Palestinian youth: New movement, new borders – Features – Al Jazeera English. Reconciliation between Hamas and Fatah may present the first victory of a nascent Palestinian youth movement, which earned its moniker, the March 15th movement, from the first day…
BBC News – Maldives rocked by protests against President Nasheed. Police in Maldives have used tear gas and batons to disperse a mass anti-government protest in the capital Male. Several thousand people gathered to demand President Mohamed Nasheed quit because…
Saudi’s Surprise Renegades – Newsweek. Women demonstrators, calling for the release of their imprisoned relatives, are making the regime very nervous. On a recent Sunday morning, Dana al-Reshoudi, a 50-year-old home-economics teacher from the oasis city of Buraydah, in Saudi…
How to Make More Egypts — and Fewer Iraqs It was a beautiful, sun-splashed Cairo morning, and a brass band was playing in Tahrir Square. The musicians, about two dozen in all, wore driven-snow white trousers and red military jackets…
A human right to resist From OpenDemocracy.net by Maciej Bartkowski We need the international community to favour the worldwide groundswell of civil resistance over armed violence. This could be facilitated by a more dynamic and comprehensive interpretation of existing…
Yemenis Start Civil Disobedience Campaign SANAA, Yemen – Yemeni residents in scores of cities and towns across the nation launched a civil disobedience campaign Wednesday to bring down the country’s long-serving president, activists said.
Authorities react very nervously to signs that opposition disquiet could turn into mass protests that toppled governments of Egypt and Tunisia. Azerbaijan’s opposition activists pledge to keep staging protests, even though their attempts to emulate the mass demonstrations in the…
