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Red lenses on a rainbow of revolutions , Cynthia Boaz In the fall of 2007, by the first week of October, as Burmese students, monks and citizens still hoping for an end to decades of austerity and repression continued to take to the streets in what is now known as the ‘Saffron Revolution,’ even in... Read more » The struggle after people power wins, Oksana Shulyar and Olena Tregub The Orange Revolutionwas the zenith of Ukrainians’ resentment over blatant manipulation of the 2004 presidential election in Ukraine and the subsequent vote-counting fraud. The crony system of the outgoing President Leonid Kuchma and his... Read more » Repression’s paradox in China, Lester R. Kurtz The Chinese government, like all states, is struggling to figure out what to do with its enemies, a core problem for all authoritarians to solve. The Nobel Committee’s awarding of the Peace Prize to Liu Xiaobo (刘晓波) was clearly taken as an... Read more » Upsurge in repression challenges nonviolent resistance in Western Sahara, Stephen Zunes On November 8, Moroccan occupation forces attacked a tent city of as many as 12,000 Western Saharans just outside of Al Aioun, in the culminating act of a months-long protest of discrimination against the indigenous Sahrawi population and... Read more » The Anishinabe and an unsung nonviolent victory in late twentieth-century Wisconsin , Tom H.Hastings In spring of 1986 I got a call from Walter Bresette, a Red Cliff Anishinabe (aka Anishinabeg, Ojibwa, Ojibwe, Chippewa) native American. Walter was a treaty rights leader for the 13 bands of Lake SuperiorOjibwa and he said to me: “Get a... Read more » A life in free fall: a Russian drug addict's story (2), Irina Teplinskaya Grigory Kravchenko Part 2: Is there a way out? (Part 1:here) In the 'outside' world It so happened that my father died when I was in prison. My mother asked me to take my name off the residence register, because she wanted... Read more » A life in free fall: a Russian drug addict's story (1), Irina Teplinskaya Photo: Cavin Part 1: Gilded youth and life inside I started using drugs when I was 14, and now I am 44. I grew up in an elite family in Kaliningrad: my grandfather was a naval commander in the Baltic Fleet, my grandmother was director... Read more » Freedom of expression in Ukraine: a disappearing commodity?, Iryna Kolodiychyk In the recent World Press Freedom Indexfor 2010, Ukraine has slipped to 131st place. In 2008 it was ranked 87th and in 2009 90th. In their accompanying report the publishers, Reporters without Borders, attribute the slippage to the gradual... Read more » Human rights, fundamentalism, power and prejudice, Vijay Nagaraj CB: How can human rights activists strengthen their responses to religious fundamentalisms? VN: The question of religious fundamentalism is not merely a question of tolerance, and a human rights critique of this phenomenon which uses the framework... Read more » Lies and Innuendos: What happens when you take on the Russian far right, Andreas Umland The small community of researchers of Russia’s extreme right has over the past two decades become used to all kinds of attacks — verbal and non-verbal — from the objects of their research. Those who could defended themselves in the courts.... Read more » openDemocracy RECOMMENDS Don't Shoot the Clowns Jo Wilding Best Price £1.09 or Buy New £6.74 • View comments • openDemocracy NEWS openDemocracy event London: oD author Charles Shaw asks 'Who's addicted to the War on Drugs?' You are invited to join Charles Shaw, openDemocracy author and activist and acclaimed documentary maker and criminologist, Roger Graef for an evening of discussion and testimony of drugs policy and criminal justice on: 7pm, Tuesday 16 November... •
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