Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #dissent, aggregated by home.social.
A quotation from Henry Commager
The greatest danger that threatens us is neither heterodox thought nor orthodox thought, but the absence of thought.
Henry Steele Commager (1902–1998) American historian, writer, activist
Essay (1951), “The Pragmatic Necessity of Freedom"
More about this quote: wist.info/commager-henry-steel…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #henrycommager #acceptance #conformity #dissent #heterodoxy #mindlessness #orthodoxy #thoughtlessness #threat #freedomofthought
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Elsewhere a social movement of young people is mobilising...
"A global youthquake is happening. Promises we made young people have been broken – and they know it. Anger and protest have put liberal democracy on trial. It’s vital to understand the rage that now unites a generation."
"Student List has been compared by the Croatian philosopher Srećko Horvat, who situates the movement within a longer tradition of direct democracy and collective self-organisation, to the Paris Commune of 1871."
"Young people believe that any promises that they would do better than their parents’ generation have already been broken – and that case is a strong one. Liberal democracy itself is now on trial." >>
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/nov/02/global-youthquake-young-people-anger-protest-liberal-democracy
#protest #dissent #students #YouthMovements #SharedProsperity #movements #mobilisation #inequality #GenZregelt #GrassrootsOrganising #Serbia #education #housing #ClimateEmergency #affordability #wages #YoungPeople #IntergenerationalJustice #corruption #OECD #EU #youthquake #DirectDemocracy #CollectiveSelfOrganisation #zeitgeist #LiberalDemocracy
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ANHAD Holds “Celebrating Resistance” at Press Club, Says Dissent Is Not a Threat to Democracy
cAnAdIaNs aRe nOt lIkE aMeRiKaNs
They said
Fascism and silencing of dissident voices to protect the genocidal regime of Israel is everywhere.
The Epstein class and their gullible enablers can't accept any form of dissent. Even something as peaceful as waving a flag by an artist.
#Canada #Palestine #Censorship #dissent #Calgary #Shameful #Art #Resistance
" I'm in the business of useless beauty " Tim Winton
When one is not an enthusiastic participant in ‘squeezing a buck out of Country’ one has to justify their dissenting actions in Australia.The ’bulldozer of progress’ monetises all landscape and heritage.
#Australia #culture #aesthetics #beauty #business #monoculture #utility #extractivism #harm #dissent #collusion #performativity #RepublicOfLetters #AustralianEnglishLiterature #literature #books #writers #SettlerSociety #UncomfortableTruth #conservation #biodiversity #biodiversityLoss
Modi under pressure as #India’s #youth protests rise to highest level in decade
"Street protests in🇮🇳 tis year r likely higher than any time in past decade.. as #dissent mounts against PM #Modi’s #government & #GenZ #activists pour onto streets. Analysts say te youth protests & growing #support for te #opposition, form te worst crisis for Modi since he came to power in 2014, w people under 30 making up nearly ¼ of te country’s 1 billion #voters"
👉Modi🤬 has long overstayed!
https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/south-asia/article/3371244/modi-under-pressure-indias-youth-protests-rise-highest-level-decade?utm_source=rss_feed
"I do not know of any salvation for society except through eccentrics, misfits, dissenters, people who protest."
William O. Douglas
#quoteoftheday #Salvation #Society #Dissent #Protest #ItStartsWithOne #Resist
"I am convinced that the question of #Palestine has become a stress test for European democracy itself. Democratic societies can only thrive when there is space for #dissent, including dissent that is uncomfortable, disruptive and politically inconvenient. Yet today, across Europe, governments – which speak up against undemocratic conduct abroad – are now unapologetic in imposing restrictions on free expression and peaceful protest at home"
#PalestineAction
#GazaGenocide
Nicaraguan families beg for answers as dissenters vanish into state custody
No!!!! He’s such a wonderful human being!
Surgery confirms #pope has #LungCancer & he had the lower lobe of his right lung removed.
#ffrf #cancer #dissent #change #empathy
https://apnews.com/article/vatican-pope-surgery-86268530ef22fd14d2712067e89946f1?utm_source=app&utm_medium=iOS_share&utm_campaign=more_org_joinmastodon_app_shareactionextension
“For a decade, Donald #Trump has relentlessly targeted Congresswoman #IlhanOmar with inflammatory rhetoric, repeatedly putting a target on her back. Now, those attacks have escalated to a pointless federal raid. The Congresswoman has done nothing wrong. No president should be able to use the power of the federal government to intimidate his political enemies.”
#law #immigration #WhiteChristianNationalism #Islamophobia #Xenophobia #FirstAmendment #dissent #AbuseOfPower #fascism #MafiaState
“This raid by #Trump’s #DHS is an outrageous #AbuseOfPower & an unprecedented escalation in the weaponization of federal law enforcement to target political enemies,” Jacklyn Rogers, #IlhanOmar’s spox, said in a stmnt.
