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03/03/2022


Standing With Ukraine. Standing With the Oppressed

BAK’s digitale forum Prospections biedt via de focus “Standing With Ukraine. Standing With The Oppressed” een doorlopende publicatie van materiaal zoals teksten, documentatie en live online events die context en inzicht bieden wat betreft de radicale weerstand tegen de oorlog in Oekraïne. Het is ook een manier om solidair te staan met de onderdrukten, door bijdragen te publiceren van zowel Oekraïnse culturele werkers als een breder scala van stemmen van anti-oorlog en anti-imperialisme bewegingen verspreid over de wereld. Dit is een bescheiden kader om in mee te denken, ontwikkelen, van te leren en het werk van artiesten, denkers en activisten te steunen in deze tijd van nood. 

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Maidan and (8 Years) After: State of the Ukrainian Left

Nina Potarska

For Prospections “Standing With Ukraine. Standing With the Oppressed,” feminist, social researcher, and peace activist Nina Potarska has kindly given us permission to republish her 2016 text “Maidan and After: State of the Ukrainian Left,” originally published in n+1 magazine 24, New Age (Winter 2016), which gives a socioeconomic context to the Maidan uprising and describes the author’s own involvement in the protests from a feminist position, demanding direct democracy and an end to corruption and (neo)oligarchic rule; and subsequently, her involvement in helping women impacted by the war in eastern Ukraine. The republication of this text is followed by a postscript by Potarska describing her recent years of peacebuilding activist and advocacy work as Ukraine’s national coordinator for the International Women’s League for Peace and Freedom, Kyiv. Yet today—one month after the full-scale Russian invasion and its fully raging war on Ukraine—the author is faced with an acute sense of grief regarding how to carry on.

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