Burma torture now ‘more widespread’ By: Democratic Voice of Burma, January 18, 2010 Torture in Burma is “now more widespread than at any time in recent decades”, according to an open letter sent by an Asian rights group to the UN’s torture rapporteur. http://www.dvb.no/english/news.php?id=3235
Burma's Supreme Court hears final Suu Kyi appeal By: BBC News, January 18, 2010 Burma's Supreme Court has heard a final appeal against the extended house arrest of pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi. Her sentence was extended by 18 months last year after a US man swam uninvited to her lakeside home in Rangoon. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8464783.stm
ASIA: EAST ASIA
Hong Kong approves China rail link By: Jonathan Cheng, WSJ, January 19, 2010 The government here won a tough battle to fund a controversial railway project, but an ugly showdown Saturday between protesters and riot police wielding pepper spray could signal more conflict to come over highly contested political reforms. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703569004575008402152914416.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
Chinese attack on Google seen as cybertheft By: Tom Gjelten, NPR, January 18, 2010 Google's carefully worded announcement last week that it had experienced "a highly sophisticated and targeted" cyberattack in China caught the attention of both human-rights advocates and industrial espionage experts, though for quite different reasons. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=122703950&ps=cprs
Journalists in China face e-mail hijacking By: CNN, January 18, 2010 Foreign correspondents in at least two Beijing, China, bureaus of news organizations have had their Google e-mail accounts attacked, with e-mails forwarded to a mysterious address, according to the Foreign Correspondents' Club of China. http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/01/18/china.gmail/
China: Leading human rights attorney is missing By: JD Journal, January 18, 2010 The Chinese government claims that prominent human rights lawyer and Nobel Peace Prize nominee Gao Zhisheng “went missing” last year while in their custody. Gao was taken into custody by security forces last February. In 2001 Gao was named one of China’s top 10 lawyers but later ran afoul of the government for providing legal services to victims of government abuses. http://www.jdjournal.com/2010/01/18/leading-human-rights-attorney-is-missing/
China appoints ex-soldier as Tibet governor By: BBC News, January 15, 2010 China has chosen a former soldier as the new governor of Tibet after the previous one resigned unexpectedly. The new governor, Padma Choling, is an ethnic Tibetan who served 17 years in China's army before joining the regional government, state media said. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8460628.stm
Scaling the digital wall in China By: Brad Stone and David Barboza, NY Times, January 15, 2010 Just as Mongol invaders could not be stopped by the Great Wall, Chinese citizens have found ways to circumvent the sophisticated Internet censorship systems designed to restrict them. They are using a variety of tools to evade government filters and to reach the wide-open Web that the Chinese government deems dangerous. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/16/technology/internet/16evade.html?th&emc=th
Censors back on Google as China defends internet actions By: CNN, January, 14, 2010 The Chinese government was defending its Internet practices Thursday, even as censorship of Google results -- which had briefly been lifted -- appeared to return. http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/01/14/china.google/index.html
China: Human rights activists tell of cyber attacks By: Tania Branigan, The Guardian, January 14, 2010 Well-known human rights advocates in China and a Tibetan rights activist in the United States have disclosed that their Gmail accounts have been compromised. They came forward after Google's announcement of a sustained cyber attack on activists and other illicit accessing of accounts, but stressed that the problem goes back much further. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jan/14/china-human-rights-activists-cyber-attack
Tibet: Stanford student was targeted in Google cyberattack By: Mike Swift, Mercury News, January 14, 2010 When Tenzin Seldon, a 20-year-old sophomore at Stanford, logged onto her Gmail account from New York over winter break, she may have helped Google understand the widespread penetration of its network by unidentified hackers in China. http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_14195105?nclick_check=1
