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1. #BoliviaEnCrisis Reminder: By rights, as an unelected interim government, Jeanine Añez's administration has zero mandate and shouldn't be doing anything permanent or disruptive before elections. But of course she is. Examples to follow…
   Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 16 Retweets ❤️ 39 Favorites 2019 Dec 10 Mood -2 🙁
2. To critics of #AnthroBoycott: What about “academic freedom” for the children of Gaza? salon.com/2015/05/27/to_critics_of_the_academic_boycott_of_israel_what_about_academic_freedom_for_the_children_of_gaza/ #AAA2015
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3. Better Identification of Viking Corpses Reveals: Half of the Warriors Were Female tor.com/blogs/2014/09/female-viking-warriors-proof-swords #anthropology
   Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 15 Retweets ❤️ 6 Favorites 2014 Sep 2 Mood +2 🙂
4. Within 4 days of Jeanine Áñez assuming the presidency a US company was lobbying hard to sell tear gas and riot munitions to her government. Within a month, they had inked a contract to upsell gear for a $2.2M profit, with $500K+ returning to Bolivian officials as bribes. @AndeanInfoNet/1397209488457977861
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5. 1 true 2 true theoretically, false in practice 3 false 4 indirectly true 5 unproven, and we should have some proof by now 6 split decision 7 true, and they won more because Evo was gone 8 true!

   
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6. #BoliviaEnCrisis #Senkata Here are the words of one survivor of the Senkata massacre, Betina Gutierrez: “I am a dead woman living, I am the witness who survived. I was there in the blockade, and we weren’t fifty people altogether. …

   
   Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 15 Retweets ❤️ 20 Favorites 2019 Dec 22 Mood -1 🙁
7. #BoliviaEnCrisis #FraudeElectoral #EleccionesBo2019 A quick summary of the OAS report on the October 20 election… Partisan officials w/in the electoral apparatus had the time, means, and opportunity to electronically alter the vote. 1/
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8. It's challenging to find a more anti-feminist federal law since 1980 than welfare reform in 1996. #WhichHillary
   Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 14 Retweets ❤️ 20 Favorites 2016 May 21 Mood 0
9. Deforestation (measured as loss of primary forest) in Bolivia accelerated to record levels in 2021, reports Global Forest Watch. Bolivia lost 291,379 hectares of primary forest, they estimate. news.mongabay.com/2022/04/2021-tropical-forest-loss-figures-put-zero-deforestation-goal-by-2030-out-of-reach/

   
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10. ICYMI, a thread on the strategic and moral questions for the left on Ukraine. TL;DR, a capitalist imperial power just launched an invasion of a country its empire has long dominated. @CarwilBJ/1496738677770305536
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11. #BoliviaElection #EleccionesBolivia2020 According to exit surveys, the MAS-IPSP won. And they won by winning back the votes they lost in the west and Chuquisaca between 2014 and 2019. (my chart based on Ciesmori results)

    
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12. There are more distinct languages spoken in the red areas than the grey areas of this map. #languagediversity #anthrotwitter

    
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13. Here's what we can learn about deadly political violence during the Evo Morales administration by putting it in context of the 38 years of democracy since 1982: 1. The Morales years were a return to the low levels of state-perpetrated violence that prevailed from 1982 to 1995.

    
    Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 14 Retweets ❤️ 29 Favorites 2020 May 21 Mood -9 🙁
14. The Añez government appears to be making arrests on the hypothesis that Cuban, Venezuelan, and Colombian activists are behind / assisting the anti-coup mobilizations. #BoliviaEnCrisis
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15. Many in El Alto have been striking in protest of Evo Morales' removal, while an increasing number of neighborhoods have denounced pressure w/in and between neighborhoods to mobilize. paginasiete.bo/nacional/2019/11/16/el-alto-cumple-su-quinto-dia-de-movilizaciones-entre-division-debilitamiento-237575.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter&__twitter_impression=true
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16. Bolivian @judith_apaza writes this important thread "So that we can understand one another a bit, from the point of view of El Alto." My translation follows… @judith_apaza/1194315793514848258 #ElAlto #BoliviaQuierePaz #BoliviaEnCrisis
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17. …in reply to @CarwilBJ
    The present moment could still become a coup if power is kept in the hands of the military, or transferred to Camacho, or the military suppresses the MAS-IPSP. Stay vigilant for these things, and demand they do otherwise.
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18. Jeanine Añez sworn in as Bolivia's president after 2 parliamentary maneuvers, and while Evo Morales' MAS-IPSP boycotts session. erbol.com.bo/nacional/jeanine-a%C3%B1ez-se-declara-presidenta-y-asume-con-apoyo-de-c%C3%ADvicos
    Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 14 Retweets ❤️ 27 Favorites 2019 Nov 12 Mood -2 🙁
19. The simultaneous fires in Bolivia are, just as in Brazil, a political choice with dire environmental consequences, made by a government that openly proposed rainforest destruction. sciencealert.com/it-s-not-just-brazil-s-amazon-bolivia-s-vital-forests-are-on-fire-too/amp
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20. Solar power workers outnumber coal miners 2-1 in the USA. fortune.com/2015/01/16/solar-jobs-report-2014/
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21. In 2000, the Democratic Party chose to lose the presidency rather than defend disenfranchised Black voters: usccr.gov/pubs/vote2000/report/exesum.htm
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22. The "working poor" … are in fact the major philanthropists of our society —Barbara Ehrenreich

