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UK: Protesters blockade nuclear power plant
By: Evening Star, February 22, 2010
Five anti-nuclear power protesters blocked the entrance to Sizewell power station today. Representatives from the People Power not Nuclear Power Coalition wearing arm tubes locked themselves on to concrete just under the barrier at the main entrance around 6.40am.
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Turkey: Civil resistance against hydroelectric plants grows
By: Today's Zaman, February 22, 2010
Collective action taken against the building of hydroelectric plants across various provinces of Turkey has been growing, as residents of different areas under environmental and ecological threat by the construction of hydroelectric plants have increasingly started coming together in fighting powerful companies that have the government's blessing to build dams.
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Belarus: Beaten by militia, dissident gets six months in jail
By: Charter 97, February 19, 2010
A new political prisoner appeared in Belarus. The oppositionist, who hung out a national flag, has been sentenced to six months in jail. The incident related to the case took place on September 3, 2009. Aleh Surhan and his younger brother Taras were detained at a bus stop near Vitsebsk Medical University, where a white-red-white flag was hung out.
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Militia can't find kidnappers of "European Belarus" activist Afnahel
By: Charter 97, February 19, 2010
The European Belarus activists were said investigation of a criminal case on his abduction in December 2009 was suspended. The notice was signed by senior interrogating officer of the preliminary investigation office of the Pershamaiski district militia department Slizh. The document says the criminal case was suspended because a person, who committed the crime, hadn't been identified.
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Iran: Opposition leader Karroubi challenges authorities to a duel of rallies
By: LA Times, February 22, 2010
In his first major comments since the opposition failed to gather large numbers of supporters for protests coinciding with the Feb. 11 anniversary of Iran's Islamic revolution, former presidential candidate Mehdi Karroubi on Monday issued a bold challenge to the hard-line rulers of the Islamic Republic: Give the opposition permission to hold its own rally, and then let people see who's got more supporters.
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Suppressed Azeri protest indicates another source of discontent in Iran
By: Abbas Djavadi, RFE, February 22, 2010
After Tehran's massive state show of power on the anniversary of the Islamic revolution and the harsh crackdown on all protests since the disputed presidential election in June, it would require extraordinary courage to stage even a small demonstration in Iran. But a week ago, ethnic Azeri activists in Iran issued statements both in print and on the Internet calling for a demonstration on February 21, the UN's International Mother Language Day.
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Opposition grows against Egypt-Gaza barrier
By: Adam Morrow and Khaled al-Omrani, IPS, February 22, 2010
Activists and opposition groups are stepping up pressure on the Egyptian government to stop constructing a barrier along the border with the Gaza Strip. Officials say the barrier will prevent cross-border smuggling, but critics say it will seal the fate of the people on the Gaza Strip.
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Riots over Israeli claim to West Bank heritage sites
By: BBC News, February 22, 2010
Israeli soldiers have clashed with protesters in the West Bank town of Hebron after two disputed shrines were listed as Israeli heritage sites. Palestinian protesters threw bottles and stones at soldiers who responded with tear gas and stun grenades.
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Palestine: A duty to protest
By: Haaretz, February 22, 2010
Some 1,000 people took part in last Friday's demonstration against the separation fence in the village of Bil'in west of Ramallah, marking the fifth anniversary of weekly protests at the site.
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Palestine: Demonstration in Bil'in marks five years of protests
By: Anshel Pfeffer, Haaretz, February 21, 2010
On the fifth anniversary of the start of demonstrations against the separation fence, nearly 1,000 protesters gathered on Friday in Bil'in, dwarfing the weekly protests that usually draw 100-200 demonstrators. Rallying demonstrators from the radical left and a large portion of the local village population, the mass protest took on a near festive character, with the participation of Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Salam Fayyad.
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Syria bans activists from leaving
By: Rachelle Kliger, The Media Line, February 21, 2010
An increasing number of Syrian rights activists and dissidents are being barred from leaving the country. Abdel Razzaq Eid was first told he could not leave Syria after returning from a conference in Paris five years ago. He was interrogated by Syria's military security for three days and then informed he would only be allowed to travel with special permission from the security establishment.
