Entries from Byline Portal tagged with 'Activism'
Putting Dissent on Hold
by Anne Wolf, Good Governance Africa, South Africa - Was it coincidence or was it deliberate? Following the January 2013 terrorist attack at the natural-gas complex in the Saharan town of In Amenas, the Algerian government once again spurned the...
From Jail on Earth Day
by Sandra Steingraber, Common Dreams, USA - The fossil fuel party must come to an end. I am shouting at an iron door. Can you hear me now?...
Chileans Debate Whether Wealth Weighs in Glaciers or Gold
by Kalynne Dakin, Global Voices, Netherlands - Two of humankind’s most treasured resources–water and gold–have instigated a conflict between an indigenous community and a Canadian mining company over an isolated swath of Chile’s Atacama region....
Blood Along the Border: Political Activism and Violence in Juarez, Mexico
by Dawn Paley, Toward Freedom, USA - Saul Reyes Salazar is a man who understands loss. In January 2010, his sister Josefina was shot in the head, following a botched kidnapping in their hometown of Guadalupe los Bravos, across the...
You’ve Come a Long Way, Feminism (But You’re Not There Yet)
by Ruth Rosen, Yes!, USA - I always knew this was the longest revolution, one that would take a century or more to unfold. It’s upended most of our lives, and significantly improved so many of them. Nothing will ever...
Eliminating the Scourge of Female Genital Mutilation
by Ruth Njeng’ere, Pambazuka, Kenya - A world without FGM is within sight. But more efforts are needed to ensure worldwide legislation against the practice and increased education to attain that goal....
Black Hoods and Commandos — Coming to Your Town?
by Nadine Bloch, Waging Nonviolence, USA - Both guerrilla theater and storytelling through documentation are dramatic ways of inserting the horrors of a war and atrocities fought overseas into the daily life and consciousness of blissfully ignorant constituents — and...
Rallies Mark Egypt Anniversary
by Rawya Rageh, Al Jazeera, Qatar - Opposition head to streets in anti-government demonstrations to mark second anniversary of 2011 revolution....
Let's Cut Our Carbon!
by Sue Supriano, WINGS, Canada - Environmental Law Professor Mary Wood from University of Oregon talks about the urgency of cutting climate emissions so that by mid-century, when today's children are in their 40s, earth will still be habitable. She...
Indigenous Leaders Demand to Be Heard
by Louisa Reynolds, Latin America Press, Peru - The fight to save the environment from predatory multinationals is currently one of the greatest causes of social unrest in Latin America....
Rooting Change in Egypt’s Constitution
by Jaclyn L. Neo, Daily Star, Lebanon - Disagreements focus on issues such as the place of Shariah, gender equality, and the protection of minorities. But all of this obscures the core of the revolution that the constitution should be...
New Futuro Narrows the Education Gap for Latino Students
by Kathryn Hawkins, The Atlantic, USA - A Chicago startup is partnering with community groups and companies to make college goals more accessible to Latino youths in the United States....
Abu Dhabi Mum Scales Peaks to Raise Climate Awareness
by Ramona Ruiz, The National, UAE - A mother of two aims to educate youngsters about the environment by taking them to rainforests and the Arctic....
Ending Human Rights Violations in the Mental Health System Institute Alternatives 2012
by Dr. Mary Ellen Copeland, Mad in America, USA - People don’t understand that when they reach out for help for themselves or someone they care about, it can have threatening and lifelong consequences....
Why I'm Standing up to TransCanada's Keystone XL Pipeline in East Texas
by Daryl Hannah, Guardian, UK - Don't buy the tale that this tar sands oil will make the US energy-independent. It's export for profit, even as spills poison our water....
We All Count: A Southern Movement for Justice
by Bianca Campbell, Strong Families, USA - The Assembly is an effort led by grassroots organizations with the Southern Movement Alliance to increase voter education and registration in underrepresented communities, train new organizers, and create a Southern People’s Plan to...
Malala Yousafzai: The Crime of Wanting an Education
by Khadija Patel, Daily Maverick, USA - A 14-year old Pakistani girl is recovering from a gunshot to the head after Taliban militants attacked the minibus she was travelling in. But this was no random attack. The girl was targeted,...