South Korea’s “comfort women” stage 900th weekly protest By: Bryan Farrell, Waging Nonviolence, January 14, 2010 Every Wednesday since 1992, a group of South Korean former World War II sex slaves and their supporters gather outside the Japanese embassy in Seoul to demand compensation and an official apology from Japan, which ran a system of military brothels before its surrender in 1945. At yesterday’s gathering, many people carried signs with the number 900, signifying the landmark number of protests these so-called “comfort women” and their supporters have staged over the last 17 years. http://wagingnonviolence.org/2010/01/south-koreas-comfort-women-stage-900th-weekly-protest/
China: Do no evil By: Yang Jianli, Foreign Policy, January 13, 2010 Google's announcement on Tuesday that it had detected "highly sophisticated" attacks on the email accounts of Chinese human rights activists clearly illustrates the consequences of a policy toward China based on a long-standing but faulty argument. For 30 years, Western commentators have argued that expanded human and political rights for Chinese citizens will automatically flow from increased engagement with China on economic and security issues, and other areas of mutual interest. But this thesis is not supported by history. http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2010/01/13/censoring_logic?page=0,0
South Korea: Seoul gives in to Beijing and expels Uyghur dissident By: Asia News, January 12, 2010 The South Korean government is complying with Chinese requests at the expense of human rights, South Korean daily Chosun Ilbo warned as it reported the unjustified detention of Dolkun Isa, a German citizen who is also secretary general of the World Uyghur Congress. http://www.speroforum.com/site/article.asp?id=25365&t=South+Korea%3A++China%3A+++Seoul+gives+in+to+Beijing+and+expels+Uyghur+dissident
ASIA: SOUTH ASIA
India can move the needle on Burma By: Kelley Currie, WSJ, January 18, 2010 Burma is back in the news amid reports that the ruling military junta has set its upcoming "elections" for October 2010 and is making serious efforts to secure short-range ballistic missiles. Taken with the lack of results from the Obama administration's attempted engagement with the junta, these developments highlight the need for stepped-up regional activism in favor of democracy in Burma, especially from its democratic neighbors. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703569004575009900765241246.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
OCEANIA
Free Papua Movement appoints new military commander By: Radio New Zealand International, January 19, 2010 The Free Papua Movement, or the OPM, has approved the appointment of a new Supreme Commander of its military wing to replace the late Kelly Kwalik. Jeck Kemong has been appointed head of the West Papuan National Liberation Army, or the TPN, and will also take over the regional command of Nemang Kawi. http://www.rnzi.com/pages/news.php?op=read&id=51468
Fiji cancels pensions of regime critics By: Radio Australia, January 13, 2010 Fiji pensioners who criticise the coup installed interim government will have their pensions stopped. Interim Prime Minister, Commodore Frank Bainimarama made the announcement on Radio Fiji on Wednesday morning. http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/pacbeat/stories/201001/s2791659.htm
Fiji expels 'apolitical' Canberra woman By: Markus Mannheim, Canberra Times, January 13, 2010 A Canberra economist who was expelled from Fiji this week believes the country deported her to retaliate against her husband. Padma Lal, whose husband Professor Brij Lal was expelled two months ago, was placed under guard in a Fiji hotel after she arrived at the airport on Monday night. http://www.canberratimes.com.au/news/local/news/general/fiji-expels-apolitical-canberra-woman/1724476.aspx
Fiji regime bans church conference until 2014 By: AP, January 12, 2010 Fiji's military-led government banned the country's powerful Methodist Church on Wednesday from holding their annual conference until 2014, accusing church ministers of spying on the nation's military for the government ousted in a 2006 coup. http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2010/01/12/world/AP-AS-Fiji-Methodists.html?_r=2
AFRICA
