An Ignatian meditation on why Artur Rosman was defamed

Alexis de Tocqueville

immigration manifesto

2016-07-28T03:02:45-07:00

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If you are not informed about Vancouver solidarity, don’t comment. #HongKongProtests

Last updated on: July 28, 2016 at 3:02 am By Justin Tse

Last night, I attended the solidarity protest at Vancouver’s Chinese Consulate organized by the Vancouver Society in Support of Democratic Movements (VSSDM). It was a historic event, not least because it was held by the organization that led the historic 1989 solidarity protests against the Chinese government’s crackdown on the students at Tiananmen Square. A new Vancouver Sun journalist at the time, Douglas Todd, covered the rise of the movement, including a full-length article on a Lutheran pastor whose name... Read more

2016-07-28T03:04:36-07:00

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It has always been the students – and the clergy — and Catholic social teaching #HongKongProtests

Last updated on: July 28, 2016 at 3:04 am By Justin Tse

I’ve been blogging plenty lately about the recent occupation of Hong Kong. As the movement has been mostly led by student protesters, the democratic movement Occupy Central for Love and Peace has even declared that it will put its energy ‘behind’ the students, not trying to vie with them for any sort of power grab. This puts enormous clarity as to what’s going on in Hong Kong. While there have been reports that there is dissension among the leadership, leaders... Read more

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Golden Jubilee Incident

Sino-Vatican geopolitics

2016-07-28T02:52:26-07:00

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The World Is Watching. #OccupyCentral #HongKong

Last updated on: July 28, 2016 at 2:52 am By Justin Tse

I once wrote on Facebook that if the government cracks down on nonviolent protesters in Hong Kong, the world would watch. I meant that, of course, to invoke the Tiananmen Beijing Spring of 1989: the Party sent the People’s Liberation Army to clear out Tiananmen Square, and the world watched on CNN. I was quickly corrected. A friend said to me that ‘the world’ really just means the ‘Anglo-American world.’ I have to say that he is correct. I also... Read more

Latin Catholicism

Feminist/Womanist Theology

Umbrella Movement

warzone

2016-07-28T15:43:57-07:00

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Cascadian Privates and Occupy Central

Last updated on: July 28, 2016 at 3:43 pm By Justin Tse

I’ve just gotten done with a conference called Christ and Cascadia. Just this morning, Pacific Standard Time, I also received word that in Hong Kong, the democratic movement called Occupy Central with Love and Peace has actually started to physically occupy the Central district. That’s remarkable. It’s remarkable because the confluence of these two things together — one in the Pacific Northwest, the other in Hong Kong — helped me think through one central theme that holds the two places... Read more

New Calvinism

Elizabeth Stoker Bruenig

Maren Haynes Marchesini

2017-08-24T17:56:20-07:00

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Putting Brad Salzberg First

Last updated on: August 24, 2017 at 5:56 pm By Justin Tse

When I commented in May this year to the South China Morning Post’s Ian Young on Chinese parents and the Vancouver School Board’s transgender policy, I did not expect to receive a racist email. It happened to be my PhD graduation on the day that the story ran. The next day, I was down in San Francisco, attending my sister’s graduation, when an email popped into my inbox from one Brad Salzberg, who touted himself as the BC regional director... Read more

Asian Canadian

South China Morning Post

white supremacy

2016-07-28T02:42:53-07:00

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The BCTF, the BC Liberals, and Occupy Central

Last updated on: July 28, 2016 at 2:42 am By Justin Tse

On September 2, the BC Liberal government made an astonishing concession about the teachers’ strike held by the BC Teachers’ Federation (BCTF). Please forgive my Facebook Pirate English settings: For those who have not eyes to see, here is the concession: This week I called the head of the BCTF, Jim Iker, and the lead negotiator for school districts, Peter Cameron, to my office. I mapped out a path to settlement: set aside the grievances associated... Read more

Asian Canadian

Law

Liberal

public

2016-07-28T02:37:07-07:00

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Benny Tai as a political theologian, or what Elizabeth Stoker Bruenig might have to say about Occupy Central #HongKong

Last updated on: July 28, 2016 at 2:37 am By Justin Tse

When Hong Kong University law professor Benny Tai gave his speech announcing acts of civil disobedience in Hong Kong, I thought of the work of emerging scholar Elizabeth Stoker Bruenig. I confess that I do multiple things at the same time. On the one hand, readers of this blog know that I’ve been trying as best I can to keep up with Hong Kong’s democratic movement Occupy Central with Love and Peace as best as I can over here in... Read more

Elizabeth Stoker Bruenig

Karl Marx

Paul Kwong

private consensus

Theology

2016-07-28T02:32:31-07:00

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EXAM REVIEW: Hong Kong’s Occupy Central with Love and Peace

Last updated on: July 28, 2016 at 2:32 am By Justin Tse

Things are heating up over there in Hong Kong over the movement known as Occupy Central with Love and Peace. There’s going to be a rally on August 31 to deliberate over what sorts of acts of civil disobedience the movement will take in response to Beijing’s newly proposed framework for Hong Kong’s electoral reform. This is because while the Occupy Central movement put forward a proposal for Chief Executive candidates to be determined by civil nomination, Beijing has de... Read more

Publics

primer

sovereignty

Tiananmen

2016-07-28T02:28:01-07:00

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Sam Rocha: Love always comes too late.

Last updated on: July 28, 2016 at 2:28 am By Justin Tse

Let me tell you about my friend Sam Rocha. He has a stellar soul/jazz album called Late to Love that has just come out today from Wiseblood Records. This album has been endorsed by pretty much everyone across the board on Patheos. We might as well talk about him. The thing is, Sam is not supposed to be a professional musician. He is a philosopher, a philosopher of education, to be precise. He teaches at my alma mater, the University... Read more

Asian American

BlackLivesMatter

New Calvinism