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Forty-Five Students Censured from Continuing Education in Isfehan Industrial University » In the past week, sixteen students from Isfehan Industrial University have been summoned to appear before the Disciplinary Committee in the Ministry of Education. The students stood before the Committee and, in their own defense, presented supporting documents.  The Committee has not issued any ruling on the students’ cases and has postponed its decision to next week. Readers are reminded that, in the meantime, these students have not been allowed to register for courses during the current schoo...
How Peer Pressure Creates Social Change » People are rarely swayed by information alone. If they were, the cigarette industry would have collapsed when the first Surgeon General's report on smoking came out in 1964, and fossil fuels would have been phased out in 1989, when Congress was first alerted to the threat of global warming. As Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Tina Rosenberg writes in her recently released book Join the Club, "No amount of information can budge us when we refuse to be budged. The catalog of justifications for de...
Manila Drivers Protest Fuel Hike » Transport came to a standstill on the streets of Manila yesterday. Hundreds of drivers staged a protest against the rising of oil prices.
Talks proposed to end Basque violence » The Basque regional president in Spain, Jose Antonio Ardanza, has proposed all-party talks to end more than 30 years of violence over the status of the Basque region. Mr Ardanza's proposals, published by the El Mundo and El Pais newspapers, call for dialogue to begin "unconditionally, and without restriction on its conclusions".
Venezuela a top concern at press freedom forum » CARACAS, Venezuela — Press freedom groups condemn Venezuela's recent shutdown of radio stations as part of a broader strategy by President Hugo Chavez to progressively clamp down on the private news media — and they want to put a stop to it.Newspaper executives who lead the Miami-based Inter American Press Association say Venezuela will be at the top of their list as they gather in Caracas for an emergency forum Friday to discuss freedom of expression in the Americas.Chavez's government forced 3...
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...
Honduras: Talks Seek Solution to 102-Day Crisis » TEGUCIGALPA, Oct 7 (IPS) - Talks began Wednesday between delegates of ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya and de facto leader Roberto Micheletti, under international observation, to seek a solution to the crisis triggered by the Jun. 28 coup.At the ceremony to start the talks, which will be overseen by foreign ministers and Organisation of American States (OAS) diplomats, the regional body's Secretary General José Miguel Insulza said "we are not here for mutual recriminations, but to seek co...
Peaceful protest at the US Embassy 2008 » A peaceful protest held outside the US Embassy on the 7th Anniversary of the attacks on September 11th in NYC.
Student protest Iranian University Employees » Students have gone on hunger strike and demonstration for the past five days at Sahand Technical University in the northern city of Tabriz.They are protesting to hand picked school administrators by the government for the school.Students are also demanding action against university's security guards for insulting female students. Protesting students chanted," "We are angry at those who promote discrimination," "We are fighting, men and women, Fight us and we will fight," "W...
Algiers police fire on slum protest » People living in a slum district of the Algerian capital have taken to the streets for a second day to protest against job and housing shortages.Residents of the Diar Echams area, frustrated over high unemployment and inadequate housing, clashed with police on Wednesday having started their protest on Monday night.The police said at least 11 officers were hurt, although no figure of civilian casualties was given.Protesters had used high ground above the suburb to throw bricks, stones and petrol ...