RESIST

RESIST is the name of an electoral list formed as a result of the coalition between Marxist-Leninist Workers Party of Belgium (PTB) and Pan-Arabist Arab European League (AEL) for the 2003 federal election in the Flemish Region.

RESIST was led by PTB lawyer Zohra Othman, herself an ethnic Arab of Moroccan extraction, and received 10,059 votes. Consequently, AEL distanced itself from PTB and formed a new party named Moslim Democratische Partij.

Abou Jahjah's group had participated in Antwerp PTB lists for the 1999 election.

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RESIST (non-profit)

RESIST is a philanthropic non-profit organization based out of Somerville, Massachusetts. It has provided grants to grassroots activist organizations around the country since its inception in 1967 as a result of the anti-war proclamation “A Call to Resist Illegitimate Authority”.

History

RESIST formed in 1967 as an intellectual collective in response to the growing unrest surrounding the Vietnam War. First taking shape in the period leading up to the March on the Pentagon, Robert Barsky describes the collective’s formation in Noam Chomsky: A Life of Dissent:

In addition to Chomsky and Lauter, others involved in the organization’s early stages included novelist Mitchell Goodman, poet Robert Lowell, writer Dwight Macdonald, leading lawyer for the Mobilization’s Legal Defense Committee Ed de Grazia, poet Denise Levertov, and The Armies of the Night author Norman Mailer

In the days leading up to the march, the collective penned “A Call to Resist Illegitimate Authority,” which was published in the October 12th, 1967 edition of The New York Review of Books. The manifesto was signed by hundreds including Mitchell Goodman, Henry Braun, Denise Levertov, Noam Chomsky, William Sloane Coffin, Norman Mailer, Robert Lowell, Dwight Macdonald, Allen Ginsberg, Barbara Guest, Wilbur H. Ferry, and Lawrence Ferlinghetti. Leaflets were circulated among sympathizers prior to the march detailing their intended action:

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Chameleon (film)

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Plot

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