#law #immigration #Sturmabteilung #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism #Islamophobia #Xenophobia #racism #misogyny #bigotry #FirstAmendment #dissent #FreeSpeech #fascism #tyranny #MafiaState
#IlhanOmar calls search the 'latest escalation' in #Trump’s 'intimidation' campaign
“For ten years, Trump has targeted me with baseless #lies & smear campaigns,” she said. “This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political #intimidation. I will not be silenced.”
#law #immigration #Sturmabteilung #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism #Islamophobia #Xenophobia #racism #misogyny #bigotry #FirstAmendment #dissent #FreeSpeech #AbuseOfPower #fascism #tyranny #MafiaState
#Trump & fellow #Republicans from the highest ranks of party leadership have repeatedly & publicly criticized the #Somali born #IlhanOmar over her status as an #immigrant & her #progressive views. Trump as recently as this past weekend brought up Omar at a rally in Tennessee, where he attacked her upbringing & suggested that #JDVance “& our people” were investigating her.
#law #immigration #WhiteChristianNationalism #Islamophobia #Xenophobia #FirstAmendment #dissent #AbuseOfPower #fascism
The #DOJ said in a statement Monday that #HSI agents executed a judicially authorized search warrant secured by the department in the Washington, DC, area but provided no other details.
“This enforcement action is part of an ongoing federal criminal investigation,” the department said.
#Trump #IlhanOmar #law #immigration #Sturmabteilung #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism #Islamophobia #Xenophobia #misogyny #FirstAmendment #dissent #FreeSpeech #AbuseOfPower #fascism #tyranny #MafiaState
The search was conducted by Homeland Security Investigations [ #HSI ] agents, said the people…. More details about the investigation & its focus were not immediately clear, though VP #JDVance last May signaled that the #Trump admin would investigate #IlhanOmar for #immigration fraud allegations, which she has denied.
#law #HSI #Sturmabteilung #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism #Islamophobia #racism #misogyny #FirstAmendment #dissent #AbuseOfPower #fascism #tyranny #MafiaState
Total BS. This woman has been scrutinized her entire career & long before that. If she’d ever put a toe out of line, it wouldn’t have been these Keystone Kops who discovered it.
Federal agents searched the home of #Democratic US Rep #IlhanOmar on Monday as part of a “criminal investigation”, acc/to 2 people
#Trump #law #immigration #HSI #Sturmabteilung #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism #Islamophobia #racism #misogyny #FirstAmendment #dissent #fascism #MafiaState
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A quotation from Oliver Markus Malloy
Fascist dictators don’t announce that they’re fascist dictators.
They announce that it’s illegal to be anti-fascist.
Oliver Markus Malloy (contemp.) German-American writer, cartoonist, musician
Post (2026-07-01), @malloyrocks, Substack.com
More about this quote: wist.info/malloy-oliver-markus…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #malloyrocks #dictatorship #dissent #fascism #illegality #protest #tyranny #unlawfulness
A reminder that protests work. Of course it remains to be seen if the UK govt will remove its 'terrorist' proscription of Palestine Action.
I fear however the Australian Labor Party remain in thrall of the US and local Zionists, and are insufficiently threatened by the Greens to match this 'middle power' initiative.
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What’s done can’t be undone, but at least you can keep it from happening again.
[Gedane zaken nemen geen keer, maar wel kan men verder voorkomen.]
Anne Frank (1929–1945) German-Dutch Jewish diarist
Diary (1944-05-07) [tr. Massotty (1995)]
More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/frank-anne/86210/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #annefrank #civilrights #Constitution #dissent #firstamendment #freespeech #freedomofexpression #freedomofspeech #protest #rights
#israel #palestine : #gaza / #genocide / #domesticpolicy / #culture / #generalopinion / #dissent / #repression / #election
„Attacks on the directors of 'NAZA' are the latest chapter in years of funding shortages and contempt from the authorities. Artists warn that if Netanyahu wins again they will not be able to hold on.“
Under our Constitution, free speech is not a right that is given only to be so circumscribed that it exists in principle, but not in fact. Freedom of expression would not truly exist if the right could be exercised only in an area that a benevolent government has provided as a safe haven for crackpots.
Abraham Fortas (1910–1982) American academic, jurist, lawyer; US Supreme Court Justice (1965–69)
Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District, 393 U.S. 503, 513 (1969) [majority opinion]
More about this quote: wist.info/fortas-abe/86206/
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"Geoff Ball’s arrest video is shocking. From a small crowd of protesters, the eighty-year-old is grabbed by two young Royal Canadian Mounted Police officers. Struggling to walk—Ball is blind in one eye and suffers from the effects of two heart attacks—he’s taken to a wall and slammed face first into the brick before being handcuffed." https://thewalrus.ca/nova-scotia-libraries/
#nspoli #libraries #policeViolence #NeverVoteConservative #PeacefulProtest #Dissent