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Radical left perspectives from Hong Kong, Asia, and its diasporas www.lausancollective.com

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Lausan @lausanhk.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Last September, Swire Coca-Cola Hong Kong workers went on strike to protest the company’s dismissal of a driver and union member. Their victory shows that labor action is still possible in post-NSL Hong Kong. Read our translation of a report on the strike: lausancollective.com/2026/swire-w...
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Swire Coca-Cola workers' strike a success - Lausan
Swire workers' one-day strike achieves demands and shows labor action still possible.
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Workshops4Gaza @workshops4gaza.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Our new piece on hunger strikes here. UK Prisoners for Palestine hunger strike has crossed the one-month mark and lives hang in the balance. Read about the revolutionary history and potential of hunger strikes, and of the crucial need for outside support. workshops4gaza.substack.com/p/on-hunger-...
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On Hunger Strikes
We originally wrote and shared this piece on hunger strikes during the summer of 2025 on a different platform.
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Lausan @lausanhk.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
"The initiator of an online petition calling for accountability for the fire was arrested for 'incitement.' It is quite obvious that 'national safety' does not include fire safety in the eyes of the government’s security agents." lausancollective.com/2025/tai-po-...
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Tai Po in flames - Lausan
How Hongkongers are reviving mass action and mutual aid in the wake of the deadly fires in Tai Po.
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tsalon 🇨🇦 @tsalon.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
"What we have documented here is just the tip of the iceberg. This goes to show that the mutual aid networks and practices that were part of everyday life six years ago still remain, and it will always be Hongkongers who protect one another."
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Lausan @lausanhk.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
"The initiator of an online petition calling for accountability for the fire was arrested for 'incitement.' It is quite obvious that 'national safety' does not include fire safety in the eyes of the government’s security agents." lausancollective.com/2025/tai-po-...
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Tai Po in flames - Lausan
How Hongkongers are reviving mass action and mutual aid in the wake of the deadly fires in Tai Po.
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Eli Friedman @elifriedman.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Great to see @lausanhk.bsky.social's account of the Wang Fuk tragedy 🕯️✊
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Tai Po in flames - Lausan
How Hongkongers are reviving mass action and mutual aid in the wake of the deadly fires in Tai Po.
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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 30/11/2025
#OtD 30 Nov 1999 the WTO meeting in Seattle was disrupted by big protests as people blockaded streets to prevent it taking place. Police attacked violently, and rioting broke out downtown hitting headlines and sparking a global anti-capitalist movt stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1033...
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Lausan @lausanhk.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
The tragic fire in Tai Po has deeper roots: Hong Kong's market-driven, capitalist system that promotes predatory business interests over working people's safety. Read our latest on how Hongkongers are supporting each other through mass mutual aid: lausancollective.com/2025/tai-po-...
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Tai Po in flames - Lausan
How Hongkongers are reviving mass action and mutual aid in the wake of the deadly fires in Tai Po.
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Lausan @lausanhk.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
The tragic fire in Tai Po has deeper roots: Hong Kong's market-driven, capitalist system that promotes predatory business interests over working people's safety. Read our latest on how Hongkongers are supporting each other through mass mutual aid: lausancollective.com/2025/tai-po-...
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Tai Po in flames - Lausan
How Hongkongers are reviving mass action and mutual aid in the wake of the deadly fires in Tai Po.
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Brian Hioe @brianhioe.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
Important read at a time that many in Taiwan have, unfortunately, failed to stand in solidarity with Palestinians
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Lausan @lausanhk.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Read this reflection by Taiwanese American organizer and writer Leona Chen on how her Indigenous Pingpu heritage has helped to shape her solidarity with Palestinians: lausancollective.com/2025/pingpu-...
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Pingpu Indigenous and Han Taiwanese Solidarity with Palestine - Lausan
Zionism for many Palestinians is a story of colonization told through the language of "liberation."
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Vincent Wong @vwlegal.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
"Narratives that once stirred my solidarity now compel my accountability, because I have since learned how stories of righteousness can be used to rationalize dispossession."
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Lausan @lausanhk.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Read this reflection by Taiwanese American organizer and writer Leona Chen on how her Indigenous Pingpu heritage has helped to shape her solidarity with Palestinians: lausancollective.com/2025/pingpu-...
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Pingpu Indigenous and Han Taiwanese Solidarity with Palestine - Lausan
Zionism for many Palestinians is a story of colonization told through the language of "liberation."
