Most Popular Tweets (Page 7 of 10)
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Division in El Alto follows militant anti-coup protests woborders.blog/2019/11/18/division-el-alto/
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Temporal anomaly #1: @MarkWeisbrot claims "There were perfectly legitimate reasons for the government to stop the quick count when it did." and cites violent election protests as the key reason.
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A word about Wednesday's killings in Montero, Santa Cruz, the first two deaths in the #BoliviaElecciones2019 conflict. #Bolivia (thread)
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I'm here for –leftists who support worker's struggles in every country, even so-called "communist" ones –Indigenous activists who support land defense and autonomy, whether the ruling party is "Indigenous" or not –peace activists who refuse empire and occupation under every flag
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The latest data on the Bolivia fires is very bad news: 4.1 M hectares burned nationwide, 3.07M hectares in Santa Cruz; 1.48M hectares of forest burned, nearly all in Santa Cruz. incendios.fan-bo.org/Satrifo/reportes/IncendiosSCZ-FAN-15092019.pdf #BoliviaFires #SOSChiquitanía
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#TIPNIS Highway Conflict: Overview woborders.blog/2017/08/03/emergency-protests-as-bolivian-legislature-considers-bill-to-allow-tipnis-highway-live-blogging/ Sham consultation woborders.blog/2017/08/04/2012-tipnis-consultation/ Alternatives woborders.blog/2017/07/31/civic-committees-highway/
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Perilous times in Bolivia: Evo Morales faces credible charges of statutory rape, survived police gunfire, and has led a 24-day blockade campaign that has divided the left and alienated many other Bolivians. Here's my coverage: nacla.org/evo-morales-center-firestorm
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Bolivian prosecutors have issued an arrest warrant for Evo Morales over sex with an underage girl. The underlying allegations, made public in 2020, are credible. AND Morales is in a pre-election bid to reclaim leadership of his party from current president Luis Arce.
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Bolivia re-commits to massive new dams, gas plants to produce surplus electricity la-razon.com/economia/Bolivia-exportara-MW-termoelectricas-hidroelectricas_0_2547945256.html
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Among the things Democratic legislators (w or w/o Collins and Murkowski) can do this year: end the Hyde Amendment, authorize abortions via TRICARE, allow the Indian Health Service to provide abortions, allow Navy and Marines personnel leave for abortion care (Army, AF already do)
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Donna Edwards (D-Md.) ends insurgent campaign by taking on Democratic Party orthodoxy mondoweiss.net/2016/04/donna-edwards-ends-insurgent-campaign-by-taking-on-democratic-party-orthodoxy-and-supporters-vow-to-continue-the-fight/#sthash.HP9HJTJB.dpuf
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Beyond a Radical Minority: My Interview with Anarchist Writer Chris Dixon bit.ly/dixonAgency
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Kichwa leader & lawyer Carlos Perez Guartambel pleads for his wife #ManuelaPicq to not be deported. larepublica.ec/blog/portada/2015/08/14/carlos-perez-guartambel-sale-del-hospital-y-pide-por-manuela-picq/
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The supermarket and elementary school killings this month would be historic massacres if they occurred in many countries, including Bolivia where pivotal mass killings in 1988, 2008, and 2019 all had fewer victims than the Uvalde shooting. @ABilbaoLaVieja/1529409882084061187
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Anarchism: Shut down what's destructive to human life and run what's needed from bottom up. #GOPshutdown is the opposite.
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Multiple concerns about new @CDCgov pandemic monitoring service, given reporting that this team has been operating informally since December. Analogy is supposed to be @NWS. @DCDoc33/1516368751528136709
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Out of our beds, into the streets! #Occupy #S17
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Free University of NYC to create a university in publics, open to all, without debt or tuition, on May Day maydaynyc.org/freeuniversity
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Reports: Vice Mayor Sharon Cornu has resigned in protest over Quan's #OccupyOakland stance. Her bio is here: bit.ly/rRwgeI
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ACLU: You Have Every Right to Photograph That Cop bit.ly/oRh9OM #OccupyWallSt
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Brazil proposes financial rescue of Portugal. Former colony has economy 10x bigger http://bit.ly/en5Zut
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In the early 21st century, there are at least three independent great powers: the US (& many allies), Russia, and China. All are expansionist. All are capitalist.
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California state agency files lawsuit alleging a devastating and systematic pattern of anti-Black racial discrimination and segregation at Tesla's Fremont auto factory. #Tesla #racism arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/02/tesla-factory-is-racially-segregated-workplace-calif-state-agency-alleges/
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It's fair to say that Bolivia is not on-track for any of its deforestation related climate pledges made back in 2015, including the promise to eliminate illegal deforestation by 2020. www4.unfccc.int/sites/submissions/INDC/Published%20Documents/Bolivia/1/INDC-Bolivia-english.pdf
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Sergio Rodrigo Méndez Mendizabal, the bribe recipient and chief of staff for Interior Minister Arturo Murillo, was arrested last Friday in Florida. paginasiete.bo/nacional/2021/5/25/caso-gases-cae-en-eeuu-exjefe-de-gabinete-de-murillo-acusado-de-recibir-sobornos-296125.html
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This Monday afternoon, I'll be speaking on "After Evo, A Return to the Grassroots? Understanding Bolivia’s New Left Coalition." @CLACS_Illinois/1362489027023298564
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Last fall, Dawn Marie Paley and @TowardFreedom invited the English-speaking world into the rich variety of Latin American left perspectives on Bolivia. That work was invaluable, but evidently not valued by readers who prefer uncomplicated certainties. @dawn_/1322201382049501186
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This language from Arce—"our errors as the MAS" "redirect [reconducir] the process of change"—is straight from the critical, organic tradition within the Bolivian left grassroots. @LaRazon_Bolivia/1318049936647344131
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Join me Wednesday for: Bolivia, the end of a cycle? Social movements & the current political crisis Register here: eventbrite.ca/e/bolivia-the-end-of-a-cycle-tickets-121990706487
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Thirty-two years ago today, thousands of coca growers protesting a proposed ban on the leaf and chemical eradication gathered in Villa Tunari to prepare an unarmed takeover of the drug policing barracks in their region. The next day, at least nine of them would die.
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My new article examines Unarmed Militancy: fierce, confrontational, property-destroying and property-repurposing forms of mass action that coexist within a larger strategy of mass mobilization. Just published in American Anthropologist. woborders.blog/unarmed-militancy/
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I'm so happy to have my book, The Sovereign Street: Making Revolution in Urban Bolivia, in my own hands. Grateful to so many Bolivians for opening their lives to me and to @AZpress for all their hard work in editing and producing it. More on the book: mailchi.mp/fc4a307f88c5/the-sovereign-street-an-ethnography-of-revolution-comes-out-in-march
















