insurrectional
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How can educational and pedagogical practices be connected to the resurrection of historical memory, new modes of solidarity, a resurgence of the radical imagination and broad-based struggles for an insurrectional democracy?
From Salon • Feb. 18, 2019
For something more recent, there are David Hammons’s insurrectional shrouded “Tarp” paintings.
From New York Times • Dec. 20, 2018
He became a union negotiator and, in the early 1990s, a member of the MBR-200, the civilian wing of Chávez’s insurrectional military movement.
From The Guardian • Jul. 29, 2017
We cannot pin our hopes on a large insurrectional movement .
From Time Magazine Archive
If Danton and the popular insurrectional force were for the moment defeated, Robespierre and intellectual democracy were making rapid headway; the centre of gravity of revolutionary opinion was shifting in his direction.
From The French Revolution A Short History by Johnston, R. M. (Robert Matteson)
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