Zapatista tour reaches Yucatan; supporters harassed
…women, to house Marcos and his fellow Zapatistas when the tour arrives. (LJ, Jan. 16) (All sources online at Chiapas95) See our last posts on Mexico and the Zapatista struggle….
…women, to house Marcos and his fellow Zapatistas when the tour arrives. (LJ, Jan. 16) (All sources online at Chiapas95) See our last posts on Mexico and the Zapatista struggle….
…ethnic-religious element to the attack; the Taliban carried out a campaign of genocide against the Shi’ite Hazaras during their years in power. (NYT, Central Asia Online, June 25) See our…
…protection of freedom of thought, expression and Association in Kurdistan. Houzan Mahmoud Organisation of Women’s Freedom in Iraq – UK Branch Signatories at PetitionOnline See our last post on Iraq,…
…reaction force under UN command was deployed to Mopti last year in response to the mounting violence. (All India Radio, Middle East Online, Jan. 2; Al Jazeera, BBC News, Jan. 1; IRIN,…
…in real time, over Twitter and YouTube, before any real investigation is carried out. Online media is next, a city of 645,000 inhabitants has been taken off the internet amid…
…repudiated as having been dictated to the Prophet by Satan. This story certainly has its origins in how early Islam negotiated the transition from matriarchy to patriarchy. (Accounts are online…
An Aug. 9 AP story (online at TruthOut) reveals that Judge John G. Roberts Jr., President Bush’s nominee for the Supreme Court, was on a three-judge panel of the United…
…for more fundamental change. Over the summer, activists launched an online campaign calling for the dismantling of Saudi Arabia’s controversial “guardianship” system, which puts women under the authority of male relatives—something…
…(Reuters, June 19) Free Speech Radio News (audio online) reports June 20 that a tract of land owned by Noticias’ proprietor was also invaded by armed squatters recently, who left…
…her show. Especially suggested were Leila al-Shami and Robin Yassin-Kassab, co-authors of the book Burning Country: Syrians in Revolution and War, newly released from Pluto Press. The online petition noted…
…Resh, a collection of hymns attributed to Sheikh Adi, are online at an Arizona-based website of the Golden Dawn (an esoteric order founded in Britain a century ago, to which…
…the regime cut off electricity to MSN’s offices, Freedom House delivered emergency generators provided by the U.S. Embassy. Interim President Kurmanbek Bakiyev responded to the Turkish Zaman Online that the…