The October 19 death of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi allows us to see more clearly an underlying force at work in the Arab Awakening. From Tunisia to Egypt, Libya, Syria, and Yemen, movements have sought to end the presumption of…
f Vi blir jevnt over mer intelligente, og dette gjør oss mer medfølende og mindre voldelige, hevder den kanadisk-amerikanske psykologen og forfatteren Steven Pinker i kommentaren Taming the devil within us i siste utgave av tidsskriftet Nature. Han viser til…
More than 50,000 18-year-olds have one month to report for service as student protests are blamed for disrupting recruitment Chile has given nearly 57,000 18-year-olds one month to report for potential military duty, saying the government needs to…
On Saturday, the 15-M movement turned a new page in history. Not only did the social protest crusade see the highest number of supporters so far turn out for a gargantuan rally in Madrid, but the movement gained…
All three have been approved by the city’s regional governor, who is responsible for authorizing public gatherings, although she and everyone else are intent on keeping the marches separated. Organizers of all three events are predicting large turnouts. At…
Chai Ling, former commander-in-chief of the 1989 Tiananmen Square student movement, on Wednesday visited “Occupy Boston” protesters to provide them with encouragement. “Without pressure to provide a public space for these protests to continue, the movement will not be…
Amnesty International today urged Egypt’s military leadership to immediately and unconditionally release a jailed blogger after the military appeals court in Cairo ordered a retrial of his case. Maikel Nabil Sanad, a 26-year-old blogger, is in very poor health…
Hundreds of Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli prisons are currently on the 18th day of a hunger strike that began on 27 September, calling for better prisoner rights and improved incarceration conditions. The Palestinian Prisoners Movement first appeared on…
Much of the criticism of «Occupy Wall Street» and the similar movements taking place — including in Hartford and New Haven — is a lack of leadership and clear goals. Those are actually reasons why this movement will continue…
Sleeping on a tiled classroom floor, sharing cigarettes and always on the lookout for police raids, the students of Carmela Carvajal primary and secondary school are living a revolution. It began early one morning in May, when dozens of…