Guinean human rights group hails junta leader's stand on elections By: Africa News, January 19, 2010 The chair of the Guinean Human Rights Organisation (OGDH), Thierno Madjou Sow, has expressed satisfaction at the speech delivered last week-end in Ouagadougou by junta leader, Captain Moussa Dadis Camara, urging his compatriots to support the acting president, Gen. Sekouba Konate. http://www.afriquejet.com/news/africa-news/guinean-human-rights-group-hails-camara%27s-stand-on-elections-2010011942345.html
Human rights trainings in Nigeria By: Vijaya Tripathi, Benenblog, January 18, 2010 As outreach coordinator for Martus, Benetech’s secure software application, I travel to many countries where human rights defenders need tools to gather, organize and back up information about human rights violations. Over the past few years, I have seen human rights groups become much more sophisticated about how they use technology to document human rights abuses. http://benetech.blogspot.com/2010/01/human-rights-trainings-in-nigeria.html
Africa 'bleakest' in freedom: survey By: VOA, January 18, 2010 The US human rights monitoring group Freedom House says Africa ranks as the "bleakest" region in a bleak year in terms of political rights and civil liberties in 2009. But positive developments did take place in Burundi, Malawi, Togo, and Zimbabwe one country often cited as among the world's least free. http://www.defenceweb.co.za/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=6170:africa-bleakest-in-freedom-survey&catid=54:Governance&Itemid=118
Kenya: Muslim youth group denied license to demonstrate By: Galgalo Bocha, Daily Nation, January 18, 2010 Police in Mombasa on Monday turned down an application by a group of youths to hold a peaceful demonstration on Friday over the detention of Jamaican cleric Sheikh Abdallah Ibrahim Al-Faisal. http://allafrica.com/stories/201001181482.html
Angola arrests a third rights activist in Cabinda By: Henrique Almeida, Reuters, January 17, 2010 A leading human rights activist was arrested in Cabinda on Sunday, a lawyer said, as Angolan authorities continue their investigation into an attack there on Togo's soccer team last week. http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE60G1U020100117
Kenya protest turns deadly By: Al Jazeera, January 16, 2010 At least six people have died after Kenyan police fired on protesters demanding the release of a Jamaican Muslim cleric, Sheikh Abdullah al-Faisal, hospital sources have said. The demonstration was blocked by police as it approached the heart of the capital, Nairobi, after Friday prayers at a central mosque. http://english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2010/01/2010115164045465188.html
UN rights chief criticizes proposed Uganda legislation against homosexuality By: Steve Czajkowski, The Jurist, January 15, 2010 UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay on Friday strongly criticized proposed legislation in Uganda which would implement harsh punishments for homosexual behavior, including the death penalty in some circumstances. http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/paperchase/2010/01/un-rights-chief-criticizes-proposed.php
Uganda: Demonstration not bad for democracy By: The Observer, January 6, 2010 Government is subtly perfecting the art of suppressing the right to demonstrate against any form of injustice or disgruntlement. Freedoms of assembly, especially political rallies organised by the opposition, are almost outlawed. http://allafrica.com/stories/201001070815.html
AMERICAS: NORTH AMERICA
US: Bernard Lafayette - Rekindling the spirit of MLK By: Kristin Collins, News Observer, January 19, 2010 Just hours before his death, King told LaFayette that he wanted to take the philosophy of nonviolent resistance beyond the American civil rights movement, to institutionalize it around the world. More than four decades later, LaFayette is director of the Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change, which has taught the tactics of peaceful resistance to militants in Nigeria, prisoners in Colombia and police officers, gang members and students across the United States. http://www.newsobserver.com/news/local_state/story/291617.html
Martin Luther King Jr. built on American tradition of organization and protest By: Johann N. Neem, Seattle Times, Jauary 17, 2010 The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and other Americans who participated in the civil-rights movement had to defend their right to organize and to speak in the face of intense, often violent resistance, writes Johann Neem. A free civil society is critical for citizens in a democracy. http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/opinion/2010807215_guest18neem.html?prmid=op_ed
