Category: violence
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“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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Caught On Camera: Human Rights Video on GV [via GV/WITNESS]
[Originally published here as part of WITNESS’s collaboration with Global Voices Online] It has been a bumper few weeks on GV for human rights video, so let’s get straight into it… Bandh of brothers… [via Neha] [YouTube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvRLmupsVts] This footage, filmed by Dinesh Wagle, of United We Blog!, shows motorcycle riders being turned backed by members…
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Caught On Camera: Human Rights Videos on GV [via GV/WITNESS]
[Originally published here as part of WITNESS’s collaboration with Global Voices Online] You’d be forgiven for thinking it’s been Saddam, Saddam, Saddam, in recent weeks, but GV has covered other human rights videos that deserve a bit of limelight – so, in this regular new feature, I’m going to round up the best of those…
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Iraq: Rare testimony of abuse by the Iraqi Security Forces [via GV/WITNESS]
[Originally published here as part of WITNESS’s collaboration with Global Voices Online] Torture in Iraq, says the UN, is “out of control”, and “worse than it has been in the times of Saddam Hussein”. So it was especially timely for Brian Conley at Alive In Baghdad to e-mail us to say that he had an…
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Eastern Europe: Video documents homophobia on the rise [via GV/WITNESS]
[Originally published here as part of WITNESS‘s collaboration with Global Voices Online] The latest twist in the long-running saga of anti-gay violence and state oppression took place yesterday in Moscow, as an appeals court upheld the earlier lower court ruling to ban Moscow’s Gay Pride March in May 2006. The gay rights activists who brought…
Sameer Padania 