[rad-green] Evo Morales didn’t resign; he was overthrown by a coup d’état.

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*Verso          11 November 2019*

#ThisisaCoup

*Evo Morales didn’t resign; he was overthrown by a coup d’état.*
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As of today, Evo Morales, the Indigenous president of Bolivia, was forced
to resign the presidency. His Vice President, (Alvaro Garcia Linera) also
resigned, as did Adrianna Salvatierra, the President of the Senate, who was
supposed to assume the presidency in Morales’ absence. At the time of this
writing, the Wiphala Indigenous flag, has been lowered throughout the
country by the opposition. Morales, the country’s first Indigenous
president, is the standard bearer of generations of Indigenous socialists.
His removal represents the return of the old oligarchy. This is a coup
against the arrival of the Indigenous peoples of Bolivia to the forefront
of history.

For weeks, rightwing protestors have targeted Morales’ party, the Movement
Toward Socialism (or MAS in Spanish). They have burned down party members’
homes and offices, attacking their supporters.  Recently Patricia Arce,
mayor of Vinto, was kidnapped by a mob. They cut her hair, threw paint over
her body, and forced her to walk barefoot, publicly humiliating her. The
mob has blockaded the headquarters of Bolivia TV and the Patria Nueva radio
station. At the time of this writing, right wing forces are ransacking and
burning President Morales’ home and are trying to arrest him.

This is not a resignation. No one resigns with a gun to their head.

Bolivia’s political and economic elite support this violence, as part of a
resurgence of the far right in Latin America. Activists on the ground are
currently getting smashed by these forces. We, the undersigned, denounce
this violence, and preemptively denounce the violence that will inevitably
escalate in the street. We call on the United Nations to make a statement
denouncing the undemocratic nature of the coup and the strong-arm tactics
of its backers.

Co-Drafters
Jordan T. Camp, Director of Research, The People’s Forum; Visiting Scholar,
Center for Place Culture and Politics, CUNY Graduate Center; Co-Director of
the Racial Capitalism Working Group, Center for the Study of Social
Difference, Columbia University

George Ciccariello-Maher, Visiting Scholar, Decolonizing Humanities and
Modern Languages and Literatures, William and Mary

Nick Estes (Lakota), Assistant Professor of American Studies, Univ. of New
Mexico, Co-Founder The Red Nation

Christina Heatherton, Assistant Professor of American Studies, Barnard
College; Co-Director of the Racial Capitalism Working Group, Center for the
Study of Social Difference, Columbia University

Manu Karuka, Assistant Professor of American Studies, Barnard College;
Co-Director of the Racial Capitalism Working Group, Center for the Study of
Social Difference, Columbia University

Vijay Prashad, Director, Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research

Melanie Yazzie (Diné), Assistant Professor of Native American Studies and
American Studies, University of New Mexico, Co-Founder of The Red Nation


Co-Signers
Samia Assed, Palestinian-American Human Rights Activist and Organizer,
Board of Directors of The Women’s March

Medea Benjamin, Co-Founder, Code Pink

Bruno Bosteels, Professor of Latin America and Ibertian Cultures and the
Institute for Comparative Literature and Society, Columbia University

Glen Coulthard, (Yellowknives Dene) Associate Professor in the First
Nations and Indigenous Studies Program and the Departments of Political
Science, University of British Columbia

Andrew Curley (Diné), Department of Geography, University of North Carolina

Jennifer Nez Denetdale (Diné), Professor of American Studies, University of
New Mexico

Jaskiran Dhillon, Associate Professor, Global Studies and Anthropology, The
New School

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, author of An Indigenous People’s History of the
United States

Jodie Evans, Co-Founder and Co-Director, Code Pink

Ramon Grosfoguel, Department of Ethnic Studies, University of California,
Berkeley

Sandy Grande (Quechua), Professor of Education and Director Center for the
Critical Study of Race and Ethnicity, Connecticut College

Sarah Jaffe, author and journalist

Robin D. G. Kelley, Professor, Department of African American Studies,
Distinguished Professor of History & Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair in United
States History, UCLA

Winona LaDuke (White Earth Ojibwe), Program Director of Honor the Earth

Thea N. Riofrancos, Assistant Professor of Political Science,  Providence
College

Boots Riley, Filmmaker

Linda Sarsour, Palestinian-American Activist and Co-Founder of The Women’s
March

Audra Simpson (Mohawk), Professor of Anthropology, Columbia University

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, author of From #BlackLivesMatter to Black
Liberation

Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis, Co-Chair of the Poor People’s Campaign: A National
Call for Moral Revival, and Director of the Kairos Center for Religions,
Rights, and Social Justice, Union Theological Seminary.

Christy Thornton, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Johns Hopkins University

Gregory Wilpert, Managing Editor at The Real News Network

David Harvey, Distinguished Professor of anthropology and geography,
Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY)

Gerald Horne, Rebecca Moores Chair of History and African American Studies
at the University of Houston.

Anya Parampill, journalist

Richard Pithouse, Associate Professor at the Wits Institute of Social
Research, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, Editor of New
Frame, and Co-ordinator of the Johannesburg office of the Tricontinental:
Institute for Social Research

S’bu Zikode, Abahlali baseMjondolo

South African Shack Dwellers Movement

Irvin Jim, General Secretary of the National Union of Metalworkers of South
Africa (Numsa) and National chair of Socialist Revolutionary Workers Party

Mbuso Ngubane Regional Secretary of National Union of Metalworkers of South
Africa (Numsa)

Andile Zitho Regional Secretary National Union of Metalworkers of South
Africa (Numsa) and National Treasurer of the Socialist Revolutionary
Workers Party.

Michael Neocosmos (PhD), Emeritus Professor in Humanities, Rhodes
University, South Africa; Distinguished Visiting Scholar University of
Connecticut Humanities Institute, United States; Visiting Professor, WISER,
University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa

Palagummi Sainath, Indian journalist and founder editor of the People's
Archive of Rural India

Prabir Purkayastha, Indian Journalist

Vashna Jagarnath, deputy general secretary SRWP and Senior Researcher at
the centre for social change University of Johannesburg

Eva Golinger, author and lawyer

Jodi A. Byrd, Associate Professor, English and Gender and Women's Studies,
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Gary Y. Okihiro, Professor Emeritus of International and Public Affairs,
Columbia University, and Visiting Professor of American Studies, Yale
University

Joanne Barker, Professor and Chair of American Indian Studies, San
Francisco State University

Walter Johnson, Professor of History and Director of the Charles Warren
Center, Harvard University

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