#Protests

1. I have had an evolving view of Kejriwal.My initial response to him was scepticism. This was beacuse of the Jan Lokpal Bill: http://nagarikmancha.org/images/1244-Documents-Jan%20Lokpal%20Bill.pdfThis envisaged the creation of an authority
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what's going on in India right now: a summarised thread (please retweet) I'm sure you've seen this tweet from Rihanna (and perhaps similar ones from other celebrities)– which is now
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A quick thread on #Myitsone dam & #MyanmarChinaRelations in light of the SAC announcement that they would be restarting some stalled Chinese projects in Burma. This announcement has led to
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Have had a lot of people ask me, "What will happen in Portland, now that the feds are clearing out?" I've also had several people tell me. My gut reaction,
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J Cole is talking about how a person (in the song it is a woman) from privilege (good background, lucky to have educated parents that educated her on the struggles
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I am not really disappointed with #SupremeCourt ‘s stay on the implementation of the #NewFarmBills , even though prima facie it seems disappointing to many ! Putting a short thread
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Where are people at on the whole thing?I don't get "planned coup" vibes so much as a logical result of both an administrative reluctance to crack down on its supporters,
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Beyond his weird obsession with this woman, this is just an embarrassing misunderstanding of what privacy means.Privacy is not an all-or-nothing equation. It's about choosing WHAT you share and WITH
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1/ It’s just a mask.It’s just six feet.It’s just two weeks to flatten the curve.It’s just non-essential businesses.It’s just non-essential workers.It’s just a bar.It’s just a restaurant.It’s just
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Many scholars who never bothered to apply class and material analysis to the 2018 revolution have been dismissive towards it for the past 2 years calling it populism lacking in
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To be brutally clear: this legal change will force women to give birth to babies who will immediately die. That's it's main impact. Also, the court that took this decision
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If soldiers have to sleep in the Capitol, this is civil war. If Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley’s panic buttons were all removed from her office before the Capitol was ambushed, this
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As dawn sweeps westwards across Russia and protesters and OMON get to do their thing, the q arises of just what constitutes ‘success’ for both #Navalny and the Kremlin. An
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Every week, someone I know is leaving Afg. This includes human rights defenders, journalists, women’s rights activists, civil society activists. They are the ones who stayed after peaceful protests were
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What does a police murder have to do with public defense funding? Answer should be "nothing." But in Louisiana, it was everything. In 2016, Alton Sterling, a 37 y/o Black
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No BigTech at DOJhttps://twitter.com/clairekelloway/status/1350527469422571530 Amazon's Whole Foods just cut breaks for workers. (yes, during a pandemic.)https://www.vice.com/en/article/y3gqgx/whole-foods-is-cutting-thousands-of-workers
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