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Janadesh: India’s Landless Farmer Movement Gains Momentum

Sammy Loren November 8, 2007 Sammy Loren

The generally clogged New Delhi, India streets were uncharacteristically clear on the afternoon of Tuesday October 30th, 2007. The auto rickshaws continued buzzing between pedestrians and cows, the denizens of Delhi. With the arrival of Janadesh, a movement of 25,000 landless farmers and tribal people who drilled into New Delhi just days before, one would have expected a city under siege. Raj Gopal, the leader of the protesters, warned that if the government decided to ignore the people's demands, it should start "making arrangements for picking up the bodies of those who had participated in the march."

Citizen Diplomacy of Women: The New Cycle Begins

Rene Wadlow November 7, 2007 Rene Wadlow

On 31 October 2000, the UN Security Council adopted unanimously Resolution 1325 (2000) urging "Member States to ensure increased representation of women at all decision-making levels in national, regional and international institutions and mechanisms for the prevention, management and resolution of conflicts." Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security was the first time that the UN Security Council acknowledged that women play a key role in promoting sustainable peace and stressed the participation of women in peace processes from the prevention of conflict, to negotiations, to post-war reconstruction and reconciliation.

Republican Suppression of the First Amendment

George L. Darley Jr. November 5, 2007 George L. Darley Jr.

Congress created The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) in 1967. It is a private, non-profit organization that funds over 1,000 public television and radio stations in the U.S. using an annual appropriation from Congress. The CPB also funds producers, educators and technology specialists for the development of new public television and radio programming and new media.

Africa Today: Information and Analysis

Libero Della Piana November 5, 2007 Libero Della Piana

Africa is the least understood continent among the US people. This ignorance is largely due to racism and the legacy of slavery. Of course, it is also due to the racist inattention by the media and US foreign policy, which is in equal measures dismissive and scandalizing. But things are changing. There is a new interest in Africa among the US public today and a new focus in government policy.

I Want My Community TV: Public Access Television Faces Threats

Megan Tady October 30, 2007 Megan Tady

Imagine you know a thief is going to pilfer your television in the middle of the night? Most likely, you would take action to stop it - lock your doors, hide your TV, or in one last ditch effort for revenge, at least hide your remote. Imagine you knew that in the broadest of daylight, corporations and government were going to pinch not your television, but the only TV channels that give you, the citizen, a voice and a hand in local programming? Well grab your bat, because there's someone at your door.

Hungary: The Radical Right and the Neo-Liberalist State

John Horvath October 30, 2007 John Horvath

It's no longer raining in Budapest. Although the clouds of commotion which hung over the October 23rd anniversary of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution should have dissipated along with the official end to the ceremonies, they still hang heavy over the capital. Indeed, Friday, October 26th saw a new round of disturbances as groups of protesters blockaded traffic on two major bridges in the capital as well as on a major street. Still, all things considered, the anniversary commemorating the Hungarian Revolution passed off in a relatively peaceful manner this year.