SOMETHING amazing is happening in Mexico. A few weeks ago, a 14-bus caravan, which had been traveling under the leadership of Javier Sicilia, a poet and the founder of the Movement for Peace With Justice and Dignity, arrived here…
A wide-ranging coalition of dissidents dealt the most significant political challenge yet to President Bashar al-Assad yesterday by declaring an opposition government-in-exile and calling for the toppling of their leader. Members of some of the country’s most prominent political factions,…
Police in the District are planning for sizable but civilized protests this week by groups affiliated with the anti-Wall Street demonstrations in New York as the movement gains support in cities across the country. «Right now, we haven’t had…
Since the beginning of the Arab Spring, the Middle East has been experiencing profound political changes. Prior to the uprising in Tunisia, no one believed that the Arab dictators, who ruled their nations with an iron fist…
More than 5,000 Afro-Colombians blocked roads between the western department of Choco and the interior of Colombia Tuesday to protest the aerial spraying of coca fields with pesticides. The illegal harvests are sprayed from the air with glyphosate, a…
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…
Police in military-dominated Burma on Monday prevented a rare protest by pro-democracy activists on the fourth anniversary of a bloody crackdown on a monk-led uprising, an official said. About 200 people had planned to march to Rangoon City Hall…
A British law firm is to make an unprecedented legal bid to bring a string of private prosecutions against Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko in what they hope could become a template for hounding human rights abusers through multiple courts.…
Bolivian President Evo Morales has suspended work on a highway being built in the Amazon, amid a national furore over the way opposition to the road has been handled. On Sunday police fired tear gas and rounded up hundreds of…
Opposition group ‘Anonymous’, replaces homepages with interactive maps of Syria showing data on people killed in the government’s crackdown since mid-March. Some Syrian government websites were hacked on Monday by the opposition group ‘Anonymous’, who replaced the homepages…
