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Burma: Hundreds may be dead, as junta tries to keep brutality unseen » Burma's military leaders locked down monasteries, arrested dissidents and set up barricades across Rangoon yesterday in an attempt to suffocate the waves of street demonstrations calling for an end to their rule.They also tried to cut off ordinary people's communication with the outside world, heightening fears that the crackdown that appears to have knocked the wind from the demonstrations could become more violent.Yet, despite the regime's best efforts, a day after security forces killed at le...
Bhopal Gas Victims Still Await Justice 25 Years Later » India is marking the 25th anniversary of the leak at the Union Carbide pesticide plant in the city of Bhopal. The victims have generally been left in a legal haze since the ill-fated night (Dec. 2, 1984) when a toxic-gas cloud spread across the central Indian city. Children put candles on the ground during a candle light vigil on eve of 25th anniversary disaster, in Bhopal, 2 Dec 2009"We are cautiously hopeful that the American courts will see that Union Carbide is playing a game here," New York...
Students Protests Against the Government, The Regime » Seriously anxious at the prospects of the fundamentalists represented by fanatic President Mahmoud Ahmadi Nezhad loosing the next presidential elections, Ayatollah Ali Khameneh’i was again compelled to come down personally in the political arena, acting not as the supreme leader of the Islamic Republic who stands above political lines, but as the champion of a political party fighting for survival. On 7th December, Mr. Khameneh’i once again expressed his full support of Mr. Ahmadi Nezhad during ...
Olympic protests held around the world » Nepalese police detain a Tibetan protester near the Chinese consulate in Katmandu. Photograph: Binod Joshi/APHuman rights campaigners scaled up anti-China protests today with demonstrations around the world and an unauthorised broadcast from inside Beijing as the Olympic opening ceremony began. While a heavy police presence ensured the streets of the host city remained calm, Chinese authorities were unable to stop the pirate radio transmission by media group Reporters Without Borders in the capi...
Uganda: Opposition Considering Peaceful Political Action » The political temperature is clearly rising in Kampala. At the core of the matter is the opposition reform proposals that have largely been ignored and passed over by an NRM-dominated Parliament. A constitutional amendment to reinstate term limits has been blocked from being tabled. The much-awaited debate on the Public Accounts Committee report on the Chogm funds scandal has also been blocked, much to the chagrin of the PAC members themselves, but perhaps more of the MPs that see their cherishe...
Naked protest against fur trade » Dec 9th 2006: Several actions against furs took place on the 9th and the 10th December by initiative of Alliance For Animal Rights ( http://aar.org.ru ). Actions were dated for The International Day of Animal Rights and were a part of campaign against fur auction "Soyuzpushnina".On the 9th December in St-Petersburg were hold 2 actions of protest against fur trade. Activists had visited fur stores at the Nevsky prospect. Not all activists could enter the first store, securit...
Iran's Karroubi under attack at rally » TEHRAN, Oct. 26 (UPI) -- Bodyguards for Iranian opposition figure Mehdi Karroubi fired warning shots into the air following a confrontation with supporters of the conservative regime.Karroubi came under attack by supporters of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at a press fair during the weekend in Tehran, reports Radio Zamaneh, an independent Persian broadcaster in the Netherlands.Demonstrators reportedly attacked Karroubi, who challenged Ahmadinejad in June, with clubs and managed to remove...
Raging Grannies’ Ongoing Campaign » \ Three years after the start of the Iraq war, one thing New York police do not lack is experience in dealing with protesters - so when they were called to a disturbance at the military recruitment centre in Times Square last October, it sounded like just another routine demonstration.Instead, they found 18 elderly women, many in their 80s and one aged 90, blocking the entrance and demanding to enlist in place of young men. They called themselves Grandmothers Against The W...
Nenasilni borac » Jedan od osnivača „Otpora” i tvorac slogana „Gotov je” i „Vreme je”, Srđa Popović, nedavno je dobio dva priznanja. Zbog konsultantskih usluga koje je pružao sadašnjem predsedniku Maldiva Mohamedu Našidu, Popović je na korišćenje dobio, ni manje ni više, nego – rajsko ostrvo. Osim parčeta maldivske teritorije u jednom od mondenskih turističkih centara, tridesetosmogodišnji Beograđanin, sa svedočanstvom Pete beogradske i diplomom Biološkog fakulteta u Beogradu, našao se u ekipi s Barakom Ob...
Martin Luther King - A Time to Break Silence » Martin Luther King - A Time to Break SilenceStarting in 1965, King began to express doubts about the United States' role in the Vietnam War. In an April 4, 1967, appearance at the New York City Riverside Church — exactly one year before his death — King delivered Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence. In the speech he spoke strongly against the U.S.'s role in the war, insisting that the U.S. was in Vietnam "to occupy it as an American colony" and calling the U.S. govern...