US: Thousands protest sheriff's immigration efforts By: Jacques Billeadap, Washington Post, January 17, 2010 Thousands of immigrant rights advocates marched in front of a county jail in Phoenix Saturday in a protest that was aimed at Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio's immigration efforts and was marked by a clash between a small group of protesters and police officers. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/17/AR2010011700392.html
US: A new immigrant revolution takes shape By: Jane Guskin, Huffington Post, January 12, 2010 On January 1, five residents of South Florida stopped eating in a protest action. They are demanding that the Obama administration take measures now to put an end to the deportations that are separating families -- at least until Congress can provide more permanent relief by fixing our harsh immigration laws. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jane-guskin/a-new-immigrant-revolutio_b_415731.html
US: Jail for soldier writing rap song to protest his deployment to Iraq By: Dave Lindorff, First Ammendment Coalition, January 10, 2010 In the ironically named Liberty County Jail since December 11 sits Army Specialist and Iraq War veteran Marc Hall, a rap musician who had the audacity to write a song attacking the Pentagon for subjecting him to a so-called stop-loss order after he had finished his Army tour and had returned from a posting in Iraq. http://www.firstamendmentcoalition.org/2010/01/soldiers-rap-song-protesting-deployment-to-iraq-lands-him-in-jail/
AMERICAS: CENTRAL AMERICA/ CARIBBEAN
Honduras: Whither amnesty? By: WW4 Report, January 16, 2010 Honduran authorities have offered insults to Costa Rican president for questioning amnesty planned for military officers who led coup against President Zelaya, as confusion about terms of the amnesty remains. http://www.ww4report.com/node/8212
AMERICAS: SOUTH AMERICA
Peru grants asylum to Venezuela protest organizer By: AP, January 18, 2010 Peru has granted asylum to a Venezuelan activist charged by President Hugo Chavez's government with inciting violence during a protest. Perez led a protest against a new education law that critics said could lead to indoctrination in schools. http://www.silive.com/newsflash/international/index.ssf?/base/international-22/1263853317207000.xml&storylist=international
Ecuador: Amazon tribes sue Chevron in U.S. Federal Court By: EON, January 14, 2010 Representatives of Amazonian indigenous groups in Ecuador went to U.S. federal court in New York today to enjoin Chevron from initiating a closed-door international arbitration against Ecuador’s government designed to eliminate the company’s potential $27 billion liability for contaminating a huge swath of rainforest and devastating the local population. http://eon.businesswire.com/portal/site/eon/permalink/?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20100114006294&newsLang=en
EUROPE
Disenchanted Ukrainians take anger to the polls By: Gabriel Gatehouse, BBC News, January 6, 2010 Ukrainians go to the polls on Sunday in the first presidential election since the Orange Revolution five years ago. Then, the results of a fraudulent poll were overturned by mass street protest. It looked like a victory for freedom and democracy over control from Moscow. But five years on, there is widespread disappointment. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8463299.stm
Ukraine's colorful elections By: Leigh Turner, The Guardian, January 15, 2010 Five years after the "Orange Revolution" deepened and strengthened democracy in Ukraine, 18 presidential candidates are subjecting voters to a barrage of colorful and competing imagery ahead of the two rounds of voting on January 17 and February 7. The variety is a sign both of the openness of the campaign and of its importance. http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/jan/15/ukraine-elections-russia-eu
Russian Deputy's speaking rights suspended for 'unethical' inquiry By: RFE, January 15, 2010 The Russian Duma has stripped a Communist Party deputy of his speaking rights for a month due to an "unethical" financial inquiry. The Duma's 308 deputies of the ruling United Russia faction -- from a total of 450 deputies -- voted on January 13 to suspend Nikolai Ryabov's speaking privileges. http://www.rferl.org/content/Russian_Deputys_Speaking_Rights_Suspended_For_Unethical_Inquiry_/1930102.html
