Iran’s pardon of activists involved in protests of the 2009 presidential election did not include former candidate Mir-Hossein Mousavi, shown here at a 2009 rally. He remains under house arrest. (AFP/Getty Images / August 29, 2011) Iran’s supreme…
Social justice activists have embarked on a series of lightning squats of unoccupied buildings as part of a six-week protest against rising rents and house prices in Israel. The protesters, who aim to «inspire a national squatting movement»,…
Camila Vallejo’s call for better and cheaper education has seen student protests transform into a two-day nationwide shutdown Chilean student leader Camila Vallejo sits among a peace sign created from empty teargas canisters used by police against protesters. Photograph: Roberto…
Seven months after Tunisia’s historic uprising which saw the ouster of long-time dictator Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali and gave birth to the region’s Arab Spring, many Tunisians are losing confidence in the progress of their revolution. Last year,…
Just after the streets of Tunisia and Egypt erupted, China saw a series of “Jasmine” protests—until the government stopped them cold. Its methods were subtler than they had been at Tiananmen Square, and more insidious. Was the regime’s…
Writer María Rosas Tells the Story of How Residents Defeated Big Business Interests María Rosas, a writer who was an active participant in the civil resistance that took place in Tepoztlán, Mexico in 1995, presented in one of the sessions…
Women’s rights groups in Nepal say they are being left out of negotiations at a critical time, weeks before the country’s Constituent Assembly (CA) is meant to agree on a new constitution. “We need a constitution in time…
Hassan Ali Salman is a stocky, fit-looking young man. But he flailed in vain as the police officers grabbed him, one forcing his T-shirt roughly up over his head as three or four others laid in with their…
Ongoing since mid-July, Israeli street protests are unprecedented in size, scope, and (so far) determination to stay the course for social justice. Two previous articles discussed them, accessed through the following links: http://sjlendman.blogspot.com/2011/08/israel-rogue-state-land-of-inequality.html http://sjlendman.blogspot.com/2011/08/israeli-street-protests-suppressed-by.html What began as a…
Demonstrators in Habima Square, Tel Aviv, July 23 2011. Protests to be held in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and the north; Protest in Tel Aviv expected to be largest yet with police closing off major arteries. Protest leaders are…
