Mary Ann DeVlieg

The Student and Civic Protest in Serbia A New Hope for Democratization

The Student and Civic Protest in Serbia
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State Terror A brief guide for Americans

State Terror
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Israel’s Ramadan massacre obliterates any remaining western claims of moral leadership url:https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/ramadan-massacre-obliterates-wests-claim-moral-leadership

Opinion | I am Erdogan’s Main Challenger in Turkey. I Was Arrested. President Erdogan of Turkey has jailed me because he knows he cannot beat me in an election.

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From the River to the Bay Calls for Art as Resistance While other Bay Area spaces have silenced Palestinian artists or remained silent themselves, a show at SOMArts Cultural Center asks visitors to take a stand.

<i>From the River to the Bay</i> Calls for Art as Resistance hyperallergic.com/999130/from-...

This Is Wrong www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

just finished reading 'Aftershocks': Contemporary Syrian Prose edited by the wonderful journalist Alia Malek. In turns, beautiful, surreal, reflective... highly recommended.

'Trump has already surpassed his Hungarian and Polish role models' COLUMN. In just two months, the student has surpassed the master. The Trump administration is taking aim at the same targets as the illiberal pioneers of Budapest and Warsaw – the judiciary, the media...

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Nepo Baby Who Dodged the Draft Tries To Bully War Hero A reality TV star tried to intimidate a wartime leader and it went exactly how you'd expect.

Nepo Baby Who Dodged the Draft Tries To Bully War Hero
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Asked by Euractiv today whether the EU had indeed done a good job of screwing the US, European Commission spokesman Olof Gill responded, "it’s sometimes difficult to believe that we have to offer responses to this type of stuff," before giving a prepared statement.

Mayor of Kyiv Vitali Klitschko is the 2024 laureate of the Mayor Paweł Adamowicz Award - ICORN - International Cities of Refuge Network

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Intersecting Temporalities: At-Risk and Displaced Artists in Transition (Volume 1: Scoping Review) The publication ‘Intersecting Temporalities: At-Risk and Displaced Artists in Transition (Volume 1 Scoping Review) is the first of four publications from On the Move’s research and action project, whi...

wonderful new publication from On the Move on displaced artists - a scoping rview to see what has (and not) been written regarding displaced artists and their support. Thank you Rana Yazaji and On the Move! on-the-move.org/resources/li...

My father, like so many others, risked his life fighting Nazis. Many lost their lives. Can someone explain why any American (or European for that matter) thinks a Nazi salute is cool? Maybe your grandparents never told you about it?

‘Every writer...is a citizen as well as an artist, and there are times when his citizenship is more urgent than his art; times that is when public policy threatens to submerge the truth on which his art depends.’ (p. 393)

From ‘A Clerk’s Apology’, 26 March 1938. New Statesman

I was with Salman Rushdie when he was stabbed. The ‘reader effect’ saved us

‘I saw him kill people:’ Libya and Italy’s shadowy migrant deals Italy is accused of releasing Libyan officials wanted on international warrants in return for limiting migrant flows.

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Everything Turns Away Quite Leisurely Contributed by Rebecca Chace / It’s 5:40 AM in New York and 12:40 PM in Palestine on August 10, 2024. I run back and forth inside my dark Brooklyn apartment, barefoot in a T-shirt and underpants. T…

This is beautiful and breathtaking - teaching teachers in Palestine. Everything Turns Away Quite Leisurely twocoatsofpaint.com/2025/02/ever...

ARTICLE: The Rise of the Displaced Artist in Europe: Does the Arts Sector Share a Collective Responsibility? — Warszawskie Obserwatorium Kultury Does the arts sector in Europe have a collective responsibility for artists who have been relocated or displaced due to persecution or abuse of their human rights? I would say yes, the arts sector eve...

Look - it’s in English - how artists become at risk and what happens after…https://wok.art.pl/en/dzialania/on-the-wok-radar/artykul-rosnie-liczba-przesiedlonych-artystow-w-europie-czy-branza-artystyczna-ponosi-zbiorowa-odpowiedzialnosc/

Israel kills three Palestinians in Gaza City, steps up West Bank raids Israeli snipers kill and wound Palestinians near Gaza border as raid on Nur Shams kills pregnant woman and her fetus.

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Rojava in the new Syria: an update Turkey is still bombing them and needs to be told to stop

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Essential for anyone concerned about how to resist :https://meditations-in-an-emergency.ghost.io/the-nature-of-our-power-a-conversation-with-political-scientist-erica-chenoweth/?ref=meditations-in-an-emergency-newsletter

Robert Reich on Substack As Trump tries to dismantle the Department of Education, remember that his plan to cut the corporate tax rate to 15% would give the 100 largest corporations a tax cut larger than the entire department...

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Fareed Armaly Rejects German Prize, Citing “Disturbing Trend of Censorship” The artist and curator turned down the Käthe Kollwitz Prize from the Academy of the Arts, citing the German state’s crackdown on advocacy for Palestinian rights.

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Just started reading Pankaj Mishra’s The World After Gaza. It looks deep…

Serbia’s students are showing the world how to restore democratic hope | Adriana Zaharijević

Trump is unleashing sadism upon the world. But we cannot get overwhelmed | Judith Butler

Palestine is not for sale. (But as Riyad Mansour, leader of the Pal Delegation to the UN says, if Trump’wants to move Garand out, he can help them move back into their former homes now occupied by Israelis! 😂

So Trump pulled out of all UN bodies and will not only redevelop Gaza as a resort but OWN it. No Palestinians allowed. Either I’m dreaming or ‘when they go low….’ Has a new level of ´low’. This is total evil insanity.

Why are the Democrats so spineless? | Moira Donegan No wonder the American public thinks of Democrats as out of touch, opportunistic and cowardly. That is because they are

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Over 1,000 EPA Workers on Climate Change and More Could Be Fired ‘Immediately’ (Gift Article) A spokeswoman for Lee Zeldin, the new head of the agency, said the goal was to create an “effective and efficient” federal work force.

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