Having taught nonviolence at Berkeley for over a quarter of a century, I feel called to respond to the judgment of Chancellor Birgenau and UC police Capt. Margo Bennett that the students who linked arms to keep police from…
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Snow Falling on Civil Disobedience
Early this morning, just after 2:00, Police removed the participants of Occupy Ottawa, enforcing the eviction notice served on Monday. Eight Occupiers were arrested, and one was transported to hospital (for, apparently, a pre-existing injury aggravated by the forcible…
Ethiopia: Stop using anti-terror laws to stifle peaceful dissent
The Ethiopian government should cease using its overly broad anti-terrorism law against journalists and peaceful political activists, Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International said today. On November 23, 2011, the trial of 24 people charged with terrorism offences on November…
Belarus: Jailed presidential candidate denied access to lawyer
The Belarusian authorities must immediately grant a jailed former presidential candidate access to his lawyer, Amnesty International said today after it emerged he had been subjected to the latest in a series of unannounced prison transfers. One of…
In India, love tests world’s longest hunger strike
Irom Sharmila vows to keep up her fast, now in its 11th year, to protest a law granting legal immunity to India’s armed forces. But Irom, who has a suitor, also dreams of a normal life, and love. Reporting…
Paul Loeb: From Occupy Wall Street to Occupy the Neighborhoods
The Occupy movement has done something amazing, getting Americans to start questioning our economic divides. It’s created spaces for people to come together, voice their discontents and dreams, creatively challenge destructive greed. It’s created powerful political theater, engaged community,…
Activist leading fight against Uganda’s anti-gay bill wins RFK Human Rights Award in DC
A gay rights activist in Uganda, where a bill that would punish gays with prison or death has stirred worldwide outrage, received the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award in Washington on Thursday. Ethel Kennedy, the widow of the…
‘Disruption of Tsvangirai rally was well planned’
The MDC led by Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai is publicly blaming ZANU PF for the violence that rocked Chitungwiza on Sunday that forced the party to cancel its rally at Chibuku stadium. The violence, which was reportedly orchestrated, targeted…
Bahraini Forces Fire on Demonstrators
Reports have emerged that Bahraini security forces fired tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse anti-government protesters demonstrating for greater rights. According to witnesses, hundreds of protesters took to the streets of predominantly Shi’ite villages around Manama, but no…
Young and Old to Unite as Seniors Join ‘Occupy’
Occupy Chicago is about to learn what civil disobedience was like back in the day. Senior citizens fighting cuts to Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security will join Occupy Chicago protestors Monday for a rally in the Loop. An estimated…