Putin's Khanate: How Moscow is trying to integrate crimean muslims

On the following link, Rober D. Crews will briefly defend how the Crimean crisis correlates with the Islam's role in Russia.

http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/141105/robert-d-crews/putins-khanate

Ocupy New York: digital reflexes

An empirical study available here presents data about the posts of O.N.Y movement adherents on Twitter. The periodic analysed embraces a fifteen months period, initiated three months before the beginning of the protest. One of the results found is that, during the time, the number of people in the
movement was decreasing. Another discovery was that allusions to revolutionary movements wasn't too much significant; among another things.

(blog) Activists and Scholars debate Social Movements and Social Change

With the purpose of enhancing dialogue between scholars and activists, the Mobilizing Ideas blog has published interdisciplinary perspectives on social movements, social change and public sphere, featuring original essayas responding to a wide variety of concerning issues.

Violent state repression is currently the debated issue, and the idea is to provoke reflection on some of these questions in light of contemporaray cases: How does repression affect future protest? How do states decide to engage in violent repression? What responses are available to protestors? And, does the type of protestor or the cause matter for who is repressed?

Founded in August 2011, Mobilizing Ideas is hosted by the Center for the Study of Social Movements at Notre Dame. Check it out here.

Istiván Mészáros - The state's conundrum and Lukács' concept of dialectic

Professor Istiván Mészáros was in Goiânia/Brazil on November 2013 doing a lecture for his book's premiere in Brasil (Lukács' concept of Dialectic, originally released on 1972), but discoursing mostly about his recent research object, that is: The State. About this he has a six-years-long project - of which he already did three - articulating a grave critic of the state.

The following video is a non-complete recording of the lecture, but have most of that.
He talks large part of the time in English, but how it was in Brasil, you'll have to deal with the
simultaneous translation, but it worths.

  

Žižek, Assange and the cyber-activism

Žižek talking about the experience that he had when meet Julian Assange, WikiLeaks founder; about the persecution suffered by Assange; about the perspectives of socialization of information with the internet; and about cyber-activism in general.

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The congregation's disbelief and the sunset of a cult. Löwy about the capitalism's dynamic and the protests

The French-Brazilian thinker Michael Löwy, grounded in the theories of Marx and Walter Benjamim, among others, does an analysis about the contemporary capitalistic global conjuncture linking this with the protests in Brazil and Europe. (the text is in Portuguese)

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Europe - Page with news about the Europian continent

A Facebook page that brings news and analysis about the Europe, specially crises, uprisings and its relations with the social-political situation of the continent

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