see my relatives for almost a decade because of the crackdown on Uzbek Muslims.

When Uzbekistan was colonized by Russia as the Uzbek SSR and even before then as Turkestan, Russia made sure to stamp out religion entirely. They killed off scholars and poets like Cholpon, who wrote about Uzbek self-determination and praised religious texts. Uzbekistan's first leadership since its independence carried on with this policy, with Russian colonial values ingrained into them.

As for Korea, our partition was opposed by the whole peninsula. When Jejuans protested the US-UN backed elections, it ended in 10% of Jeju's population being killed by joint US-Korean forces. Though the South Korean Government apologized for the first time recently, the US stays silent. What a surprise. The bodies of these Jejuans were buried in mass pits and had the Jeju Airport built on top of it.

The US still fails to apologize for the No Gun Ri Massacre, in which the US Army murdered about 300 Korean villagers despite knowing they were civilians and therefore not targets. The US also indiscriminately bombed North Korea with more bombs than they had in the Pacific Theater in World War 2, martyring almost 2 million Koreans.

After the Korean War followed almost 30 years of dictatorship by Syngman Rhee, then a military junta, then Park Chung Hee and Chun Doo Hwan. During this time, university students protesting the dictatorial rule established by the US were arrested as "anti communists," and be tortured repeatedly, sometimes even until death.

Though the Seodaemun Prison is known for being Japan's colonial prison where they arrested independence activists, the Korean dictatorships used it to arrest people in favor of democracy.

The Namyeong-Dong Anti-Communist Investigation Office was a similar prison, in which one of the floors had extremely thin, narrow windows to avoid prisoners from escaping. Park Jong Cheol, a Seoul National University student who was protesting against Korea's military dictatorship at the time, was incarcerated here and routinely tortured. He eventually died due to water torture.

The Gwangju Massacre was a protest held by many activists against Chun Doo Hwan's dictatorial rule, which came about as he staged a coup and successfully overthrew the previous government. As they called for democracy, Chun Doo Hwan brought the national army, who fired upon, killed, and raped the protesters. Chun Doo Hwan was never held responsible for his crimes before he died, and his grandson recently apologized to the victims and their loved ones. It was found that the US approved Chun Doo Hwan's plans to use armed forces on the protesters in Gwangju.

Though the Gwangju Massacre is taught about in Korea, much of the US involvement and responsibility of the horrors of the dictatorship is left out.

The US does not allow Korea to produce its own nuclear arsenal, allowing Korea to rely entirely on the US for nuclear support. Additionally, the existing presence of the USFK in Korea and their joint training sessions with the ROK army further provokes North Korea and therefore gives the US a "justification" to maintain its military presence in Korea.

Growing up I was taught where to look for nearby nuclear shelters. We visited the War Memorial of Korea multiple times, and air raid sirens are rare but are happening more often recently.

This, along with the added danger of living as Uzbek diaspora outside of Uzbekistan as Muslims.

So when I say "please respectfully depict Russia and the US when it comes to the Cold War in a way that does not center them entirely" and "please keep the gravity of their actions in mind as you write them; Hetalia does not exist in an apolitical vacuum,"

and I am met with "mature adults" telling me that "they're just characters," or

"i'm the one ruining the fandom," or

"block and move on," or

"i love russia and america cold war!!!" or

"you're crazy" or

"moralf*g" or

"someone's sensitive"

and especially from russian artists who call me an "American SJW." russians calling me an uzbek overly sensitive for asking that they portray their country a little more respectfully to the victims of their colonialism. yeah that's completely normal

you are normalizing centering discussions about the Cold War to the imperial core, and then having nothing of substance to say about and being absolutely insensitive towards someone who's life has been and still are dictated by these imperial forces, and even harrassing them.

where's the "block and move on" mentality you prided yourselves for?

this fandom hasn't changed since the 2010s. it's just more quiet in the way it marginalizes victims of colonialism.

oh, and that person who told me to "block and move on, sister!!!" when it comes to me explaining myself as an uzbek-korean muslim?

you're not one to talk. 네가 뭘아는데 ㅅㅂ새끼야

#hetalia fandom #vent #disk horse #i cant wait to have a barrage of insults thrown at me again ♥️ #you need to go get your brain chemistry checked i think #hetalia #for those of you who comforted me during this time thank you all so so much #my mental health severely declined that week #i'm so grateful to have you as friends

