With mass mobilization and protest ongoing throughout Chile since October, we turn our sights back to Santiago for today’s episode. What are the popular grievances, concerns, and demands that have brought millions of people into the streets—and what have these grassroots movements been able to achieve? Our guest is historian Adam Schesch, recently returned from […]
Chile despertó: Understanding the Mass Protests in Chile
People are taking to the streets in Chile to protest economic injustice, rising inequality, and human rights violations reminiscent of the dictatorship years. On October 25, over a million people attended a mass demonstration demanding the resignation of President Sebastián Piñera. For today’s episode, we put the Chilean uprising in historical and social context with […]
Unpacking the Hong Kong Protests
In response to a controversial extradition bill proposed by the government earlier this year, Hong Kong has been the site of ongoing protests and demonstrations for months. On today’s episode, we take a close look at the Hong Kong uprising with geography professor Robert Kaiser and professor emeritus of political science Edward Friedman, who offer […]
Madison in the Sixties: December – December 1969
Women’s liberation, black studies and violent political protest, that was Madison in December, 1969. Stu Levitan has the details on this week’s Madison in the Sixties. Madison, 1969 – December December 1— On the first, the faculty unanimously accepts plans to establish a Department of Afro- American Studies that would grant BA and BS degrees […]
Reflections on “Les Gilets Jaunes”
In 1862, Victor Hugo wrote “Every man who has in his soul a secret feeling of revolt against any act of the State, of life, or of destiny, is on the verge of riot; and so soon as it appears, he begins to quiver, and to feel himself borne away by the whirlwind.” The last […]
Dispatches from Europe – The Yellow Vests Movement
The yellow vests movement (Mouvement des gilets jaunes) had its first set of demonstrations in France on November 17, 2018. Since then, the movement has gained traction and spread throughout Europe. Some of the yellow vests’ demands include a raise in the minimum wage and the resignation of President Emmanuel Macron. But what’s going on […]
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