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Sunni party vows to boycott Iraqi elections
By: Liz Sly, LA Times, February 21, 2010
A leading Sunni party announced Saturday that it will boycott Iraq's upcoming elections because its leader was barred from participating, casting into doubt the inclusiveness of a vote that the U.S. military hopes will finally stabilize the country enough for its troops to go home.
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Iran: Eyewitness provides details of December 30 attack on Mashad University
By: International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, February 21, 2010
A student activist and eye witness has provided details to International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran about the paramilitary forces' attack on Mashad Azad Univesity students on December 30, 2009. He talks about arrests and sentences which have followed the incident. He says the gathering was a memorial gathering to pay respect to Ashura.
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Egypt: Appeal court cancels sentence against blogger
By: Noha Atef, Global Voices, February 20, 2010
Egyptian appeal court has acquitted blogger Wael Abbas after being sentenced to six months by a lower court. The sentence came last November after an altercation on April 2009 between Abbas and his neighbor and Ahmed Maher Aglan and his police officer brother Ashraf Aglan, for accessing the internet. The two brothers raided Abbas's houses, assaulted him verbally and physically ten sued him for damaging an internet cable.
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Why Iran's green movement objects to president's economic style
By: Charles Recknagel, RFE, February 19, 2010
The chants of "death to the dictator" have been temporarily stilled since Iran's Green Movement was muscled off the streets during the 31st anniversary celebrations of the Islamic Revolution on February 11. But political slogans and charges of stolen presidential elections are just part of the explosive mix that keeps the Green Movement alive.
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Iran contemptuous of human rights: Amnesty International
By: UPI, February 17, 2010
Iran demonstrates contempt for human rights by rejecting U.N. recommendations to improve human rights in the country, Amnesty International said Wednesday. Among the recommendations rejected by Iran were ones calling for the end of executions of juvenile offenders, upholding fair-trial guarantees, investigating torture allegations and releasing people held for exercising their human rights peaceably, Amnesty International said Wednesday in a release.
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No freedom for people of Turkmenistan
By: Daniel Kalder, The Australian, February 22, 2010
Tearing down the statue of a megalomaniac dictator is usually a joy reserved for the citizens of a newly liberated country. But when, last month, President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov of Turkmenistan ordered the removal of his predecessor Saparmurat Niyazov's Neutrality Arch, he was probably the only Turkman with any illusions of freedom.
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Kyrgyzstan: Activists brave danger in Bishkek
By: Robin Forestier-Walker, Al Jazeera, February 22, 2010
In an over-heated office space near the centre of Bishkek, the capital of Kyrgyzstan, three young women languish on a worn sofa, as they complete their first day on hunger strike. Their revolutionary headbands bear the slogan: "Free political prisoners and end the Bakiyev clan tyranny."
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Kazakhstan: Jailed rights activist takes dig at OSCE
By: EurasiaNet, February 19, 2010
Yevgeny Zhovtis, a leading human rights activist in Kazakhstan who is currently serving a jail sentence for vehicular manslaughter, thinks the world's leading democracies are turning a blind eye to authoritarianism. In a statement presented February 19 at a gathering of rights activists in Washington, Zhovtis took a swipe at the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, asserting that the world is experiencing "a crisis of the very concept of human rights."
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Government increases pressure on Uzbek journalists
By: CPJ, February 17, 2010
An excerpt from CPJ's letter to the President of Uzbekistan reads as follows: "The Committee to Protect Journalists is deeply disturbed by your government's intensified pressure on independent journalists in Uzbekistan. Since the killings in Andijan in 2005, information out of Uzbekistan has become extremely limited. Many journalists have had to flee the country and others continue to face official harassment for their reporting. Seven journalists-whose cases are outlined below-are currently behind bars in retaliation for their work."
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Turkmenistan: Conscientious objector sentenced to two years in prison
By: War Resisters' International, February 10, 2010
War Resisters' International learned in February that Turkmen conscientious objector Navruz Nasyrlaev has been sentenced to two years imprisonment for refusal to serve on 7 December 2009.
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Azerbaijan: Attacks on the press 2009
By: CPJ, February 2010
Using imprisonment as a crude form of censorship, the authoritarian government of President Ilham Aliyev remained one of the region's worst jailers of journalists. Authorities allowed one editor to die in state custody after failing to provide adequate medical care and ignoring domestic and international pleas for treatment.
