In this notebook text-messages and short message services are used to engage young people to quickly stop torture. Amnesty International-Netherlands recognized that text-messaging was an easy medium to use to reach out to youth. It was successfully used to protest torture when the Democratic Republic of Congo arrested a journalist.
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Blog: protest photos from the US RNC 2008
As follow up to my last post, I'd like to pass along some links to photos of the Republican National Convention protests in St. Paul, MN, USA. Most of the march was quite peaceful, but several groups of anarchist/vandals did incite some violence, which unfortunately overshadowed the nonviolent message that most people carried that day.
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Blog: Can the language of Otpor! be universal?
In the late 1990s, the organization Otpor! developed in
Milosevic-ruled Serbia.
Considered by many as a rag-tag group of student protestors, the group soon
became the leading citizen-based force for resistance to the Milosevic regime.
Otpor! used non-violent tactics to create a broad base of citizen support and
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Blog: Looking at recent events in Myanmar...
For the past month, Buddhists monks have been marching and practicing civil disobedience in Myanmar (formerly Burma).This past weekend (September 23) the marches gained more participants, and attention. The Associated Press reports that upwards of 100,000 people led by hundreds of Buddhist monks marched through the streets of Myanmar’s largest city, Yangon.
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