Author: Justin Podur
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Colombia: The Military, Peasants, and the Environment
Colombia witnessed a series of mass protests at the end of April following a call for a national strike. Still ongoing, the protests have many causes: an apparent “tax reform” … Keep reading »
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Policing the Poor and Minorities as Counter-Insurgency
The Minneapolis City Council’s attempt to defund police may have fizzled out for the moment, but the problem of police violence across the United States is unresolved – and much … Keep reading »
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The People of Colombia Are Cracking Up the Walls of War and Authoritarianism
The sustained protests are part of a larger trend against austerity and endless war. Keep reading »
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Imagine a Free Palestine
I wrote Siegebreakers because I can’t liberate Gaza or Palestine, but I can dream about it. I wanted it to be a proximate dream, a dream of the next step … Keep reading »
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The US’s Favorite Weapon: Sanctions Are Genocidal
Far from precision-guided munitions, sanctions are weapons of starvation, which target the most vulnerable civilians for slow and painful death by deprivation of food and medicine. Keep reading »
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Women Rise Up Against Gender Violence in the Caribbean
Justin Podur interviews Joan Joy Grant Cummings On March 11, survivors of violence against women and their allies and supporters held marches in six Caribbean countries. Started by two Barbadian women, … Keep reading »
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Community Resistance to the War on the Poor: The Online Course
Justin Podur interviews John Clarke and A.J. Withers In January 2016, John Clarke and A.J. Withers will be teaching the online course, “Community Resistance to the War on the Poor,” at … Keep reading »
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Elections Theater
For the past eleven years, since the coup and overthrow of the elected government in 2004, Haiti has been deemed so dysfunctional, so failed, a state, that the international community … Keep reading »
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Taking Action on Gaza
On August 1, 2014, three weeks into Israel’s assault on Gaza, people everywhere were holding fundraisers for medical aid and events to try to understand and figure out how to … Watch video »
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The Bastar Land Grab in India
An Interview with Sudha Bharadwaj Sudha Bharadwaj is a lawyer and a member of the People’s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL) and the Chhattisgarh Mukti Morcha (Mazdoor Karkyakarta Committee). CMM was … Keep reading »
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Haiti’s New Dictatorship
What constitutes a dictatorship? Haiti had an election in 2006, which the popular candidate won. It had an election in 2011, which had one of the lowest turnouts in recent … Keep reading »
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Goma Falls to Rwanda
Rebels, called the M23, have taken Goma, the main city of North Kivu, one of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)’s eastern provinces. Their plan is to march to Bukavu, … Keep reading »