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India: Local congress workers to stage demonstration
By: Times of India, February 21, 2010
In response to the call of UP Congress Committee, the local Congressmen have geared up their preparations to stage a massive demonstration at the district headquarters on February 24 in protest against the alleged undemocratic attitude of Mayawati government.
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Nepal's media brave threats in 'interesting times'
By: Kunda Dixit, CPJ, February 19, 2010
The times, they're getting a bit too interesting in Nepal. Journalists who are supposed to cover the news are becoming the news themselves. The latest threats have been directed at Nepal's largest media company, the Kantipur group, for reporting on police investigations into the murder of media tycoon Jamim Shah on February 8.
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Burma plans crackdown on monks as election nears
By: Andrew Buncombe, The Independent, February 22, 2010
The military authorities in Burma are planning a crackdown on the country's Buddhist monks to "discipline" them ahead of forthcoming elections. State media reported over the weekend that the senior abbot who heads a government-controlled committee of senior monks is to call a meeting to outline new regulations.
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Philippines: People Power urged for unity
By: Genalyn Kabiling, Manila Bulletin, February 22, 2010
As the nation commemorates the 24th anniversary of the first EDSA people power revolt this week, Deputy Presidential Spokesman Gary Olivar urged people to remember EDSA "in substance and not in form," in an apparent reminder there was no need for similar uprising in dealing with challenges besetting the country.
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Philippines: How to live the way of People Power
By: Eugenia Duran-Apostol, Philippine Daily Inquirer, February 22, 2010
After 24 Years, People Power should already be an integral part of our daily lives. Unfortunately, it is not. Why is this so? To answer this question, we need to be clear about what People Power really is.
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Philippines: A complete reversal of EDSA
By: Health Alliance for Democracy, February 22, 2010
Today, as the nation commemorates the historic EDSA People Power I uprising, the continuing illegal detention and torture of 43 health workers by the Philippine military stands as a manifest and complete reversal of everything that EDSA I stood for.
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Philippines: Cory's thoughts on People Power
By: Corazon C. Aquino, The Philippine Star, February 22, 2010
On Feb. 21, 1986, I was informed by Lt. Bodet Honrado that there were rumors of a coup that week-end. He tried to discourage me from flying to Cebu, where I was scheduled to address a rally in connection with my campaign to boycott all products owned by Marcos and Marcos cronies.
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Philippines: True meaning of "People Power" Revolution
By: Philippine Daily Inquirer, February 21, 2010
This week, we commemorate the 24th anniversary of People Power. The Edsa revolution ousted a military-backed dictatorship through the world's first peaceful citizens' uprising; other, generally non-violent popular revolts followed in its wake. The first emergence of People Power also put Philippine history back on the right path; it fulfilled Rizal's prophecy about a moral nation finally creating the government it deserved.
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Burma's political prosecution of dissidents undermines legitimacy of planned elections
By: Min Myat Kyaw, The Jurist, February 21, 2010
The sentencing of four supporters of democracy party leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi to two years' imprisonment last week is the latest instance of how courts in Burma (Myanmar) operate under the military regime there to defeat civil and political rights, without regard to the terms of the very laws that they purport to uphold.
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Hong Huang: Censorship and political dystopian fiction as marketing concepts
By: Xiao Qiang, China Digital Times, February 21, 2010
Online lingo about government censorship and political dystopian fiction have become marketing concepts for a mainstream fashion magazine in China. Hong Huang, the chief-editor of World Metropolitan iLook magazine, just announced the cover of the February issue of the magazine on her Sina blog, and the three huge crabs pictured on the cover are unmistakably symbolizing "River Crabs", the code name for censorship which was invented by Chinese netizens but is now trendy lingo for urban young people in China.
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Dalai Lama: Chinese 'censorship' at root of Tibet problem
By: RFE, February 21, 2010
The Dalai Lama, the exiled Buddhist spiritual leader of Tibet, says "censorship" in China is the source of Tibet's problems with China's Communist rulers.