    
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23. Charlotte approved new $600,000 police command center for DNC w/ “as little disruption as possible” bit.ly/sTHkvZ #Occupy
    Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 13 Retweets ❤️ 2 Favorites 2011 Oct 31 Mood 0
24. Disabled rights activists talk about "eugenics" in the present tense for the same reasons that antiracists talk about "white supremacy" in the present tense. Whether that feels confusing, alienating or insightful in an unsettling way depends on the larger conversation you're in. @Karl_Appuhn/1476730337711566848
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25. …in reply to @CarwilBJ
    Meanwhile, Lasso's delegation (CREO) to the National Assembly is outnumbered both by Arauz's Union for Hope (49 seats) and the alliance between Pachakutik and the Democratic Left (45 seats combined). All of the latter could resist his economic vision.

    
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26. I wish everyone attempting to transform our world could carry this insight with them. @BlackSocialists/1280495777668833280
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27. #Bolivia #COVID19 An infected woman in Santa Cruz de la Sierra was turned away from five medical facilities. Either the doctors or relatives of patients blockaded her from entering. She is being care for in the open yard of the departmental government palace.
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28. #BoliviaEnCrisis Seven weeks after Evo Morales' ouster, and after a month without bloodshed, the interim government has floated two ominous ideas: militarizing the Chapare and deactivating parliament. Keep watching.
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29. Bolivian National Police unveils 80-member "anti-terrorist" unit with firearms and covered faces. erbol.com.bo/seguridad/polic%C3%ADa-presenta-unidad-especial-para-combatir-el-terrorismo
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30. Heads up, Englishl left Twitter, academics like me who speak critically of Evo at times are 10-25%as critical as the Bolivian activists and academics whose carried out the revolution that brought him to power.
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31. Please sign this statement to put pressure on the Añez government in Bolivia, and its backers, to respect human rights. forms.gle/jo5wUXLWkpUX6eqq6 #BoliviaEnCrisis #HumanRights #DerechosHumanos
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32. …in reply to @CarwilBJ
    While Alteños are united in their defense of the wiphala, they disagree sharply on party politics. Don't assume unanimity in this Aymara city.
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33. Several of the leading lights of the Bolivian populist left, the Cochabamba factory workers, Potosi cooperative miners, El Alto neighborhood councils, and TIPNIS indigenous are all calling for new elections. #BoliviaElecciones2019
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34. Facts on gender violence. #16Days unwomen.org/en/digital-library/multimedia/2015/11/infographic-violence-against-women

    
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35. Canadians restore their country to role of preferred location for disappointed US liberals to pretend to move to.
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36. Democrats didn't prioritize voting rights or ending the filibuster or giving DC representatiion because they WANT to perpetually claim they don't quite have power. Because their brand is making promises their funders don't want them to keep. @CarwilBJ/1518918399551807488
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37. NYPD deploys kettle wall at 14th & 5th. March evades to the east. #occupywallst
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38. We are only thousands today. We want to be all of you. #occupywallst
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39. A recurring problem in Bolivia is one-eye-shut perspectives where (many external or pro-MAS) left observers only mention abuses by the right, and (many external or anti-MAS) right observers only mention abuses by the MAS. The solution is a more complete accounting. (thread) @jderpic/1377063613106642945
    Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 12 Retweets ❤️ 52 Favorites 2021 Apr 1 Mood -7 🙁
40. The Democratic Party literally owes everything to social movements. Something tells me we will have to remind them of this often.
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