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1. Syria: Repression, defiance rises

   kept Syria out of the International Monetary Fund. This led to the rise of crony capitalists such as ... Protest in Daraa, Syria on April 15. 'Syrians want democratic freedoms' World ...

2. Turkey: 'We know what you did last summer' – a year on from Gezi rising

   Another topic is the Kurdish freedom movement’s proposal for a political model that includes autonomy from ... accords with the spirit of Gezi ― freedom from despotic, oppressive government power. Gezi is part of ... elections. Gezi was a historical moment that brought together Kurds, supporters of the Kurdish freedom ...

3. Getting the people to rise up for peace and dancing

   their country's right to freedom. "Cool World" is full of infectious uplifting reggae and ...

4. End Detention Student WalkOut

   RISE: Refugees Survivors and Ex-detainees Actions, protests & rallies Naarm/Melbourne RISE End ... Detention Student WalkOut Statement – 01/03/2021-RISE eX-detainees are calling for students across Australia ... community) to be given permanent protection, freedom and justice with proper humanitarian, financial and ...

5. Maya Angelou, still she rises

   bitter, twisted lies, You may tread me in the very dirt But still, like dust, I’ll rise.” So wrote Maya ... Angelou, in her poem “Still I Rise”. She died on May 28 at 86 at her home in North Carolina. In remembering ... produce and sing in “Cabaret for Freedom” in Greenwich Village to raise funds for King’s Southern ...

6. Venezuela: Large May Day marches amid new labour law, minimum wage rise

   celebrated a minimum wage rise and a new labour law that extends workers' rights. Government opponents, ... government, demanded even higher wage increases, and called for more “freedom”. Opposition marchers also waved ... First Justice party flags, and a few held placards demanding “freedom for Revero”, the retired general ...

7. ANC support rises to new high

   Inkatha Freedom Party of Chief Mangosuthu Gatsha Buthelezi has dropped sharply according to the poll, ... to Inkatha's 23%. The misnamed Freedom Alliance — led by Inkatha and the CP — suffered ...

8. ‘We are all Mahsa Amini’: Protests sweep Iran after Kurdish woman killed by ‘morality police’

   her. “Kurds are rising up all around Kurdistan and internationally and raising the slogan ‘Jin, Jiyan, ... Azadi!’ which means ‘Women, Life, Freedom!’. In Farsi, the same slogan is ‘Zen, Zendegi, Azadi!’ “This has ... afraid of women who demand freedom. “And this revolution is not just in Rojava (in north and east Syria), ...

9. Anti-homosexual violence on rise in US

   a rise of 11% in violence against the gay, lesbian and bisexual community between 1990 and 1991 in San ... apply to employment only; but it's still a huge struggle to ensure safety and freedom from ...

10. ITALY: Heat rises on Berlusconi, police

    international journalists' and press freedom associations. While assuring Italians that there will be no ...

11. Ecuadorans rise up against 'another kind of slavery'

    keep order. Under the state of emergency, basic constitutional rights were suspended, including freedom ... of assembly and freedom of movement. Four days later, Mahuad announced that his government would ... Ecuador's grassroots movements were more scathing, suggesting that prices will rise under the plan while ...

12. Howard fuels racism: harassment on the rise

    persuaded with $1000 to go back to where they came from. With economic insecurity on the rise and big ... Freedom From Hunger Campaign in Brisbane began receiving abusive material, including two live bullets ... posters, stickers, marches and pickets would be a good start. Let's exercise our freedom of speech ...

13. Syria: Rising sectarian violence push by regime, West

    movement for freedom and democracy, which still rejects calls for military intervention, survives, but is ... activist with the Syrian Revolutionary Left, wrote on the Syria Freedom Forever blog on June 7, that the ...

14. George Floyd, a life

    wealth was stolen from him and his descendants in the white post-Reconstruction terror and the rise of ... undermine the protests, in the absence of an independent political party fighting for freedom and racial ... demonised the BLM leaders and movement. The rise of Trumpism, and the transformation by the far right of the ...

15. HISTORICAL FEATURE: POLAND — The rise and degeneration of Solidarity

    The rise and degeneration of Polish Solidarity BY CHRIS SLEE Twenty years ago, on August 14, ... was mixed. They fought for immediate economic demands (e.g., wage rises) and democratic demands (e.g., ... freedom of speech). They also struggled for control of the factories, in many cases voting the factory ...

16. Gerry Adams: '1916 Rising was right — and we still need a just republic'

    Rising The 100th anniversary of Ireland's Easter Rising against British rule was commemorated over ... is the text of the keynote speech given by Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams to an Easter Rising ... * * * gerry_adams_speaking_at_belfasts_1916_easter_rising_commemoration_at_milltown_cemetery_hd Video: Gerry Adams speaking at Belfast's 1916 Easter Rising Commemoration at Milltown ...

17. BRITAIN: The rise of the 'democratic' police state

    liberation movements in, for example, Kashmir or Chechnya be denied freedom of expression?" Any ... attacks on human rights were a greater threat to freedom than terrorism. On July 26, Blair emoted that the ... "that would do credit to his friend Vladimir Putin". What we are seeing in Britain is the rise of ...

18. 75th anniversary of Independence: Whither India?

    Communist Party of India Marxist-Leninist (Liberation) Delhi India’s anti-colonial struggle, or freedom ... added to the momentum and canvas of the freedom movement. Multiple modes of mobilisation and methods of ... freedom movement. Ironically, the one stream which was conspicuously absent in the freedom movement and ...

19. Egypt: Net crackdown fails to stop rising

    stay online, digital freedom advocacy group Access Now ran a campaign on AccessNow.org setting out ...

20. China: Elite rule faces rising social struggle

    while expanding freedom and liberty for the emerging urban middle class. And thirdly, by resting the ...

21. Bolivian women rise up

    a significant achievement in any country, is far from a guarantee of equality and freedom for all women. But ...

22. Victorian election shows dissatisfaction is polarised

    socialist vote of 9.84%. In Broadmeadows, the combined socialist vote was 9.47%, a rise of 2.32%. VS ... sentiment — The Victorians — imploded a couple of months before the elections. The Freedom Party, Angry ...

23. Ukrainian human rights activist Maksym Butkevytch remains a prisoner of war

    Ukrainian soldiers speak Russian as their primary language — giving rise to the incongruity of two opposing ... freedom will eventually prevail. So Russia seeks to convince the whole world that the rule of law, human ...

24. Indonesia: Rise of the student democracy movement

    Indonesia: Rise of the student democracy movement 91������̳ Weekly' s JO BROWN talked to ... Yogyakarta at Gajah Mada University (UGM), around the issue of freedom of the press, which doesn't exist ...

25. Ukraine: 'We want genuine peace negotiations, not another “ceasefire” until the next invasion'

    nation’s flag over Freedom Square on November 11. The images were a stark contrast to the courageous ... stockpiles — along with pressure from European leaders facing domestic turmoil over rising energy prices, has ... military hardware, and is confronted with rising demoralisation among soldiers on the frontline and growing ...

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