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... subsequently rejected, to insert an article that would sanction the individual right to resistance in our Constitution: that is, resistance against a State aiming to use its sovereignty to threaten those ...
... assisted by the western democracies like the US and UK. They run a horizontal organisation, Otpor, or Resistance, with a fluid unidentifiable leadership spread over the country. Repressive regimes know ...
... atoll in the Maldives will become home to "Democracy Island," a campus where activists can study nonviolent resistance amid coconut trees, white sand, and lagoons the color of Cool Mint Listerine. Srdja ...
4. Protesters blockade Sizewell
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... to show that the government will not achieve its aim to fast track nuclear power. If local democracy is dumped, then nonviolent direct action will be our answer. Any new build will be met with resistance, ...
Author Srdja Popovic Narodni Pokret Otpor (People’s Resistance Movement) Publication Date January 31, 2001 Summary In this document, Srdja Popovic, an organiser in the Serbian youth resistance movement, ...
Failed Elections in Honduras: Peaceful Resistance Boycotted Coup efforts while Repression causes one Dead and Dozens Tortured and Detained A peaceful resistance movement in Honduras successfully boycotted ...
... Against the Coup d'Etat had called unfair, unfree and placed under boycott. The hard numbers show that abstention - and by inference, the Resistance - was the winner in the November ...
... as a whitewash. Many Hondurans boycotted it and vowed "continued resistance". The homeless children who sleep on rubbish dumps in Tegucigalpa's slums were too hungry or high on glue to care. How did it ...
... the official campaign season began August 31, many candidates have been more concerned with solving the political crisis than focusing on campaigning. As part of the resistance front, they argue that elections ...
... attention to talk about a phenomenon that is widespread but hardly discussed or acknowledged openly until recently. Anticipating apathy, as well as resistance, by men, the report suggests that the subject ...
... with the National Front of Resistance against the Coup D’etat, puts the June 28 military takeover of Honduras in historical context: "We the people of Central America have tread through sad and painful ...
12. The Movement Awakened
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... protests. Although these protests were mounted in a peaceful and nonviolent way, they have paved the way for broader resistance, which can lead to a perpetual state of crisis for educational institutions. ...
... on an armed insurgency. "This doesn't make it any easier for us to convince people that our path of resistance is the right one," Khatib said. "It's going to be a slow process. There aren't many visible ...
... is everyday, he said, creating a new Nakba. “Only with a full economic and political boycott, along with the continuation of the popular resistance on the ground, will it be stopped,” the Na’lin leader ...
... issue was the selection of the unqualified candidates politicians based on the above criteria since the opposition and resistance from targeted politicians was very violent. Anticipating this, ...
16. Egypt's Brotherhood is knocking
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...  That is a challenge for Washington. Egypt is a trusted U.S. ally that has kept peace with Israel for 30 years. A rise in power by the Brotherhood, which supports armed resistance against the ...
Reporting throughout Honduras over the past 118 days of resistance to the coup d’etat, we heard the same thing from the people on the ground wherever we went: That whether or not President Manuel Zelaya ...
Honduran women continue their resistance to the de facto regime that kidnapped and ousted the democratically elected president in a coup d'état on June 28, 2009. In August an international delegation organized ...
19. Coup's Impact on Honduran Women
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... alone. Honduran Feminists in Resistance, a group formed immediately after the coup, reported to the Latin American Herald Tribune on September 3 that they had documented 19 cases of rape committed by Honduran ...
... press and assembly, which the de facto government has used to bar two media outlets from broadcasting. But the unit has met with resistance from their superiors in the Attorney General's Office as well ...
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Israeli Army attacks Non-violent protest in Palestine » Beit Ummar: At a protest against Israel's destruction of Palestinian land. A crowd of young Palestinians clap and sing songs toward the Israeli Occupation Forces while the older Palestinian protestors are attacked by the Israeli soldiers. Video shot while working with the ISM (international solidarity movement) this summer, 2006  
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