Democracy Now!Katherine Zoepf, NY Times, April 27, 2011Syria’s nascent opposition movement, organized by an amorphous group of young activists operating mainly online, now faces its biggest test: whether it can sustain protests in the face of a brutal governmen...
Ahmed Al-Haj, Common Dreams, April 27, 2011Yemeni 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. The campaign is the lates...
Mark Perry, Foreign Policy Magazine, April 26, 2011On March 24, the Israeli government arrested Bassem Tamimi, a 44-year-old resident of the small Palestinian village of Nabi Saleh, which is just west of Ramallah. Tamimi was arrested for leading a grou...
Musaazi Namiti, Al Jazeera, April 28, 2011Being hauled up before courts and jailed just because you have chosen to walk to work as a form of protest is something unimaginable in many countries. But in Uganda it happens. Security forces are haras...
Tom Hastings, Hastings on Nonviolence, April 28, 2011Fasting is powerful. It needs to be done carefully or the power can skew in unintended directions. Each culture conceives of the fast differently and each situation is unique. It needs serious appr...
Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com In a discussion about Dietrich Bonhoeffer on Glenn Beck’s show on Wednesday, Dinesh D’Souza reiterated the myth, believed by almost everyone, that nonviolence simply could not have worked against the Nazis. DINESH D’SOUZA, KING’S COLLEGE: Well, Gandhi had a different situation. The British were very different than Hitler. They
We finally toured the devastated village of Awarta Wednesday and were stunned at what we saw and heard. On the way, we stopped by a tiny village called Izbet Al-tabib, a village of 350 people was served with a new order by the Israeli military ...
In Yemen, tens of thousands of protesters rallied nationwide on Thursday to denounce a deadly government crackdown that left 12 people dead and nearly 200 wounded on Wednesday when Yemeni forces opened fire on a crowd of roughly 100,000 protesters in Sana’a. Tens of thousands of Syrians demonstrated in urban centers today in solidarity with
The world of commerce is an important world. We need to participate and we need to reform if we want to feed hungry people. The world of politics is important--crucial--in seeing to the reform that can house homeless. But the beginning of all of that p...
When “Positive News” Isn’t By Michael Nagler The outbreak of democratic aspirations in Egypt, which was relatively nonviolent — and successful, was something of a triumph of the human spirit. We could use the boost. The human spirit is under attack not just in despotic regimes from Burma to Bahrain but right here in our own society.
As you watch the above video, there is no need to adjust the volume or look for a different version with sound. There is no audio for a reason. The video is of a flash mob staged at Grand Central Station in New York at the end of March in support of the Palestinian-led boycott,
Gandhi fasted more than a dozen times, once penitently when his people murdered police. He fasted for an end to Untouchability. He fasted more than once for an end to Hindu-Muslim bicommunal violence, and once he fasted against a British official for t...
With the US now prosecuting three wars abroad, NPR asks why more people aren’t on the streets. In the article, Linton Weeks and the folks he interviews offer several possible reasons, including the lack of a draft, which helped mobilize the peace movement against the war in Vietnam, greater control over coverage of war in
Most modern insurgencies last about a decade (Connable & Libicki, 2010). For most of those years, human mortalities are high enough to classify the conflict as a war, that is, in excess of 1,000 "battlefield" deaths. These days, an infant in a mini...
Quick note to those in Palestine: Please join us at the AICafe on Tuesday 26 April at 7pm (Beit Sahour at Jadal Center) for a panel discussion about September 2011 Declaration of a Palestinian State: What Should Activists Do? With Palestinian activists...
Opening Prayer for Boston City Council Meeting, April 13, 2011 Holy One of Being, Compassionate One Who dwells in the city upon the highest hill, as You look down upon the teeming metropolis of humanity seeing so much strife and sorrow, see also the go...
