Susan Ahyed’s long fight for justice, culminating in an Supreme Court victory last week, began with a rather morbid thought. A former New Yorker, Ahyed had been attending an old friend’s funeral in her hometown of Netanya in early 2011,…
Bolivian President Evo Morales escalates the stakes in the debate over extractivism as an anti-poverty strategy. On May 20, Bolivian President Evo Morales issued Supreme Decree 2366, opening up Bolivia’s national parks—which are protected under the Constitution as ecological…
PÅ BARRIKADERNE FOR FRED INSPIRERENDE HISTORIER OM IKKEVOLD Majken Jul Sørensen 302 kr — En usædvanligt vellykket folkeoplysende bog, der klart viser at ikkevolden er mere effektiv som positiv forandringsmetode end krig, interventioner og…
A group of anti-conscription activists break into a prison, demanding to be jailed together with their friend already locked up because of his beliefs. Clowns from the rebel clown army mimic police…
The greatest point of contention was over the Rodong Shinmun report. According to Ahn, she told the paper that her mother, a largely uneducated woman from South Korea, was aware that Kim Il Sung had been a resistance fighter against the Japanese—a…
I recently provided an interview to the Centre for Applied Intelligence elaborating on my argument about how civilians can sometimes nonviolently nudge armed groups to commit less violence (CAI is a new think thank that applies behavioral theories to current events). One of the topics I…