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... people through the web. Certainly, the purple movement is an experiment in the delicate phase of its development; and indeed these new forms of expression are already suffering to a degree from what we ...
...  "We want justice because Dow has yet to clean up the site and compensate us for years of suffering," Hazra Bi, one of the protest leaders, told AFP by telephone. Demonstrators wearing ...
... and the working class which had been suffering through the combination of high inflation and mass unemployment since the late 1950's, while student uprisings and labor unrest were failing to bring about ...
... living,” Makoni said. “We urge both Mugabe and Tsvangirai to show genuine concern for the suffering people of Zimbabwe, to apply themselves diligently to resolving their power disputes. We ...
5. In Belarus, Theater as Activism
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... had been produced under more open circumstances? Many were the artists who struggled under Communist regimes — and achieved fame abroad in part due to their suffering — only to find themselves forgotten ...
Argentine farmers marked on Friday the end of an eight-day sales boycott with rallies and marches promising to “keep fighting” in support of aid for peers suffering from the worst drought in decades and ...
... of people shouting to stop ethnic discrimination ... They are tired of suffering in silence.“ The government’s claims of conspiracy by pro-independence exiles echo the handling of rioting across Tibetan ...
8. Honduras' Historic Two Months
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... allow the conditions to be created for the effective protection of the human rights of all residents of Honduras.” Suffering, once and for all During the march in Tegucigalpa yesterday, a 36-year ...
... water and tea in the hunger strike, which reached its 32nd day Saturday. Malihi said he feels weak sometimes but has a history of suffering for his politics. He's missing a toe and has scars on his face ...
10. ROHR protest
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... 17 February that the suffering of the detainees is central to the people’s heart and should be one of the priorities that need urgent attention if the positive hype of the inclusive Government is to be ...
... lot of suffering, the women in the Feminists in Resistance meeting agree that the exhausting dynamic of constant mobilizations and repression has deepened their commitment. Their movement has also come ...
... members. After the court's ruling was postponed at the end of last month, there were fears Aung San Suu Kyi would be forced to wait again when Yettaw was taken to hospital last week after suffering epileptic ...
... a day. Mr. Rajoelina has been able to portray his opponent as a man aloof to Madagascar’s suffering, an allegation made more credible by some of the president’s own actions. The government purchased an ...
... night that Yettaw was freed on humanitarian grounds because of his health. He suffers from diabetes and was hospitalized for a week during the trial after suffering seizures. His ex-wife, Yvonne, said ...
... led violent protests in Lhasa recently that caused death and suffering of Han Chinese, the majority ethnic group in China. The speeches were interspersed with patriotic Chinese songs. No mention was made ...
16. Non-Violent Resistance
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... and Americans especially, the perception of Palestinians has been shaped more by the sporadic acts of terror, rather than by the accumulation of suffering wrought by occupation. It is assumed, but not ...
... for the CTA, agrees: "We don't want [earthquakes] to happen to anyone anywhere in the world, be it China or Tibet. We feel deeply for those who are suffering in China." In China, the earthquake has marred ...
... this people, whose suffering and pain have not ended yet," Abbas said. "It is time the occupation came to an end and the mark of disgrace in human history called the Palestinian Nakba also came to an end." ...
... monks, nuns, and lay people, the Gu-Chu-Sum Movement grew out of the earnest, heartfelt wish to help the suffering Tibetans remaining in prisons in Tibet and to provide needed support to ex-political prisoners ...
NEWSFLASH
In Honduras, curfew eased so residents can buy essentials » Reporting from Mexico City and Tegucigalpa, Honduras -- For a few hours Wednesday, Honduras' political drama gave way to more important matters -- like buying groceries and filling gas tanks.Streets in the capital, Tegucigalpa, were clogged with frantic shoppers after the country's interim rulers briefly lifted a nationwide curfew to let residents restock shelves. Meanwhile, the deposed president, Manuel Zelaya, remained hunkered in a foreign embassy.It was the first chance for residents to get ...
