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Cristina Flesher Fominaya

@cffominaya.bsky.social
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Dog lover, writer, human rights supporter, yoga fan, political sociology, Ed in Chief Social Movement Studies, co-founder Interface, Democracy Reloaded (Oxford University Press), Prof. Global Studies, Aarhus U, PhD@UCBerkeley Book cover O. Calvo (crop)

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Jack Greig-Midlane @thejackgm.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Trial of live facial recognition in London stations leads to a false positive and no arrests www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Trial of live facial recognition in London stations leads to a false positive and no arrests
Freedom of information request finds six-month trial cost £320,000, used almost 100 police hours and led to just one – incorrect – alert
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it me dj (taking comms) @weiwifis0.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
my final offering for this #songxiaoseptember2026 is something i was gonna make for week 1, beginning/canon divergence AU... but i left it for last! have some good vibes to welcome in the new month #songxiao
A lineless drawn scene depicting Xiao Xingchen, Song Lan and A-Qing picking apples on a bright sunny day. A-Qing is scaling a tree and holding an apple out to Xiao Xingchen. Her outfit is green, as well as the tips of her hair. Xiao Xingchen is in his usual white, gray and black attire, though the tips of his hair are orange. He happily accepts the apple from A-Qing while holding an empty basket under one arm. Song Lan is crouching down and collecting a full basket of red apples. He is in his usual black and light blue attire and his hair is tinted blue, as well. In the back, with his hands tied and sitting on a rock, Xue Yang is staring wistfully. His hair is tipped red, and his outfit is gray and black.
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Cristina Flesher Fominaya @cffominaya.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
The new blockbuster double issue in global Labour movements is out now Special issue: New insights into global labour: movement strategy and mobilisation in the context of crisis; Special Issue Editors: Elizabeth Humphrys and Katrin Uba www.tandfonline.com/toc/csms20/2...
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Latest articles from Social Movement Studies
Browse the latest articles and research from Social Movement Studies
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Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.com · 12/09/2026
"The reporting of Reform’s shady funding arrangements continues to be treated by the media as a mere ‘horse race’ story, with Farage’s party portrayed as being out in front" www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/reform-uk-...
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Reform UK Is Now a Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of the Corrupt Crypto Industry
As criminal investigations into Reform’s funding continue, much of the British press continues to give a free pass to Nigel Farage’s shady funders
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Cristina Flesher Fominaya @cffominaya.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
The new blockbuster double issue in global Labour movements is out now Special issue: New insights into global labour: movement strategy and mobilisation in the context of crisis; Special Issue Editors: Elizabeth Humphrys and Katrin Uba www.tandfonline.com/toc/csms20/2...
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Latest articles from Social Movement Studies
Browse the latest articles and research from Social Movement Studies
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Cristina Flesher Fominaya @cffominaya.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
As promised, the new blockbuster double issue in global Labour movements is out now Special issue: New insights into global labour: movement strategy and mobilisation in the context of crisis; Guest editors: Elizabeth Humphrys and Katrin Uba www.tandfonline.com/toc/csms20/2...
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César Guzmán-Concha @guzmancesar9.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Cristina Flesher Fominaya traces the long-term effects of Spain’s 15-M/Indignados movement, showing how biographical, feminist, cultural, organizational, and institutional legacies exceed simple measures of “success” or “failure.” @cffominaya.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1....
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Cristina Flesher Fominaya @cffominaya.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Now AVAILABLE: www.routledge.com/Feminist-and...
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Feminist and LGBTQ Mobilizing in Contemporary Social Movements
This book brings together a compelling collection of articles that delve into the multifaceted dimensions of feminist and LGBTQ organizing within contemporary social movements. Through an array of cas...
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Cristina Flesher Fominaya @cffominaya.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
This scares the shit out of me
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rob-santana.bsky.social @rob-santana.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Over 1.2 million people in Lebanon have been forced from their homes and rendered internally displaced or homeless due to Israeli military operations and evacuation orders this year. Israel has destroyed over 200 villages and adding more every day.