Russia MPs back human rights reform By: BBC News, January 15, 2010 Russia's lower house of parliament has backed a long-delayed reform to the European Court of Human Rights. Before Friday's vote Russia was the only one of the Council of Europe's 47 member states that had not ratified Protocol 14. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8460934.stm
Russia called ‘repressive’ By: Reuters, January 13, 2010 Russia and most countries in the former Soviet Union “continued to pursue a repressive course” in 2009, according to the latest annual survey of human rights and civil liberties published by Freedom House. The organization’s executive director, Jennifer Windsor, lambasted the human rights record of Russia in the same breath as that of China and Iran, all examples of areas that witnessed an “erosion of some of the most fundamental freedoms” in the past year. http://www.themoscowtimes.com/news/article/russia-called-repressive/397268.html
MIDDLE EAST/ NORTH AFRICA
Palestinian activists urge Hamas to probe own Gaza war crimes By: Amira Hass and Tomer Zarchin, Haaretz, Januaury 18, 2010 Eleven Palestinian human rights organizations have called on the Palestinian Authority and the Hamas government in Gaza to endorse the Goldstone report by investigating Palestinian violations of international law allegedly committed during operation Cast Lead. http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1143330.html
Israel jails Palestinian nonviolent activists By: Mel Frykberg, IPS, January 18, 2010 Israel has long argued that Palestinians should pursue their political objectives in a non-violent way. However, several prominent Palestinian peace activists have recently been arrested and jailed for doing just that. Abdallah Abu Rahme, 39, the coordinator of the Bi’lin Popular Committee, which has challenged Israel’s illegal expropriation of Palestinian land both in an Israeli court and a Canadian one, has been charged with "illegal arms possession, stone throwing and incitement." http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=50012
Iran rejects protest resignation of consul in Oslo By: AFP, January 18, 2010 Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki on Monday confirmed Iran's consul general in Oslo has resigned but said Tehran did not accept his resignation and still considers him a ministry employee. http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hvQzqzbDBnGpX0ccYxXZRUXGNXEQ
The struggle for genuine democracy in Iran By: Khodadad Kaviani, Seattle Times, January 18, 2010 The slogan "Where is my vote?" is really about building an Iranian democracy based on just laws, writes guest columnist Khodadad Kaviani. Democracies around the world can support this civil-rights movement by withholding diplomatic recognition from the Ahmadinejad government. http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/opinion/2010807252_guest19kaviani.html
Iran threatened by female activists By: Michael Theodoulou, The National, January 17, 2010 Iranian security forces recently beat and arrested some 30 “mourning mothers” holding a peaceful weekly vigil in a Tehran park to demand news of their sons and daughters who had been killed, disappeared or detained in the unrest following June’s disputed presidential election. http://www.thenational.ae/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100118/FOREIGN/701179822/1002
With Iran on the brink, a young woman asks where the western media is By: Sahar Irani, Big Journalism, January 16, 2010 I cannot use my real name. If the freedom of expressive condemnation practiced in this article were associated with my name I would never be permitted to return home. This is an everyday reality for an Iranian-American. I live in America with my family and enjoy all the freedoms and privileges contained within the American dream. These are the freedoms that my fellow Iranians are fighting for. I use these rights to voice my thoughts and to condemn those who will not acknowledge our struggle. http://bigjournalism.com/sirani/2010/01/16/with-iran-on-the-brink-a-young-woman-asks-where-is-the-western-media/
Iran to try 16 over protests on Ashura By: Washington TV, January 15, 2010 Iran will soon put on trial 16 people arrested in connection with anti-government protests on the Shiite holy day of Ashura last month. The report, which did not identify the detainees who are to be put on trial, said one would face the charge of “moharebeh”, or waging war against God, which carries the death sentence. http://televisionwashington.com/floater_article1.aspx?lang=en&t=1&id=17230
