A bill that will enshrine into law tight restrictions on the ability of Burmese to hold political demonstrations is to be discussed in parliament after being submitted this week by the home affairs minister. An anonymous MP in the…
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City’s biggest unions, community groups queue up to join the fight as young amateurs using Facebook and Twitter make more waves than the pros. The city’s most experienced agitators—the labor and community groups that typically organize local marches, rallies…
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Pray the Devil Back to Hell: Women face down warlords with nonviolent civil disobedience
Call it a 21st-century version of Lysistrata, and you won’t be far off the mark. United by their determination to end the years-old civil war that divided their country and decimated its population, a small band of determined women —…