Essay by Michael Caster focused on the question: “Is the state actively engaged in decreasing participation in nonviolent resistance and delegitimizing Uyghur grievances by highlighting escalating violence?”
opendemocracy.net, October 10, 2014
The US Civil Rights Movement (1942-68) restored universal suffrage in the southern United States and outlawed legal segregation. The movement’s over…
From the authoritarian’s perspective, internal dissidents are easy to deal with – put them in jail, have them disappeared, exiled, or executed. It…
From article: Chinese activists are gradually strengthening the framing of domestic grievances with the vocabulary of international human rights, mark…
What were/are the lasting sources of discontent driving the increase in protest in China today? What tactics are Chinese activists employing and how h…