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... but for him, it's personal: In 1999, NATO warplanes bombed the Belgrade offices of Serbian state TV, where his mother was an editor. She wasn't there that evening, but 16 of her coworkers were killed. ...
Athens, Greece (CNN) -- Greek workers were holding a one-day strike Wednesday to protest government efforts to stave off a financial crisis. Thousands of public-sector workers and their supporters began ...
... on their way to file Mr. Mangudadatu’s candidacy papers in a governor’s race. The 57 victims — among them Mr. Mangudadatu’s wife and lawyers, 30 journalists and media workers, and at least 15 motorists ...
... If constructed, the dam will be the third largest in the world, costing over US$10 billion, bringing more than 200,000 workers into the area and forcing an estimated 20,000 people from their homes. A large ...
... against workers and students. Thousands of scholars from universities and colleges from all over the country have also written to Obama and the U.S. Congress members, demanding to withdraw the support ...
... to meet face to face with the oil company’s workers and armed guards. Confrontations took place and eventually the army intervened. But the Kichwas remained on their lands and kept them free of oil drilling. ...
... informal bottom-up syndicate of students, workers and intellectuals whose meetings and broadsheets and courageous demonstrations in Leibzig, Dresden and Berlin softened up the East German regime and put ...
... supporters in a few short weeks, organized a sympathy strike with the Mahalla textile workers that drew national and international attention, and arguably succeeded in shutting down daily activity in parts ...
... were arrested and 600,000 were shot. More than 30,000 people were executed in Moscow alone. The names read outside Lubyanka were from all parts of society -- from farm workers to artists from the Bolshoi ...
10. Betting the farm against Mugabe
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... the houses of their workers were burnt down. The family appears to have lost everything. But Mr Freeth, whose moustachioed appearance and stoical good humour owes something to a Victorian explorer, says ...
11. Coup's Impact on Honduran Women
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... fact-finding mission participated, speaking with representatives of the European Union and United Nations in Honduras, local authorities, lawyers, academics, human-rights workers, and popular organizations. ...
... added Alegría, spokesman of the Front and leader of the La Vía Campesina  (Rural Path), an international network of small farmers organizations and rural workers. With this political and social movement, ...
... 3,270 km (2,050 miles) west of Beijing -- against government handling of a late June clash between Han Chinese and Uighur factory workers in far southern China, where two Uighurs died in Shaoguan. On ...
... workers. In 2001, the KWWAU conducted a nation-wide campaign to raise the minimum wage by making recommendations to the South Korean government and prosecuting the businesses that violated the minimum ...
... Ortega warned. Earlier in the week, 11 workers with the Caracas mayor's office, led by opposition Mayor Antonio Ledezma, were jailed for resisting authority. On Thursday, former Cuban leader Fidel Castro ...
16. Scenes of Resistance in Honduras
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... minutes later, Allan is on the truck/stage and the crowd is responding wildly to his suggestion that a US banana workers union in Mississippi boycott shipments of Dole and Chiquita products from Honduras ...
...  Israel Salinas, general secretary of the Unitary Federation of Honduran Workers, stated that an assembly with representatives from all over the nation will be held on September 6 in this capital, with ...
... where about 40 Burmese activists marched to the embassy demanding Suu Kyis release. The exiled dissidents and migrant workers from Burma chanted slogans demanding the end of the junta's rule and Development ...
19. South Africa: Price Rise Protest
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Thousands of striking South African workers brought mines and businesses to a halt yesterday across four provinces to protest against a jump in electricity, food and fuel prices. "We are definitely saying ...
Today's May Day saw thousands of workers and activists taking to the streets of Manila. They are calling on the Arroyo government to ensure job security amid food inflation. Let's take a look. Thousands ...
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Burma: Hundreds may be dead, as junta tries to keep brutality unseen » Burma's military leaders locked down monasteries, arrested dissidents and set up barricades across Rangoon yesterday in an attempt to suffocate the waves of street demonstrations calling for an end to their rule.They also tried to cut off ordinary people's communication with the outside world, heightening fears that the crackdown that appears to have knocked the wind from the demonstrations could become more violent.Yet, despite the regime's best efforts, a day after security forces killed at le...
