It was 2006. A young Syrian called Ausama Monajed was on a train to London. One of his hobbies was reading e-books. On this trip, he picked Gene Sharp’s From Dictatorship to Democracy, which maps out strategies for using non-violent…
Protestkundgebung von Samstagabend in Tel Aviv Bei den größten Kundgebungen in Israel seit Jahren haben gestern Samstag nach offiziellen Angaben mindestens 100 000 Menschen gegen hohe Mieten und soziale Ungerechtigkeiten demonstriert. Zentrum der Demonstrationen war Tel Aviv. In zehn…
Seventy-eight year old Rabbi Arthur Waskow gets arrested during a protest on Capitol Hill yesterday An interfaith coalition of reverends, rabbis and their supporters gathered yesterday at the Capitol Rotunda for a prayer opposing budget cuts that…
The Burmese exiles living in India and their sympathizers had recently came to the street of India’s national capital to lodge a stronger protest against the government for supplying arms and ammunitions to the semi-military Burmese government at…
For first time, Palestinian president openly urges popular activism in support of his initiative to seek UN recognition of a Palestinian state. President Mahmoud Abbas urged Palestinians on Wednesday to step up peaceful protests against Israel, urging «popular…
Rabbis protest for Palestine. It was a Palestinian legislator who made the most telling comment to the Israeli parliament last week as it passed the boycott law, which outlaws calls to boycott Israel or its settlements in the…
Prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu defends controversial measure but legal experts, including some rightwingers, say it damages freedom of expression Israel‘s new law effectively banning political boycotts is unconstitutional and does grievous harm to freedom of expression and protest,…
Belarusian plainclothes policemen block a central street to protect it from an opposition action ‘Revolution via social network’ in Minsk, Belarus, July 7. The center of Minsk is teeming with police preparing for the next in a…
Belarusian detainee, arrested during the flash mob ‘Revolution through social network,’ gestures from a prison cell at a detention center in Minsk, Belarus, on July 7. Sergei Grits/AP As the Belarusian government crackdown becomes increasingly aggressive, Internet-savvy protesters…
Teresita Cruz-del Rosario is a Visiting Associate Professor at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy. (Illustration by Amarjit Sidhu) It is easy to explain the current protests in Malaysia as an instance of the winds of the…