In 2020 the United States was rocked by violent protests centered on police brutality against African-Americans, leading to thousands of arrests and several deaths. The reaction to and solutions for the problem of police brutality vary widely, but the movement we will be talking about today has an elegantly simple solution: Secession! Early Black Nationalism/Separatism …
Springtime of Nations: Kashmir
An infamous hotbed of separatism and sectarian violence, this region in the Indian Subcontinent has plagued peacemakers for over 70 years. One side decries the military occupation of their nation, while the other maintains that it is necessary as a defense against islamic terror. Today we’re going to look into which side, if any, is …
Springtime of Nations: Ambazonia
In the Jungles of West Africa, a conflict spawned by colonial land grabs has spiraled into an all-out war. Cameroon, a mid sized oil rich country, gained independence from France in 1960 with the rest of French Equatorial Africa. A community of English speakers however seeks to break free from their union, using crypto-currency to …
Springtime of Nations: Taiwan
The Chinese Communist State has in the last few years begun ramping up their decades-old threat to invade and annex the island nation of Taiwan, which they claim is not a nation at all, but simply the rowdy 23rd province of the Chinese Nation, that needs to be reminded who is really in charge. This …
JStark’s Carbines Seen in the Burmese Resistance
As reported by Popular Front’s Jake Hanrahan, the FGC-9 (Fuck Gun Control 9) has been identified in photos from Burmese resistance forces. These are the opposition armies that have been fighting the Burmese military state since February 2021 after the brutal suppression of peaceful protestors in the cities of the country following the blatant coup …
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Tigray’s Revenge
This is the first time we’ve made two videos on a single national struggle. We probably aren’t going to do many more in the near future, although the Burmese civil war will doubtless need an updated treatment in the future. However, given how much has happened in Ethiopia since our video on the Tigray nationalists, …
Springtime of Nations: The Lakota
In 1988 Texas Congressman Ron Paul ran for President on the Libertarian Party Ticket. The man he narrowly defeated for the nomination, Russell Means, was a Lakota Native American rights activist who had been involved in the symbolic occupation of Alcatraz island in 1969 as a protest against the treatment of Native Americans in the …
Springtime of Nations: Corsica
In July 2020, members of a separatist movement on the French controlled island of Corsica announced the revival of the National Liberation Front of Corsica or the FLNC. This group had conducted violent attacks for the cause of Corsican nationalism for decades until their ceasefire was announced in 2014. With their return, Springtime of Nations …
Springtime of Nations: The Boers
Having covered the Free State Project in a previous episode, a political migration undertaken by American libertarians, we will continue this theme by looking at the town of Orania in South Africa, which is a project of Boer Nationalists. This settlement is controversial both in South Africa and in the world, and like our video …