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Rubén Campos
@rubencampos.bsky.social
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South Asia, Democracy & Nonviolent Movements Scholar.
@clubdemadrid.bsky.social Programs Director @rielcano.bsky.social Senior Fellow. Proud father-29 years in love with my wife. https://clubmadrid.org/who/secretariat/campos-ruben/
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Rubén Campos @rubencampos.bsky.social · Nov 10
Our blessed homeland, their barbarous wastes @tomgauld.bsky.social
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icnl.bsky.social
🌱🌎 Honored to be part of the LEAD Initiative — co-created with 300+ environmental activists across the globe.

Our shared goals: recognition, meaningful participation, and stronger protection for those leading environmental action. #LeadwitUs
globalwitness.org/en/press-rel...
New global initiative aims to place environmental defenders at the heart of climate decisions
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globalwitness.org
November 14, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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internationalidea.bsky.social
Democracy’s value cannot be measured only at the ballot box, it must also be felt in people’s lives.

Read the @projectsyndicate.bsky.social op-ed by Aminata Touré, Member of @clubdemadrid.bsky.social, and International IDEA's @kevincasasz.bsky.social ⬇️
www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/d...
What Democracy Means for a Society’s Bottom Line
Aminata Touré & Kevin Casas-Zamora reject the notion that political rights and socioeconomic welfare are separate or even competing goals.
www.project-syndicate.org
November 12, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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willoremus.com
every company in 2025
comic strip with call and response text. who are we? CEOs what do we want? AI! AI to do what? We don't know! When do we want it? Right now!
November 12, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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judithbeyer.bsky.social
‼️ Why did you, @jay.bsky.team @support.bsky.team suspend the account of one of the most outspoken, independent and important critics of the Trump regime - my friend and colleague @sarahkendzior.bsky.social ? By cutting her off, you also endanger her. Reinstall her account NOW!
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Sarah Kendzior on X: I’ve been suspended from BlueSky. I don’t know why. I wasn’t online much today, and the last things I posted were excerpts from my Substack newsletter articles. The suspension followed without explanation. It seems like a crackdown. If you enjoy my work and want to make sure you can access it, subscribe …
November 12, 2025 at 7:44 AM
rubencampos.bsky.social
#Autumn Castañar de el Tiemblo (Ávila)
November 10, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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oxfaminternational.bsky.social
The G20 Expert Committee doesn’t just diagnose the inequality emergency—it offers a solution:

Create a permanent International Panel on Inequality.

Now countries must step up and make this happen.

And yes: it must include taxing the super-rich.

President Ramaphosa, #BeOurChampion.
November 9, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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🌍 @laurachinchilla.bsky.social, former President of Costa Rica (2010-2014), has been elected President of @clubdemadrid.bsky.social - the world's largest forum of democratic former Heads of State and Government.

Her term will begin in January 2026.

🔗 clubmadrid.org/laura-chinch...

#ClubdeMadrid
November 6, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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article19.bsky.social
ARTICLE 19 joins partners in calling on the UN Human Rights Council to urgently convene a special session on Sudan.

Atrocities being committed in and around El Fasher must be documented, Sudanese voices must be heard, and accountability is essential.

defenddefenders.org/sudan-call-f...
Sudan: civil society calls for a UN Human Rights Council special session on El Fasher - DefendDefenders
In a letter released today, civil society calls on the UN Human Rights Council to convene a special session on Sudan to address the situation in and around El Fasher, North Darfur, and ensure urgent i...
defenddefenders.org
November 6, 2025 at 8:42 AM
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Former Malian PM & @clubdemadrid.bsky.social Member Moussa Mara sentenced to 2 years in prison for showing solidarity with political prisoners.

We urge Malian authorities to release him now and uphold democracy, human rights & rule of law.

🔗 clubmadrid.org/club-de-madr...

#ClubdeMadrid
Club de Madrid urges Malian authorities to immediately release Moussa Mara and uphold democratic freedoms, human rights and the rule of law | Club de Madrid
The unjust conviction of former Malian Prime Minister and Club de Madrid Member Moussa Mara marks another step in the erosion of democratic freedoms and human rights in Mali.
clubmadrid.org
October 30, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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atrupar.com
Mamdani: "New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant."
November 5, 2025 at 4:40 AM
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zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
November 5, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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michaelstipe.bsky.social
VOTE TODAY!!! This is so thrilling, the possibilities!! This feels like my city and my country and it makes me proud.
November 4, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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cataratalibros.bsky.social
'Política de la noviolencia'. Mahatma Gandhi. Antología del pensamiento de Gandhi elaborada por Rubén Campos Palarea @rubencampos.bsky.social‬ #ClásicosDelPensamientoCrítico también en #eBook buff.ly/eOJib9u
November 4, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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johnpanzer.com
This is the kind of coverage that Teen Vogue just decided to stop doing.
leximcmenamin.com Lex McMenamin (they/them) @leximcmenamin.com · 13d
dissatisfied by the New York Times coverage of Zohran Mamdani?

