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Youth for Democracy: Learning from Nonviolent Struggle Across the World » In 2011, the world witnessed amazing events unfold across the globe, especially in the Middle East and North African region. These events have had youth at the forefront — fighting for their rights, freedom and democracy. HIA Denmark is organizing "Youth for Democracy," a conference in Copenhagen for more than 200 participants from all across the world. The main goal of this conference is to bring together experts and activists and to learn from young people who are struggling for democracy...
Protest outside defence firm ends » Up to 70 protesters are blocked the entrance to Raytheon. A protest outside the Londonderry premises of US defence firm Raytheon has ended. Up to 70 people from the Derry Anti-War Coalition blocked workers from entering the building in Springtown on Friday morning. They were protesting against the Israeli offensive in Gaza.
140 Chinese dead in Xinjiang unrest » China said a riot that shook the capital of the western Xinjiang region on Sunday killed 140 people and the government called the Uighur ethnic unrest a plot against its power, signalling a security crackdown. Locals took to the streets of the capital, Urumqi, some burning and smashing vehicles and confronting ranks of police and anti-riot troops.A frame grab of a television screen created on July 6, 2009 shows a broadcast by China Central Television (CCTV) in which two bloodstained women are se...
Venezuelans protest censorship of popular TV channel » Security forces fire tear gas and plastic bullets at thousands of protesters in Caracas and elsewhere after RCTV is banned for violating a law that requires stations to air the president's speeches.Reporting from Caracas, Venezuela, and Quito, Ecuador -- Protests broke out in Venezuela on Monday after cable companies dropped transmission of a popular channel that the government declared had broken telecommunications laws by not broadcasting President Hugo Chavez's speeches.Government critics and...
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...
South Korea beef protests escalate - June 11 2008 » South Korea's embattled president is facing growing calls for his resignation amid a wave of public anger over a decision to resume US beef imports. Tuesday night saw the largest protests yet, with tens of thousands taking to the streets of the South Korean capital.
Tibetan People's Uprising Movement multi-organization video » Global Uprising to Include Exiles' March to Tibet New Delhi -- Five leading Tibetan organizations announced today the launch of the "Tibetan People's Uprising Movement", a new coordinated Tibetan resistance effort in the lead up to the 2008 Beijing Olympics. The Games will take place only months before the 50th anniversary of the 1959 Tibetan National Uprising against China's invasion of Tibet. The movement's organizers are calling on Tibetans worldwide to join protests dur...
Iran's Ayatollah Khamenei says opposition protests failed » Reporting from Cairo and Tehran - Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei attempted to unify Iranians on Sunday by blaming foreign media for "poisoning the atmosphere" and urged his nation to resist the "killer cancer" of an Israel backed by Western powers.Delivering a sermon at Tehran University before a crowd that included President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and opposition cleric Ayatollah Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, Khamenei said the West had failed in its attempts to undermine the government with ...
Headstrong Honduran ruler resists world pressure » TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) - Roberto Micheletti, the headstrong veteran politician who took power in Honduras when President Manuel Zelaya was toppled, is defying international pressure to reinstate his old friend and end media curbs. Despite repeated warnings from the United States, the European Union and Latin American governments, Micheletti appears to believe they will all buckle in the end and drop demands that Zelaya, who was ousted in a June 28 army coup, be returned to power.He is betting th...
Students Demonstrate in Israel » Israeli Students demonstrate against increase in tuition law.Footage taken from adjacent buildings, shows rough crowd control by Israeli police, Gets very wild at end.