Audiences vanish, movements don’t

Hello! This is Mehran at Subvrt, a newsletter on effective organising, and I’ve been quiet for a few weeks, focusing on a piece for Waging Nonviolence that I’ll send to you as soon as it’s live. While that’s in process, two things:First: I did a talk last Friday with Hasan Piker and Yanis Varoufakis, which was live-streamed on DiEM25’s YouTube channel and to Hasan’s stream on Twitch. The two of them have a lot in common, but now even more something in common: governments have banned them from entire countries for criticising Israel. Germany barred Yanis two years ago, and last week the UK barred Hasan, who was due to give a run of talks there. So we talked free speech, antisemitism, Zionism and the sorry state of liberal democracy. Btw, coverage of Hasan’s ban was wall-to-wall, The Economist included. I don’t have stats, but I imagine a lot of people in Europe came across his work for the first time this way. Thanks, Keir Starmer and Barbara Streisand. Keep it up!I was really…