Alice Walker: “Go to the Places That Scare You”
by Valerie Schloredt, Yes!, USA - The acclaimed novelist on why a life worth living is a life worth fighting for....
Fighting Egypt's Sexual Harassment Epidemic, One Step at a Time
by Dallia Moniem, Africa Review, Kenya - It has already been labelled as an "epidemic" by rights groups, but it seems in post-revolution Egypt sexual harassment has become worse rather than better....
Integrating Ole Miss: A Transformative, Deadly Riot
by Debbie Elliott, NPR, USA - Ole Miss is commemorating the 50th anniversary of integration on campus Monday with a tribute to Meredith and a series of panel discussions. But the man who made that history doesn't like the idea...
A Mothers’ Movement for Future Generations
by Heidi Hutner, Yes!, USA - Cancer survivor Heidi Hutner worried about how to raise a baby girl in an increasingly toxic world. Why she, and others, are convening the Women’s Congress for Future Generations to make the earth safe...
Alternative to Wikileaks Arises in Iceland
by Lowana Veal, IPS, Italy - “One of the main motivations for the Associated Whistle-blowing Press is to unite journalists around the world and bring stories to light,” says Brazilian journalist Pedro Noel, one of the main people behind the...
The Call of Sudanese Women Human Rights Defenders
by Nazik Kabalo, Pambazuka, Kenya - Women activists challenging the fundamental structures of their communities and calling for new terms of peaceful coexistence among the Sudanese people are facing prosecution, sexual violence and harsh punishment by security forces....
Occupy Your Victories
by Rebecca Solnit, Tomgram, USA - People learned how direct democracy works; they tasted power; they found something in common with strangers; they lived in public. All those things mattered and matter still. They are a great foundation for the...
Why We're Striking in Chicago
by Karen Lewis, Common Dreams, USA - We will walk the picket lines. We will talk to parents. We will talk to clergy. We will talk to the community. We will talk to anyone who will listen—we demand a fair...
The Rachel Corrie Legacy
by Honna Veerkamp, WINGS, Canada - An Israeli court has thrown out the lawsuit by Rachel Corrie's parents, claiming wrongful death bu an Israeli bulldozer. But her influence on the solidarity movement continues - and now Egypt has effectively ended...
Blue Blood Defends Gypsies
by Célia Lebur, Liberation, France - A scion of affluent neighbourhoods, educated at an English public school and currently a law student, nothing predestined Louis de Gouyon Matignon for the presidency of an association that protects Gypsy culture. Yet, this...
Singing for the Syrian Revolution in the Netherlands
by Jannie Schipper, Radio Netherlands, The Netherlands - Singer ‘Gharib’ may have fled to the Netherlands long ago, but his heart is still in his homeland Syria. Soon after the revolution broke out last year he posted a protest song...
The Arab Spring Represents a Leap Backward for Women
by Hoda Badran, The Daily Star, Lebanon - This summer, as the dust of the Arab Spring revolutions begins to settle, women – who stood shoulder to shoulder with men in defying tyranny – are finding themselves marginalized and excluded...
A Walk to Heal theTar Sands
by Kristin Moe, Yes!, USA - Take an 8-mile trek with indigenous groups through one of the world's largest ecological dead zones, and you might find something lifegiving....
Golf Tournament Raises Money for Anti-Nazi Projects
by Rachel Stern, Der Spiegel, Germany - Germany's eastern state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania has a longstanding reputation as a hotbed of xenophobic activity. Recently, a number of projects have sought to burnish the region's tarnished reputation. The latest is a...
Why I Help Addicts Shoot Up
by Meera Bai with John Stackhouse, Christian Week, USA - Constant humiliation makes the people I work with especially vulnerable, and vulnerable in almost every way: to violence, to exploitation, to false hope and finally to despair. When allowed into...
'Yo Soy 132' Mexican Student Movement Looks to the Future
by Ela Stapley, Upside Down World, Canada - “It started out as an act of solidarity with the Ibero students, but it soon became about much more... The movement just grew, we were 20 universities then 90. Now we are...
