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Israeli NGO: Police beat handcuffed detainees in Palestinian solidarity protest

18. mai 2012
Israeli NGO: Police beat handcuffed detainees in Palestinian solidarity protest

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...

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URGENT ACTION: Three Tamil Nadu protestors face arrest

18. mai 2012
URGENT ACTION: Three Tamil Nadu protestors face arrest

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....

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Open Letter to the United Methodist Church and the Presbyterian Church (USA)

18. mai 2012

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...

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George Lakey: Did the Norwegians Have a Revolution?

17. mai 2012
George Lakey: Did the Norwegians Have a Revolution?

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...

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Palestinian strike: a coup for non-violent protest

17. mai 2012
Palestinian strike: a coup for non-violent protest

  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,...

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Protesters dispersed from Moscow park

16. mai 2012
Protesters dispersed from Moscow park

  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...

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Is Gandhi Relevant to Kurds?

16. mai 2012
Is Gandhi Relevant to Kurds?

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...

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How Chile’s mothers resisted

16. mai 2012
How Chile’s mothers resisted

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...

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Nonviolent tactics may be Syria’s only path to freedom

16. mai 2012
Nonviolent tactics may be Syria’s only path to freedom

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...

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Could street protests herald a Malaysian spring?

16. mai 2012
Could street protests herald a Malaysian spring?

  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...

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Activists Protest In Baku, Demand Freedom Of Assembly

16. mai 2012

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...

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Palestinian hunger strikes: the power of peaceful protest

16. mai 2012
Palestinian hunger strikes: the power of peaceful protest

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...

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Georgia: Groups Campaign Against Amended Law on Parties

15. mai 2012
Georgia: Groups Campaign Against Amended Law on Parties

  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...

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Occupy Isn’t About Electing Democrats–It’s About Exposing a Broken System

15. mai 2012
Occupy Isn’t About Electing Democrats–It’s About Exposing a Broken System

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...

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Mass civil disobedience planned in London on day of Olympic men’s road race

14. mai 2012
Mass civil disobedience planned in London on day of Olympic men’s road race

  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...

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Activists Protest In Baku, Demand Freedom Of Assembly

14. mai 2012
Activists Protest In Baku, Demand Freedom Of Assembly

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...

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Thousands gather in TA to jumpstart social justice movement

14. mai 2012
Thousands gather in TA to jumpstart social justice movement

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...

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South Sudan: Women to Stage Peaceful Demonstration On Panthou Crisis

14. mai 2012

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...

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Gaza demonstrators support Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails

14. mai 2012

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...

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Bulgaria: Macedonia Braces for Mass Albanian Protests.

13. mai 2012
Bulgaria: Macedonia Braces for Mass Albanian Protests.

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...

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