Jeffery R. Webber teaches in the Department of Politics at York University, Toronto. His latest book is The Last Day of Oppression, and the First Day of the Same: The Politics and Economics of the New Latin American Left. He is presently at work on Latin American Crucible: Politics and Power in the New Era, under contract with Verso.
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Urgent update
“Dimitris Koufodinas life in danger, after 50 days of hunger strike in Greek jail”, The Press Project, 26 February 2021.
“We support the call of many organizations to maintain a permanent mobilization to ensure that the popular vote is respected.”
- read article...Just two days before Brazil’s National Day of Trans Visibility (29 January) an attack on a Black transvestite, intersex elected representative in São Paulo.
- read article...We stand in solidarity with the political prisoner Dimitris Koufodinas, who has been on a hunger-strike since January 8, 2021, and whose health is now in critical condition.
We demand:
that he be transferred to Korydallos prison
a stop to all arbitrary legal and factual interventions against him
a stop to all discriminatory treatment against him
“The paralysis that has afflicted the political and social left in the face of Corona can thus be overcome to some extent if appropriately coordinated activities are developed on the ground. This is what we are working for.”
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