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A People's History of the Egyptian Revolution

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No matter how it unfolds, the Egyptian revolution will go down in the history books as a defining moment in the 21st century.

Last Updated on Tuesday, 02 August 2011 14:58
 

Occupying Los Angeles for Economic Justice

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Sitting in a wheel chair outside City Hall during a recent Occupy Los Angeles rally, 78-year-old Anastasia Stewart pumped her handmade sign in the air. She said, “We’ve become ‘of the corporations, by the corporations and for the corporations,’ instead of ‘of the people, for the people, by the people.’”

Last Updated on Monday, 17 October 2011 09:17
 

Britain's Digital Surveillance: Hiding from Her Majesty's 'Black Boxes'

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ImageThere are plans to deploy 'black boxes' in UK ISPs' networking hubs so that the government can capture and record every website that UK citizens visit. A similar operation is in full swing in the United States, where the NSA has hooked up their own 'black boxes' to American Internet Service Providers' (ISPs) networks to capture 'questionable content' passing through these networks. Unlike the Americans, who only examine questionable content, the UK government is planning to develop a database to hold the contents of all messages passing along their nations' telecommunications networks.
Last Updated on Tuesday, 11 November 2008 06:55
 

Mexico: Communities Organize Against Spiraling Violence

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A pressing concern of Mexican communities today is how to organize against the escalation of violence triggered by the government's militarized war on drugs, and how to counteract the temptation of easy money and other perks offered by the drug trade, especially to young men.

Last Updated on Friday, 18 November 2011 18:22
 

Beyond the Burqa in Afghanistan: Between Modernity and Tradition

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ImageDuring the Taliban era, many in the liberal world saw the burqa as the symbol of Taliban oppression. Now the Taliban are ousted from power, yet the burqa remains firmly on the heads of all sorts of Afghan women. Why? Because the burqa is a symbol of traditionally conservative Afghan society which pre-dates the Taliban, in which women are viewed as men's possessions, to be kept hidden from other men. Freeing Afghan women from the burqa can only be achieved if the mindset of the nation changes.

Last Updated on Thursday, 04 December 2008 10:11
 


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