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Tibetans protest detentions
By: RFA, February 19, 2010
Monks and nuns in Tibet protest over detainees unaccounted for after nearly two years. Hundreds of Tibetans staged a rare public protest in the southwestern Chinese province of Sichuan during the lunar new year holiday, known as Losar, according to sources in the region.
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North Korea: Crackdown on mobile phones
By: RFA, February 19, 2010
Life just got even tougher for North Koreans. North Korea has launched a crackdown on would-be defectors and on Chinese mobile phones used by its own people along the northern border with China, according to several North Korean sources.
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Missing Chinese rights lawyer 'located'
By: Peter Simpson, VOA News, February 16, 2010
A Chinese human rights lawyer who disappeared more than a year ago has been located by the government in the country's far western Xinjiang region.  But mystery surrounds the well-being of Gao Zhisheng.
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Kenya: Democracy advocates seek international action to avert crisis
By: Michael Allen, Democracy Digest, February 22, 2010
Kenya's two rival leaders have failed to resolve an impasse that is threatening to deteriorate into violent confrontation in a reprise of the post-electoral violence in 2007 which reportedly claimed over 300 lives and left over 250,000 displaced. Local reformers and democracy advocates have called for international intervention to resolve the crisis.
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Nigeria Bush-Blair protest arrests condemned
By: BBC News, February 22, 2010
A Nigerian rights campaigner has criticised the police for arresting him and his colleagues during a protest over the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Shehu Sani and 80 others held a peaceful rally to coincide with a visit to Abuja by former leaders of the US and UK - George W Bush and Tony Blair.
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Nigeria: Student killed, three others injured in protest
By: Jaafar Jaafar, All Africa, February 22, 2010
A student of the School of Environmental Studies Gwarzo who was among those that besieged the Gwarzo Police Division in Gwarzo Local Government Area of Kano State was killed at the weekend.
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Niger junta gives assurances on democracy plans
By: Adam Nossiter, NY Times, February 21, 2010
The military junta that deposed Niger's longtime leader last week sought to assure visiting diplomatic delegations on Sunday that it would soon restore democracy, as more signs emerged that the violent overthrow had been widely welcomed in this impoverished West African desert nation.
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Protesters call for Ivory Coast president resignation
By: Press TV, February 20, 2010
Thousands of protesters in Ivory Coast call for the resignation of President Laurent Gbagbo as clashes with security forces leave an undisclosed number of people dead and wounded.
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Coup in Niger: Bloggers sigh in relief at the ousting of President Tandja
By: Elia Varela Serra, Global Voices, February 20, 2010
On Thursday, February 18th a coup took place in Niger in which President Mamadou Tandja was captured after a gun battle in the capital, Niamey, led by Col. Abdoulaye Adamou Harouna. In a quite unpoplar move, a few months ago Tandja illegally changed the constitution to allow him a third term in what was generally considered a mass fraud referendum.
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Early returns on Uganda's 2011 election
By: Lauren Gelfand, WPR, February 19, 2010
The outcome of Uganda's 2011 presidential election is a foregone conclusion, and no one -- whether Uganda's electoral commission, its legions of international donors, or the investors in its newly discovered oil fields -- is likely to do anything about it.
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Zimbabwe: A fighter for media freedom dies
By: Violet Gonda, SW Radio Africa, February 19, 2010
A man who was instrumental in ensuring that the world knew what was happening in Zimbabwe, died earlier this week. This has reminded people of the brave and committed Zimbabweans who work without recognition to try to ensure freedom and democracy in Zimbabwe.
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Thousands protest as Kenya's political crisis deepens
By: AFP, February 18, 2010
Kenyans yesterday marched to vent their anger at a coalition government slowly falling apart over graft allegations and its inability to further key reforms pledged two years ago. Thousands of people displaced by the violence that broke out following the disputed December 2007 elections began marching from the Rift Valley to Nairobi on Tuesday but their 200km procession was aborted.
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Equatorial Guinea: The good, the bad and the ugly
By: Pambazuka News, February 11, 2010
Equatorial Guinea's President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo may be welcome among the world's most powerful people, who work for his favour behind the scenes in return for lucrative trade deals, but he is less favourably viewed by human rights defenders, development agencies and the citizens of his country. Agustín Velloso looks at Obiang's controversial effort to obtain wider global respect and appreciation through the creation of an international prize in partnership with UNESCO.
