By: Free West Papua, February 2010
“We Papuans question the political status of the Papuan nation,” said rally participant Damaris Onawame in front of the Mimika Regional House of Representatives yesterday. The rally also supported the registration of International Parliamentarian for West Papua (IPWP) and International Lawyers for West Papua in Brussels (ILWP), Belgium.
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AFRICA
Power vacuum leaves Nigeria on life support
By: Lauren Gelfand, WPR, February 4, 2010 When Nigerian President Umaru Yar’Adua left the country in November 2009 to seek treatment for a heart ailment, few anticipated that both he and Africa’s most populous country would end up on life support. Read full article… Malawi man arrested for posters on gay rights Morocco, Polisario to resume informal Western Sahara talks Human Rights Watch report draws fire in Morocco Zimbabwe: Mining giant hails Zim operating environment After massacre, Guinea sees hope of lifted chains Guinea: Nation’s road to democracy
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NORTH AMERICA
US: Obama condemns Uganda anti-gay bill as ‘odious’
By: BBC News, February 4, 2010 US President Barack Obama has criticised as “odious” proposed anti-homosexuality legislation in Uganda. The bill calls for long jail terms or the death penalty in some cases of homosexual intercourse. Read full article… US: Clinton says no to swapping U.S. hikers for Iranians
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CENTRAL AMERICA/CARIBBEAN
‘Partner, not enemy’: Depoliticising civic space in Nicaragua
By: Mark Nowottny and Adam Nord, CIVICUS, February 2010 Daniel Ortega remains an unavoidably contentious figure in Latin American politics. Known most widely outside of the region as leader of the armed struggle which brought about the end of the Somoza dictatorship in July 1979, his political reincarnation as a democratically elected leader in 2006, for many at the time, pointed to the latest shift towards the left in Latin America. What, in such a politically charged environment, are the prospects for cooperation and collaboration between government and civil society? Read full article… Cuba’s internet revolution edges forward, with limits Canadian mining and popular resistance in Honduras
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SOUTH AMERICA
Argentina: Tomas Eloy Martinez, author of novels about the Perons, dies
By: Emma Brown, Washington Post, February 4, 2010 Tomás Eloy Martínez, 75, an Argentine journalist and novelist who wrote two international bestsellers about former Argentine president Juan Domingo Perón and his glamorous, beloved-by-the-masses wife, Eva Perón, died Jan. 31 at his home in Buenos Aires. He had a brain tumor. Read full article…
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EUROPE
Belarusian journalist jailed for hooliganism
By: RFE, February 4, 2010 Independent Belarusian journalist Ivan Shulha was convicted today of petty hooliganism and sentenced to 10 days in jail, RFE/RL’s Belarus Service reports. Read full article… Belarus: Opposition activists expelled from universities Britons get a Western Sahara moment Russia: Kremlin shocked as Kaliningrad stages huge anti-government protest
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Ten questions to people-power your activist campaign
By: Brian Fitzgerald’s Blog, February 4, 2010 Over the weekend, a few of us who’ve been doing public engagement and movement building work gathered with some of our campaigners to talk about what works and what doesn’t when creating campaigns that are intended to draw on the power of the public. We came up with what I think is a pretty good list of questions that an issue expert or campaigner can ask if they want to win their campaign with people power. Read full article… Protestors gather at Tiffany stores worldwide
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Iran: Ouverture d’une nouvelle série de procès staliniens
By: RSF, February 3, 2010 Le 30 janvier 2010, s’est ouverte – devant la 15e chambre du tribunal révolutionnaire de Téhéran – la nouvelle audience du procès chargé de juger les opposants à la réélection de Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Seize personnes comparaîtront pour avoir participé aux récentes manifestations, notamment celles du 27 décembre 2009. Read full article… Guinée: Nuages sur la transition
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By: The Middle Stage, February 2010
One of the key emphases of Civil Resistance & Power Politics is that it understands civil resistance not as an ideal of moral action and non-violent “conversion” of the adversary through “truth-force” as Gandhi saw it, but simply as a strategy of practical politics.
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