Freetown: Sierra Leone’s main opposition party has called for an indefinite campaign of civil disobedience if the country’s sacked vice-president is not reinstated within a week, a party leader said on Sunday. Sulaiman Banja Tejan-Sie, Secretary-General of the…
Gandhi’s Salt March, 85 Years Ago
International Women’s Day In Zapatista Territory
Before the Zapatista uprising, women in the indigenous villages of Chiapas were often forced into arranged marriages, had little access to birth control, and domestic violence was generally considered normal and acceptable. A woman could not leave the house without…
Honduras: Indigenous Communities Resist Dams in the Face of Threats and Violence
On the evening Jan. 27, a bus of Indigenous Lenca community leaders returning from Rio Blanco, Honduras, the site of an almost two-year Lenca blockade and struggle against the construction of the Agua Zarca dam, was waived to a stop…
50,000 Israelis show up at the wrong protest
What I Saw at Selma
Martin Luther King Jr. liked to joke that I was the one member of his legal team who would help him go to jail rather than using all the tricks of the trade to keep him out. I’d originally connected…