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Palestinians who see nonviolence as their weapon » Every Friday, Mohammed Khatib's forces assemble for battle with the Israeli army and gather their weapons: a bullhorn, banners - and a fierce belief that peaceful protest can bring about a Palestinian state.A few hundred strong, they march to the Israeli barrier that separates the tiny farming community of Bilin from much of its land. They chant and shout. A few teenagers throw stones. Khatib helped launch the weekly ritual five years ago in an attempt to "re-brand" a Palestinian struggle often ...
Ghana: Human Rights Groups Kick Against Planned Eviction of Residents » Amnesty International (AI-Ghana) and the Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions (COHRE) have kicked against plans by the Accra Metropolitan Assembly to forcibly evict more than 40,000 people leaving in a slum of Accra, popularly called 'Sodom and Gomorrah."The slum is a melting pot of various ethnic groups, with majority of them coming from the three northern regions. It has also gained notoriety for violence and crime. A recent bloody clash between supporters of the ruling National Democratic C...
Baku Official Slams 'Bias' Over Blogger Verdicts » An official in Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev's administration says the international community's reaction to the case of two bloggers given jail sentences last week is biased, RFE/RL's Azerbaijani Service reports. Ali Hasanov, head of the Azerbaijani president's Social and Political Affairs Department, said Azerbaijani law "applies equally to everyone and there is no special treatment for intellectuals and those who are closer to the West, like the bloggers." A Baku court on November 11 sen...
Fathers defiant over arrests » Members of Fathers 4 Justice (F4J) say they are prepared to spend time behind bars as their national campaign of civil disruption enters its second week. About 40 members of the fathers' rights group met in Shropshire over the weekend to organise their next series of protests. They warned members that prison was a reality and planned action on major travel routes, including airports, motorways and ports, if the leaders are arrested.
VENEZUELA S.O.S.: Chavez Started to Indoctrinate Venezuelans » While he pretends to deceive the International Community that there is a democracy in Venezuela though electoral fraud and an accommodating opposition, on Friday March 2, 2007, Venezuelan Dictator Hugo Chavez started his massive communist indoctrination in Venezuela, which is not only limited to schools, but all the country, including the military, Government institutions, State owned companies, and even private enterprises. Indoctrination will end up being enformced by Law...
An Analytical Overview of the Application of Gene Sharp’s Theory of Nonviolent Action in Milosevic’s » AuthorSrdja PopovicNarodni Pokret Otpor (People’s Resistance Movement)Publication DateJanuary 31, 2001Summary In this document, Srdja Popovic, an organiser in the Serbian youth resistance movement, Otpor, analyses the use of nonviolent action to enlist civil society in participation in the overthrow - by democratic election - of the 13 year-long reign of President Slobodan Milosovic in 2000. This 9-page essay considers the role of Gene Sharps’ strategic model for nonviolent action and Otpor’s a...
Iran replacing envoys who backed "rioters": report » Iran is replacing 40 of its ambassadors, including some who voiced support for "rioters" during the unrest that erupted after June's disputed presidential election, a semi-official news agency reported.Citing informed sources, Fars News Agency said late on Tuesday that the envoys were given notification that their diplomatic postings had been terminated.It did not give details on which ambassadors were affected and government officials were not immediately available for comment on the report, wh...
Police or people power? » THE balancing act between individual freedom and social order goes to the heart of democratic societies. And while there are rights on both sides, the exercise of those rights often involves trade-offs and compromises. Which is why politicians in Western Australia must take care with pending legislation that would increase police powers to stop and search citizens.Such law and order policies make for easy politics, especially among middle-class groups unlikely to be directly affected. But street...
Free Palestine: End the Occupation (Mahatma Gandhi) » Several letters have been received by me asking me to declare my views about the Arab-Jew question in Palestine and the persecution of the Jews in Germany. It is not without hesitation that I venture to offer my views on this very difficult question. My sympathies are all with the Jews. I have known them intimately in South Africa. Some of them became lifelong companions. Through these friends I came to learn much of their age long persecution. They have been the untouchables of Christianity....
Inquiry of Philippines Massacre Urged » MANILA — Two United Nations human rights officials urged the government of the Philippines on Thursday to pursue a thorough investigation of the election-related massacre in which 57 people were killed, and the police recommended that murder charges be filed against 11 more suspects.The massacre “must be seen as a watershed moment for the country,” said Philip Alston, the United Nations special rapporteur on extrajudicial executions, and Frank La Rue, the special rapporteur on freedom of opinion...