Rural Radio Woman
by Frieda Werden, WINGS, Canada - Interview with Lydia Ajono, whose personal history in community radio is thoroughly embedded in the story of her community in northeastern Ghana and the major issues of her country....
Free Trade Deals, Drug Patents Derail AIDS Fight
by Amanda Wilson, IPS, Italy - As the nineteenth International AIDS Conference continued in Washington Tuesday, thousands of protesters marched on the White House with a set of demands to end the epidemic....
Brooklyn Women Make Their Building Theirs
by Laura Gottesdiener, Nonviolent Action Network, USA - For over a year, Lopez, Trelles and Ixtilico have been knocking on doors, holding meetings and organizing a multi-building rent strike that has now captured local and national attention....
Sudan’s Activists Face Rape, One Fights Back
by Louise Hogan, Women Under Siege, USA - This horrific, brutal attack on Ishaq was neither random nor purposeless. The NISS agents deliberately mentioned they knew of her activities. Her rape and torture was meant as a punishment for her...
In the Face of Censorship, #SudanRevolts Goes Social
by Eszter Farkas, European Media Centre, The Netherlands - Serious North Africa news junkies are likely aware of growing demands for regime change in Sudan. Protests have spread outward from the capital Khartoum over the past few weeks. Hundreds of...
Revolutionary Plots
by Rebecca Solnit, Orion, USA - Urban agriculture is producing a lot more than food....
Water by the Spoonful: An Interview with Quiara Alegría Hudes
by Kathleen Potts, Guernica, USA - In the afterglow of her Pulitzer win, the feminist playwright opens up about border-crossing, why she’d make a terrible critic, and her master teacher, Paula Vogel....
An Erotic Politics: What's the Future of the LGBTQ Movement?
by Laura Flanders, Truthout, USA - June is LGBT Pride month in the US and there has been a lot to celebrate. From marriage to the military, LGBT people have won acceptance, but that doesn't mean we've banished, poverty, terror...
Singing Songs against Putin
by Claire Bigg, Radio Free Europe, Czech Republic - The "White Album," which brings together more than 230 songs critical of Russian President Vladimir Putin's regime, is available online free of charge....
Nuns Speak Truth to Power
by Jennifer Granholm, Current TV, USA - “Nuns have, thoughout history, gently cared for the poor, the sick, the homeless. But today, these sisters are pocketing their rosaries – for the moment – and pulling on their boxing gloves.”...
An Ode to Occupy Abai
by Anna Nemtsova, Russia Beyond the Headlines, Russia - On the eve of the first large-scale demonstrations since Vladimir Putin returned to power, Anna Nemtsova reflects on the protesters who occupied her tony Chistye Prudy (Clean Ponds) neighborhood in May,...
Kicking Out the Klan in N.C.
by Trish Kahle, Socialist Worker, USA - North Carolina activists scored a much-needed win on May 26, when grassroots pressure forced the Ku Klux Klan to move a publicized cross-burning out of the state. Alongside the victory, organizing for the...
How Do I Deal with a Bully, without Becoming a Thug?
by Scilla Elworthy, TEDxExeter, UK - "We can organize to overcome oppression by opening our hearts as well as strengthening this incredible resolve."...
Who’s Working to Build a Better Future in Los Angeles? Start Here
by Mónica Novoa, Colorlines, USA - In the past few weeks there has been rich analysis and storytelling around the 20th anniversary of LA’s civil unrest. I talked to leaders at three organizations that have been central to important gains...
Don’t Call Me an Environmentalist
by Lisa Curtis, Grist, USA - Over the past decade, the number of Americans who support the environmental movement has declined, with supporters increasingly split along partisan lines. On the other hand, most Americans strongly support developing clean energy, believe...
May Day and the Revolution of Everyday Life
by Marina Sitrin, Yes!, USA - We are now again a part of the rest of the globe, where May Day is a day to celebrate our power—people's power, that of workers, precarious and unionized, immigrants and migrants, radicals of...
