political resistance

Those living under occupation must look to Egypt’s uprising in order to find their own path to freedom

by News Sources 02.16.2011

Amjad Atallah writes: If you live in Washington, DC, the question of what does the Egyptian Revolution mean for Palestine might seem like a strange question. The question du jour here is what does the Egyptian Revolution mean for Israel? The subtext to that second question is what does the Egyptian Revolution mean for Israel’s [...]

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Your right to protest is under threat

by News Sources 12.19.2010

Johann Hari writes: So now we know. When our politicians complained over the past few decades, in a low, sad tone, that our young people were “too apathetic” and “disengaged”, it was a lie. A great flaring re-engagement of the young has take place this year. With overwhelmingly peaceful tactics, they are demanding policies that [...]

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No act of rebellion is wasted

by News Sources 12.14.2010

Chris Hedges writes: I stood with hundreds of thousands of rebellious Czechoslovakians in 1989 on a cold winter night in Prague’s Wenceslas Square as the singer Marta Kubišová approached the balcony of the Melantrich building. Kubišová had been banished from the airwaves in 1968 after the Soviet invasion for her anthem of defiance, “Prayer for [...]

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Real hope is about doing something

by News Sources 12.01.2010

Chris Hedges writes: On Dec. 16 I will join Daniel Ellsberg, Medea Benjamin, Ray McGovern and several military veteran activists outside the White House to protest the futile and endless wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Many of us will, after our rally in Lafayette Park, attempt to chain ourselves to the fence outside the White [...]

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NEWS & EDITOR’S COMMENT: Non-violence is easy to ignore

by Paul Woodward 10.12.2007

Only now, the full horror of Burmese junta’s repression of monks emerges By Rosalind Russell, The Independent, October 12, 2007 Monks confined in a room with their own excrement for days, people beaten just for being bystanders at a demonstration, a young woman too traumatised to speak, and screams in the night as Rangoon’s residents [...]

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