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Lausan @lausanhk.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
Check out this new platform launched by Chinese international graduate workers, which includes resources from Chinese diaspora workers’ participating in contract bargaining and strikes as well as travel security tips for international workers: grad-unions.say.vc
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Workshops4Gaza @workshops4gaza.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
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Crips for eSims for Gaza
Crips for eSims for Gaza is a collaboration between Jane Shi, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, and Alice Wong.
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Endless Night @endlessnight.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
There's also a simmering unemployment crisis in China, youth unemployment most acutely, part and parcel of capitalist world-systemic pressures. The latest figure is 16.9% urban youth unemployment (!!), with rural youth likely higher. Read more here: heatwavemag.info/blog/chuang-...
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TRUMP II: Trade War Gone Global
In this first contribution to Heatwave, Chuang responds to questions about the global impacts of the latest rounds of American tariffs. The full overview of this inquiry, with responses from comrades ...
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Workshops4Gaza @workshops4gaza.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Tomorrow. Come learn from a leading historian of Kashmir, Dr. Hafsa Kanjwal
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Lausan @lausanhk.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Read this research from Palestinian scholar Razan Shawamreh that critically unpacks the disconnect between Chinese politicians' lofty rhetoric on Palestinian sovereignty and Chinese corporations' ongoing assistance in expanding illegal Israeli settlements. lausancollective.com/2025/china-a...
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How China is helping to facilitate Israel's illegal settlements - Lausan
China's proclamations of support for Palestine cover up its complicity in Israeli settlement building
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Lausan @lausanhk.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Read this research from Palestinian scholar Razan Shawamreh that critically unpacks the disconnect between Chinese politicians' lofty rhetoric on Palestinian sovereignty and Chinese corporations' ongoing assistance in expanding illegal Israeli settlements. lausancollective.com/2025/china-a...
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How China is helping to facilitate Israel's illegal settlements - Lausan
China's proclamations of support for Palestine cover up its complicity in Israeli settlement building
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Lausan @lausanhk.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Hong Kong 6/4 memorials are still illegal. Why does that matter? "After 1989, Hong Kong became the only place in China to commemorate June 4 publicly... a decades-long history of solidarity with mainland activists can’t be swept away so simply." lausancollective.com/2021/why-tia...
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Why Tiananmen still matters for Hong Kong - Lausan
Hongkongers' relationship to the June 4 vigil and the memory of Tiananmen Square have rapidly evolved in the past decade. We speak with a Hong Kong leftist about this change.
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Lausan @lausanhk.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
“Most importantly, 'democracy' as understood by workers was different from the liberal notion embraced by students and intellectuals; it was a distinctly socialist vision of democracy premised on the agency of the working class." lausancollective.com/2021/repress...
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Repressing the rebel workers of Tiananmen Square - Lausan
Worker radicalism has always unsettled the authority of one-party rule, from the Cultural Revolution through to Tiananmen
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Lausan @lausanhk.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
"[6/4] caused a wave of outrage that... revealed the powerlessness of the liberal intelligentsia in the face of global capital. China would be seamlessly integrated into this international order when it was allowed to join the WTO in 2001." @miawong.bsky.social lausancollective.com/2021/communi...
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When communists crushed the international workers' movement - Lausan
It is only by placing the massacre at Tiananmen in its true context that we can begin to untangle the underlying changes in the nature of the working class.
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Lausan @lausanhk.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
"Although the 1989 pro-democracy movement temporarily failed, it shattered various reformist illusions and made people determined to be their own masters." lausancollective.com/2022/reform-...
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Reform or revolution: The strengths and setbacks of the 1989 Pro-Democracy Movement - Lausan
Despite its temporary failure, the magnificent 1989 pro-democracy movement has immense historical significance.
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Lausan @lausanhk.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
"The Tiananmen workers modeled a more ambitious kind of politics than the one crafted by the Tiananmen student liberals and the US establishment. The workers called for a radical transformation of our political and economic structures." lausancollective.com/2023/against...
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Against US imperialism's cooptation of Tiananmen - Lausan
We must continue to challenge the use of social movements in China to reinforce the dangerous fiction that the key global struggle today is one between a Western democratic political order against the...
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Lausan @lausanhk.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
"The Tiananmen workers modeled a more ambitious kind of politics than the one crafted by the Tiananmen student liberals and the US establishment. The workers called for a radical transformation of our political and economic structures." lausancollective.com/2023/against...
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Against US imperialism's cooptation of Tiananmen - Lausan
We must continue to challenge the use of social movements in China to reinforce the dangerous fiction that the key global struggle today is one between a Western democratic political order against the...
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Lausan @lausanhk.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
"Although the 1989 pro-democracy movement temporarily failed, it shattered various reformist illusions and made people determined to be their own masters." lausancollective.com/2022/reform-...
