Muslim youth inspire more than 1,000 Norwegians to stand in solidarity at an Oslo synagogue. But not everybody’s feeling the love. group of Muslim youth successfully organized a globally publicized event in solidarity with Norway’s Jewish community on Saturday. In…
Stikkord: Demonstration
Resisting U.S. Bases in Okinawa
More prisoners in Egypt join hunger strike
A prominent Egyptian activist imprisoned for three months has joined a growing number of prisoners in an ongoing hunger strike to protest the government’s crackdown on dissent, a Cairo-based rights group and her lawyer said Monday. The Arabic Network for…
The Collapse of the American Jewish Center
Three weeks ago, a group of young American Jews gathered outside the New York offices of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, the umbrella organization founded in the 1950s and which claims to speak for a consensus…
Finally: Russia’s First Nonviolent Pride Event
Russia’s first violence-free LGBT Pride event happened last Saturday in St. Petersburg, according to a report from the Moscow Times. According to the report, which cited Radio Free Europe | Radio Liberty as its source, about 25 people showed up…
Protests quelled as Yemen increases fuel prices
Protests erupted in Sanaa on Wednesday and were dispersed by the army after the Yemeni government announced a rise in fuel prices, part of a bid to ease the burden of energy subsidies on the impoverished country’s state finances. Witnesses…
Sonali Kolhatkar: Beyond Boko Haram: Long-Term Justice for Nigeria Lies in Economic Empowerment and Social Change
People attend a demonstration calling on the government to rescue the kidnapped girls of the government secondary school in Chibok, in Abuja, Nigeria, on May 22. AP/Sunday Alamba Nigeria is unraveling. And it is not just because young…
Activists in Bahrain denounce Al-Khalifa anti-Shi’ite policy
Earlier last week, on 7 May, political activists affiliated to Bahraini opposition groups delivered a letter to UN Secretary General Ban Ki moon, calling for his office to take a stand against the Bahraini regime’s systematic targeting of the Shi’a…
Israel Broadcasting Authority employees to hold protest demonstration today
Demonstrations oppose bill that would close the IBA within the year and cause 2,000 people to be fired. Employees of the Israel Broadcasting Authority have planned to hold a demonstration outside the Finance Ministry on Monday, between 10 a.m. and…
Protest marking 47 years of occupation in Tel Aviv will ‘disrupt routine,’ police says
This week marks 47 years since the start of Israel’s occupation of the West Bank, Gaza Strip and Golan Heights, the product of the Six-Day War that took place June 5-10, 1967. That is almost half a century, and nearly…