May Day Special: “No Work, No Shopping, Occupy Everywhere"
by Amy Goodman, Democracy NOW!, USA - “People all over the country are talking about May Day as our day, whether you want to call it 'workers’ holiday' or 'immigrant rights' or 'the 99 percent,'’ says Martina Sitrin, who notes...
'I Am Also An Afghan' -- Iranians Condemn Racism On Facebook
by Golnaz Esfandiari, Persian Letters, Czech Republic - Afghans were banned from a park in the Iranian city of Isfahan in order "to ensure citizens' welfare." But it was Iranians who quickly condemned the decision on Facebook and other social...
Drone Activism Takes to the Skies
by Sabine Blanc, OWNI, France - Drones are everywhere. Originally used by the military, these devices have now been adopted by hacktivists, conservationists, human rights activists, artists and even journalists....
The Internet Indians
by Ilka Franzmann, Al Jazeera, Qatar - In the Brazilian Amazon, environmentalists, scientists and politicians are facing one of the most difficult challenges of our time. If the earth's lungs collapse, the planet itself will collapse....
The Unfinished Revolution of Tunisia's Women
by Sarah Leduc, France 24, France - As the world marks International Women’s Day on Thursday, many Tunisian women fear they are losing the gains obtained before and during the revolution of January 2011. But some of them are not...
Fracking Bans that Can Stand
by Maura Stephens, Yes!, USA - In New York, judges are standing up for communities' rights to say no to corporate drilling....
2012: The Year of the Cooperative
by Jessica Reeder, Yes!, USA - The United Nations has named 2012 as the International Year of Cooperatives, and indeed, co-ops seem poised to become a dominant business model around the world....
For Young Russians, It’s All about Peeling, Shopping and Protesting
by Esther Dyson, The Daily Star, Lebanon - Today’s protesters do not want a traditional revolution. They are mostly educated enough about the past to fear blood in the streets. They want Putin gone, not punished (mostly); they realize that...
Freeganism: The Final Frontier?
by Lisa Steyn, Mail & Guardian, South Africa - Rather than contributing to further waste, freegans aim to curtail garbage and pollution by reclaiming and using discarded goods....
Climate Change Movements: Where Are We Going?
by Elaine Graham-Leigh, Counterfire, UK - Climate change campaigns may not be able to bring down the system on their own, but what we can do is place ourselves at the centre of the movements which are taking on capitalism...
Henry Red Cloud: Solar Warrior for Native America
by Talli Nauman, Yes!, USA - “Our ancestors made a treaty with the U.S. government,” Red Cloud recounts. But they also made “a pact with the Creator for seven generations”—hearkening to a well-known prophecy that they would suffer if they...
It’s the Year of the Protester: Would Santa Occupy? How About Mother Teresa?
by Sarah Morice-Brubaker, Religion Dispatches, USA - In a spirit of nerdy parlor-game fun more than serious analysis, I’ve compiled my own hypotheses, sticking within my own tradition of Christianity since it’s the one I know best and since I...
Occupy Stockholm: 'We Have No Goal'
by Judi Lembke, The Local, Sweden - Sweden regularly places at or near the top of democracy rankings, enjoying a more or less global reputation for openness, egalitarianism, and transparency, so what’s the problem? What’s the goal?...
EU Vows to Help Online Dissidents Speak Out
by Sonia Phalnikar, Deutsche Welle, Germany - The European Union has unveiled a strategy called 'No-Disconnect' to help online activists living under oppressive regimes get their message out without fear of state surveillance....
Protest Called Amazing, What’s Next?
by Alexandra Odynova, The Moscow Times, Russia - Saturday's rally in Moscow marked an "amazing," even unprecedented, event for modern Russia. Yet though euphoria was palpable in the air, it came with a tinge of pessimism, fueled by the simple...
China: Enforced Disappearances on the Rise
by Emily-Anne Owen, IPS, Italy - China is experiencing the worst crackdown since 1989 with a rising number of enforced disappearances of activists, a prominent Chinese dissident now living in exile has stated....
Filming Syria's Women
by Cathrin Schaer, Der Spiegel, Germany - Lina Alabed, the maker of a new film about two women in Syria, discusses the role females have played in the Arab Spring, the equalizing effect of street protests and why it is...
