Quiet Revolution in Rabat: Morocco’s Youth Want Their Own Form of Change AFP Young people across Morocco are demanding change and more democratic freedoms. King Mohammed VI has allowed for reform of the country’s constitution, but a bomb attack last month in Marrakech…
Pro-democracy activists arrested in Georgia Staunch former Saakashvili supporters and political insiders take to the streets of Georgia – and are arrested – as protests in the capital Tbilisi continue. Protestors massed for a second night in the Georgian capital…
SAUDI ARABIA: Security forces clamp down on those allegedly behind campaign to defy ban on women drivers Saudi Arabian authorities have clamped down on women’s rights activists after a bold call by a group of women in the ultra-conservative kingdom…
15-M in Spain: nonviolence is now on the streets. Those who interpreted the “Arab Spring” as a phenomenon that would only touch a few countries—in general dictatorships personifying the Arab world—have not understood the phenomenon that has awoken and that…
Tanks storm south Syria city and activists call for general strike in new tactic. Syrian women shout slogans against Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad during a demonstration. (File photo) By ABEER TAYEL Al Arabiya with Agencies The West warned of more…
Moroccan forces disperse opposition protest | Reuters. (Reuters) – Moroccan forces used truncheons to disperse a pro-democracy protest on the southern outskirts of the kingdom’s capital Rabat on Sunday, wounding several people, a Reuters reporter at the scene said. Dozens…
Israel’s Nakba Law: Is it time for civil disobedience?. The discourse around the Nakba law–which tries to stop public institutions from marking the Palestinian disaster, through funding cuts–feeds Israel’s persecution complex. Trying to legislate history out of existence means losing…
People’s Power Blocks Dam Construction in Northeast India | International Rivers. With more than 150 dams proposed for construction and 11 projects in operation, Northeast India is one of the hotspots of global dam building. The biggest project under construction…
Hundreds of workers walked off the job in protest, which rocked the headquarters of Southern Oil Company in Bab al-Zubayr in the southern city of Basra. The workers have come from oil fields in Basra; from North and South Rumaila,…
