[Link] Yangon’s silenced streets: how a hotbed of anti-coup resistance was extinguished

Read: 6/2/2022 www.theguardian.com

As Thitsar* walked through her neighbourhood one December morning, she was struck by its emptiness. The bamboo shacks that line the streets of Hlaing Tharyar, an industrial township on the outskirts of Myanmar’s largest city, Yangon, lay in tatters, overgrown with weeds.

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[Link] U.S. Boycotted Olympics Before, and It Didn’t End Well

Read: 8/12/2021 www.vice.com

The U.S. is staging a diplomatic boycott of the upcoming Beijing Winter Olympics to protest China’s human rights abuses of Muslim minorities in Xinjiang. The full effect remains to be seen.

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[Link] Sally Rooney novels pulled from Israeli bookstores after translation boycott

Read: 6/11/2021 www.theguardian.com

Books by will no longer be sold in two Israeli bookshop chains, after the acclaimed writer’s decision not to sell translation rights for her most recent novel to an Israeli publisher.

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[Link] Mass Resignations at Scientific Journal Over Ethically Fraught China Genetics Papers

Read: 7/8/2021 theintercept.com

Eight members of the editorial board of a scientific journal have resigned after it published a slew of controversial papers that critics fear could be used for DNA profiling and persecution of ethnic minorities in China.

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[Link] “Ben & Jerry’s will regret the day they boycotted the State of Israel”

Read: 3/8/2021 www.israeltoday.co.il

Ben & Jerry’s is on its way to losing ownership of its brand in the settlements. The law association Shurat HaDin has submitted a request to the Registrar of Companies to register a company called “Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream of Judea and Samaria.

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