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your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦<p>for those wondering about <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Wisconsin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Wisconsin</span></a>, two words: <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LABOR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LABOR</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UNIONS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UNIONS</span></a></p><p>here’s tangential mini-thread i wrote about how Wisconsin was one of the big stories of 2011 during the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ArabSpring" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ArabSpring</span></a> and how without Winconsin’s <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Walkerville" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Walkerville</span></a>, there would have never been a <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Bloombergville" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bloombergville</span></a> nor an <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OccupyWallStreet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OccupyWallStreet</span></a>. </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/@blogdiva/112338577636244942" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mastodon.social/@blogdiva/1123</span><span class="invisible">38577636244942</span></a> </p><p>and wanna give a special shout out to Wisconsin’s teachers’ unions; who relentlessly took on the Koch brothers and won.</p>
Gladwyn d’Souza<p><a href="https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/10/sen-bob-menendez-charged-with-acting-as-a-foreign-agent-for-egypt/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">motherjones.com/politics/2023/</span><span class="invisible">10/sen-bob-menendez-charged-with-acting-as-a-foreign-agent-for-egypt/</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/FistBump" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>FistBump</span></a> real politics: armed sales to The dictatorship that shut down the <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/ArabSpring" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ArabSpring</span></a>, to protect <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/CarbonBomb" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>CarbonBomb</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/oil" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>oil</span></a> shipments through the Suez, and impoverish the population by corruptly controlling the price of <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/CarbonBomb" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>CarbonBomb</span></a> meat from degraded <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/TragedyOfEnclosure" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>TragedyOfEnclosure</span></a> native lands here.</p><p>NoTHiNg tO SeE hEre! ☀️🏖️</p>
Gladwyn d’Souza<p>Subverting <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/HumanRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>HumanRights</span></a> to secure <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/CarbonBomb" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>CarbonBomb</span></a> shipping lanes: The kingdom has failed to find social peace since the <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/ArabSpring" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ArabSpring</span></a> unrest of 2011.</p><p><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/FistBumpPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>FistBumpPolitics</span></a><br /><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/PetroOligarchsAreRICO" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>PetroOligarchsAreRICO</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/WhiteFaceBlackFuel" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WhiteFaceBlackFuel</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.ft.com/content/0bae8183-2663-49a6-acb7-eee1fbd6baac" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">ft.com/content/0bae8183-2663-4</span><span class="invisible">9a6-acb7-eee1fbd6baac</span></a></p>
Sherifa Zuhur<p>See Hesham Sallam on Twitter on « @IMESatGWU book launch of &quot;Struggles for Political Change in the Arab World: Regimes, Oppositions, and External Actors after the Spring&quot; (@UofMPress)</p><p>The edited volume is available for free via open access: bit.ly/3RjB7yE <br /><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/ArabSpring" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ArabSpring</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/MENA" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>MENA</span></a></p>
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