[kropotkindersurprise]

December 2022 / January 2023 - Anti-coup protesters in Peru have clashed with police, blocked highways and airports, and burned down police stations and government buildings during protests after the arrest of President Castillo. For over four weeks they have been demanding the resignation of the right-wing Congress, the release of arrested president Pedro Castillo, and new elections. Thousands have marched on the capital Lima. During the unrest police and the army have so far murdered 60 protesters. [video]/[video]

#peru #lima #coup #acab #police #police brutality #riot #resistance #riot police #tear gas #throwback #gif #2022 #2023 #antifa #antifascism #antifascist action #acción antifascista #antifascismo #police station

[slaviclore]

so this is a thing that's happening:

kremlin's been sending literal russian flags to africa

"“The Russian flag has become a symbol of resistance in West Africa, affiliated with anti-West and anti-French attitudes,” said Kyle Walter, the head of research at Logically, a technology company that tracked an increase of pro-Russian and anti-French narratives related to Niger in the wake of a coup there this summer."

(the full article at nyt -- i know it's a paid subscription so here is the gist)

the russian flag is popular in west african countries as a protest symbol:

"After military rulers in Niger ousted the civilian president in late July, a wave of pro-Russian sentiment spread throughout the capital, coupled with widespread anger against France, Niger’s former colonizer and a longtime security ally. France’s ambassador to Niger left on Wednesday. French troops positioned in the country are set to depart by the end of the year."

and also because they're fashionable:

"“They just look so cool,” Rédouane Halidou, 21, said as he visited a tiny tailor workshop in a residential neighborhood of Niamey one morning. Two freshly sewn polo shirts were displayed on a table, one in Niger’s green, white and orange, another in Russia’s red, white and blue."

"They also make a catchy political statement. Russia is seen by many young Africans as an anticolonial power, there to help them cast off their colonial past and write a new chapter of national history that has nothing to do with democracy, which many associate with exploitative partnerships with Western countries, corruption and poverty."

#i'm only hearing about the influence of russia in china and india but hardly anything about africa (or south america) #tons of pro russian propaganda on twitter is in spanish #the west tends to think it's obvious that russia is losing the “culture war” but it's not that simple #there is evidence that russia is deliberately participating in the spread of its flags thru africa #war

[thedevilsrain]

anti-bolsonaro protests today in downown são paulo. "NO AMNESTY" was cheered all around, against the amnesty for people like bolsonaro and the governor of distrito federal (brazil's capital) for their involvement with the attempted coup d'etat by bolsonaro's followers

i'd like to bring attention to the third pic - the people wearing black and white jerseys are the organized soccer crowd Gaviões da Fiel, for the team Corinthians, a huge team in the poor neighborhoods of são paulo, and one of the major organizers of today's protests

#brazil #se deus quiser n to errando a parte da gaviões kgfkhgjk nunca fui de futebol #mas admiro eles muito

[freedom-barricades-bighero16]

Shortlist of the issues I care about / support:

Movements that are part of the Milk Tea Alliance:

Free Hong Kong

Taiwan's struggle against Chinese encroachment

Thailand Protests

Myanmar anti-coup protests

Free Tibet

East Turkestan Independence

Black Lives Matter

Woman, Life, Freedom

Ukrainian resistance against Russia

Free Palestine

If you're asking me why I'm supporting Palestine, that's because I believe human rights should be for everyone in the world and not just for people who are like me. Whoever is under oppression and needs help, I will stand with them.

And my support for Palestine will not diminish my support for these other movements that I'm already getting behind.

Thank you for coming to my TED Talk.

#human rights #hong kong protests #thai protests #stand with myanmar #what's happening in myanmar #black lives matter #iran protests #free palestine #milk tea alliance #basically this is my moral statement

[zvaigzdelasas]

Niger ‘s ruling junta and civil society groups called on the nation to mobilize in the capital on Thursday to fight for the country’s freedom and push back against foreign interference. “We are talking about the immediate departure of all foreign forces,” Mahaman Sanoussi, interim coordinator for the M62 civil society group that’s organizing the protest, told The Associated Press. “(We’ll mobilize) against all forms of threats to continue the struggle for the sovereignty of the people. The dignity of the Nigerian people will be respected by all without exception.” The march falls on the West African nation’s independence day from its former colonial ruler, France, and as anti-French sentiment spikes, more than one week after mutinous soldiers ousted the country’s democratically elected president. Protests are expected throughout the capital, Niamey, to push back against foreign meddling.[...]

