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By Leonardo Flores, Popular Resistance. November 11, 2020 | Strategize! Above photo: Bolivians celebrate the MAS-IPSP victory. EFE. Tens of thousands of people took to the streets in Bolivia on November 8 to celebrate the inauguration of President Luis Arce. They would celebrate again the next day, as former president Evo Morales re-entered the country […]
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Challenges For Social Movements Now That Trump Has Been Defeated
November 10th, 2020 
Awake Goy Change doesn’t come from the top, especially within a manipulated ‘democracy’ as exists in the United States. When social transformation occurs, it follows years of educating, organizing and mobilizing at the grassroots. Elected leaders who represent that transformation ride on a wave created by social movements, not the other way around. As many people around […]
Social Movements Can Win Even With A Hostile Supreme Court
November 3rd, 2020 Awake Goy Above photo: A protestor holds up a sign during a protest calling for the Republican Senate to delay the confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Nominee Amy Coney Barrett at the U.S. Capitol on October 22, 2020 in Washington, D.C. Jemal Countess/Getty Images for Care in Action. With the confirmation of Amy Coney Barrett, how will […]
Popular Movements Can Overcome Authoritarian Policing
July 27th, 2020 Awake Goy 
Popular Movements Can Overcome Authoritarian Policing Above photo: Portland protests say Go Home Feds as protests grow. By Noah Berger, AP. Today is the 60th day of protests since the murder of George Floyd. This weekend, people marched in cities across the country in solidarity with Portland and in opposition to the US becoming a police state. […]
People’s Movements Protest Neoliberal Policies In Haiti
June 7th, 2018 Awake Goy People’s Movements Protest Neoliberal Policies In Haiti Above Photo: From Thedawn-news.org On the morning of May 25th, a large group of people’s organizations of Haiti mobilized in the capital, Puerto Principe, demanding the fulfillment of an extension agenda of demands from the State and the president Jovenel Moïse. The mobilization was called by an platform known […]
8 Lessons For Today’s Youth-Led Movements From A Decade Of Youth Climate Organizing
May 9th, 2018 Awake Goy 8 Lessons For Today’s Youth-Led Movements From A Decade Of Youth Climate Organizing Above Photo: Climate justice activists protest the Dakota Access pipeline outside the White House in February 2017. (Flickr / Stephen Melkisethian) On March 24, I stood in the rain in front of City Hall in Bellingham, Washington with some 3,000 people for […]
The Historic Korean Peace Declaration Was Made Possible By Social Movements, Not Trump
May 4th, 2018 Awake Goy The Historic Korean Peace Declaration Was Made Possible By Social Movements, Not Trump Above Photo: Protesters against U.S, President Donlad Trump gather during a rally in the Gwanghwamun area of central Seoul on November 7, 2017. (ED JONES/AFP/Getty Images) A conversation with peace activist Christine Ahn. President Donald Trump—who has previously threatened the entire Korean […]
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No Comments »Philippines, Honduras Are Embracing RFID Technology To Track Citizens’ Movements
March 11th, 2018 Awake Goy In the not-too-distant future, law enforcement will be able to easily track our movements thanks to microchips, which some workers – as we’ve previously reported. Indeed, some people are happily lining up to be microchipped – even throwing parties to celebrate their coworkers embracing the microchipping phenomenon, without any regard to how this […]
Posted in World News Tags: citizens, embracing, honduras, movements, Philippines, technology, track No Comments »Our Movements Are Greater Than Trump
January 29th, 2018 Awake Goy Our Movements Are Greater Than Trump President Trump and thousands of other designated world leaders arrived in Davos, Switzerland this week for the annual World Economic Forum (WEF). The last sitting US president to attend was Bill Clinton twenty years ago. The WEF is where the elites cut deals and hatch schemes together to enrich […]
How Movements Can Turn Money Into Victories
December 14th, 2017 Awake Goy How Movements Can Turn Money Into Victories Above Photo: A rally from the successful campaign to stop the Port Ambrose LNG project in NY State. As an organizer in the climate movement, I don’t usually have a lot of spare cash to donate to the cause. (Still waiting on that Soros money!) But since the people […]
Did the CIA use Gloria Steinem to subvert the feminist & civil rights movements for the purpose of further separating people?