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Cristina Flesher Fominaya @cffominaya.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Took them long enough...
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
MADEA BENJAMIN: “While Americans oppose more military aid to Israel, Congress is inserting something more insidious into the US military budget (NDAA): US integration with the Israeli military… Tell Congress: Reject Section 224 of the NDAA. No military integration.“
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Cristina Flesher Fominaya @cffominaya.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
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Tracing the long-term effects of social movements: Insights from Spain’s 15-M “Indignados” movement - Cristina Flesher Fominaya, 2026
Research on movement outcomes has typically divided impacts into discrete categories and prioritized short-term, easily measurable political or policy results, ...
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Cristina Flesher Fominaya @cffominaya.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Today is the 15th anniversary of one of the most powerful sustained and influential pro-democracy movements of recent history. To know more, check out my book Democracy Reloaded, which tells the story of its origins, evolution and significance. #democracy #protest Now with cover
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Cristina Flesher Fominaya @cffominaya.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
two recent books on an important topic! How to Sell a Genocide The Media’s Complicity in the Destruction of Gaza Adam H. Johnson and Don't Say Palestine How the Media Manufactured Consent for Genocide Assal Rad www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/834977... and www.plutobooks.com/product/how-...
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Cristina Flesher Fominaya @cffominaya.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Today is the 15th anniversary of one of the most powerful sustained and influential pro-democracy movements of recent history. To know more, check out my book Democracy Reloaded, which tells the story of its origins, evolution and significance. #democracy #protest academic.oup.com/book/33643/c...
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AbstractThe Introduction situates the 15-M movement within contemporary debates about the crisis of democracy and the possibilities for progressive pro-dem
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micchiato 🎋 @micchiato.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
“Danish police violently dragged protesters away from a blockade outside the headquarters of shipping giant Maersk in Copenhagen. Activists accused the company of helping transport weapons components and military equipment to Israel and demanded the shipments stop”
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Feeling overwhelmed with all of this. LISTEN. Another Louisiana resident (Marshawn is the only name we have) testifies against the state’s racial gerrymander, speaking truth to power up and down the hearing room and predicts how this story will end. Speak your truth, fight and believe.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 14/05/2026
All newborns lack vitamin K. No matter how much vitamin K a mother consumes, it doesn’t sufficiently pass through the placenta and breast milk doesn’t contain enough of it — meaning babies are at risk of uncontrollable bleeding without a vitamin K shot.
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Babies Are Bleeding to Death as Parents Reject a Vitamin Shot Given at Birth
A lifesaving injection given at birth to prevent severe bleeding has become collateral damage of the anti-vaccine movement.
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
a few years ago Nancy Mace, by her own account, dedicated her life to following Christ.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Israel must release Zeteo contributor Alex Colston and the rest of the flotilla activists and crew. This is piracy:
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'Piracy': Israel Kidnaps Nearly 200 Peace Activists Aboard Flotilla 600 Miles Away From Gaza
Zeteo contributor Alex Colston is among those Israel abducted, as activists accuse Greece, a NATO member, of complicity after Israeli forces intercepted 22 boats in international waters near Crete.
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Cristina Flesher Fominaya @cffominaya.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
doi.org/10.1177/0268... I am happy to share my latest publication on new insights into long term effects of social movements, based on data and research on 15-M, with a special focus on feminism's long term impact across arenas. Anyone without access just drop me a message.
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Tracing the long-term effects of social movements: Insights from Spain’s 15-M “Indignados” movement - Cristina Flesher Fominaya, 2026
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Cristina Flesher Fominaya @cffominaya.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Re-posting my tribute to Michael Burawoy: Good to remember there are sociologists who actually stand for something and not just for their own professional advancement. berkeleyjournal.org/2025/09/08/r...
