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"It's Far Easier to Fight for Principles Than to Live up to Them"

Published: July 29, 2007, 7:15 pm

Tags: Repression, Stevenson Adlai, Nature, Patriotism, Fear

we live and fear breeds repression. Too often, sinister threats to the Bill of Rights, to freedom of the mind are concealed under the patriotic cloak of anti-Communism." Today, it's the cloak of anti-terrorism. Stevenson also remarked, "It's far easier to fight for principles than to live up to them"Read:1950s: Adlai Stevenson's ''Nature

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PSA: Free Delaram Ali

Published: November 10, 2007, 3:37 pm

Tags: Change For Equality, Repression, One Million Signatures, Delaram Ali, Women S Rights, Human Rights, Activism, Feminista, Iran

Human Rights Watch: The head of Iran's Judiciary, Ayatollah Shahrudi, should suspend a two-and-a-half-year prison sentence upheld this week against women's rights activist Delaram Ali, Human Rights Watch said today. Such a step is permitted under Iranian law. The government should also release at least 10 other students and activists it has

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Chinese military-industrial complex arming Mugabe, profiting privately

Published: April 29, 2008, 1:10 pm

Tags: Bill Clinton, Guns, Hillary Clinton, Repression

The Times of London has done a bit more peeking into the 77-ton shipment of arms from China to Zimbabwe that was turned away at the docks recently, and finds an interesting twist on it. […] Read the rest »

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Twitter to the rescue!

Published: April 30, 2008, 4:24 pm

Tags: News, Communication, Digg, Egypt, Freedom Technology, Politics, Repression, Social Communities, Twitter

Today, in Digg I found this interesting story published in Mercury News. I’ve been using not only Digg, but also Twitter these days and found this fascinating. U.C. Berkeley student’s Twitter messages alerted world to his arrest in Egypt By Bill Brand, Staff Writer Article Launched: 04/15/2008 01:57:41 PM PDT BERKELEY _ When Egyptian

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2084 Is China Building the Next-Generation Police State?

Published: May 21, 2008, 7:12 am

Tags: News, Cctv, Censorship, China, Freedom, Naomi Klein, Police State, Politics, Repression, Rights, Surveillance

Today in Digg, found this disturbing article written by Casey Kazan for the Daily Galaxy based on an article written by Naomi Klein for Rolling Stone Thirty years ago the new Chinese city of Shenzhen did not exist. Today, with the help of U.S. defense contractors, the booming city is a model for a high-tech police state 2.0. And, according to

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Burmese tyrants: Aid? We don't need no stinking foreign aid!

Published: May 29, 2008, 4:49 pm

Tags: Repression, United Nations

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Yemeni journalist gets six years hard labor for telling the truth about the regime

Published: June 9, 2008, 2:25 pm

Tags: Blogosphere, Islam, Repression, Worthy Causes

The other day I told you about New Jersey mom Jane Novak and her relentless blogging on the subject of the treacherous Yemeni regime and their persecution of journalist Abdul Karim al-Khaiwani. […] Read the rest »

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Quite possibly the dumbest thing ever published by the BBC

Published: June 16, 2008, 1:32 pm

Tags: Bbc, Repression

Okay, it’s a perfectly reasonable and informative article about the threat of arrest faced by political bloggers around the world. […] Read the rest »

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Report: Iranian minister, previously tortured for performing baptisms, captured again

Published: June 23, 2008, 2:06 am

Tags: Iran, Repression, Stuff Muslims Don T Like

I’m seeing several sources reporting that 44-year old Mohsen Namvar has been picked up by Iran’s state police. […] Read the rest »

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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn has died.

Published: August 3, 2008, 9:54 pm