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Argentine farmers end eight day boycott promising to “keep fighting” » Argentine farmers marked on Friday the end of an eight-day sales boycott with rallies and marches promising to “keep fighting” in support of aid for peers suffering from the worst drought in decades and to eliminate the current export tariffs system which distorts production and threatens several crops.Farmers were particularly aggressive towards the government of President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner attitude and members of Congress, described as “cowards and inept” which act with “total sub...
Assault and Detention of Protestors against Banning of Etemad Melli Paper » Although Mehdi Karobi has announced that a gathering in support of Etemad Melli will not be held in front of the paper’s building on Monday, August 17, Karimkhan Zand Street, where the building is located, was filled with security forces dressed in uniforms who arrogantly resorted to using verbal abuse and assault to discourage any gathering. According to eyewitnesses, at around 6:00 PM security guards stationed themselves should-to-shoulder around the paper’s building, and a short distance awa...
How should we understand Tunisia's polls? » It is difficult to understand, rationally or emotionally, the full meaning of Tunisian President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali’s election victory for a fifth consecutive term Sunday, with 89.6 percent of the vote, after two decades in power. One wonders whether we should congratulate the president on his massive victory, or offer him expressions of sympathy because his share of the votes slipped below 90 percent for the first time since he took over power in 1987. In the world of the modern Arab secur...
Tehran's Azad University Rises Against Iran's Coup Government » On the third week of the new academic year in Iran, thousands of students from the main campus of Azad University in Tehran held several peaceful demonstrations protesting the coup government of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. In the demonstrations that were attacked by Basiji and plain-clothes agents, students changed anti-government slogans protesting the conditions prevalent in the country and in the universities, while also insisting on their support of Mir-Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karoubi. Since the ...
Fishermen protest Fuel Prices » Riot police armed with shields and batons charged hundreds of protesting fishermen outside European Union headquarters Wednesday after a demonstration over high fuel prices turned violent.Protesters hurled flares, firecrackers and rocks at police beyond razor-wire barricades. They also fired flare guns at the EU headquarters building. As they retreated down the main boulevard through Brussels' European Union district, protesters broke into EU buildings, smashing windows and dragging out flags ...
OAS chief still hopes for Honduran settlement » The head of the Organization of American States held out hope Wednesday for a resolution of the Honduran presidential crisis even after the high-level delegation he led to the Central American country failed to arrange for ousted President Manuel Zelaya's return.OAS Secretary-General Jose Miguel Insulza urged a quick acceptance of compromise accords before campaigning heats up for the Nov. 29 presidential election to pick Zelaya's successor.
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:
Tibet Foundation Day 2006 » Tibet Foundation Day 2006 Helping educate Tibetans in Tibet and India "gives hope".The UK based charity Tibet Foundation recently celebrated its annual day at the SOAS's Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre, University of London. Mrs Rinchen Khando Choegyal, a former minister for the Dalai Lama's Exiled Tibetan Government (Central Tibetan Administration) was the guest speaker on the occasion and spoke on Education and Healthcare: Tibetan Refugee Communities in India & Nepal, highlighting the imp...
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 protest, 20 Sep 2009, Stockholm » Sergels torg in central Stockholm was sealed off on Sunday afternoon as rival demonstrators clashed. A demonstration began on the square at around midday to protest against the regime in Iran. At around 2pm a further demonstration began directed against Israel and the two groups clashed in a war of words. "We have had to seal off the square and have to keep the groups apart, there is a tense atmosphere and a lot of verbal abuse being hurled at each other," Kjell Lindgren at Stockholm police told...