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Gaza: The Right To Resist

19 November 2012 - 4:47am | superuser
by Joshua Daniel Niland (Independent)

The only groups that we demand a strict adherence to nonviolence from are the marginalized and their advocates. We call their grievances ‘ideologies’ as a means of crushing any discursive avenues by which they can be addressed. And then, when what are sometimes the worst elements of their own society finally turn their isolation into violence, we call it terrorism.

Each One Teach One - Empowerment Through Education Camp in Haiti

24 September 2012 - 5:28pm | jmarinova
by Press Pass TV (Advocate)

Press Pass TV is a non-profit organization that harnesses the power of media arts to empower youth in under-served communities. In this segment, PPTV partners with the City School to take an in-depth look at an innovative education program in Haiti - Empowerment Through Education Camp.

The French Vote in Greater Boston: Woman Banker Elected to Socialist National Assembly

9 July 2012 - 11:51pm | superuser
by Jane Fair Bestor and Isaac Saias (Independent)

On June 16, on the eve of the Greek parliamentary elections, with the future of the European Union in doubt and a newly-elected Socialist president in France, French citizens in the U.S. and Canada voted to elect a candidate in a newly created constituency to represent them in the French National Assembly. They chose Corinne Narassiguin, a 37-year old member of the Socialist Party who has worked as a banker on Wall Street for twelve years.
 

Bill McKibben Opens the Global Teach In from Boston

29 April 2012 - 5:51pm | suren
by Suren Moodliar (Participant)

In this interview, Bill McKibben opens the Global Teach In on Wednesday by reviewing the scale of environmental challenges that corporate power and carbon-lobby pose for humanity as a whole. Asked to address economic alternatives, he notes that there are many welcome projects but cautions that the scale and pace of change require an immense social movement to challenge corporations and governments. If successful, these social movements will find that that tomorrow's economy favors decentralized development and job creation.

Libya: Military Intervention Thwarts Humanitarian Objectives

25 March 2011 - 1:50pm | suren
by Suren Moodliar

Many years ago, in a situation that still produces much pain, close friends were thinking through treatment for their gravely ill child. They had exhausted conventional and experimental therapies; their doctors were urging them to do what they could to make their son feel comfortable and loved. Then, suddenly, after years of suffering, our friends had smiles on their faces. A cure was available! For a brief moment, I shared their joy but then realized that we were victims of quackery.

The Face(book)less Revolution: A Decade of Strikes by Millions of Egyptian Workers

11 February 2011 - 12:48pm | mary lynn cramer
by Mary Lynn Cramer

Last night I attended a large gathering of activists who came together in Arlington Center, Massachusetts, to listen to MIT Professor Emeritus Noam Chomsky and Institute for Policy Studies fellow Phyllis Bennis discuss how to reinvigorate and expand the Peace Movement. Both speakers emphasized the need for anti-war activists to make links with other groups working for change, and particularly to get involved in supporting the majority of Americans who are overwhelmed by the ongoing economic crisis.

Then They Came for Me

29 December 2010 - 10:27pm | superuser
by Umang Kumar (Advocate)

On 24th Dec 2010 when a central Indian court handed down a life-sentence to human-rights activist and physician, Dr. Binayak Sen, it was a vicious strike by the power of a state against a threat it defines and perceives. That threat, the Indian state says, is posed by left-wing insurgents, who are referred to as Maoists or Naxalites. The latter term derives from the place, Naxalbari, of an armed peasant uprising in the eastern state of West Bengal in 1969 which spawned a variety of left-wing resistance movements. Dr.

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11 August 2013 - 12:18pm | kristina
by kristina

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