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?Wall of sound? confronts Blair at Westminster Cathedral
2008-04-04 17:26:00 I used to walk along the aisles of the magnificent Westminster Cathedral, the “mother church” of the Catholic community in the UK, in awe of its unusual Byzantine style, its heavenly choirs and the majestic organ music that reverberated across its cavernous interior. The Cathedral has been described as “a very special place of prayer, ...
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Anti-war protesters to blare music during Blair talk
2008-03-31 16:20:00 I must say this sounds like it’s going to be an unusual - if noisy! - anti-war protest directed at Blair. Spotted this on the Indymedia UK website: Sounding Out Tony Blair Stop the War Coalition | 31.03.2008 14:13 ...
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Another step towards justice for murdered activist Munir
2008-01-26 11:52:00 The long struggle to find out who killed Indonesia’s leading human rights activist Munir Thalib received a major boost when Indonesia’s Supreme Court convicted Polycarpus Priyanto, an ex-pilot for national airline Garuda, of poisoning Munir with arsenic during an international flight. But Indonesian police need to get to the bottom of this conspiracy once and for ...
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The torturous truth can be disturbing - even at the movies
2008-01-16 15:49:00 Sometimes, when you want to get away from it all, you head to the cinema and escape into a fantasy world. But once in a while, you come across a film that gets too close to reality for comfort. “Rendition” is one such movie - featuring a cast of Academy Award winners, it is an ...
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Beware those who want to hijack Malaysia?s People Power movement
2007-11-17 06:43:00 In a parting shot, Thierry Rommel, the European ambassador who left his post on Tuesday, castigated the Malaysian government for its deplorable human rights record and the “discriminatory” New Economic Policy (NEP). News reports quoted Rommel as saying the executive in Malaysia is “all-powerful and not accountable” while the judiciary remains beholden to the executive because ...
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?No matter the regime?s physical power, in the end they can?t stop the peop
2007-11-13 05:51:00 Those words uttered by Burma’s Aung San Suu Kyi could well apply to Malaysia. Was it a stalemate on 10 Nov? After all, the demonstrators had been thwarted from gathering at Dataran Merdeka in the city centre. They were unable to reach the gates of the palace to hand in their memorandum. So what had they ...
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Have the generals won in Burma?
2007-10-01 17:53:00 So thousands of heavily armed soldiers are patrolling the streets of the Burmese capital, Rangoon, forcing the peaceful protesters off the streets. Have the hopes and prayers for democracy in Burma been totally crushed? Have the pro-democracy protesters been defeated? Not by a long shot. When a government resorts to bullets and clubs to suppress peaceful demonstrators, you ...
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Malaysians, Burmese march for democracy
2007-09-25 17:55:00 Monks have been leading tens of thousands of people as protests rock Burma People are on the march in both Malaysia and Burma in their quest for justice and freedom. The Malaysian Bar Council is organising a march of lawyers from the Palace of Justice in Putrajaya to the Prime Minister’s Office in the morning of 26 ...
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West Bank: Checkpoints, teargas and other daily oppressions
2007-08-23 13:52:00 Here’s a riveting account of what life is like in the West Bank. Making a guest appearance today is political scientist John Hilley, who has just returned to Scotland from a trip to Palestine with the Glasgow Palestine Human Rights Campaign. He describes his time there “between getting tear-gassed and shot at in Bil’in ...
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What if Jesus had lived in Latin America?
2007-08-13 17:52:00 I came across this interesting power-point presentation of the Stations of the Cross by Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, a Nobel Peace Prize Laureate from Argentina, and I thought I would share it with you. What is different about these Stations is that the scenes of the Passion are actually contextualised to reflect current day realities. This particular ...
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Size does matter: Small is beautiful
2007-06-06 01:51:00 We are told Bigger is Better. Big Airports, Big Bridges, Big Corporations, Big Shopping Malls, Big Dams, Bigger Banks, Bigger Plantation Firms, Bigger Highways (oh, what a nuisance, the oil is running out though) and even Big Agriculture. And we measure our well-being by how much we earn (and consume) - as in Per Capita ...
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The 400-lb gorilla vs the skinny global justice movement
2007-03-10 15:29:04 The real war in our world today is not “the war on terror” but a larger, more critical struggle for the soul of our world. A monumental battle is taking place between those who want to ram through neo-liberal economic policies that favour the large multinationals and those trying to formulate more enlightened pro-people economic policies ...
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An inspiring night
1969-12-31 16:59:00 Just back from the dinner to celebrate Aliran’s 30th anniversary - and being so close to the 50th anniversary of Merdeka and 44th anniversary of Malaysia, there was much cause for reflection. But so different from the official Merdeka celebrations. The 700-strong crowd seemed to relish the performances put up by the Community Band, the Aliran ...
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