Being relational in resistance

Recorded today (28 March) Morning Tinto podcast, episode 9

Author

Chris Musei-Sequeira
March 28, 2025

This photograph shows a line of people wearing white helments and holding clear plastic shields that appear to show the letters "POLÍC" with other potential letters hidden. The line of people stretches from the lower left of the photograph to the middle right. Behind the line is a white multi-story building. Description from source: "Police lines in front of kettling zone - São Paulo World Cup protest on 22 Feb 2014." Credit from source: Ben Tavener. SOURCE: Tavener, B. (22 February 2014). Police lines in front of kettling zone - São Paulo World Cup protest on 22 Feb 2014. Flickr. Last accessed 28 March 2025 from LINK. Licensed under the Creative Commons CC BY 2.0 Attribution 2.0 Generic license. No modifications made.

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What is resistance looking like right now, inside the United States of America and outside of it? What could resistance look like?

Morning Tinto Episode 9: Being relational in resistance

Recorded today, my friend Heather Luna of keduzi and I discuss protests in Serbia, Turkey, Argentina, and the United States of America (USA). Heather references the article “The resistance is alive and well in the United States” from WagingNonviolence.org, then compares resistance activity in the USA with the Serbia protests described in an Al Jazeera opinion article from 23 February. We discuss what makes a resistance action more individualistic or more relational, and we also talk about the infrastructure necessary to grow and sustain large-scale protests.

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Previous Morning Tinto recordings

  • Episode 1: The Trump Administration and DEI (23 minutes and 59 seconds)

  • Episode 2: Do not obey in advance. (21 minutes and 16 seconds)

  • Episode 3: An illiberal intervention (23 minutes and 7 seconds)

  • Episode 4: Who Are “We, the People”? (19 minutes and 22 seconds)

  • Episode 5: Off the spectrum? (32 minutes and 1 second)

  • Episode 6: The mask is off (28 minutes and 58 seconds)

  • Episode 7: Meeting each other’s needs (33 minutes and 18 seconds)

  • Episode 8: Survival and community (27 minutes and 6 seconds)

Where to find the perspectives you’ve been missing

FIRST: Subscribe to the Morning Tinto podcast, where my friend Heather Luna and I use the lenses of oppression and resistance to talk about events that happen right before recording.

SECOND: Subscribe to our professional offers-and-needs networking events announcement list. Heather and I regularly host FREE online events where professionals can offer help (free or paid) and ask other professionals to meet their needs.

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FOURTH: Forward this issue to people you know who are doing decolonial and anti-oppression work.

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Image source: Tavener, B. (22 February 2014). Police lines in front of kettling zone - São Paulo World Cup protest on 22 Feb 2014. Flickr. Last accessed 28 March 2025 from LINK. Licensed under the Creative Commons CC BY 2.0 Attribution 2.0 Generic license. No modifications made.

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My name is Chris Musei-Sequeira, and I use he/him pronouns. My mother was born in Trinidad and Tobago as a descendant of African slaves brought to the islands during the time of European colonization. She came to the United States of America (USA) at the age of 10. My father is Goan and was born in India, in Mumbai, and raised Catholic and English-speaking. He came to the USA for his graduate studies, where he met my mother.

My sister and I were born in the USA and lived a middle-class life in the suburbs of multiple American cities. I studied aeronautical engineering and technology policy in university, then worked at the Federal Aviation Administration and as an aviation consultant. I've lived in cities up and down the USA East Coast since the age of 18; I now reside in Queens, New York with my wife.

I thank Heather Luna and Lavinia Muth for showing me the importance of publicly expressing our positions. Because of our positions, all of us are very familiar with some aspects of the world while having no idea of other aspects. Positionality expresses how our individual positions affect our relationships with other people and with the world as a whole.