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La Via Campesina—the world’s largest federation of peasant and smallholder farmers—held what they called the “1,000 Cancún Global Day of Action for Climate Justice” in which several thousand people took to the streets to march in protest of the UN climate summit. Indigenous and youth groups demonstrated both inside and outside the UN Climate Change
Every December 6th, my friends and I take time to remember Philip Berrigan, the legendary anti-nuclear activist who died eight years ago. This week five friends are taking Phil’s advent vision of peace into court as they stand trial in Tacoma, Wash. ...
President Obama and the State Department are considering the permit for a 2,000-mile dirty tar sands oil pipeline, known as the Keystone XL, that would run from Canada through six US states to refineries along the Gulf Coast. With 900,000 barrels of dirty oil flowing across the heartland every day, public water supplies, crops, and
According to an article today in the Toronto Star, at least nineteen countries have declined their invitation to the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony for jailed Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo in Norway this Friday. While most are countries you might assume would side with China, whose government has threatened that there will be “consequences” for countries
Over at the Guardian, there is a nice video report on how Palestinians are using rap music as a form of protest in the Palestinian territories, Syria and Lebanon. The 5-minute long video, which can only be seen on their site, includes interviews with several of the most popular Palestinian hip-hop artists, footage from concerts
Talk Michael gave in October 2009 (via skype) to a group of university students about the Free Speech Movement and lessons for student activism today. Download audio file (2010_1008_FSM-talk.mp3)
Simon McMahon, Open Democracy, December 5, 2010The media can be relied upon to draw on the usual assortment of 'types', stereotypes that enable dismissal of the student movement and its arguments as ‘hippy’, anarchic, or childish. Whilst the medi...
Benjamin Joffe-Walt, Change.org, December 2, 2010Last week we reported that a Starbucks in Bahrain willingly agreed to an unofficial government request to kick out a group of journalists, international observers, human rights advocates and the famil...
James Glanz and John Markoff, NY Times, December 4, 2010As China ratcheted up the pressure on Google to censor its Internet searches last year, the American Embassy sent a secret cable to Washington detailing one reason top Chinese leaders had becom...
Persian 2 English, December 4, 2010As Student Day ‘December 7th’ (16 Azar) in Iran approaches, Iranian university students have issued a statement calling for a nationwide, three-day strike at all universities on December 6th, December 7th and ...
The Guardian, November 26, 2010Political protests are often labelled as "political theatre" or "pure drama" – but when property is smashed and violence erupts, many people ask: what are the limits of protest? Where do we draw the line between thea...
Michael Nagler in conversation with Alex Hildebrand of Peace Brigades International on Unarmed Civilian Peacekeeping.
Dailyniteowl.com has provided a live blog on student protests in Iran. It appears that many universities in Iran had protests on December 6. The Green Movement has been severely repressed recently by the Iranian Regime. The core movements for social change appear to be alive recently with continued labor and student activism. If folks want the best updates on Iran, check out the cssnd.com Iranian Nonviolent Action Weekly Reports LiveBlog: Iran Student Day Protest (16 Azar / Dec 7) December 6th, 2010 By Josh Shahryar I have written a report for Tehran Bureau on today’s protests. Also, publishing an...
Today, as Wikileaks editor-in-chief Julian Assange has been taken into the custody of British police, the BBC has word that Anonymous, the informal online hacker community has launched an attack. Its targets are companies, like Paypal and a Swiss bank, that have participated in attempts to shut Wikileaks down by withdrawing services from Assange and
My old friend Peter Edmunds is living far from his Minnesota roots, where he used to run a log building restoration company. He's now down in Deming, New Mexico. How sweet. Another snowbird, retired to bask in the sun. But Peter's story has no such end...
AHIMSA presents a Free Public Forum: Roots of Empathy and Nonviolence in Childhood with Mitch Hall Tuesday, December 7, 2010 at The Institute for World Religions/Berkeley Buddhist Monastery 2304 McKinnely Avenue, Berkeley California Roots of Empathy...