Report: Iran to screen protest e-mails By: CNN, January 15, 2010 Iranian authorities will observe and control text messages and e-mails that encourage protesters, an Iranian semi-official news agency reported Friday. Messages that encourage demonstrations will be screened, and organizers of illegal protests will face heavy penalties, the Iranian Labor News Agency reported, citing Tehran Police Chief Ahmadi Mogadham. http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/meast/01/15/iran.email.screening/index.html?eref=edition&utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
Iran police chief says SMS, e-mails under control By: Washington TV, January 15, 2010 Iran’s police chief warned protesters on Friday not to use text messages and e-mails to organize anti-government rallies, saying those who do so will be punished. Esmail Ahmadi-Moqaddam, commander of the Law Enforcement Force, said that those who called on the population to participate in “illegal” demonstrations would not get any concessions by the security forces. http://televisionwashington.com/floater_article1.aspx?lang=en&t=1&id=17225
Prominent Egyptian bloggers and activists arrested By: Andrew Albertson, Project on Middle East Democracy, January 15, 2010 At least twenty leading bloggers and democracy activists were detained by Egyptian authorities today and reportedly charged with “illegal assembling and disorderly conduct/causing unrest.” The group includes Bassem Samir of the Egyptian Democratic Academy, who is scheduled to visit Washington from January 17-23 as one of six representatives of conferences held in Jordan, Lebanon, and Egypt by the Project on Middle East Democracy (POMED), the U.S. Institute of Peace, and Georgetown University’s Center for Democracy and Civil Society. http://pomed.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/pomed-press-release-jan-15-2010.pdf
Building a different Middle East By: Joel Beinin, The Nation, January 15, 2010 Like every other woman in her village Umm Hasan wears a headscarf. Her husband and other male relatives are not on the scene. But this is not an obstacle to her animated interactions with the sixteen Israelis and foreigners she has never previously met but welcomes into her home. Among the visitors are a German and a Serb who are making a film about Palestinian hip-hop. http://www.thenation.com/doc/20100201/beinin
Jordan: Web site law with possible prison sentence for offending journalists By: Meedan, January 14, 2010 Websites in Jordan are to be subjected to a law that if broken stipulates penalties for journalists ranging between fines to imprisonment. http://beta.meedan.net/index.php?page=events&post_id=289474
Iran: regime turns against dissident clerics By: Michael Allen, Democratic Digest, January 13, 2010 Further evidence of the Islamic Republic’s intensifying repression of Green movement activists comes with the arrest by four Ministry of Intelligence agents of Ayatollah Mohammad Taqi Khalaji, father of Washington Institute Iran scholar Mehdi Khalaji, at his home in Qom. http://www.demdigest.net/blog/islampolitics/iran-regime-turns-against-dissident-clerics.html
Czech activist in Palestine deported after raid By: Christian Falvey, Radio Praha, January 12, 2010 At 3 o’clock in the morning on Monday Israeli immigration police and soldiers stormed the apartment of a Czech NGO worker in the West Bank city of Ramallah and arrested her. According to the Israeli authorities, her crime was having overstayed her tourist visa and she was promptly deported. http://www.radio.cz/en/article/123974
Frightening night raid targets nviolent Palestinian protest By: Philip Weiss, Mondoweiss, January 12, 2010 Incredible footage by Haitham Al Khatib of Israeli soldiers coming into the Palestinian village of Bilin at 3 in the morning last night to arrest Yaseen Mohammad Yaseen, described as a 21-year-old participant in the Bilin protests. Watch the video http://mondoweiss.net/2010/01/frightening-night-raid-targets-nonviolent-palestinian-protest.html
Iran's opposition spreads to heartland By: Borzou Daragahi, LA times, January 10, 2010 Reporting from Beirut — Mohammad knew he had to be careful in approaching his old classmate Hamed, the one from the conservative Iranian family. They come from a small city, after all, and word gets around. http://articles.latimes.com/2010/jan/10/world/la-fg-iran-heartland10-2010jan10
