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Revolution U » Early in 2008, workers at a government-owned textile factory in the Egyptian mill town of El-Mahalla el-Kubra announced that they were going on strike on the first Sunday in April to protest high food prices and low wages. They caught the attention of a group of tech-savvy young people an hour's drive to the south in the capital city of Cairo, who started a Facebook group to organize protests and strikes on April 6 throughout Egypt in solidarity with the mill workers. To their shock, the page qu...
Students lose funding for backing MDC » JOHANNESBURG – Zimbabwean students studying at a South African university claim that Zimbabwe secret service agents are harassing and victimising students aligned to Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s MDC party.The students, who came to Fort Hare University (FHU) on a scholarship fund started by President Robert Mugabe a few years ago, claim that a number of them have been stripped of the scholarships because of their affiliation to the MDC, the former main opposition that formed a coalition gov...
Police fire on S African protests » South African police have fired tear gas and rubber bullets at demonstrators protesting against poor living conditions during a rally in the country's northeast.Riot police opened fire on Tuesday to disperse protesters who had torched a municipal office in the eastern town of Belfast, the Associated Press news agency said, quoting Captain Leonard Hlathi, a police spokesman.Two police officers were injured by stone-throwing demonstrators, the spokesman said.
ZINASU leaders arrested & beaten for ‘denigrating’ Mugabe » Five senior members of the Zimbabwe National Student Union were arrested Saturday - on charges of misconduct and undermining the office of the President and Cabinet - for saying “Robert Mugabe is the major outstanding issue that is stalling progress for the inclusive government.” ZINASU National President Clever Bere, National Spokesperson Blessing Vava, Secretary for Education and Research Obert Masaraure, National University of Science and Technology SRC President Kurayi Hoyi and Great Zimbabw...
Ahmadinejad presents new cabinet to parliament for approval » Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Sunday presented his new 21-member cabinet, which includes three women, to parliament for approval.Parliament has to evaluate the nominations within the next three days and approve them before Ahmadinejad's government can start its four-year tenure.There are 14 new ministers in the cabinet. For the first time in the 30-year history of the Islamic republic, there are also three women among the nominees.
Mugabe cannot be part of Zimbabwe’s road to democracy » South Africa’s main political opposition, the Democratic Alliance (DA), on Thursday said Robert Mugabe cannot be part of Zimbabwe’s road to democracy, saying the dictator must be offered an ‘exit strategy’ for the country to ever recover.The party presented its ‘Roadmap to Democracy in Zimbabwe’ in the South African parliament on Thursday morning, as a response to the MDC’s decision to disengage from ZANU PF in the unity government. DA Parliamentary Leader Athol Trollip told SW Radio Africa that...
Can Nonviolence Move the Next Century? » I just returned to New York after visiting Belgrade, where I interviewed (among others) Srdja Popovic, a leader of the nonviolent Otpor movement that overthrew Slobodan Milosevic in 2000, and now a lively, witty, imaginative advocate for nonviolent struggle against dictatorships everywhere. There’s a fine narrative of Otpor’s progress, and Srdja’s approach to spunky nonviolence, in Tina Rosenberg’s new book, Join the Club:  How Peer Pressure Can Transform the World. Excerpts from my intervi...
Honduras de facto leader lifts ban on media, protests » TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) - The de facto Honduran government relaxed curbs on protests and opposition media on Monday as crisis talks dragged into a third week with no deal on toppled President Manuel Zelaya's return to power.Zelaya, forced out of the country by soldiers in a June 28 coup, slipped back into Honduras last month and took refuge in the Brazilian embassy. De facto leader Roberto Micheletti responded by deploying soldiers around the embassy, imposing restrictions on press freedoms and ba...
Saharan activist 'facing court' » A Western Sahara activist on hunger strike in Spain's Canary Islands has been told to appear in court on public order charges, her supporters say.Aminatou Haidar has been refusing food at Lanzarote's airport since Sunday after being expelled by Morocco from the disputed territory. She is protesting at Spain's refusal to let her return to Western Sahara. Morocco controls most of the Western Sahara but Algerian-based separatists want a vote on independence. Ms Haidar was held by Moroccan authoriti...
Zimbabwe doctors call off strike » Doctors at Zimbabwe's state hospitals on Wednesday called off a crippling two-week strike, broken by the reality that the government had no money to meet their wage demands, their union said.The strike was called off after Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai reassured doctors that the government was listening to them, and urged them to return to work after five children caught swine flu and new cholera cases broke out."We have called off the strike and we are now going back to work," Brighton Chizh...