great news! I talked to the guy Thursday about his campaign’s success at bringing community together beyond this election, and contextualized how it’s potentially shifted youth engagement with politics by simply listening @teenvogue.com
Zohran Mamdani's Establishment-Fighting Campaign Built Community for Young People
“What Mamdani has done is not only inspire and mobilize young people, but he has exposed the establishment and some of their calcified views of participation and inclusion.”
www.teenvogue.com
November 3, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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zeteo.com
“You cannot be a liberal ethnic cleanser… you cannot be a socialist genocider.”

Israeli historian Ilan Pappé on the oxymoron, ‘Liberal Zionist’ and how Israel has made a Jewish, democratic state impossible.

Watch the full conversation:
zeteo.com/p/is-zionism...
October 31, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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dangolding.com
As the single most important news story this year, I can't wait to see the detailed and central coverage this will get in every media outlet we have
‘Change course now’: humanity has missed 1.5C climate target, says UN head
Exclusive: ‘Devastating consequences’ now inevitable but emissions cuts still vital, says António Guterres in sole interview before Cop30
www.theguardian.com
October 28, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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emptywheel.bsky.social
This interview between @pkrugman.bsky.social and @chenoweth.bsky.social is absolutely fantastic. A great introduction to Chenowith's work.

paulkrugman.substack.com/p/talking-wi...
Chenoweth: Well, this is where it’s really important to learn from the history of these movements, which is that it’s usually not about a single day of protest. It’s about building power for the long haul. The average campaign that succeeds takes a few years to do so. I shouldn’t say that this is prescriptive or predictive either, by the way. But, if we just look at the historical record, we know that it takes time for campaigns to build the power that begin to tap into those pillars of support and create loyalty shifts, etc. And that one of the reasons movements win when they win is because they are resilient to the repression that they experience in the meantime.
October 25, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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jakemgrumbach.bsky.social
A very offline cousin sent this to fam group chat. This story is breaking containment.
Death Star
October 24, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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lorenzopiccoli.bsky.social
“People stop me and shout ‘free buses,’ ‘universal childcare,’ ‘freeze the rent.’ We’re building a movement around policies, not an individual person".

Regardless of whether you like him, this is important, and sadly lost on most left-wing parties in Europe.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/p...
Zohran Mamdani Explains His Rise
www.nytimes.com
October 25, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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ecfr.eu
How do people feel about Europe? Do they perceive the EU as more than just a common market? And how do they see its role in the future?

🔗 Check our latest policy brief to find out
https://bit.ly/3VxF9X7
October 22, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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chenoweth.bsky.social
Very good @shteyngart.bsky.social piece illuminating below.
October 20, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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rubencampos.bsky.social
Great article from @qjurecic.bsky.social at @theatlantic.com on the importance and effectiveness of nonviolent resistance and democratic commitment.
A summary: As one protest sign put it at a demonstration early in Trump’s second term: BE CRINGE. SHIT MATTERS

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Resistance Is Cringe
But it’s also effective.
www.theatlantic.com
October 18, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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brusselstimes.com
Sofia “Mamma Erasmus” Corradi, founder of the EU student exchange programme that sent 16 million students abroad, has died in Rome at 91.
Sofia Corradi, founder of the Erasmus programme, dies aged 91
Sofia Corradi, founder of the Erasmus programme, dies aged 91
www.brusselstimes.com
October 19, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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drlisacorrigan.bsky.social
In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.
katz.theracket.news Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 28d
Not a shitpost: #NoKings is feel-good performative activism for comfortable mostly upper and upper middle class white folks and that’s good, actually. Millions of people in the streets protesting a fascist regime is good. It is good for the normie baseline to be massive displays of public dissent.
October 19, 2025 at 1:44 AM
rubencampos.bsky.social
Great article from @qjurecic.bsky.social at @theatlantic.com on the importance and effectiveness of nonviolent resistance and democratic commitment.
A summary: As one protest sign put it at a demonstration early in Trump’s second term: BE CRINGE. SHIT MATTERS

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Resistance Is Cringe
But it’s also effective.
www.theatlantic.com
October 18, 2025 at 2:13 PM