Summary
The veteran disability rights activist whose self-immolation in summer 2012, in Moments of Resistance Chapter 8, culminated the “despairing June days” of the J14 Movement’s counter-mo(ve)ment and marked the complete split of the movement (Moments of Resistance, PDF p.267-268).
Details
- Silman died of self-immolation in the middle of a demonstration, sacrificing his life in the hope that it would help unify the splintered movement; it did not (PDF p.269).
- His mourning parades in fact lamented the end of the mo(ve)ment itself (PDF p.267-268).