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Gandhi urges non-violent protest » Arun Gandhi, grandson of former Indian leader Mahatma Gandhi, has urged Palestinians to use peaceful means to resist the Israeli occupation. "Insist on your rights and demand your freedom peacefully," Mr Gandhi told Palestinians at a rally in Ramallah. He is also set to observe a one day fast in support of Palestinian prisoners currently on hunger strike in Israeli jails. The liquids-only strike by some 4,000 prisoners is now in its 12th day. After meeting Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, Mr ...
Dispatch from Berlin: Forgetting Why the Wall Fell » In the orgy of Reagan revisionism and capitalist triumphalism that followed the fall of the Berlin Wall twenty years ago, we have largely forgotten how and why the Cold War came to an end. It would be almost impossible to discern its real origins from today's Disney style celebration of the "Mauerfall" that began on Thursday evening with musical celebrities (e.g., Bono and Beyonce) and the European MTV awards in front of the Brandenburg Gate and ends this evening in the same place with a gala fe...
US 'disappointed' by Honduras mission failure » WASHINGTON — The US voiced disappointment Thursday at the failure of a seven-nation mission to persuade coup leaders in Honduras to accept a settlement and renewed its support for ousted president Manuel Zelaya."We are disappointed by this inability to move forward," the State Department said in a statement to AFP."The United States supports the peaceful restoration of democratic and constitutional order in Honduras with President Zelaya?s return as president to finish his term," it said.
Diplomats get talks started in Honduras crisis » TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — Diplomats pushed the two sides of the Honduran political conflict into direct talks for the first time in nearly three months, but left the country Thursday with no commitment from the coup-installed government to reinstate ousted President Manuel Zelaya.Members of the delegation sponsored by the Organization of American States characterized the result of their one-day visit — the establishment of a "table of dialogue" and an agenda — as a positive step even though the ri...
Journalists Have Become 'Easy Prey' in Iran » Foreign media were banned from covering this summer's protests in Tehran, while local journalists have been arrested and persecuted.In a SPIEGEL interview, the chairman of Tehran's Association for the Defense of Press Freedom, 51-year-old Mashallah Shamsolvaezin, discusses acts of repression against journalists in Iran in the wake of June protests over the presidential election.
Thousands of South Koreans stage anti-government protest » SEOUL: More than 10,000 South Koreans demanding President Lee Myung-Bak resign held an anti-government rally on Wednesday on the 22nd anniversary of a pro-democracy uprising.  The rally was led by opposition parties, who accuse Lee of ordering a politically motivated probe into former president Roh Moo-Hyun, who leapt to his death on May 23 after being investigated in a corruption scandal. The suicide of the liberal leader, who held office from 2003 to 2008, sparked a mass outpouring of grief ...
How Peer Pressure Creates Social Change » People are rarely swayed by information alone. If they were, the cigarette industry would have collapsed when the first Surgeon General's report on smoking came out in 1964, and fossil fuels would have been phased out in 1989, when Congress was first alerted to the threat of global warming. As Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Tina Rosenberg writes in her recently released book Join the Club, "No amount of information can budge us when we refuse to be budged. The catalog of justifications for de...
Honduras - Protesting for Democracy » When members of the Honduran civil resistance solicited the counsel of Serbian resistance veteran Ivan Marovich from July 31 to August 2, a repeat question from various participants was:Q. How do we avoid infiltration?Marovich replied:
Guinea junta lifts protest ban » Guinea's ruling military junta, facing rising international pressure and mounting internal dissent after a bloody crackdown on protesters last month, has lifted its ban on public demonstrations. The concession to the opposition comes amid a chorus of international condemnation of the leadership in the West African mining powerhouse after gunmen used live rounds against anti-government protesters in a stadium on September 28.Tensions after the violence, which killed 157 people and wounded more th...
Manila: Protest Over Oil Prices » Dozens of young activists rallied in front of an oil refinery's Manila headquarters today, protesting the rise in fuel costs and condemning the government for failing to stop inflation. Activists from Anakbayan (Nation's Youth) staged the protest on the same day public transport fares were raised.