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Reform or revolution: The strengths and setbacks of the 1989 Pro-Democracy Movement - Lausan
Despite its temporary failure, the magnificent 1989 pro-democracy movement has immense historical significance.
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Lausan @lausanhk.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
"[6/4] caused a wave of outrage that... revealed the powerlessness of the liberal intelligentsia in the face of global capital. China would be seamlessly integrated into this international order when it was allowed to join the WTO in 2001." @miawong.bsky.social lausancollective.com/2021/communi...
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When communists crushed the international workers' movement - Lausan
It is only by placing the massacre at Tiananmen in its true context that we can begin to untangle the underlying changes in the nature of the working class.
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Lausan @lausanhk.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
“Most importantly, 'democracy' as understood by workers was different from the liberal notion embraced by students and intellectuals; it was a distinctly socialist vision of democracy premised on the agency of the working class." lausancollective.com/2021/repress...
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Repressing the rebel workers of Tiananmen Square - Lausan
Worker radicalism has always unsettled the authority of one-party rule, from the Cultural Revolution through to Tiananmen
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Lausan @lausanhk.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Hong Kong 6/4 memorials are still illegal. Why does that matter? "After 1989, Hong Kong became the only place in China to commemorate June 4 publicly... a decades-long history of solidarity with mainland activists can’t be swept away so simply." lausancollective.com/2021/why-tia...
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Why Tiananmen still matters for Hong Kong - Lausan
Hongkongers' relationship to the June 4 vigil and the memory of Tiananmen Square have rapidly evolved in the past decade. We speak with a Hong Kong leftist about this change.
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ICE must be destroyed 🏳️‍⚧️🏴 @miawong.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Four years ago I wrote a piece about Tiananmen and the international workers movement for @lausanhk.bsky.social. Three years ago I expanded it into a pair of episodes for It Could Happen Here. Now they return in the hands of a New Mia with a new name and a new gender Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
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Lausan @lausanhk.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
For more on the current struggle of food delivery workers after Chinese e-commerce giant Keeta entered the Hong Kong market in 2023: lausancollective.com/2025/deliver...
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Food delivery industry competition weakens Hong Kong workers' rights - Lausan
A first-hand account of how corporate competition campaigns are eroding Hong Kong delivery workers' rights
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Lausan @lausanhk.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
All out for Palestine on Nakba Day. Find a city near you: (via @palyouthmvmt.bsky.social)
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Lausan @lausanhk.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
All out for Palestine on Nakba Day. Find a city near you: (via @palyouthmvmt.bsky.social)
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Workshops4Gaza @workshops4gaza.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
“But this myopic fixation on Pakistani interference erases a fundamental truth: the resistance in Kashmir is indigenous, born of humiliation, violence, and the unfulfilled promise of self-determination.”
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Lausan @lausanhk.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
"These zines have become a key avenue through which Sinophone communities have educated and organized each other about Palestine. They're also an important historical record of international solidarity, anti-war, and anti-imperialist activism in the Sinosphere." lausancollective.com/2025/palesti...
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Resource: Palestine solidarity zines in the Sinosphere - Lausan
An archive of Sinophone resources for building Palestine solidarity and countering pro-Zionist propaganda.
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Workshops4Gaza @workshops4gaza.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
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Workshops4Gaza @workshops4gaza.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
From Sameer Project on x: "Approximately 65,000 children are severely malnourished in the Gaza Strip according to the most recent data. We continue to do the best we can to serve Palestinians across the Strip. Support us here: chuffed.org/project/help...
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North Gaza: Food, Water, Diapers + Milk, Medical Aid
Translating Falasteen (Palestine), in collaboration with The Sameer Project, launched a fundraising campaign to support families in Gaza facing severe hardships. Our mission is to provide essential ai...
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Lausan @lausanhk.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
"These zines have become a key avenue through which Sinophone communities have educated and organized each other about Palestine. They're also an important historical record of international solidarity, anti-war, and anti-imperialist activism in the Sinosphere." lausancollective.com/2025/palesti...
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Resource: Palestine solidarity zines in the Sinosphere - Lausan
An archive of Sinophone resources for building Palestine solidarity and countering pro-Zionist propaganda.
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Lausan @lausanhk.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Solidarity with Palestine exists in Asia and its many diasporas. We have archived zines from various Sinophone collectives that counter Zionist arguments and insist on uncompromising support for Palestinian liberation. Links for access and distribution below: lausancollective.com/2025/palesti...
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Resource: Palestine solidarity zines in the Sinosphere - Lausan
An archive of Sinophone resources for building Palestine solidarity and countering pro-Zionist propaganda.
