Source: Agence France-Presse January 1, 2010 TEHRAN – Iranian opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi said on Friday that he was ready to sacrifice his life in his campaign to have the disputed June re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad overturned. “I am not unwilling to become a martyr like those who made that sacrifice after the election for their [...]

Source: Truthdig by Chris Hedges December 28, 2009 Syed Fahad Hashmi can tell you about the dark heart of America. He knows that our First Amendment rights have become a joke, that habeas corpus no longer exists and that we torture, not only in black sites such as those at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan or at Guantánamo [...]

Source: Agence France-Presse December 27, 2009 TEHRAN – Iran’s government cracked down on its opponents Monday, websites said, arresting two outspoken critics as well as several aides to main opposition leaders after eight people died in fierce clashes in Tehran. Opposition website Rahesabz said that Ebrahim Yazdi, who served as foreign minister in the early months of the [...]

Fuente: La Nación (Argentina) Lo dice la premio Nobel perseguida por Teherán por Elisabetta Piqué Fuente 23 de diciembre, 2009 Shirin Ebadi, premio Nobel de la Paz 2003, pelo corto, casi nada de maquillaje, tacos bajos, conjunto sobrio verde -el color de la protesta iraní contra el régimen de Mahmoud Ahmadinejad-, habla muy rápido en farsi. Sin pelos en [...]

Source: ZNet by Chris Spannos December 23, 2009 While attention to class has ebbed and flowed among social movements for generations, class rule was always present and the recent economic crisis has forced it back into the spotlight. But what is class rule and why is it important? People define class in diverse ways, but for me classes are [...]

Fuente: Pulse by Jasmin Ramsey December 14, 2009 Near the end of December 2008 the Israeli government began a vicious military assault on the occupied Gazan territories with a bombing campaign that progressed into a ground invasion.  In less than 1 month an estimated 1,400 Palestinians were murdered (1/3 of which were children), and thousands were displaced and [...]

Fuente: Frente Popular para la Liberación de Palestina Traducción: Loles Oliván y revisado por Caty R., Rebelión Declaración del Frente Popular para la Liberación de Palestina en el 42º aniversario de su creación Diciembre 2009 El Frente Popular para la Liberación de Palestina (FPLP), persiste hasta hoy desde su fundación, hace 42 años, el 11 de diciembre de 1967. [...]

Fuente (original article in English below): TomDispatch Traducción: Germán Leyens, Rebelión Retrato de la resistencia no violenta en una aldea palestina por Ellen Cantarow 8 de diciembre, 2009 Se habla mucho sobre la violencia en el conflicto israelí-palestino, pero pocas veces se oye hablar – por extraño que parezca – de la historia de la prolongada y determinada resistencia de [...]

No exageraba la ministra Fuente: al-Quds al-Arabí Traducción: Antonio Martínez Castro, Rebelión por Editorial de al-Quds al-Arabí No exageraba la ex ministra israelí Shulamit Aloni cuando el día que cumplía 82 años dijo: “No estoy satisfecha con el Estado de Israel y me resulta muy difícil dirigirle elogios, sin duda atravesamos una gran crisis de valores morales y sociales”. [...]

Source: Bill Moyers Journal December 11, 2009 Renowned historian Howard Zinn has chronicled centuries of people’s struggles against oppression. He joins Bill Moyers to discuss the voices of today’s people — facing big interests’ outsized influence — and his new film THE PEOPLE SPEAK.