Tag: democratic protest

Biden was my boss. As a Jew I cannot endorse the Gaza catastrophe / Phyllis Bennis Calls Out the US for Supporting Israel

GAZA casualties, live statistics There are lessons to be learned from our faith and history, as we watch the same dehumanization that fell upon my community now land upon another. Each day, I see photos of those displaced in Gaza, and I am reminded of my own family’s memory of loved ones killed in the… Read More Biden was my boss. As a Jew I cannot endorse the Gaza catastrophe / Phyllis Bennis Calls Out the US for Supporting Israel

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‘We didn’t fight for this’: ANC’s grip on power in peril in South Africa election

Thirty years after the end of apartheid, corruption is rife, crime is high and the economy is a mess. The party of Mandela admits it ‘made mistakes’. But will the people forgive them? Steve Bloomfield in Johannesburg In the heart of Soweto, the birthplace of South African democracy has been burned, looted and stripped for parts.… Read More ‘We didn’t fight for this’: ANC’s grip on power in peril in South Africa election

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Civil Society Hearing into the 1988 Massacre in Iran / Open Letter to the UN Human Rights Council

The UN Special Rapporteur on Iran and the Chair-Rapporteur of the UN Working Group on Enforced Disappearances join JVMI and survivors of the 1988 massacre in Geneva on 15 February 2024 in an appeal for justice London, 2 April 2024 – A group of 77 current and former United Nations special procedure mandate-holders and commissioners… Read More Civil Society Hearing into the 1988 Massacre in Iran / Open Letter to the UN Human Rights Council

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Pakistani poet was abducted because of human rights activism, says wife

Ahmad Farhad was pushed into vehicle hours after posting about threats from country’s spy agency, says Syeda Urooj Zainab Shah Meer Baloch in Islamabad The wife of a Pakistani poet and journalist who was abducted from outside his house last week has accused the country’s spy agency of responsibility, saying it acted because of his activism.… Read More Pakistani poet was abducted because of human rights activism, says wife

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How Billionaires Silenced US Campus Protests

Thousands of students face severe consequences for protesting Gaza violence. Alan Macleod investigates the powerful financial and ideological ties to Israel driving the harsh responses from America’s top universities. By Alan MacLeod / MintPress News America’s universities are on fire. A protest movement against the violence in Gaza and U.S. colleges’ complicity in them has swept… Read More How Billionaires Silenced US Campus Protests

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More than half the world cannot speak freely, report finds

Sharp rise in number of people facing a crisis in freedom of speech, while authors particularly alarmed by deterioration in India under Narendra Modi Half the world’s population cannot freely speak their mind according to a new report on freedom of expression. In its annual report, the advocate group Article 19 found the number of people… Read More More than half the world cannot speak freely, report finds

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Between Victory and Defeat

How can the left escape burnout? Hannah Proctor; Burnout: The Emotional Experience of Political Defeat SAM ADLER-BELL the left can sometimes become “more attached to its impossibility than to its potential fruitfulness, a Left that is most at home dwelling not in hopefulness but in its own marginality and failure, a Left that is thus caught… Read More Between Victory and Defeat

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UK court approves Assange extradition appeal / Why Julian Assange’s fate matters

UK court approves Assange extradition appeal Washington, D.C., May 20, 2024—The Committee to Protect Journalists welcomes the U.K. High Court’s Monday decision to allow WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to appeal his extradition case. “We are heartened that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will be allowed to appeal his extradition to the United States,” said CPJ CEO Jodie Ginsberg,… Read More UK court approves Assange extradition appeal / Why Julian Assange’s fate matters

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Prabir Purkayastha’s Arrest & Remand Illegal: Supreme Court Orders NewsClick Editor’s Release / Bhima Koregaon: Gautam Navlakha gets bail as SC lifts stay on Bombay HC order

In a major development, the Supreme Court on Wednesday (May 15) declared as illegal NewsClick founder and Editor-in-Chief Prabir Purkayastha’s arrest by the Delhi police and his remand in a case under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act 1967. The Court noted that a copy of the remand application was not provided to Purkayastha or his… Read More Prabir Purkayastha’s Arrest & Remand Illegal: Supreme Court Orders NewsClick Editor’s Release / Bhima Koregaon: Gautam Navlakha gets bail as SC lifts stay on Bombay HC order

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US students, once again, have led the way. Now we must all stand up for Palestinians

Osita Nwanevu The student left is the most reliably correct constituency in America. Over the past 60 years, it has passed every great moral test American foreign policy has forced upon the public, including the Vietnam war, the question of relations with apartheid South Africa, and the Iraq war. Student activists were at the heart… Read More US students, once again, have led the way. Now we must all stand up for Palestinians

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