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Remembering Michael Burawoy | Berkeley Journal of Sociology
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Cristina Flesher Fominaya @cffominaya.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Millie the goddam frog! we love you
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it me dj (taking comms) @weiwifis0.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
fanon birthday for best girl a-qing i love you a-qing! #aqing #阿箐
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Cristina Flesher Fominaya @cffominaya.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Censorship and Surveillance at US Universities www.merip.org/2026/04/cens...
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Censorship and Surveillance at US Universities
The night before the start of the Fall 2025 semester, facilities workers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill quietly boarded up a pro-Palestine mural. The mural, created by art students...
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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
NYC standing in solidarity with MN. @handsoffnyc.bsky.social
Thousands rally in Union Square, NYC, standing in solidarity with the people of Minneapolis-St. Paul.
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Cristina Flesher Fominaya @cffominaya.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Happy to be included in an reflection on the 20 most cited articles on democracy in the past 10 years for this article: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... If you hit a paywall or do not have access , let me know and I'll send you a copy
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European anti-austerity and pro-democracy protests in the wake of the global financial crisis
European anti-austerity and pro-democracy movements form part of a global wave of protests following the global financial crisis. Despite continuity of actors and a double critique of global capita...
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Sarah Lazare @sarahlazare.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
I'm not one for false optimism. But what I witnessed today in Minneapolis was tremendous, both in scale and exuberance. It was a stunning answer to the federal assault on Minnesota, a show of solidarity that gives us something to hold on to during times that are unforgiving.
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“Everybody Showed Up”: Stunning Crowds at Minnesota Day of Strike and Shutdown Against ICE
Extreme cold didn't stop the shutdown on Friday as some 100 faith leaders were arrested, residents stayed home from work, and an estimated 50,000 or more marched through downtown Minneapolis.
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Tanya 🧚‍♀️👑 @faeryqueene73.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
A coworker took this from her apartment. I haven't seen a crowd this size before. Maybe the first Women's March? But it was much much warmer that day. ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA!
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Cristina Flesher Fominaya @cffominaya.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
todo el mundo quiere saber dónde estaba Mazón--me da igual. Lo importante es donde NO estaba: haciendo su trabajando y salvando las vidas de los que murieron por su negligencia criminal- no entiendo como sigue en libertad, mucho menos gobernando
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Cristina Flesher Fominaya @cffominaya.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
So, I was on the news a bit ago. Insisting we not whitewash fascism and neo-Nazis by calling them "populist" among other things... www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAdh...
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Could the UK, France or Germany elect a populist leader?
YouTube video by Roundtable
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Cristina Flesher Fominaya @cffominaya.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
May "God" (if there is one or more) bless and keep Jane Goodall <3 for leaving the world better than she found it
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Cristina Flesher Fominaya @cffominaya.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
@exterioresgob.bsky.social La zona de exclusión es ILEGAL ya que se ha establecido por un estado que está ocupando ilegalmente el territorio Palestino
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Cristina Flesher Fominaya @cffominaya.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
@exterioresgob.bsky.social ¡No abandones la Flotilla! Las actuaciones de Israel son ILEGALES y vuestro deber bajo la ley internacional es proteger no solo a los españoles abordo pero a los que sufren en Gaza. Cualquier otra opción es complicidad El mundo entero os está mirando
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Cristina Flesher Fominaya @cffominaya.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
So in Denmark they do this thing, where they issue you loans to pay your property tax and charge you interest. When you never asked for the loan. So then you have to call and say I don't want a loan I just want to pay my tax. And then you have to call again. And so on. How is this legal? A mystery.
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Cristina Flesher Fominaya @cffominaya.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
So, I was on the news a bit ago. Insisting we not whitewash fascism and neo-Nazis by calling them "populist" among other things... www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAdh...
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Could the UK, France or Germany elect a populist leader?
YouTube video by Roundtable
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Cristina Flesher Fominaya @cffominaya.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
How is a wanted war criminal allowed to address the UN? He belongs in jail. Bravo to all who walked out. Shame, shame, on all those who invited him and who support genocide.
