Pay attention to all the young women on the front lines of China's protests, being the first to take action. Their discontent has been mounting for many years prior to this moment.

Scale of the protest tonight in Shanghai. Notice police didn’t do anything but standing calmly watching ppl protest and shouting. It’s not benevolence. My guess: they need to ask for directives from the top authorities. Police might be stunned as nobody dares doing so for decades

I've been studying various aspects of #protest & contentious #politics in #China for 25 years.

What's happening now is novel, interesting, & potentially quite important. But we need to be careful about drawing conclusions or making predictions. A🧵:
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This is what NPR said about my book on its publication date. I felt so seen by this review. It also honors the work of my amazing illustrator, Hugo Martinez npr.org/2021/05/30/100…

Join us for the zoom book launch next week with Erica Chenoweth (Harvard Erica Chenoweth), John Hall (McGill), Donatella Della Porta (Florence), Ugur Ungor (Amsterdam Uğur Ümit Üngör ) and Lea David (UCD Lea David as moderator):
Tuesday 29 November, 4:00 pm:

Very interesting presentation by Ebba Tellander at UppsalaPeaceConflict lunch seminar today about constructive civil resistance in Somaliland. And there is both a comic and a documentary accompanying her dissertation.

prio.org/projects/1766

“The short amount of time also creates the space for confusion,” LaTosha Brown tells Maya King. “It’s almost like the chaos is the point.” nyti.ms/3Xhku9h

The tantrums of its new owner notwithstanding, I love Twitter for what it allows us to find and share. How nice to find with one quick search and re-read this insightful thread from Erica Chenoweth (+another thread embedded within the thread)👇🏾

Thank you jack & team. Good job!

The protests are not getting any smaller in Iran.

A few observations on the ongoing revolution in Iran as the protests enter their third month:

1-This week’s protests have been very bloody, with scores of Iranians dead and injured, but people are more determined than ever.

There is no doubt that #Midterms were much better than expected but they did NOT show that “the center held” or that “extremism was rejected”. In fact, US remains one of the most vulnerable established democracies in the world. #ShortThread 🧵

Judge Mark Walker halts DeSantis' law censoring public university professors from expressing 'woke' views in the classroom, condemning Florida's 'positively dystopian' effort to 'impose its own orthodoxy of viewpoints' in violation of the First Amendment. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/2331…

See y’all on the flip side, I guess. I’m at @[email protected].

Russia’s War on Women

TODAY the Russian gov. holds hostage a beloved Black woman athlete #BritneyGriner

The SAME gov. weaponized the Black women led Black Lives Matter movement to undermine US elections.

This SAME gov. fueled discord in the Women’s March to disrupt a movement.

Iranians using their words & art to document the uprising

#WomanLifeFreedom

wordswithoutborders.org/read/collectio…

Poupeh Missaghi پوپه میثاقی Danny Postel Arash Azizi آرش عزیزی Omid Memarian

N.H. House flip number two. Berlin Democrat Eamon Kelley wins by 2 votes after recount, lost on Nov. 8 to Republican John Greer by four votes. House split now 201-199. #nhpolitics

Today's publication day for this one.

'Public Disapproval of Disruptive Climate Change Protests' | Results of our new APPC Penn/PennCSSM survey, summary by Shawn Patterson Jr. (@stp_polisci ) & yours truly
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