The red-shirt anti-coup movement gained momentum in 2007, with an organised campaign opposing the 2007 constitution. On the other hand, the cause was significantly set back in April 2009, when red-shirt groups started violent demonstrations in Din Daeng. Subsequent red-shirt protests near Democracy Monument in early 2010 were peaceful. Much of the book is devoted to the extraordinary events of May 2010, when red-shirt demonstrators were massacred by the army.
19-19 has a bright red cover and endpapers, so it's clear where the publisher's sympathies lie. Previously, Same Sky has distributed a VCD of the Tak Bai incident (volume 2, number 4; 2004), published the evidence from Da Torpedo's lèse-majesté conviction in Thai (volume 7, number 3; 2009) and English (volume 7, number 4; 2009), and was censored in 2005 after it published an interview with controversial writer Sulak Sivaraksa.