In a closed door meeting on Wednesday, dozens of people from civil society organizations, professional groups and trade unions spoke with the coup leaders about their vision for the country. Sanoussi, from M62, was at the meeting and said the junta talked about their priorities for the nation, including securing it from violence.

But another civil society member at the same gathering who did not want to be named for security reasons told the AP they left feeling concerned. They had a strong impression that the French military was going to be ousted soon and that members of civil society groups would help the junta do it.[...]

Even if the junta demands the withdrawal of French troops — as they did in neighboring Mali and Burkina Faso, both of which are run by military leaders — it wouldn’t make a difference, said Anne-Claire Legendre, a spokesperson for the French foreign minister during a press briefing on Wednesday. “We don’t answer to the putschists. We recognize one constitutional order and one legitimacy only, that of President Bazoum,” she said.

2 Aug 23

#m62 was defacto banned by bazoum & the leader was jailed

[tittyinfinity]

You can sit and ignore imperialism and genocides happening in other countries as "collateral damage" for whoever we pick as president, but just know the revolution is happening with or without you.

The reason we have our comfort is because the US is exploiting people in other countries for us to have these things. Slave labor. Sweatshops. Torture. It's why we have our phones, why we have gas in our cars, why we have most of what we own – meanwhile, the people producing those resources for us see none of it/barely any of it. They're starving, living in squalor, losing their children, treated worse than pack animals, and we just....allow it to happen. Because we're too busy.

Except "we" are not all sitting in complacency. More people around the world are standing up against injustice than ever. Riots, strikes, protests, unions, mutual aid networks, and more. We hear news of climate protestors being murdered for rioting, and yet people ask the question "where's your glorious revolution?" Is it not believable until it's on tiktok or mainstream news, even knowing that recording yourself doing acts against the government will get you arrested?

There is no "lesser evil" when it comes to exploitation, imperialism, and genocide.

If the way our "democracy" is set up doesn't allow for us to put someone in power that would stop the worldly injustices, then our only option from that point is revolution.

With the existence of the electoral college, some people's votes are worth almost 4x as many votes as someone in another state. We have extremely gerrymandered districts in order to produce certain results. Our electoral system is absolutely rigged and we can't pretend like it's not.

The only way to use your vote as a voice would be to vote third party, not because we think they would win this election (what's the hurt in trying though?), but to show that we no longer give votes to those who want to hurt people, and they will have to change their policies if they want to move forward. THAT is our "damage control" when it comes to voting.

But we can't vote our way out of this. We can't use the system to get rid of the system. There is no way in hell this country would allow a president that wants to defund the police and military, heavily tax the billionaires, and stop the exploitation of people in other countries, because it's what our country is built on. And many people who tried have been murdered! For example, a member of the FBI killed Martin Luther King Jr., framed someone else for it, then attempted to bury his anti-capitalist agenda. There is public information about our country running coups and installing leaders in other countries. Those things alone show that we can't destroy capitalism from within. We will never be given the option to vote our way away from capitalism & imperialism.

Money being involved in politics is also why we'll never get anywhere with capitalism. There is no democracy if politicians can be bought out & bribed into passing laws that only benefit those at the top.

It's time to start forming mutual aid networks so that we have something to fall back on while we plan out our next actions. We can do this. We are GOING to do this. Will you join us, or do you prefer the comforts you have that are paid for by the lives of others?

#.bdo #bye den

[allthebrazilianpolitics]

US and Brazil warn of attempt to stop Guatemala president-elect taking power

Fears Guatemalan democracy is in peril amid warning of potential coup to block inauguration of anti-corruption crusader

International concern over the future of Guatemala’s democracy is growing, as Brazil’s president warned of a possible coup to stop the president-elect taking power and the US denounced unprecedented attempts to undermine the Central American country’s election result.

The centre-left anti-corruption crusader Bernardo Arévalo was elected Guatemala’s new president last month. This week thousands of supporters took to the streets to protest against alleged attempts to block his inauguration in January.

Last week, Arévalo – the son of Guatemala’s first democratically elected president, Juan José Arévalo – temporarily pulled out of the transition process after government officials raided electoral facilities where ballot boxes were being stored. Arévalo has accused corrupt officials and politicians of launching “a plan to break the constitutional order and subvert democracy”. “A coup d’état [is] under way,” he claimed earlier this month after attempts to suspend his party, the Movimiento Semilla (Seed Movement).

