Northern Africa

Targeted Divestment: an Approach to Stopping Genocide in Sudan/Darfur

Authors: Sudan Divestment Task Force

Summary:

Oil money fuels the genocide. Cut off the flow of money.

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Open Letter to Obama Regarding Darfur: End CIA Involvement, Increase Diplomatic Efforts

Authors:

Summary:

First, cut CIA ties to Sudan's Intelligence agency.

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Closer to a Death-Penalty-Free World: But in 2008: 2390 Known Executions

For the World Day Against the Death Penalty, an anti-death penalty message was projected against the Roman Collosseum, a former public mass execution site. Italy banned the death penalty in 1947. PHOTO: NOVEMBER 30, 2006, FABIO RENZETTI VIA FLICKR
Authors: Amnesty International

Summary:

Capital punishment is a legalized process of physical and psychological terror.

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Egyptian Activist Twitters to Freedom: Wael Abbas Used Cell Phone from Custody to Mobilize Support

Egyptian blogger and activist, Wael Abbas, PHOTO: CAIRO, JUNE 18, 2008, E. ZARWAN VIA FLICKR
Authors: Wael Abbas

Summary:

I received solidarity messages from China to Argentina.

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Millions Saved: Proven Successes in Global Health

Authors: Ruth Levine and the What Works Working Group with Molly Kinder

Summary:

Large-scale public health successes are both possible and replicable.

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A People and a Poet: The Voice of Mahmoud Darwish

Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish in Amman, Jordan, February 2008. Photo: Jamal Nasrallah
Authors: Ibtisam Barakat

Summary:In the absence of home, Darwish turned language into a spacious tent -- for us and for all who needed a home.

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Forestalling Another Rain of Ruin: The Need to Abolish Nuclear Weapons

The ruins of a library at Angkor Wat, Cambodia, June, 2007. PHOTO: TREY RATCLIFF
Authors: Zia Mian

Summary:

Zia Mian reviews books on the current nuclear threat by Joseph Gerson, Joseph Cirincione, and William
Langewiesche.

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Stop the Killing: Arab Activists Call for Ending the Death Penalty in Arab Countries

Egyptian labor bloggers Hossam el-Hamalawy and Kareem el-Beheiry. Kareem was jailed from April to early June 2008 after promoting and covering an April 6 general strike (partially organized via Facebook!) and ongoing independent labor union activism cente
Authors: Amman Centre for Human Rights Studies

Summary:

Sharia'a law insists that room be left for forgiveness and reconciliation.

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A Politics of Inclusion: An Interview with Egyptian Democracy Advocate Saad Eddin Ibrahim

Following a fire in the Qale't el-Kabsh slum of Cairo, residents were promised replacement housing and compensation, but many received nothing. After a prosecutor told residents and the Egyptian Center for Housing Rights that they would not pursue
Authors: Saad Eddin Ibrahim

Summary:

Women got upset and marched to the Royal Palace. The King called me and said, 'Saad, do you see what is happening?' I said, 'Yes, but that is democracy, your Majesty.'

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Diversity is the Revolution: The Tharwa Manifesto for Nonviolent Change in the Middle East

Families of Lebanese, Palestinian, Syrian, and Egyptian men who disappeared into Syrian prisons during the Lebanese civil war staged a sit-in protest in front of the UN House in Beirut for more than a year. photo: E. Zarwan,June 27, 2006
Authors: Ammar Abdulhamid

Summary:

We approach our struggle in the spirit of hope, love, and magnanimity.

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