Struggles for equality happen in all corners of the world. While social and economic justice movements are specific to their different national contexts, identities, and forms of oppression, ...collaboration and coalition building are required if we are to attain sustainable equality and healing justice. Organizing Equality engages activist and scholarly debates about the organization of social and economic equality movements around the globe. The collection covers a myriad of issues, approaches, and experiences, forging a link between critical scholarly studies and journalistic and artistic works that offer more personal and hands-on perspectives. Moving from a broad discussion of resistance and solidarity, contributors examine case studies in their specific national contexts, such as movement building in Greece, caste politics in India, land struggles in Guatemala, student debt resistance movements in the United States, and the fight to indigenize higher education in Canada. Organizing Equality encourages understanding and collaboration between opposing views as a means of discovering new practices of seeing, learning, organizing, and being together in our movements for equality.
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This updated edition of The World and Darfur brings together genocide scholars from a range of disciplines - social history, art history, military history, African studies, media studies, literature, ...political science, and sociology - to provide a cohesive and nuanced understanding of the international response to the crisis in Western Sudan. Contributing authors, including Eric Reeves, Frank Chalk, Eric Markusen, and Samuel Totten, look at the lessons learned from the United Nations' failure to intervene during the Rwandan genocide, the representation of Darfur in the mainstream media, atrocity investigations, activist and NGO campaigns, art exhibitions and political rhetoric, and the role of the international community in the discourse of genocide prevention and intervention. For a complete list of contributors please visit www.mqup.ca
The Holocaust memory landscape in Poland is exceptionally dynamic, multifarious, and contentious, involving projects that range from the international preservation of former Nazi extermination and ...concentration camps to community‐based efforts to uncover hidden remnants of local Jewish history. This chapter provides an overview of Holocaust memorialization in Poland from the immediate postwar period to the new millennium. It focuses on “broken tablet” monuments that signify the fragmentation of prewar Jewish life; memorials at the six Nazi extermination camps; the evolution of Holocaust tourism under capitalism; and the establishment of new commemorative projects that seek to map regional and national Jewish memory in the midst of resurgent Polish nationalism. The Polish Holocaust memorial landscape is never static, always reflecting or responding to the dominant political ideologies, hegemonic structures, and counterdiscourses that circulate around and through the representation of Jewish life and death in Poland.
On 23 April 1994 the TorontoGlobe and Mailran a thirteen-paragraph Reuters article entitled “UN Leaving Thousands to Die, Rwandan Pullout Critics Claim,” which detailed concerns by the Organization ...of African Unity, the Red Cross, and Oxfam about the UN Security Council’s decision to withdraw the majority of its peacekeeping troops from the United Nations Assistance Mission in Rwanda (UNAMIR). A little more than two weeks prior to the publication of the story, on 6 April, Rwandan President Juvénal Habyarimana had been killed after a missile hit his presidential plane. In the wake of Habyarimana’s assassination, the extremist wing
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On 2 April 2004 Jan Egeland, the United Nations under-secretary general of humanitarian affairs and emergency relief coordinator, declared Darfur, Sudan, to be “one of the most forgotten and ...neglected humanitarian crises in the world.”¹ The primary target of Egeland’s remark was not the Government of Sudan (GOS) or the Janjaweed militia - who together have raped and killed hundreds of thousands Darfurian civilians² and forcibly displaced millions more since 2003 - but the “international community,” the nations of bystanders whose neglect of Darfur, like Rwanda before it, appears to happen by force of habit. After five years of civilian
The crisis in Darfur has led to systemic and widespread murder, rape, and abduction, as well as the forced displacement of millions of civilians. It presents a defining moral challenge to the world. ...This volume seeks to provide understanding of the international response to the crisis in Western Sudan from the perspective of genocide scholars from a range of disciplines.
