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Roma Day in Eastern Europe: Assessing Roma Rights

Chuck Todaro April 15, 2010 Chuck Todaro

Roma at Pata Rat, Romania Garbage Dump

This year's Roma Day on April 8th marked the twenty-year anniversary since the Gypsies of East Europe freely acknowledged their ethnicity. The day has been celebrated throughout the region in gypsy style with music and dance, skewered pork or lamb and plenty of drink as means of celebrating life. The day memorializes the roughly one million Roma exterminated by the Nazis in what has been commonly dubbed the forgotten holocaust, though which Roma scholars have termed Porrajmos, the devouring.

Danish Brewers Fight for Right to Drink Beer on the Job

Benjamin Dangl April 12, 2010 Benjamin Dangl

At Carlsberg Brewery

For over a century workers at Denmark's Carlsberg brewery have been allowed to drink free beer on the job throughout the workday. After the management ended that policy on April 1st, hundreds of workers went on strike. "We've actually stopped working because Carlsberg's management violated the bargaining agreement by making a policy change without our input," Carlsberg union representative Dennis Onsvig told the Copenhagen Post.

Argentina Revisits Dictatorship: A Year of Human Rights Trials

Marie Trigona April 1, 2010 Marie Trigona

Tens of thousands in Argentina recently marked the 34th anniversary of the nation's bloody military dictatorship, flooding into the historic Plaza de Mayo with cries of nunca más, or never again. On March 24, 1976 the military ceased power and instituted one of Latin America's darkest chapters of terror. During the 1976-1983 junta, the military disappeared more than 30,000 people.

Rekindling the Radical Imagination: Left Forum Panel Recordings

Scott Harris, Between the Lines Radio April 1, 2010 Scott Harris, Between the Lines Radio

Audio recordings of several panel discussions recorded at this year's Left Forum, March 20, 2010 at Pace University, New York City are available here. Recorded panels include: Lessons from Latin American Social Movements for a US in Crisis; Reimagining Society: The Nature of the Task; Going Undercover: The Yes Men; The Future of Labor in the U.S.

Activism is Change: A View From the Struggle in Gaza

Ramzy Baroud March 18, 2010 Ramzy Baroud

An activist is a person who feels strongly about a cause and who is also willing to dedicate time and energy towards advancing and realizing this cause. This might be my own limited interpretation of what activism means. I was born and raised in a Gaza refugee camp where the daily struggles of the community included challenging military occupation while attempting to survive under the harshest of circumstances. Activism then involved civil disobedience, general strikes, confronting armed Israeli soldiers with stones and slingshots. But it also involved much more than that.

Banning Cluster Bombs: Light in the Darkness of Conflicts

Rene Wadlow March 17, 2010 Rene Wadlow

Cluster Bombs

In a remarkable combination of civil society pressure and leadership from a small number of progressive States, a strong ban on the use, manufacture, and stocking of cluster bombs will come into force on August 1, 2010 now that 30 States have ratified the Convention on Cluster Munitions. The Convention bans the use, production, transfer of cluster munitions and sets deadlines for stockpile destruction and clearance of contaminated land. The Convention obliges States to support victims and affected communities.