December 12th, 2017 Awake Goy Co-opting Radical Feminism for Corporate Interests While preeminent American feminist Gloria Steinem’s CIA background receives wide attention on the Internet, it’s a totally taboo topic in either the corporate or the so-called “alternative” media. Steinem’s work for the CIA front group Independent Research Service first entered the public domain in 1967 when Ramparts magazine […]
Posted in World News Tags: civil, feminist, gloria, movements, rights, steinem, subvert No Comments »#COINTELPRO: Disrupting Resistance Movements In The Digital Age
November 29th, 2017 Awake Goy Google is blocking our site. Please use the social media sharing buttons (upper left) to share this on your social media and help us break through. Trials began last week in the historic prosecution of nearly 200 “J20” defendants indiscriminately arrested en masse during protests against Trump’s inauguration in Washington, DC, each facing more than 60 years […]
These Tiny Grassroots Movements Are Making a Big Bang
November 22nd, 2017 Awake Goy November 22nd, 2017 By Carolanne Wright Contributing writer for Wake Up World From Little Free Libraries to buy-nothing projects, these tiny grassroots movements are making a big bang. When my young daughter and I were in Washington D.C. last year, we stumbled upon a beautiful Little Free Library during our daily meandering through the city. We were […]
7 Independence Movements That Could Destroy The EU
October 6th, 2017 Awake Goy Catalonia continues to press on with its independence movement, much to the dismay of Spain and the European Union. But Catalonia is not the only region in the EU demanding more autonomy or independence. Here are seven regions in the European Union that may seek separation, and cause more fragmentation in an already weakened […]
Single Payer Is On The National Agenda—And It’s Thanks To People’s Movements
September 17th, 2017 Awake Goy Note: While single payer, improved Medicare for all is the answer to the health crisis in the United States (and it is a crisis when tens of thousands are dying each year) that does not mean Senator Sanders has it right. We will be issues an analysis of the Sanders bill. At this stage I […]
Conference to Bring Together Environmental and Peace Movements
September 4th, 2017 Awake Goy Conference to Bring Together Environmental and Peace Movements By DavidSwansonwashingtonsblog.com http://worldbeyondwar.org/nowar2017 Media, including live or recorded video, welcome. Speakers will include: Medea Benjamin, Nadine Bloch, Max Blumenthal, Natalia Cardona, Suzanne Cole, Alice Day, Lincoln Day, Tim DeChristopher, Dale Dewar, Pat Elder, Bruce Gagnon, Philip Giraldi, Will Griffin, Seymour Hersh, Tony Jenkins, Larry Johnson, Kathy Kelly, […]
Posted in World News, World Politics Tags: bring, conference, environmental, movements, peace, together No Comments »Racial Justice Must Be Central To Our Movements
August 30th, 2017 Awake Goy A number of statues were erected even later, “during the height of the civil rights movement,” as a response from Southern states “thumbing their noses at the federal government as the United States was dismantling Jim Crow segregation.” So rather than being monuments to “the history and culture of our great country,” as Trump lamented on […]
These Are The Dozens Of Movements Underway To Remove Confederate Monuments
August 22nd, 2017 Awake Goy Above Photo: L to R: a Lexington, Kentucky, statue of John C. Breckinridge, the 14th vice president of the U.S. and a slave owner; a Charlottesville, Virginia, statue of Gen. Robert E. Lee; a New Orleans statue of Confederate president Jefferson Davis. Source: Getty Images/Mic Help Us Identify More. Thanks to the Mic readers who helped us […]
Posted in World News Tags: confederate, dozens, monuments, movements, remove, these, underway No Comments »How Movements Can Succeed In The Face Of Government Repression
August 14th, 2017 Awake Goy Above Photo: Christian JSger/ Getty Imges Published in collaboration with the Peace Science Digest, which summarizes and reflects on current academic research in the field of peace and conflict studies. A greater number of resistance movements are choosing to adopt nonviolent forms of struggle as the effectiveness of nonviolent resistance becomes more widely known. At the […]
Pundits Seize On Tragic Shooting To Demonize Left-Wing Social Movements
June 15th, 2017 Awake Goy An SUV, with a bullet hole in the windshield and a flat tire, sits in the parking lot at the scene of a multiple shooting in Alexandria, Va, June 14, 2017, during a congressional baseball practice. (AP/Cliff Owen) Published in partnership with Shadowproof. A vibrant movement for economic and social justice in the United States […]
Posted in World News, World Order, World Politics Tags: demonize, movements, pundits, seize, shooting, social, tragic No Comments »Reactivating Activists: The Failure of Modern Protest Movements
June 2nd, 2017 Awake Goy 21st Century Wire says… Why are modern activist movements failing miserably? That question and much more is discussed in the following video interview, touching on why modern protest movements are mostly a failure, the possibility on President Donald Trump being impeached, and why focusing on the fake news Russian election interference “scandal” is entirely the […]
Posted in Jewish New World Order, Jewish News, World News, World Politics Tags: activists, failure, modern, movements, protest, reactivating No Comments »To Prevent Or Stop Wars: What Can Peace Movements Do?
