5.03.04 liberation movements

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Colleagues of mine in Zimbabwe were jailed and tortured by the Mugabe administration, but I was expected by pro-Mugabe activists in the USA to say nothing, and indeed, to deny everything.

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The two employees formed the Polaroid Revolutionary Workers Movement, which demanded that the company disengage from South Africa and contribute its profits made in South Africa to recognized African liberation movements.

Summary:The logic of those who want Iraq to fail dictates that anything that might give hope must be destroyed.

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Naresh Dadhich reviews People Power: Fifty Peacemakers and Their Communities

People Power's artistic storytelling personalizes and universalizes success stories of nonviolent struggle.

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Western Sahara is a sparsely populated territory about the size of Colorado, located on the Atlantic coast in northwestern Africa just south of Morocco. Traditionally inhabited by nomadic Arab tribes, collectively known as Sahrawis and famous for their long history of resistance to outside domination, the territory was occupied by Spain from the late 1800s through the mid-1970s, well over a decade after most African countries had achieved their freedom from European colonialism.

The nationalist Polisario Front launched an armed independence struggle against Spain in 1973, and Madrid eventually promised the people of what was then still known as the Spanish Sahara a referendum on the fate of the territory by the end of 1975.

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Gandhi rightly believed in the efficacy of pitting the soul force of the nonviolent protester against the brute force of the oppressor.

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The police officer said the meeting was banned. It was a prayer service, came the reply. "Who were you praying for?" "For you."

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On Valentine's Day, 2003, WOZA held its first demonstrations, calling on Zimbabwe to "Learn to love again." Valentine's Day was chosen as a significant date in the WOZA calendar because of the association with love -- love of self, of family, of community and of country.

On that day in Bulawayo, fourteen women and one man were arrested and held in appalling conditions for 24 hours. They were charged under the Public Order Security Act and then released. The Harare protest was conducted outside the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) office. Riot police arrested over 49 members, including a 65-year-old Dominican nun. Only one WOZA member, Jennifer Williams, was charged and all members were released within hours of arrest.

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"We are saying we exist and that we are part of society. We want to be treated as people because we are people, we are human beings living in the same world."

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Peacework asked activists across the country to fill in the blank, "If I could show one under-appreciated film or video to a room full of potential organizers, I'd show..." and explain why or how they'd use that film.