Egypt's 'Naked Blogger' Calls On Men To Wear Hijab
by Kristin Deasy, Radio Free Europe, Czech Republic - An Egyptian blogger who sparked controversy last week by posting a photo of herself naked online has also launched a campaign calling on men to don the Islamic headscarf....
Egyptians Tread a Dangerous Path
by Linda Heard, Arab News, Saudi Arabia - Moderates should not allow their voices to be drowned out by extremists....
The Occupy Movement's Woman Problem
by Tina Dupuy, The Atlantic, USA - When it comes to women, Occupy is really a microcosm of the greater culture at large. America's gender conflict fault-lines are making a familiar reappearance inside Occupy, with results both predictable and novel....
The New Salman Rushdie Affair: Facebook ID Crackdown Has Activists Uneasy
by Kristin Deasy, Radio Free Europe, Czech Republic - The controversy illustrates an ongoing debate about the direction of the Internet: Will it be a medium where users' online identities must be the same as their legal names? Or will...
Throwing Out the Master’s Tools and Building a Better House
by Rebecca Solnit, ZNet, USA - Violence is what the police use. It’s what the state uses. If we want a revolution, it’s because we want a better world, because we think we have a bigger imagination, a more beautiful...
'People’s Forum' Brings Optimism ahead of G20
by Aurore Cloe Dupuis, France 24, France - Protesters and NGOs marching in Nice on Tuesday ahead of the G20 summit in Cannes say growing anti-capitalist protest movements are a great cause for hope....
Local Money Creates Wealth Outside the Bubble
by Mira Luna, Shareable, USA - Where national currency is not available because of overall scarcity or there is not enough market value for the work, local currencies can create real, tangible wealth we can see and control. Investing in...
For Salvadoran Activist, It Is Necessary to Change the Development Paradigm
by Tatiana Félix, Upside Down World, Canada - Salvadoran activist Carolina Amaya says that the challenge of social movements is to deconstruct the false paradigm of development that triggered the economic and environmental crisis that puts the life of our...
Police Turn Oakland into War Zone
by Allison Kilkenny, In These Times, USA - Incredible footage emerged from downtown Oakland last night - not of basic law enforcement efforts to maintain public "health and safety" as the police have been claiming - but of a war...
How to Make Inequality Obsolete
by Linda McQuaig, The Star, Canada - Already, the occupiers have made an economic system that has dominated for the past 30 years — based on unbridled greed at the top and indifference to the well-being of the bottom 99...
Occupy Movement Attracts Support of Top Authors
by Alison Flood, Guardian, UK - Margaret Atwood, Salman Rushdie and Noam Chomsky among star names added to online petition at occupywriters.com....
Revolutionary Daughters
by Kate Taunton, Al Jazeera English, Qatar - How two activists are challenging Indian society and transforming trafficked girls into the leaders of tomorrow....
Letter to a Dead Man About the Occupation of Hope
by Rebecca Solnit, TomDispatch, USA - The United States is now the wealthiest country the world has ever known, and has an abundance of natural resources, as well as of nurses, doctors, universities, teachers, housing, and food -- so ours,...
Remembering the Paris Massacre 50 Years On
by Rachel Holman, France 24, France - Anti-discrimination organisations and advocacy groups are gathering for a massive rally in the heart of Paris Monday to remember the victims of a deadly police crackdown against Algerian protesters in Paris fifty years...
Poets Stand Up
by Sarah Browning, Foreign Policy in Focus, USA - Poets gathered in Fez, Morocco, and Jalalabad, Afghanistan and Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. All this – and more – made up 100 Thousand Poets for Change on Saturday, September 24, 2011....
Women, War & Peace: Featuring Nobel Prize Winner Leymah Gbowee
by Abigail Disney, BlogHer, USA - There are Leymahs and Ellens and Tawakkuls all over the world. And hopefully their newfound recognition will shed light on how transformational women are in peace and democracy. As Nobel Prize Committee Chairman Thorbjoen...
Where The 99 Percent Get Their Power
by Sarah van Gelder, Yes!, USA - The #OccupyWallStreet movement is powerful because it is naming the source of the crisis—something that the political establishment had been unwilling to do....