May 3rd, 2017 Awake Goy Above Photo: Flickr/ Brooke Anderson To Prevent or Stop Wars: What Can Peace Movements Do? By Christine Schweitzer and Jørgen Johansen, Irene Publishing, September 2016, 142 pp. 1 May 2017 – Christine Schweitzer, the current chair of the War Resisters’ International and very involved with the Balkans Peace Team during the 1980s Yugoslav wars, has written a useful analysis of […]
Barghouti: BDS is growing as Israel becomes associated with far-right movements around the world
April 26th, 2017 Awake Goy After overcoming multiple legal and administrative hurdles, including an Israeli-imposed travel ban, Omar Barghouti, co-founder of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, appeared on a panel at Columbia University last night entitled “The Road to Freedom: The BDS Movement for Palestinian Rights and the Struggle Against Apartheid.” The event was organized by Columbia University […]
Posted in World News Tags: associated, barghouti, becomes, growing, israel, movements, right No Comments »Massachusetts AG Unilaterally Changes Gun Laws, Even Bans Replica “Assault Rifles”
July 21st, 2016 Awake Goy The enforcement notice clarifies what constitutes a “copy” or “duplicate” weapon under the assault weapons ban. Copies or duplicates of banned assault rifles, including copies of the Colt AR-15 and the Kalashnikov AK-47, are prohibited by the Massachusetts assault weapons ban. Despite the law, an estimated 10,000 copycat assault weapons were sold in Massachusetts […]
Protests Across the Country In Response To Police Killings
July 9th, 2016 Awake Goy Print Friendly Above: Dallas protest against police shootings of African Americans, from Black Voice News. In response to the police killings of Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge, LA and Philando Castile in Falcon Heights, Minnesota there were protests held in many cities across the country. In Baton Rouge, mourners placed candles and flowers in the parking lot […]
Posted in World News Tags: black, cofounder, lives, matter, movements, reflects, years No Comments »Makran Petchem facility to produce 26m tons of petrochemicals
June 17th, 2016 Awake Goy Chabahar, Hormuzgan Prov., June 16, IRNA – Director of Makran Petrochemical Complex Jahanbakhsh Jaafari said on Thursday that his facility will produce about 26 million tons of products, about 22 million tons for exports. Jaafari told IRNA that the rest of the output will serve as the feedstock for the petrochemical facilities and the downstream […]
Posted in Jew World Order, Jewish News Tags: campaign, clamp, heads, hillary, hopeful, movements, online, Resistance No Comments »Flint The Stage Is Set For Riots
June 6th, 2016 Awake Goy Print Friendly Above Photo: Justin King in Ferguson. Flint, Michigan (TFC) – The United States has seen more than its fair share of riots over the last couple of years. Many like to see riots as spontaneous events that are completely unpredictable; and some forms of riots are, such as those after sporting events. Most, however, are very […]
Sandy Hook Actor In Dual Roles as FBI Agent and Grieving “Dad”
May 9th, 2016 Awake Goy NRA Revealed As Complicit in Sandy Hook Coverup More proof Sandy Hook Hoax Organized by Obama, DHS and FEMA: In this video you will learn – beyond a reasonable doubt – that David Wheeler is a professional actor who (1) played the role of an FBI SWAT agent and (2) Played the father of a […]
Sandy Hook Actor In Dual Roles as FBI Agent and Grieving “Dad”
May 9th, 2016 Awake Goy NRA Revealed As Complicit in Sandy Hook Coverup More proof Sandy Hook Hoax Organized by Obama, DHS and FEMA: In this video you will learn – beyond a reasonable doubt – that David Wheeler is a professional actor who (1) played the role of an FBI SWAT agent and (2) Played the father of a […]
COMMENTARY: What’s Behind Russian Support For World’s Separatist Movements?
MOSCOW — Britain’s decision to leave the European Union is just the beginning if some in the Kremlin have their way. Northern Irish, Scottish, Basque, Catalan and Italian secessionists have been invited to Moscow for a conference, partly funded by Russia, planned for August. They will mingle with Texan, Californian, Puerto-Rican and Hawaiian wannabe-separatists from […]