Ecuador Oil Pollution Case Only Grows Murkier » QUITO, Ecuador — The multibillion-dollar legal case between Amazon peasants and Chevron over oil pollution in Ecuador’s rain forest keeps unfolding more like a mystery thriller than a battle of briefs.Ever since the oil giant released videos in August that were secretly taped by two businessmen who seemed to have the ambition of feasting off the expected $27 billion in damages sought, Ecuadorean officials and Chevron have accused each other of gross improprieties, including espionage. The Ecuado...
More Than 20 Killed in Madagascar Protest » Security forces in Madagascar fired on a crowd of protesters outside one of the country’s presidential palaces in the capital city on Saturday, with several reports saying that more than 20 people were killed.The violence was yet another deadly episode in a struggle for power between President Marc Ravalomanana and Andry Rajoelina, the elected mayor of Antananarivo, the capital. A week ago, Mr. Rajoelina declared that he was taking over the government of Madagascar, an island nation of 20 millio...
“Integrate This!” » From August 20-21, 2007, Stephen Harper welcomed his American idol George W. Bush and Mexico’s President Felipe Calderon to Montebello, Quebec to review the progress of the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP). The SPP – which is being implemented without any public or parliamentary scrutiny – is about eliminating Canada’s ability to set its own independent regulatory standards, environmental protection measures, energy security, foreign, military, immigration and a frighteningly wide r...
Global economy 'recovering' » The head of the International Monetary Fund has told a meeting of the World Economic Forum in New York that he believes the world's economy is heading for recovery. Horst Koehler, IMF managing director, said: "I think we have to state that the global economy is still weak but we also now hope - and I call it cautious optimism - that really a recovery is under way".
Naked protest against fur trade » Dec 9th 2006: Several actions against furs took place on the 9th and the 10th December by initiative of Alliance For Animal Rights ( http://aar.org.ru ). Actions were dated for The International Day of Animal Rights and were a part of campaign against fur auction "Soyuzpushnina".On the 9th December in St-Petersburg were hold 2 actions of protest against fur trade. Activists had visited fur stores at the Nevsky prospect. Not all activists could enter the first store, securit...
A Week Before “Elections” in Honduras, Candidate Resignations, More Censorship and Repression » TEGICUGALPA, HONDURAS, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2009: Nine days before the Honduran elections are scheduled to take place, Channel 36, Cholusat Sur, has been taken off the air once again. A parallel signal has been transmitting over the station. Initially airing pornography, now the same movie has been on repeat for the second day in a row. This new attack on the press comes the morning after Micheletti announced that he would be leaving the Presidency ‘provisionally’ from November 25 until Decemb...
Ahmadinejad aide proposes Evin Prison diet plan » A close aide to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad suggested that Mohammad Ali Abtahi, a reformist critic of the president, appeared so gaunt during his televised confession this month because he himself had decided to take off some weight."It's natural that when someone has become fat, in prison he understands that his fatness harmed his body and spirit," said Ali Akbar Javanfekr (left)."So maybe Mr. Abtahi took advantage of this opportunity to lose weight." The president's advisor on media affairs ...
Moldova protesters ask for new elections - Brussels demo » A group of about 40 Moldova protesters gathered on Schuman Square, in the heart of the EU district in Brussels, at midday on Wednesday to call for new and fair elections in their country and for more press freedom. Meanwhile in the Moldova capital Chisinau, thousands of people were again challenging the communists' 50% victory in last Sunday's elections.
Iran opposition says 72 killed in vote protests » An aide to Iranian opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi said in a website report posted Thursday that 72 people died in post-election violence, upping an earlier toll of 69."The number of people killed in street protests has reached 72," Ali Reza Behesti was quoted on reformist website Kaleme.com as saying.He also suggested that the actual death toll could be higher as "several families who lost their loved ones have not revealed their deaths due to the current political situation in the countr...