Democracy Now!![Egyptian protests continue strong for sixth day [UPDATED]](http://wagingnonviolence.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/2011130154758633833_20.jpg)
For the sixth day in a row, protesters are out in force across Egypt. Democracy Now!’s Sharif Abdel Kouddous just tweeted that: “Today has the most people I have seen yet in Tahrir Sq. Packed.” F-16 fighter jets recently buzzed over Tahrir Square. While commentators on Al Jazeera are saying that the use of jets
Joe Biden should practice some reflective listening right now, as he represents the Obama administration's evolving views on what is going on in Egypt. Instead, he is either going rogue or floating trial balloons to see how we respond. He says, for ins...
The bloody carnage of the past 100 years should have convinced even the dullest among us that violence within and between societies is now self defeating and colossally stupid.David Orr, At the End of Our Tether: the Rationality of Nonviolence, p. 236....
The day after Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak declared a curfew and proposed to appease protesters by building a new government, Al Jazeera reports that there are more people on the streets than ever before. Live pictures show protesters moving peacefully around the city, directing traffic—from civilian cars to civilian tanks—and marching en masse to strategic
From BBC Indigenous activists in Bolivia have been holding a mass coca-chewing protest as part of campaign to end an international ban on the practice. Hundreds of people chewed the leaf outside the US embassy in La Paz and in other cities across the country. Bolivia wants to amend a UN drugs treaty that bans chewing coca, which
David D. Kirkpatrick and Alan Cowell, NY Times, January 28, 2011After a day of increasingly violent protests throughout Egypt, President Hosni Mubarak ordered the military into the streets to reinforce police struggling to contain one of the most ser...
Reza Derakhishi, Reuters, January 26, 2011Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has hit out at the heads of parliament and the judiciary, accusing them of "interfering" in his government's business, media reported on Wednesday.
Malcolm Gladwell and Clay Shirky, Foreign Affairs, January 19, 2011Do the tools of social media make it possible for protesters to challenge their governments? Malcolm Gladwell argues that there is no evidence that they do; Clay Shirky disagrees.
Roger Cohen, NY Times, January 27, 2011Above all, the Internet’s impact has been to expose the great delusion that has led Western governments to buttress Arab autocrats: that the only alternative to them was Islamic jihadists. No, the Tunisian revol...
I’ve been glued to Al Jazeera for the last several hours and monitoring Twitter hashtags #egypt and #jan25 for breaking news about the ongoing protests in Egypt. While things are developing quickly, it’s not looking good for President Mubarak, who has ruled Egypt with an iron fist for the last 30 years. Tens or hundreds
J. David Goodman and Nada Bakri, NY Times, January 27, 2011The protesters who filled the streets of Sana, the Yemeni capital, demanding the resignation of the country’s authoritarian leader claimed inspiration from similar large antigovernment pro...
Tuesday, January 25th was the day that 23 anti-war and Palestine solidarity activists were made to appear before a Federal Grand Jury in Chicago. It was also the day that all of them refused to testify. In solidarity with those targeted by government repression, several rallies were held in cities across the United States—and the 
As tens of thousands of Egyptians take to the streets in another day of protest, the Nobel-laureate opposition leader Mohamed ElBaradei has been attacked with a police water cannon and reportedly taken into custody. Egypt has ordered telecom companies to suspend service in cities where protests are occurring. The internet has been shut down across
It is vitally important, of course, to believe everything reported in the various corporate and state media. How else can we get the real news? That darn Internet is sketchy and we can all have a good laugh when we think of crackpots who post and claim...
As an American soldier during World War II, my father served in Great Britain as part of a medical unit. When the war in Europe ended with VE day in the spring of 1945, my father's unit was sent home. Unlike most of the others he had served with, who w...
I’ve been thinking a lot about the concept of hegemony, and reading Antonio Gramsci. I’ll be posting a few reflections as I go. Years ago, I remember growing wary of tendencies (within activist groups I was part of) to exaggerate and glorif...