ARTICLES OF INTEREST
Guide to nonviolence in practice By: Craig Zelizer, Peace and Collaborative Development Network, January 17, 2010 One of the key questions around the globe today, is what is the role or the possible impact of non-violence and non-violent action in helping to end violent conflict and build peace? In many of complex and challenging conflicts in the world, where civilians are increasingly the targets and victims of violence, does non-violence have a positive role to play? http://www.internationalpeaceandconflict.org/profiles/blog/show?id=780588%3ABlogPost%3A137583&commentId=780588%3AComment%3A213279&xg_source=activity
10 Actions for Peace in 2010 By: Craig Zelizer, Peace and Collaborative Development Network, January 15, 2010 Craig Zelizer has put together a list of 10 possible recommendations to help make the world more peaceful and encourage others to contribute their own lists. This list has been revised from earlier postings. http://internationalpeaceandconflict.ning.com/profiles/blogs/10-actions-for-peace-in-2010
BOOK & FILM REVIEWS
Cyberconflict and Global Politics: New media, war, digital activism By: Patrick Philippe Meier, IRevolution, January 16, 2010 Athina Karatzogianni has just edited another informative book, this one on “Cyberconflict and Global Politics.” Patrick Meier blog-reviewed her previous book on “The Politics of Cyberconflict” after meeting Athina at Politics 2.0 back in 2008. This blog posts consists of book notes for Patrick Meier's dissertation research. http://irevolution.wordpress.com/2010/01/16/cyberconflict-global-politics/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email
Despite odds, controversial Tibet tale told By: Bruce Fessier, The Desert Sun, January 12, 2010 “The Sun Behind the Clouds: Tibet's Struggle For Freedom” is the film China didn't want us to see. But it's more than a look at the Dalai Lama's trials and tribulations, as its synopses says. It really examines the concepts of Tibetan independence, for which 200 Tibetans were killed in protests against China in 2008, and “meaningful autonomy” under China http://www.mydesert.com/article/20100112/EVENTS01/1110333/1050/lifestyles01/Despite+odds++controversial+Tibet+tale+told
OPM resist in West Papua highlands By: BBC News, December 17, 2009 This film shows, the extremely committed West Papuans, in their desperately brave efforts, in resisting the brutal & illegal Indonesian occupation of their land. Watch the video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLjmcoFC9mE&feature=player_embedded
Information of the West Papua movement By: Auspete, YouTube, October 9, 2007 This is part 1 of an excellent and rare TV documentary about West Papua. A year on from its original UK screening it still has not been broadcast in any other country. Watch the video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHZ_fXTva9I&feature=player_embedded
IN PAST NEWS
Turkey: Workers show up late to work in support of Tekel demonstration By: Today's Zaman, December 26, 2009 Workers belonging to the Confederation of Turkish Labor Unions (Türk-Is) showed up to work one hour late on Friday in solidarity with the employees of Tekel, Turkey's alcohol and tobacco monopoly, who had been laid off. http://www.todayszaman.com/tz-web/news-196667-105-workers-show-up-late-to-work-in-support-of-tekel-demonstration.html
Philippines: Aging and beaten, guerrillas explore new battlefronts By: Jocelyn Uy, Philippine Daily Inquirer, December 26, 2009 A week before the 41st founding anniversary of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP), government troops handed over Romblon to local authorities, saying the Maoist revolution in the island province is over. http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/inquirerheadlines/nation/view/20091226-243989/Aging-and-beaten-guerrillas-explore-new-battlefronts
Israel: 500 demonstrators protest house evictions and ethnic cleansing in Sheikh Jarrah By: International Solidarity Movement, December 25, 2009 Some 500 demonstrators gathered at the top of the street that Jewish settlers are taking over in Sheikh Jarakh in East Jerusalem. The demonstrators, who came part by bus from Tel Aviv, part in cars from the Bil’in and Ma’asara demonstrations and part in an organized march from West Jerusalem, sang songs and beat their drums in solidarity with the Palestinians kicked out of their homes by the settlers. http://palsolidarity.org/2009/12/9983