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Standing With Ukraine

Standing With the Oppressed

BAK’s digital forum Prospections, provides—via its emergency focus “Standing With Ukraine.

Standing With the Oppressed”—an ongoing publication of material such as texts, documentation, and live online events that offer context and insights to radical resistance to the war on Ukraine, and to ways of participating in solidarity with the oppressed, by means of publishing contributions by Ukrainian culture workers as well as a broader constellation of voices from anti-war and anti-imperial struggles across the world. This is a humble framework to think along with, develop, learn from, and support the work of artists, thinkers, and activists in this time of emergency.


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