Politics / Resistance
Articles about Resistance, ordered by date. 
Mixed media: Books
The Drum Tower by Farnoosh Moshiri; The Final Charge by Dawood Ali McCallum; The End of Days by Jenny Erpenbeck; They Can’t Represent Us! by Marina Sitrin and Dario Azzellini.
Mixed media: Film
Citizenfour directed by Laura Poitras; We Are The Giant directed by Greg Barker; Winter Sleep directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan.
Mine shafted
Jess Worth on indigenous Canadians' fight against a mine.
Tarpaulin revolution
In London's Parliament Square, protesters provide a visible alternative to the politics of vested interest. Hannah Martin reports.
Chile's agitating students
Eilis O'Neill on the struggle for free, quality, universal education.
Citizen activism marches on
Mark Engler draws lessons from marches past and present.
Rocking the boat
Graeme Green talks to author and activist Naomi Klein about why global warming is a political issue.
My spy
Why did an oil company go to such lengths to monitor Jess Worth’s activism? Perhaps we are more powerful than we think.
A year of oil resistance
Around the world, local communities have been hitting the oil monster where it hurts.
Ending the oil age
Change is coming. Jess Worth examines whether growing pressure for divestment and disruption can knock Big Oil off its perch.
And finally: Uri Fruchtmann
The filmmaker and director tells Jo Lateu why he supports activists who expose wrongdoing through video.
Beyond burnout
Post-traumatic stress disorder is an occupational hazard for activists on the frontline, says Amy Hall.
Meet the protest profiteers
There’s money to be made in crowd ‘control’, as Anna Feigenbaum discovers.
Touch the earth
As reserves dwindle and demand balloons, resource companies are pushing into more remote regions and onto indigenous land. Jen Wilton tours seven hotspots where native people are demanding the right to decide what happens on their ancestral territory.
No joy in soy
Demand for genetically modified soy is changing the face of Argentina. And not for the better, says Eilís O’Neill.
Sticky business
Canada has put all its eggs into one big basket full of tar sands. That’s a major mistake, argues Andrew Nikiforuk – for the country and the planet.
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