{"id":383817,"date":"2018-11-05T21:39:51","date_gmt":"2018-11-05T20:39:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-power-that-must-be-resisted\/"},"modified":"2018-11-05T21:39:51","modified_gmt":"2018-11-05T20:39:51","slug":"the-power-that-must-be-resisted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-power-that-must-be-resisted\/","title":{"rendered":"The Power That Must be Resisted"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<div id=\"attachment_106822\" style=\"width: 520px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-106822\" src=\"https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/11\/2560px-EleNao_Porto_Alegre_2018-09-29_63.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"510\" height=\"340\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/11\/2560px-EleNao_Porto_Alegre_2018-09-29_63.jpg 510w, https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/11\/2560px-EleNao_Porto_Alegre_2018-09-29_63-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/11\/2560px-EleNao_Porto_Alegre_2018-09-29_63-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 510px) 100vw, 510px\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo Source CPERS Sindicato | <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/\">CC BY 2.0<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cWe live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 Ursula Le Guin<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>When the outright fascist Jair Bolsonaro won the Brazilian presidency in October, it wasn\u2019t just the poor, people of colour, LGBTQ, or indigenous peoples that lost. Indeed, the earth\u2019s weakened biosphere and imperiled climate lost even bigger. The president elect of the world\u2019s 4<sup>th\u00a0<\/sup>largest democracy has vowed to open up vast swaths of the iconic rainforest to multinational logging, cattle, mining and agricultural industries. With this one political victory the world\u2019s ruling capitalist elite saw more dollar signs than in their wildest dreams, and the earth\u2019s <em>\u201clungs\u201d\u00a0<\/em>were given a terminal prognosis.<\/p>\n<p>Bolsonaro\u2019s rise to power bears a strong resemblance to that of Donald Trump, Narendra Modi, Rodrigo Duterte and Viktor Orban. All of them have employed the techniques of classic fascism: demonizing political opponents and the media, rhetoric endorsing violence, stoking chauvinistic nationalism, scapegoating marginalized people. All them possess a disgruntled, demoralized, yet loyal base of supporters, and regularly connect with them through rallies that ridicule or bully those who dissent or disagree from their position. All of them manipulate information to&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2018\/11\/05\/the-power-that-must-be-resisted\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo Source CPERS Sindicato | CC BY 2.0 \u201cWe live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.\u201d \u2013 Ursula Le Guin [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-383817","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=383817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383817\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}