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US:  Human rights conference brings advocates together
By: Gary Feuerberg, Epoch Times, February 21, 2010
The rights of individuals to associate with whom they wish and to express their opinions in media, on the Internet, and at meetings are under assault in many countries in the world, according to human rights organizations. They say repressive governments are devising an array of legal and extrajudicial mechanisms as well as using violence to silence their critics.
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US: Activist panel urges civil disobedience
By: Steve Luhm, The Salt Lake Tribune, February 21, 2010
Four of Utah's high-profile political activists gathered for a panel discussion Sunday night at the Salt Lake Acting Company. It was no tea party. Former Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson, Tim DeChristopher, local attorney Rebecca Hall and former Army journalist Marshall Thompson agreed that nonviolent civil disobedience is a necessary obligation of all citizens.
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US: Activists aim to punch holes in online shields of authoritarian regimes
By: John Boudreau, Mercury News, February 15, 2010
It is the Internet version of David vs. Goliath - computer savvy activists who launch guerrilla tech attacks to punch holes in online shields erected by governments to control what their citizens do online. One of the newest cyber-warriors is Austin Heap, a 25-year-old San Francisco software developer who helped launch Haystack, a program to help Iranians wiggle past government filters as tensions between authorities and the opposition movement surge.
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Canada: Resistance casts pall over 2010 Olympic festivities
By: IPS, February 15, 2010
The 2010 Winter Olympics opened with the largest protest convergence in the history of the Games. Approximately 3,000 protesters of diverse backgrounds converged on Vancouver Friday afternoon, assembling for a peaceful yet boisterous rally and march through the downtown streets to the steps of BC Place, the site of the Games' opening ceremonies.
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US: Obama hosts gala for protest songs
By: AP, February 10, 2010
Crediting civil rights-era protest songs and their spiritual predecessors for his election, President Barack Obama on Tuesday sat in the East Room of his White House and listened to an all-star lineup of performers pay tribute to the music that he said fueled freedom marches and civil disobedience.
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Cuban prisoner of conscience prompts concern
By: Michael Allen, Democracy Digest, February 22, 2010
Concern is growing over the deteriorating condition of Cuban prisoner of conscience Orlando Zapata Tamayo. Recognized as a prisoner of conscience by Amnesty International, Tamayo started his hunger strike on December 3, 2009 to protest against his mistreatment in prison, including frequent beatings and being held in insanitary conditions. After 75 days on hunger strike, Tamayo has been transferred to a prison hospital in Havana due to his "grave condition," a dissident group reports.
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Cuban dissident prisoners ask Lula to ask Castro for their release
By: Latin American Herald Tribune, February 22, 2010
Fifty Cuban dissidents, most of them in prison, on Sunday asked Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva to intercede for their release with Cuban President Raul Castro when the two leaders meet on Wednesday, a meeting at which Castro's older brother and predecessor Fidel is scheduled to be present.
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Cuban youth arrested for wearing bracelets
By: Canal Blog, February 21, 2010
The latest fad among Cuban youth is a simple white rubber bracelet emblazoned with the word "Return to Tiffany Round tag drop earrings" -- change -- and it landed up to 60 young people behind bars this week, according to human-rights activists on the island.
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Cuba blasts US leaders for meeting with dissidents
By: AP, February 20, 2010
Cuba scolded a top U.S. delegation for meeting with political opposition leaders following high-level immigration discussions, saying Saturday that sitting down with dissidents proves Washington is out to topple its communist government.
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Indigenous peoples struggle to survive in Colombia
By: Common Dreams, February 22, 2010
Amnesty International today denounced an increase in attacks against indigenous peoples across Colombia during 2009, violence that is leaving many communities struggling for survival.
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Chavez accuses opponents of sabotaging Venezuela's power grid
By: Christopher Toothaker, AP, February 21, 2010
President Hugo Chavez accused his adversaries on Sunday of sabotaging Venezuela's electricity grid as part of a broader plan aimed at bringing about the system's collapse - and his downfall. Chavez said authorities must be "on the alert" and apprehend anyone who cuts electricity cables connected to the grid.
