4.03.03 underground media and broadcasting

Trauma and Resilience: Covering the Colombian Civil War

October 2008. La Ruta Pacifica de las Mujeres is a coalition of over 200 Colombian womenís organizations. They hold events for peace and nonviolence throughout the year and also coordinate an annual parade, held in different violent regions, to giv
Authors: Jenny Manrique Cortés

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Telling the truth is frequently unpopular, but it is an important way to help communities survive and grow, and heal the wounds opened by war.

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Uprooting the System: Reflections on the Strategic Use of People Power

Protester against corporate globalization and patenting seed varieties, Seattle WTO meeting, November 1999 Photo: Spinnerin via Flickr, http://www.flickr.com/photos/ame/162825118/
Authors: David Solnit

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We need to articulate people-power-based strategies or folks will de-mobilize every election cycle.

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Authors: Sam Diener

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In Memory of Saudi Feminist Blogger Hadeel Alhodaif

Authors: HAMSA

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Syrian Human Rights Defenders Brave Jail: Repression Met with Waves of Resistance

Syrian stamps celebrating the UN Declaration of Human Rights, Photo: Joseph Morris
Authors: Dr. Radwan Ziadeh

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Ali Abdullah has been jailed three times. One of his sons is serving a five-year sentence for involvement in a pro-democracy youth group. The other chose exile.

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Requiem for a Brave Woman

Authors: Susanne Fischer

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

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Photojournalist Becomes Eyewitness: Beaten by Police in Zimbabwe after Prayer Vigil

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Authors: Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi

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A senior police officer told us to wash off the blood. Was this out of sympathy or a desire to remove the evidence?

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