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Left Of Center Orange Hater @leftocorangehater.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Massive protest walk out in the UN general assembly hall as Netanyahu takes the stage
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Axios @axios.com · 26/09/2025
JUST IN: Netanyahu faces mass walk out protest at UN speech
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Netanyahu faces mass walk out protest at UN speech
Israel is deeply isolated internationally as it presses on with the war in Gaza.
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Thomas @tomrom1.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
Hate. Ugliness. Bigotry. Destroying human and worker rights. Another day in American leadership. apnews.com/article/fbi-...  FBI fires agents photographed kneeling during 2020 racial justice protest, AP sources say 💙 #SaturdayMood 🏳️‍🌈 #FBR #FBPE #Resistance #StrongerTogether #Motivation #Bluecrew
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FBI fires agents photographed kneeling during 2020 racial justice protest, AP sources say
The FBI has fired agents who were photographed kneeling during a racial justice protest in Washington that followed the 2020 death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police officers.
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Good Trouble @good-tr0uble.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
The FBI has fired agents who were photographed kneeling during a racial justice protest in Washington that followed the 2020 death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police officers, three people familiar with the matter said Friday apnews.com/article/fbi-...
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FBI fires agents photographed kneeling during 2020 racial justice protest, AP sources say
The FBI has fired agents who were photographed kneeling during a racial justice protest in Washington that followed the 2020 death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police officers.
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it me dj (taking comms) @weiwifis0.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
yaaay songxiao sect... this is a callback to a zine piece i did a long time ago now! for #songxiaoseptember2025 and the prompts dream and fix-it :'3 #songxiao
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Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.com · 27/09/2025
Let that sink in "Despite its extreme population density, Gaza was mostly self-sufficient in vegetables and poultry, and met much of the population’s demand for olives, fruit and milk. But last month the UN reported that just 1.5% of its agricultural land now remains both accessible and undamaged."
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it me dj (taking comms) @weiwifis0.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
for our final offering for week three of #songxiaoseptember2025, @aoxue.bsky.social and i have put pen to paper and worked on the vampire AU we've been planning for years! PLEASE GO READ!! archiveofourown.org/works/711970... #songxiao
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M∆GG🔻🎨 @artofmagg.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
ÚLTIMA HORA | El Reino Unido reconocerá hoy a Palestina como Estado y, para demostrarlo, arrestará a todo ciudadano que porte la bandera de Palestina o se manifieste contra el genocidio de Gaza.
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Juan Escalante @juanescalante.com · 16/09/2025
GENEVA (AP) — A team of independent experts commissioned by the United Nations’ Human Rights Council has concluded that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza
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Human rights experts join rising chorus that accuses Israel of genocide in Gaza
A team of experts commissioned by the U.N.'s Human Rights Council has concluded that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
New UN commission report just dropped: Israel is committing genocide. apnews.com/article/isra...
GENEVA (AP) — A team of independent experts commissioned by the United Nations’ Human Rights Council has concluded that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, issuing a report Tuesday that calls on the international community to end the genocide and take steps to punish those responsible for it.

The deeply-documented findings by the three-member team are the latest accusations of genocide against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government by rights advocates as Israeli carries on with its war against Hamas in Gaza that has killed tens of thousands of people. Israel rejected what it called a “distorted and false” report.

The Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory and Israel, which was created four years ago, has repeatedly documented alleged human rights abuses and violations both in Gaza since the deadly Oct. 7, 2023, attacks in Israel led by Hamas, and other Palestinian areas.
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Cristina Flesher Fominaya @cffominaya.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
Oldie but sadly ever more relevant: Meryl Streep’s Legendary Speech Against Trump #trump #merylstreep #democ... youtube.com/shorts/1YfC5... via @YouTube
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Meryl Streep’s Legendary Speech Against Trump #trump #merylstreep #democrats
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