When we do this we will become the truly non-patriarchal and anti-oppressive voice that Jesus had: one that saw women and men as equal, and celebrated diversity.
Beijing's grip on the internet will only tighten, and even though an oppressive government quashing the voice of dissent is no new phenomenon, western corporations' complicity in persecuting the dissidents surely is.
The stage was set for one of those moments, familiar from revolutions past, in which an intellectual hero confronts an oppressive ruler and eloquently voices the grievances of a nation.
It becomes the voice of every oppressive or totalitarian system of government".
These hardly seem the work of press pools in league with the "unitary voice" of an "oppressive or totalitarian system".
Therefore, we have a right -- no, an obligation -- to counter this destructive and, yes, oppressive discourse with all the voices, the energy, the unity, the intelligence, and all the love of which we are capable.
The genre was birthed from groups of people of color people whose very existences are often politicized by oppressive public policies and quickly became a voice for the underrepresented and unsatisfied.
For example, the right to strike is not a topic analysed by HIA, but it is central to a rights-respectful workplace where employees have voice (and where it is violated, oppressive employers may use violence which can, indeed, affect health).
You might think that this oppressive brand of neoliberalism had created a unique chance for an alternative voice on the left.
Watrous describes the music as "the sound of urban alienation, where silence doesn't exist and sensory stimulation is oppressive and predatory", and writes that its dense textures "envelop Chuck D's voice and make his rapping sound as if it is under duress, as if he were fighting against a background intent on taking him over.
Against a backdrop of oppressive jobcentres, run-down high streets and mushrooming food banks, the voices paint a dystopian picture of life on the dole in Britain today.