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Lausan @lausanhk.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Solidarity with Palestine exists in Asia and its many diasporas. We have archived zines from various Sinophone collectives that counter Zionist arguments and insist on uncompromising support for Palestinian liberation. Links for access and distribution below: lausancollective.com/2025/palesti...
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Resource: Palestine solidarity zines in the Sinosphere - Lausan
An archive of Sinophone resources for building Palestine solidarity and countering pro-Zionist propaganda.
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Lausan @lausanhk.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
"It is rare for Hong Kong’s art workers to be recognized on a grand international platform. To speak the truth on such a platform about the oppression of marginalized peoples shows an unyielding sense of courage." lausancollective.com/2025/solidar...
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A statement in solidarity with director Jun Li - Lausan
Hong Kong director Jun Li speaks truth to power about the oppression of marginalized people, which shows an unyielding sense of courage.
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Lausan @lausanhk.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
"I feel more comfortable with saying that our space is a space of encounter... which also consists of us going to the countryside to defend farmland, or going inside the docks to meet dockworkers. We want to encounter real life." lausancollective.com/2021/buildin...
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Building the bases for a different life - Lausan
Black Window is reopening their infoshop-restaurant. Lausan spoke with them about anarchism, the Hong Kong protests, and what they intend their space to be.
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Lausan @lausanhk.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
"I feel more comfortable with saying that our space is a space of encounter... which also consists of us going to the countryside to defend farmland, or going inside the docks to meet dockworkers. We want to encounter real life." lausancollective.com/2021/buildin...
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Building the bases for a different life - Lausan
Black Window is reopening their infoshop-restaurant. Lausan spoke with them about anarchism, the Hong Kong protests, and what they intend their space to be.
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Lausan @lausanhk.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
"It is rare for Hong Kong’s art workers to be recognized on a grand international platform. To speak the truth on such a platform about the oppression of marginalized peoples shows an unyielding sense of courage." lausancollective.com/2025/solidar...
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A statement in solidarity with director Jun Li - Lausan
Hong Kong director Jun Li speaks truth to power about the oppression of marginalized people, which shows an unyielding sense of courage.
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Lausan @lausanhk.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
At this year's Berlinale, Hong Kong director Jun Li celebrated the premiere of his film Queerpanorama by reading a Palestine solidarity letter by Iranian actor Erfan Shekarriz, which the Berlinale suppressed. Read HK Anti-War Mobilization's statement here: lausancollective.com/2025/solidar...
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A statement in solidarity with director Jun Li - Lausan
Hong Kong director Jun Li speaks truth to power about the oppression of marginalized people, which shows an unyielding sense of courage.
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Lausan @lausanhk.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
At this year's Berlinale, Hong Kong director Jun Li celebrated the premiere of his film Queerpanorama by reading a Palestine solidarity letter by Iranian actor Erfan Shekarriz, which the Berlinale suppressed. Read HK Anti-War Mobilization's statement here: lausancollective.com/2025/solidar...
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A statement in solidarity with director Jun Li - Lausan
Hong Kong director Jun Li speaks truth to power about the oppression of marginalized people, which shows an unyielding sense of courage.
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Workshops4Gaza @workshops4gaza.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
A $1,000 matching campaign for the Sameer Project, from a donor calling on fellow academics who draw paychecks from universities complicit in genocide, to contribute. $1,000 will become $2,000 w/your contributions open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com/products/w4g...
[W4G] $1k Matching Campaign for The Sameer Project
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New match! An anonymous donor has stepped up to offer a $1k match to support the work The Sameer Project is doing in North and Central Gaza! This campaign is from an anonymous donor who calls on his fellow “academics” to contribute to this match, especially those who are paid by universities complicit in war crimes and genocide to write, research, reflect on, and talk about war, genocide, displacement, famine, refugees, and decolonization. 

Help us raise $1k --> which will mean $2k for this urgent campaign!
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Lausan @lausanhk.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Since stripping the region of its autonomy in 2019 and declaring quasi-martial law, India has only deepened its militarized, colonial rule of Kashmir. This is the backdrop of the region's current conflict. We continue to be in solidarity with Kashmir.
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Lausan @lausanhk.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Since stripping the region of its autonomy in 2019 and declaring quasi-martial law, India has only deepened its militarized, colonial rule of Kashmir. This is the backdrop of the region's current conflict. We continue to be in solidarity with Kashmir.
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Victoria Law @victorialaw.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
“It makes a massive difference when everybody involved is able to get together and sit down to have a hot and substantial meal filled with nutrients before having a standoff against bailiffs, security guards and cops in the sun”
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