Complaints filed over alleged use by police of Taser electroshock weapons, beating and kicking bound detainees, racist verbal abuse and sexual harassment of female detainees. The Justice Ministry has received complaints of severe police violence against demonstrators, including the use of Taser electroshock weapons, beating and kicking bound detainees, racist verbal abuse and sexual...
At least three leaders of an anti-nuclear group in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu are facing the threat of arrest, though more than 330 protestors ended their hunger strike on 15 May following a call from a former high court chief judge....
We, the undersigned Jewish clergy, encourage your efforts to initiate phased selective divestment from corporations which profit from or support Israel’s occupation of the West Bank. We applaud your initiative and want to communicate our support as Jewish leaders who also work for justice...
For the better part of a century, some visionaries have been trying to break out of the dominant belief that there are only two means of forcing change: reform through elections and revolution through violence. The rigidity of that binary choice still strangles thinking...
Rights group decries Palestinians’ need to subject themselves to physical harm in order to extract basic rights from Israel following conclusion of mass hunger strike The deal that ended the Palestinian prisoners’ mass hunger strike not only headed off a confrontation with Israel,...
Russian riot police have dispersed an Occupy-style protest against President Vladimir Putin, forcing dozens of people out of central Moscow park, where they had been camped for more than a week. The action against the sit-in was the latest step in a government...
When President Obama visited Wakefield High School in Arlington, Virginia, in the fall of 2009, he was asked this question: “If you could have dinner with anyone, dead or alive, who would it be?” The president hesitated—perhaps making certain he didn’t name...
For Mother’s Day, I’ve been thinking about some of the powerful and provocative creative nonviolent activist work that mothers have done through the ages — and there is a lot of it. So much of popular history tells the stories of the men who...
An escalation of violence in Syria, as well as the enfeebled UN cease-fire, have revived the tactics of civil, peaceful resistance among many of Syria’s democracy activists. Nonviolent means may be their ultimate force. The tactics of nonviolence can be a frustrating path for...
Demonstrators at a Bersih rally on 28 April before it turned violent Malaysia’s prime minister is visiting London as questions continue to be asked about his reformist credentials back home. In early April Najib Razak was praised for his leadership by David Cameron...
Azerbaijani opposition parties have held an unsanctioned demonstration in Baku to demand that authorities permit them to hold public gatherings in the center of the capital. Dozens of activists, united in a group called the Public Chamber, gathered in a downtown Baku park on...
Hunger strikes by Palestinian prisoners in Israeli detention ended with a deal this week for better treatment. That showed the power of peaceful protest. If Palestinians adopt nonviolence as a strategic tool, that could bridge the Israeli-Palestinian divide. It may not have received much...
A banner depicting “This Affects You Too” campaign logo seen as activists speak at a presentation in Courtyard Marriott hotel in Tbilisi, February 16. Election watchdog and legal advocacy groups, joined by some media outlets, have launched a campaign aimed at convincing lawmakers...
The Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party didn’t succeed by electing candidates–it succeeded showing the limitations of the electoral system. Occupy should do the same. As long as there has been a thing called Occupy Wall Street, there have been people who’ve...
Anti-Olympic protesters are reported to be planning actions of mass civil disobedience on Saturday 28 July – the day on which Mark Cavendish hopes to secure Great Britain’s first gold medal of London 2012 in the men’s road race. According to the...
Azerbaijani opposition parties have held an unsanctioned demonstration in Baku to demand that authorities permit them to hold public gatherings in the center of the capital. Dozens of activists, united in a group called the Public Chamber, gathered in a downtown Baku park on...
Activists pour into Tel Aviv’s Rabin Square after marches commence throughout city, nationwide; organizers erect central stage where Daphni Leef, Itzik Shmuli speak; Meretz activists draw ire of demonstrators. At least 5,000 activists rallied in Tel Aviv’s central Rabin Square on Saturday in an...
Ministry of Gender, Child and Social Welfare is organizing to hold a National Women demonstration in support of South Sudan President Salva Kiir on Panthou crisis. Panthou disputes between Sudan and South Sudan escalated when the Sudan People’s Liberation Army (SPLA) restored back Panthou...
Palestinians have gathered in Gaza City to hold a demonstration in solidarity with prisoners held in Israeli jails, Press TV reports. The demonstration was held in front of the office of the International Committee of the Red Cross on Sunday and it was organized...
A large group of people staged a protest on Friday 4 May, 2012 in Skopje; the ethnic Albanian youth protested the police claim that the perpetrators of the five murders near Smilkovci Lake are Islamic terrorists. EPA/BGNES Massive protests are expected to take place...
Important meeting in Oslo October 22
Important meeting in Oslo October 22 17:00