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Paraguay: International letter-writing campaign for uncontacted Indians
By: Survival International, February 18, 2010
A global letter-writing campaign to protect the lives of uncontacted Indians in Paraguay has been launched by Survival. Paraguay is home to the only uncontacted Indians outside the Amazon basin, but their lands are being rapidly destroyed for beef production. Contacted members of the tribe, known as the Ayoreo-Totobiegosode, have been trying to claim legal title to a small part of their ancestral territory since 1993, but most of it is still in private hands.
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Building an authentic journalism movement
By: Kara Newhouse, Narco News Bulletin, February 21, 2010
Rev. James Lawson, who coordinated lunch counter sit-ins to desegregate Nashville in the 1960s, shared his lessons in movement-building with the School of Authentic Journalism during a question-and-answer session February 11 in Mérida, Yucatan. His discussion of practical skills training and strategic networking in the civil rights movement reflected the current work of the School, which has also been shaped by lessons from the Highlander Center in Tennessee.
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The digital dictatorship
By: Evgeny Morozov, WSJ, February 20, 2010
It's fashionable to hold up the Internet as the road to democracy and liberty in countries like Iran, but it can also be a very effective tool for quashing freedom. Evgeny Morozov on the myth of the techno-utopia.
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Revealed: What your government should be doing to protect civil society
By: CIVICUS, February 9, 2010
For the first time ever, CIVICUS has brought together all the commitments made by national governments to protect the rights of citizens and organizations to exist and take an active part in shaping policies and practices of governments and institutions of their country. The Compendium of International Legal Instruments and Other Intergovernmental Commitments Concerning Core Civil Society Rights, released today, is a dynamic tool to help protect the rights of civil society.
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Ten tactics
By: Information Activism, February 2010
What is 10 Tactics? 10 tactics provides original and artful ways for rights advocates to capture attention and communicate a cause. It includes a 50-minute film documenting inspiring info-activism stories from around the world and a set of cards; with tools tips and advice, for you to work through as you plan your own info-activism. A new chapter of the film and a card will be released on this website every week.
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The People Speak
By: Howard Zinn Organization, February 22, 2010
This year, a documentary based on Howard Zinn's groundbreaking books A People's History of the United States and Voices of a People's History of the United States, featuring music by Eddie Vedder and performances by Viggo Mortensen, Sandra Oh, Sean Penn, Rosario Dawson, Don Cheadle, John Legend, and many other great performers, will air in TV and be released on a special DVD. The documentary, The People Speak, shows the rich history of dissent in our history, and explores why it is so relevant and urgent today.
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India: Story of a sacred mountain
By: Survival International, February 20, 2010
Mine, narrated by Joanna Lumley, tells the story of the remote Dongria Kondh tribe's struggle to protect Niyamgiri, the mountain they worship as a God. London-based mining company Vedanta Resources plans a vast open-pit bauxite mine in India's Niyamgiri hills, and the Dongria Kondh know that means the destruction of their forests, their way of life, and their mountain God.
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West Papua: Pride of warriors
By: Jono van Hest, Al Jazeera, February 16, 2010
An exclusive look at the tribal independence struggle within West Papua. With strictly limited international media access to West Papua, Australian filmmaker Jono van Hest decided that he wanted to help West Papuans tell their own stories. The four remarkable stories that ensued provide unparalleled access and a strikingly personal insight into the West Papuan resistance filmed by the West Papuans themselves.
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"Reporter", a new HBO documentary
By: Laura Heaton, Enough Project, February 17, 2010
"He is prepared to do the thing that is the hardest for many people in writing. He is prepared to be predictable; he's prepared to be repetitive. When we look back at the Holocaust, we don't say to ourselves, 'Oh, gosh, can you believe so-and-so wrote 20 redundant columns on the extermination of Europe's Jews?' If it's happening every day, it deserves to be written about every day." So said Samantha Power, author of the Pulitzer Prize winning book A Problem From Hell: America in the Age of Genocide, in an interview for the new HBO documentary "Reporter." The film, which will premiere tomorrow evening on HBO, shadows New York Times columnist  Nick Kristof on assignments around the world, focusing on his work in eastern Congo.
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