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...Nisa Göksel Abstract This essay begins with the formation of solidarities among women's movements in Turkey during the period of the peace process. It focuses on events that took place between March 8, 2013, the beginning of the peace process, and March 8, 2017, when women activists in Turkey...

...Paola Rudan; ∫connessioni Precarie; Non Una di Meno Roma Abstract Commenting on three activist documents on the global women's strike published by the Italian network Non Una di Meno and by the collective ∫connessioni precarie, this text reads the March 8 strike in Italy as part of a transnational...

...Ramsey McGlazer Abstract This special section gathers activist texts and theoretical reflections on the International Women's Strike of March 8, 2017. Contributors from Turkey, Argentina, Poland, and Italy consider the strike's implications and effects, emphasizing the ways in which it both indexes...

... oppressions. Centering intersectionality as methodology works to disrupt archaic perspectives on what is and is not activism, thought, or feminist work. Relying on the intellectual work of student-activists in the movement, otherwise known as “fallists,” and memory and story-telling as methodological tools...

...Dickens Leonard Abstract Reflecting on the “suicide” of the anti-caste student activist in India, Rohith Vemula, now a Dalit icon, this paper looks at the various meanings that his suicide note generates for the Dalit present. Mobilizing historical and philosophical material, particularly the work...

... presents a set of demands which include that Articles 370 and 35A of India's constitution be reinstated; that the popular participation of Kashmiri people in any further policy decision be ensured; that all political leaders, social activists, youth, and children be released; and that special provisions...

... supremacist and fascist speakers sheltered under the auspices of “free speech.” This toolkit gathers info-tracts, syllabi, flyer templates, and other activist materials collected and widely distributed across campuses in preparation to protest Breitbart journalist Milo Yiannopoulos's 2016 “Dangerous Faggot...

...Kali Rubaii Abstract The Tigris and Euphrates Rivers are the sacred world-makers and life-sustainers of Iraq. At the same time, war has transformed them into toxified vectors of disease, death, and neglect. The “river protectors” (some of them identifying as activists, others not) strive to protect...

...Blu Buchanan; Amara Miller Abstract As scholar-activists, the authors explore efforts of police disarmament within the context of an emerging social movement sweeping the University of California system. The Disarm UC coalition challenges the myth of policing as necessary for the production...

...Ruy Llera Blanes; Hitler Samussuku Abstract This dispatch examines contemporary activist movements in Angola and their political utopias, namely their relevance to citizenship and governance, and their increasing importance in the political landscape. The authors describe the civic mobilization...

.... In the Argentine case, ensuring abortion access in public health institutions, with the help of activist professionals, allowed for the broadening of biomedical frameworks and a move toward more holistic approaches. Third, the essay analyzes how increasing access to medication abortion challenged monopolistic...

... Sisters Kitchen in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in April 2023. Natalia Brizuela, Samera Esmeir, Alyosha Goldstein, and Rebecca Schreiber brought together scholars, activists, poets, and artists whose work critically engages the modern border regime as a geopolitical technology indispensable to practices...

...Angela Smith Abstract European social movements in solidarity with migrants have taken many forms, from maritime struggles at the edge of territory to antideportation protests in urban centers. Over the last five years, a new site of solidarity and struggle has emerged in the skies, with activist...

... or unidirectional movement; rather, it undulates in multiple directions, demonstrating a dynamic historical memory important for political mobilization. Bolaño's poetic rendering of state violence against student activists registers the temporal and global manifestations of past struggles as well as their future...

... of the rescuers; Maurice Stierl describes a border zone in which activist practices fall within a wide humanitarian spectrum. 33 At the same time, the sea creates an opportunity for civil society to tighten human rights protections while thwarting state enforcement procedures. Rescuers can effectively...

... 15, 2019. Photograph by Gaurav J. Pathania. On January 17, 2016, a lower caste PhD student at the University of Hyderabad (UoH) named Rohith Vemula ended his life by hanging in a dormitory room. Vemula, a senior activist of the Ambedkar Student Association, 7 was expelled from...

... green tide led by thousands of Latin American women since the emergence of the Not One Less movement in 2015. In March of that year a group of feminist activists and writers (including López, at the time the director of the National Library's Museo del Libro y de la Lengua in Buenos Aires) organized...

...Cecilia Sosa [email protected] © 2022 Cecilia Sosa 2022 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of a Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). There is a poignant, personal question underlying Not One Less : “Can a person write as an activist...

... that “language, incontestably, reveals the speaker. Language, also, far more dubiously, is meant to define the other—and, in this case, the other is refusing to be defined by a language that has never been able to recognize him.” 5 Undocumented youth, sanctuary coalitions, and activists in the United States...

...) and participating in the work of one of the movement's assemblies, Earth, Bodies, Territories, and Urban Spaces. One of the many groups forming the movement, this assembly brings together activists from different localities and points to the intersection between various issues and struggles: while challenging...