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... dollar settlement was paid by Union Carbide to the Indian government in 1989.  Disabled survivors say what eventually trickled down to them, amounting to an average of a few cents a day since the ...
... with New Delhi in 1989. Victims say the compensation money they have received over the years -- between 1,000 and 2,000 dollars for most -- is not enough to pay for long-term medical treatment and are ...
... 73, who played a pivotal role in overcoming communist rule in 1989, said the Russian Government had mastered the art of manipulating its population while maintaining a facade of democracy. ''The era of ...
... why 1989 was so good, do we actually have an answer? In a recent book, Democracy Kills: What’s So Good About Having the Vote?, the BBC foreign correspondent Humphrey Hawksley asks an excellent sceptic’s ...
... could be no stronger affirmation of freedom," Obama said of the fall of the concrete barrier that divided East and West Berlin for 28 years until November 9, 1989. In the message beamed into celebrations ...
Guitars, keyboards and drums did not topple the Berlin Wall. But for the young people who helped bring down Communist regimes across Eastern Europe in the fall of 1989, pop music was a profoundly subversive ...
... divided the two Berlins again this week since cars can't get through!) will topple domino style -- sort of the way the Eastern bloc countries and then the Soviet Union did after November 9, 1989.  ...
... mowed down before they got within graffiti-aerosol distance of the wall from the eastern side. (An East German had been shot dead while trying to escape to the west as late as February 1989. His name was ...
... events of Nov. 9, 1989 an "epic" moment in history. "For me, it was one of the happiest moments of my life," Merkel told a crowd of tens of thousands packed around the Brandenburg Gate. In a video message ...
10. Bilin demo 6.11.09
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... no mans land between the double fence and dismantled the polystyrene wall which displayed the message "Berlin 1989, Palestine ?". Victorious cheers from protestors were met by a bombardment of tear gas ...
... it in a referendum in 1989. Twenty years is nothing, says a famous tango line by Carlos Gardel. But 20 years have been plenty when it comes to changing views on how to tackle the aftermath of the military ...
12. Lawyers Appeal Over Dissident
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NEW YORK—Lawyers and Chinese civil rights activists are planning to lodge formal complaints with the United Nations and the Hong Kong government over the detention of former 1989 student democracy activist ...
... by popular referendum in 1989. In Brazil, the military passed a self-amnesty law to shield themselves from prosecution in 1979, five years before the return of democracy. The law until now has been respected. ...
Liberian women from all religious and academic backgrounds played a courageous role to end the country's bloody civil war which lasted from 1989 to 2003. Wearing only white T-shirts, the women took on ...
15. Kurt Schock
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... 1980-1989.”  Annual Meetings of the International Studies Association.  Minneapolis, Minnesota. March 21, 1998. “Challenging Corrupt Authoritarian Regimes: Social Protest against the Marcos ...
... one of the protestors, said he hoped the international community will continue to boycott the de facto Honduran government. "We support Honduran people to defend democracy," Calderon told Xinhua. http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-09/03/content_11989516.htm ...
... assuming power after winning in the 1989 national elections. It is estimated that over 2000 political prisoners still remain in Burmese prisons over differences with the ruling military regime. Many international ...
... also matches every counsel on the topic of infiltration offered to me by my mentor of eight years during the 1980s, the US dissident Abbie Hoffman. Before his death in 1989, Abbie's lawyers had unearthed ...
... later followed, happened in 1989; 10: Falun Gong practitioner’s group appeal in Beijing near the regime’s Zhongnanhai compound happened 10 years ago, on April 25, 1999. As I recall, on April 25, 10 years ...
20. Non-violent protest in Kashmir
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... been killed there since armed revolt first broke out against India in 1989. But, remarkably, in a conflict saturated with guns and spear-headed by armed militants, not a single shot has so far been fired ...
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Zimbabwe's political crisis - 21 Oct 09 » Morgan Tsvangirai, Zimbabwe's prime minister, has appealed for regional help in his stand-off in Zimbabwe's unity pact, as his ministers boycotted a meeting with Robert Mugabe, the president.The suspension of ties has cast a shadow on the fragile partnership, as Mugabe chaired a cabinet meeting on Tuesday - without his Zanu-PF party's main government partners - as Tsvangirai's 13 cabinet ministers met separately.The Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) leader flew to Mozambique on Tuesday to ask...
Honduras Longest Peaceful Protest » HAVANA TIMES, Sept.20 (IPS) - Shaded from the blazing sun by his straw sombrero, one of the principal leaders of the National Front Against the Coup d’état in Honduras declared, “The only solution to the political crisis is the return of Manuel Zelaya to the presidency before September 30.”“But this also requires the formation of a national constituent assembly to ratify a new Constitution to allow Honduras to be restructured as a progressive Central American nation,” added Rafael Alegría, leade...
Bilin demo 6.11.09 » On the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, two hundred internationals traveled from the US, UK, Ireland, Italy, Spain and Belgium to join the weekly peaceful demonstration in Bil'in.Each Friday, Palestinians from the village of Bil'in are joined by hundreds of internationals and Israelis protesting the apartheid wall which annexes Palestinian land.Iyad Bornat, Head of the Popular Committee, said "the twelve metre polystyrene wall", which was made and carried by the residents of...
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...
Orange Revolution, Ukraine » Like something out of an old world spy novel, a popular politician is poisoned in an attempt to ruin his chance at victory and install a ruthless opponent. Welcome to the ORANGE REVOLUTION.Steve York's riveting documentary chronicles what led to the Orange Revolution in Ukraine surrounding the 2004 election between Viktor Yushchenko, the people's choice, and Viktor Yanukovych, the government crony. With Yushchenko's mysterious near-fatal poisoning and a fishy assassination ...
The end of the beginning: The failure of April 6th and the future of electronic activism in Egypt » Observers of the Egyptian April 6th Facebook Group and its online mobilization in 2008 lavished attention on the possibilities of so-called “Facebook activism.” Western journalists and activists alike touted the potential of using Facebook to organize, a process imagined as “tapping into the ready-made structure of online social networks to make joining a group as quick as a click of a button.” On the valuable piece of real estate known as the Washington Post’s op-ed page, Nir Boms hailed Facebo...
Second Vermont Republic movement holds mock funeral » If any New Yorker were to become the theoretician for a new secessionist movement, it figured to be Kirkpatrick Sale.Mr. Sale, 70, was a campus rabble-rouser at Cornell in the 1950s long before Berkeley made being one fashionable, a model for a character in Richard Fariña’s classic ’60s novel, “Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me,” a writer who worked briefly with his college pal Thomas Pynchon on a musical called “Minstral Island.” For half a century, he’s written mor...
Dalai Lama Meets Protests, Tears in Taiwan » Under a vast plain of dried mud, set between southern Taiwan's lush mountains, 400 bodies still lie that were buried alive three weeks ago in typhoon Morakot, the island's most recent and deadly natural disaster. The now infamous village of Siaolin — the worst hit by Morakot — was the first stop for the Dalai Lama, Tibet's leader-in-exile, on his visit to Taiwan this week. Wrapped in his saffron and maroon robes, he sat in the traditional leg-cross on a blue and gold straw mat, overlooking the...
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...
Raging Grannies’ Ongoing Campaign » \ Three years after the start of the Iraq war, one thing New York police do not lack is experience in dealing with protesters - so when they were called to a disturbance at the military recruitment centre in Times Square last October, it sounded like just another routine demonstration.Instead, they found 18 elderly women, many in their 80s and one aged 90, blocking the entrance and demanding to enlist in place of young men. They called themselves Grandmothers Against The W...