Indian democracy: A new organization channels people power against corruption

August 8, 2012
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Matt Mulberry, openDemocracy, August 6, 2012The organization 5th Pillar is one of India's new and innovative anti-corruption organizations. Since its founding in 2008 its mission has been to, "Encourage, enable, and empower every citizen of India to el...

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United Arab Emirates: Trying to hold back the tide of discontent

August 8, 2012
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Kristian Coates Ulrichsen, openDemocracy, August 5, 2012The arrest and detention of 54 political and human rights activists in the United Arab Emirates has thrown the spotlight on one of the most autocratic and least institutionalised Persian Gulf mona...

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Music in resistance: "You say you want a revolution"

August 8, 2012
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Charles Homans, Foreign Policy, August 3, 2012As the Pussy Riot trial has mushroomed into a broader debate over political and cultural freedom in Vladimir Putin's Russia, the president has cautioned leniency in the case. It's a canny move by the Russia...

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Paraguay: Social movements mobilize for democracy

August 8, 2012
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Benjamin Dangl, Upside Down World, August 7, 2012Rain or shine, every Thursday in Asunción, Paraguay, activists gather to protest the right-wing government of Federico Franco which came to power in a June 22 parliamentary coup against left-leaning pre...

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Violence, diversity of tactics and the 1 percent

August 8, 2012
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George Lakey, Waging Nonviolence, August 7, 2012Now we can see all the more clearly the brilliance of the African-American students sitting in lunch counters in the sixties. Of course they could have heaved rocks through windows or beaten up store owne...

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Repaired and Renewed

August 8, 2012
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Repaired and Renewed

I spent a fair bit of time recently repairing a cradle that I had built some thirty years ago for firstborn Noa to sleep in. In the wee hours of morning, I completed it just in time for her arrival. So too, for the first months of their lives, Yoss...

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No nice wars

August 7, 2012
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An attack on an Egyptian army post in northern Sinai left 15 soldiers dead.  The attack was denounced by all Palestinian resistance forces including mainstream ones (Fatah, PFLP, DFLP, popular resistance committees, Hamas) and even marginal Jihadi...

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The Bells of Hiroshima — in Los Alamos

August 7, 2012
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A hundred and fifty of us gathered on Sunday night, Aug. 5, at Ashley Pond in Los Alamos, New Mexico, at the exact spot where long ago the Hiroshima Bomb was built. Right at 5:15 p.m -- 8:15 a.m. Monday morning, Aug. 6 in Japan -- we heard live, thanks...

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A life sentence

August 7, 2012
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A life sentence

While nearly all people would be delighted if war were abolished, they never think to ask the question “How do we abolish war?” because they believe it is inevitable and sometimes perfectly justified, and because they share a mutual fear of one ano...

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People power challenges nuclear power with nationwide demonstrations

August 7, 2012
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People power challenges nuclear power with nationwide demonstrations

by Peter Rugh. Occupy Nukes demonstrations were held in towns and cities across the United States on Monday, marking the anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. Approximately 140,000 civilians were killed by the bomb, code-named Little Boy, while hundreds of thousands died later of cancer, and thousands more inherited birth

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Diversity of tactics and the 1 percent

August 7, 2012
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Diversity of tactics and the 1 percent

by George Lakey. In July I participated in an all-Britain Peace News camp in which we discussed, among other things, the idea of diversity of tactics. I was a little surprised when my fellow panelists wanted to turn it into a conversation about pacifism and whether violence can ever be justified. Although I’m a pacifist,

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Stupid Second Amendment

August 6, 2012
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Stupid Second Amendment

How stupid is the Second Amendment?Here is the text of the first two amendments to the US Constitution, in the Bill of Rights:First Amendment – Establishment Clause, Free Exercise Clause; freedom of speech, of the press, and of assembly; right t...

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Ecovillage sows resistance and a sustainable Panama

August 6, 2012
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Ecovillage sows resistance and a sustainable Panama

by Stephen Flohr. In the lush countryside of the Panamanian province of Cocle lies the small community of Membrillo. The locals here are humble campesinos carrying on the labor-intensive traditions of rural subsistence living. By the standards of modernity and capitalist progress, people here are poor. And it is precisely for this reason that every

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Be Careful What You Tweet

August 6, 2012
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Be Careful What You Tweet

Guy Adams, a reporter, had his Twitter account suspended after he tweeted complaints about a Twitter business partner, NBC. Twitter “proactively” brought the tweet to NBC’s attention and encouraged NBC to file a complaint. When NBC did complain, Twitter kicked … Continue reading

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Defeating the demon dictator

August 5, 2012
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Defeating the demon dictator

There is a puzzling paradox about war. As awful as it is, good people support it. --Kent Shifferd (2011, p. 5)Research shows that nonviolence is the most efficient and most often successful method by which we can overthrow dictators. Can we also u...

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