Jimi Hendrix at Woodstock » Hendrix's popularity eventually saw him headline the Woodstock music festival on August 18, 1969. Bad weather and logistical problems caused long delays, so that Hendrix did not appear on stage until Monday morning. By this time, the audience (which had peaked at over 500,000 people) had been reduced to, at most, 180,000, many of whom merely waited to catch a glimpse of Hendrix before leaving. Festival MC Chip Monck introduced the band as "The Jimi Hendrix Experience", but...
Demonstration infront of the chinese embassy in London » '' We want the leaders to back UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon in securing the release of ALL political prisoners when he visits Burma in December. We have never had a UN Secretary General visit Burma to discuss political problems before, and we have never had European and Asian government joining forces to pressure the regime to release prisoners. They all say they want it. We must make them work to make it happen. For too long the UN has fallen for the lies of the regi...
Chinese Protest over Tibet » Yesterday I came across a Chinese demonstration outside the State Library in Swanston Street, Melbourne, calling on Australians to support the Olympics in Beijing. The message was that the Western media has distorted the events surrounding Tibet. After all, the banners told us, Tibet was, is and always will be part of China.
Analysts See Notable Differences Between Ukrainian, Russian Elections » Political observers have praised the recent Ukrainian elections, saying the outcome of Sunday's second round contest between Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko and one of her predecessors, Viktor Yanukovych, is not predetermined.  That's in stark contrast to neighboring Russia, where the 2008 election of President Dmitri Medvedev was a forgone conclusion.  VOA Moscow Correspondent Peter Fedynsky contrasts presidential elections in two former Soviet republics.About 3,000 foreign election o...
Justice in Uruguay comes full circle » After years of protecting human rights abusers from prosecution, Uruguay is finally confronting its brutal pastWhen Uruguay goes to the polls tomorrow to choose a new president, this tiny South American country will teach itself, and the world, an important lesson: that burdens of injustice cannot be hidden for long. Or, to the more pragmatic, it will show that it is easier to deliver justice for past atrocities when the culprits are closer to the cemetery than they are to the courts.Uruguay may...
Tehran's Azad University Rises Against Iran's Coup Government » On the third week of the new academic year in Iran, thousands of students from the main campus of Azad University in Tehran held several peaceful demonstrations protesting the coup government of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. In the demonstrations that were attacked by Basiji and plain-clothes agents, students changed anti-government slogans protesting the conditions prevalent in the country and in the universities, while also insisting on their support of Mir-Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karoubi. Since the ...
Environmentalist gets 20 days for Massey protest » MADISON, W.Va. - A Climate Ground Zero activist has been sentenced to 20 days in jail for blocking a road to a Massey Energy office during a mountaintop removal mining protest. The group has been committing acts of civil disobedience all year, many targeting Virginia-based Massey. Twenty-two-year-old Joseph Hamsher is the first to get jail time instead of fines. Hamsher pleaded guilty to conspiracy and trespassing in Boone County Magistrate Court on Tuesday, and will serve 10 days on each charge...
Central American bank freezes Honduras loans » Central America's development bank says it is freezing credits to Honduras following the June 28 coup that ousted President Manuel Zelaya.Local media say the decision could affect infrastructure projects like planned highways in the impoverished Central American nation.The Central American Bank for Economic Integration said in a statement Wednesday that the freeze is provisional, while the banks' governors weigh whether to suspend financing.The bank has provided about $971 million in financing f...
Ghana: Human Rights Groups Kick Against Planned Eviction of Residents » Amnesty International (AI-Ghana) and the Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions (COHRE) have kicked against plans by the Accra Metropolitan Assembly to forcibly evict more than 40,000 people leaving in a slum of Accra, popularly called 'Sodom and Gomorrah."The slum is a melting pot of various ethnic groups, with majority of them coming from the three northern regions. It has also gained notoriety for violence and crime. A recent bloody clash between supporters of the ruling National Democratic C...