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Thailand: Liberal Thai blocked by MICT! » Freedom Against Censorship Thailand (FACT).We have just discovered free Thai language news site Liberal Thai blocked by a transparent proxy redirecting users to Thailand's ICT ministry.Liberal Thai is a new websites which has been translating news articles in English into Thai making them accessible to Thai readers, particularly those from Political Prisoners in Thailand.The only news article which might be suspect is LT's Thai translation of “Thailand's Political Muddle” from October 28's Asia ...
Anti-coup media resume broadcasting, but closely controlled » Radio Globo and Canal 36 television, two stations that have been the main media opponents of the 28 June coup d’état, were allowed to resume broadcasting on 19 October, three and a half weeks after the de facto government used a decree suspending civil liberties to close them down and confiscate their equipment.Sources at Radio Globo, which had managed to keep operating as a clandestine web radio, nonetheless said the station has had to censor itself since it resumed broadcasting. At the same ti...
A broken health care system. Real reform in jeopardy. It's time to turn the tide. » On September 27th, the Mobilization for Health Care for All launched a national campaign of "Patients Not Profit" sit-ins at insurance company offices to demand an end to a system that profits by denying people care. We want the real "public option": Medicare for All, a single payer plan that cuts out the profit and puts patients first.Together, through this campaign, we can turn the tide and win the fight for health care for all. To succeed, we need to organize sit-ins in as many cities as poss...
Nonviolent Resistance Works » Otpor was formed on October 10, 1998 in response to repressive university and media laws introduced earlier that year. In the beginning, Otpor's activities were limited to University of Belgrade.In the aftermath of the NATO airstrikes against FR Yugoslavia in 1999 regarding the Kosovo War, Otpor began a political campaign against the Yugoslav president Slobodan Milošević. This resulted in nationwide police repression against Otpor activists, during which nearly 2000 were arrested, some b...
Granville Nonviolent Action Team (GNAT) » Butner, N.C. — They banded together in the late ‘80s, fighting to keep a proposed incinerator from coming to Granville County. Now, that same group – the Granville Non-Violent Action Team, or GNAT – is reuniting with a similar goal. GNAT wants to stop a proposed bio-defense lab from coming to Butner.GNAT says it’s committed to its cause, but others in Granville say that getting the federal facility would be a "win-win." Edie McKellar is a veteran of the 1989 incinerator battle“It's a scary thing...
Nonviolent Protest Anniversary - Howard Students Told Atwater No! » Something smelled funny as soon as it was proposed -- the union of a proud black university and a top Republican strategist and troublemaker credited with one of the most racist presidential campaign schemes of recent memory.But there it was in news accounts carried across the nation: Howard University names Republican Chairman Lee Atwater to its board of trustees. Atwater had just engineered the 1988 presidential victory of George H.W. Bush and had crafted the racist Willie Horton ad that hel...
India tribals begin massive march » Thousands of landless farmers and tribal people in India are setting out on a massive protest march to the capital, Delhi. The march begins on a national holiday marking the birthday of Mahatma Gandhi, the man who introduced the idea of non-violent protest to the nation. It is intended to raise awareness about land rights and due to last for nearly four weeks. The organisers hope 25,000 people will take part in the march. Thousands of people began gathering in the city of Gwalior in Madhya Pra...
Malawi: Protests At Proposed Law Backing Sweet 16 Marriages » Lilongwe — Malawi's president, Bingu wa Mutharika, has come under severe pressure from civil society groups who are demanding he scrap a newly-passed bill allowing 16 year olds to marry with the consent of their parents.Article 1 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) to which the country is a party defines a child as "every human being below the age of 18".
Asia Protests Demand Immediate Release of Aung San Suu Kyi » Human rights activists and Burmese dissidents are protesting across Asia and demanding the immediate release of pro-democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi. The Nobel peace laureate is facing charges of breaking the terms of her house arrest.Over 100 former political prisoners and exiled dissidents from Burma demonstrated outside the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) on Wednesday the 27th.They are demanding that the 10-member Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) and United...
Guinea ministers resign over bloody rally » Two Cabinet ministers in Guinea resigned and France urged its citizens to leave the former French colony as armed attacks are increasing in the aftermath of a bloody rally last month where soldiers fired on pro-democracy demonstrators. Information Minister Justin Morel Jr and Labour Minister Alpha Diallo said they cannot serve a government responsible for such violence.A peaceful pro-democracy rally in the West African country on September 28 took a violent turn when presidential guard troops op...