Occupy Wall Street: The Most Important Thing in the World Now
by Naomi Klein, The Nation, USA - If there is one thing I know, it is that the 1 percent loves a crisis. When people are panicked and desperate and no one seems to know what to do, that is...
The Thailand Project: A Better Tomorrow
by Yvonne Bohwongprasert, Bangkok Post, Thailand - The Thailand Project, a non-profit agency based in Wisconsin, aims to instill hope through education for stateless people in the Kingdom....
Inequalities in Education
by Zubeida Mustafa, Dawn, Pakistan - When it comes to education, I feel that enough concern has not been expressed. If there is agitation it is by teachers for higher salaries and by parents complaining against the incessant and arbitrary...
Art or Vandalism?
by Yasmine El Rashidi, Index on Censorship, UK - In post-revolution Egypt, street art has become one of the symbols of ongoing resistance....
Spiritual Environmentalism: Healing Ourselves by Replenishing the Earth
by Wangari Maathai, Yes!, USA - When we can eat healthier, nonadulterated food; when we breathe clean air and drink clean water; when the soil can produce an abundance of vegetables or grains, our own sicknesses and unhealthy lifestyles become...
Mexico: Peace Caravan "Has Made Us Feel Stronger"
by Daniela Pastrana, IPS, Italy - With a huge hug, Olga Reyes from Chihuahua, who has lost six family members in Mexico's wave of drug-related violence, greets Araceli Rodríguez from Mexico state, the mother of a young federal police officer...
9/12: From Chaos to Community
by Jacki Ochs, Link TV, USA - In the wake of the September 11 attacks, New Yorkers from all walks of life felt compelled to overcome their sense of powerlessness by volunteering to help out in the recovery effort. They...
Is the Environmental Movement Dying?
by Kira Vermond, The Globe and Mail, Canada - Who cares about the environment these days?...
Being Black and Green: African-Americans & the Environment
by Zoe Sullivan, Making Contact, USA - Communities across the country have embraced locally-grown food, fuel-efficient cars and other forms of environmentalism. While African-Americans haven’t been on widely credited, they are amongst the vanguard creating positive change....
Can Communities Reclaim the Right to Say “No”?
by Mari Margil, Yes!, USA - Many communities trying to keep fracking, drilling, or big box stores out are finding they don’t have the legal right to say no. Their response? Take on the very structure of law....
Chile: "We Are Prepared to Give Our Lives for Education"
by Pamela Sepúlveda, IPS, Italy - As students and teachers continue their massive protests in the streets of Chile's cities, one of the most extreme methods of demanding higher-quality, free public education is the hunger strike being undertaken by 28...
Reign of the Tin Men
by Shoma Chaudhury, Tehelka, India - The charade of Anna Hazare’s arrest exposes a government bankrupt of political ideas. But there are some lessons there for everyone else too....
Arab Youth and Social Protest in Israel
by Asma Agbarieh-Zahalka, Challenge, Israel - This new era will bury the fanatical nationalism and extremism of Arabs in Israel, just as it will bury Jewish fanatical nationalism....
Gloria: In Her Own Words -- A Life in Activism
by Marcia G. Yerman, The Huffington Post, USA - Gloria Steinem has frequently spoken about the importance of sharing stories, using the imagery of communicating oral narratives around an ancient campfire. She has done that with her own personal history...
The Last of the Anti-Apartheid Heroes
by Elizabeth Barad, Pambazuka, Kenya - On the occasion of Nelson Mandela’s 93rd birthday, Elizabeth Barad reflects on the lives of anti-apartheid heroes, the late Walter and Albertina Sisulu and Helen Suzman....
South Korea: Actress-Activist Spearheads Protests with Social Media
by Lee Yoo Eun, Global Voices, The Netherlands - In South Korea, entertainers are changing the political landscape by spearheading protests in social media....
Indigenous Resistance is the New 'Terrorism'
by Manuela Picq, Al Jazeera, Qatar - In Ecuador, protesting for the rights of the Earth and trying to preserve natural resources may make you a "terrorist"....
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