Addressing the UN general assembly on Tuesday, the Brazilian president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, echoed Arévalo’s warning, citing the crisis in Guatemala after recent “institutional ruptures” in the African nations of Burkina Faso, Gabon, Guinea, Mali, Niger and Sudan. “In Guatemala, there’s the risk of a coup, which would prevent the winner of democratic elections taking office,” Lula said.

Continue reading.

#brazil #politics #guatemala #united states #democracy #united nations #brazilian politics #us politics #guatemalan politics #international politics #foreign policy #luiz inacio lula da silva #mod nise da silveira #image description in alt

[warsofasoiaf]

Do you think there is any credence to the US and/or the EU orchestrating Euromaidan?

None. Absolutely zero. That's a myth concocted by Russia to deny Ukrainian protesters held legitimate grievances against the Yanukovych government.

The Euromaidan started over a trade agreement between the EU and Ukraine. This had displeased Russia, who had felt that Ukraine was drifting out of the Russian sphere of influence and threatened Yanukovych with harsh trade actions to back down from the agreement. However, the agreement was extraordinarily popular among the Ukrainian people, who were positively disposed to the EU and sought to join it. So when Yanukovych killed the deal in November 2013, this provoked large protests at Yanukovych, who was seen as betraying the people's policy desires to appease Russia. When Yanukovych responded to these protests with riot police and anti-assembly legislation, this further emboldened and enlarged the protests. Europe had attempted to broker a compromise deal where the Ukrainian Parliament's (the Rada) power would be increased, the Presidential powers reduced, and new elections to be held later in 2014. This did little to help the crowd, as there were roughly a hundred protesters killed primarily by riot police and snipers (another conspiracy is that this was a false flag was debunked five years ago by Carnegie Mellon). The Rada moved to impeach Yanukovych, who fled to Russia. The Rada considered Yanukovych's flight to be an abdication and organized emergency presidential elections, which is a provision in the Ukrainian constitution. Some constitutional scholars said that it didn't meet the threshold, but all agree that his flight was unprecedented and was difficult to apply an established constitutional threshold. So what happened was a President faced popular protest due to unpopular policy action, sent in the riot police to brutalize them, was impeached by the Rada, then fled the country to avoid arrest. The Rada then used pre-existing procedures to organize a new presidential election which were certified as fair by international observers.

The smoking gun that's used to "prove" that it was a US-backed coup is an intercepted phone call between SecState Victoria Nuland and Ambassador to Ukraine Geoffrey Pyatt, which is alleged to be plotting to replace Yanukovych. However, actually listening to the call shows that they're actually talking about negotiations between Yanukovych and the opposition for a Prime Minister - not a President (Ukraine has both). So when these disinformation peddlers say that the US was organizing a coup d'état, they're actually saying that a deal that Yanukovych was himself seeking to make for an entirely different political position was a coup. Far be it from me to say that parliamentary governmental systems can form new governments in response to pressure and political dealings, but if people can't figure that out on their own despite it happening in multiple countries across the world, I guess I have to.

The US and the EU did support the Euromaidan protests, including having several members of Congress make speeches and visit after the sniper massacres, but that's...not a coup. Hell, it wasn't even surreptitious, it was a public visit. The conspiracy theory about it being a "CIA color revolution" have no evidence - no case officers named, no intercepted operational plans, no flyers for the next CIA bake sale. This is the conspiracy rationalization I mentioned earlier, where an elaborate deception campaign is invented to justify a population turning away from the movement in a way that denies the population's ability to make their own decisions and absolves the conspiracy's backer of blame. The public couldn't have protested against Yanukovych's demonstrably unpopular policy decisions, they had to be tricked into doing so. If the Euromaidan was legitimate, it would mean that Russia had failed to maintain Ukraine within its sphere of orbit, that they had elected to move toward a different path, that it was a Russian failure. And if there's one thing these conspiracists are loathe to do, from Putin's revanchist dreams of a powerful Russia collapsing as Russia loses its near-abroad to Chomsky's anger at his movement's increasing irrelevance, it's admitting failure.

Thanks for the question, Anon.

SomethingLikeALawyer, Hand of the King

#history #ukraine #russo ukrainian war #euromaidan