Apr 05 2011
There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest. ~ Elie Wiesel [tube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNQiL-TPobM[/tube] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNQiL-TPobM [tube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbWRfBZY-ng[/tube] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbWRfBZY-ng
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Apr 03 2011
Amnesty International posters – in pictures The Observer, Sunday 3 April 2011 Amnesty has produced powerful posters over the past 50 years. Here are some of the best… La Colombe et le Prisonnier, 1959 A poster with an image donated to Amnesty by Pablo Picasso Prisoner of Conscience, 1969 (Netherlands) Designed by Joop Lieverst, a …
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Apr 03 2011
Voices of protest that deserve to be listened to, not sneered at By Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, Monday, 28 March 2011 … My husband, daughter and I should have joined fellow-citizens who marched on Saturday against the cuts demanded by fundamentalist, doctrinaire Tories and their helpful little Lib Dem friends. But I had earlier agreed to speak …
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Apr 03 2011
The shady men backed by the West to displace Gaddafi By Patrick Cogburn, Sunday, 3 April 2011 … In the restaurant of the Amal Africa hotel in Ajdabiya south of Benghazi, waiters have started to ask journalists to pay their bills before they eat. This urgency on the part of the hotel management reflects their …
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Apr 03 2011
The Collapse of Globalization By Chris Hedges, Mar 27, 2011 … The uprisings in the Middle East, the unrest that is tearing apart nations such as the Ivory Coast, the bubbling discontent in Greece, Ireland and Britain and the labor disputes in states such as Wisconsin and Ohio presage the collapse of globalization. They presage a world …
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Apr 02 2011
Five myths about Muslims in America By Feisal Abdul Rauf, Friday, April 1, 3:28 PM … I founded the multi-faith Cordoba Initiative to fight the misunderstandings that broaden the divide between Islam and the West — each perceived as harmful by the other. Millions of American Muslims, who see no contradiction between being American and being Muslim, …
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Apr 02 2011
Let the images of war speak for themselves By Robert Fisk, Saturday, 2 April 2011 … I hate being called a war reporter. Firstly, because there is an unhappy flavour of the junkie about it. Secondly, because you cannot report a war without knowing the politics behind it. Could Ed Murrow or Richard Dimbleby have covered …
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