Category: politics

• “Live Working Or Die Fighting” – Paul Mason’s new book on the global labour movement

  BBC Newsnight‘s indefatigable Paul Mason has a book out soon. [YouTube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFDpQ634fmw] I’m waiting for an advance copy of this (hint, hint), but in the meantime, read more here, listen to an extract here, and order it here.

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  12/03/2007

  Freedom of Speech, Human rights, Journalism, law, politics, protest, REGION, Technology, unions, violence, women

• Saddam execution video re-ignites death penalty debates worldwide [via GV/WITNESS]

  [Originally published here as part of WITNESS‘s collaboration with Global Voices Online] Over the past four months, we’ve tried to feature and contextualise videos we felt should be seen and debated by a wider audience. Today’s featured human rights video is something completely new. You may be one of the millions who have sought it…

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  07/01/2007

  africa, Caribbean, cellphone, Central Asia & Caucasus, citizen journalism, Death Penalty, East Asia, Governance, GV, Human rights, internet, Journalism, Latin America, law, mobile, online video, politics, REGION, religion, south asia, Technology, War & Conflict, WITNESS

• Egypt: Bloggers open the door to police brutality debate [via GV/WITNESS]

  [Originally published here as part of WITNESS‘s collaboration with Global Voices Online] ‘Extraordinary rendition’ has passed into common parlance over the last year as human rights organisations have accused the US government of exporting suspects to be tortured in regimes like Egypt, Morocco and Syria. But while cases involving international suspects get the headlines, these…

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  09/12/2006

  cellphone, citizen journalism, Cyber-Activism, Freedom of Speech, Governance, GV, Human rights, internet, Journalism, law, Middle East & North Africa, mobile, online video, police, politics, Prisons, protest, Technology, WITNESS

• China: Videos emerge of clashes between police and students in Jiangxi [via GV/WITNESS]

  [Originally published here as part of WITNESS‘s collaboration with Global Voices Online] Hot on the heels of the Chinese government’s claim of a 22.1% reduction in “mass incidents” (read “protests”), here’s some more video of “mass incidents” from China, in case you missed this portion of John Kennedy’s latest Beijing bulletin: Backing up to China…

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  24/11/2006

  Cyber-Activism, East Asia, Freedom of Speech, Governance, GV, Human rights, internet, military, police, politics, protest, Technology, WITNESS

• Egypt: Cairo’s women speak out against violence [via GV/WITNESS]

  [Originally published here as part of WITNESS‘s collaboration with Global Voices Online] In the run-up to the annual global campaign for 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence, Egypt’s First Lady, Suzanne Mubarak, addressing a meeting of the Arab Women’s Organisation, issued a heartfelt plea: What shall we do to face challenges of discrimination, extremism…

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  23/11/2006

  Governance, GV, Human rights, internet, Middle East & North Africa, online video, politics, protest, Technology, WITNESS, women