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A Cool Way To Go To School??? Colombia   video
World  (tags: Colombia, news, society, world )

Teresa
- 3 days ago - youtube.com
One way to get to school... Colombian Authorities should do something about this ASAP!!!!
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Iran: Journalists Detained as News Restrictions Tighten
World  (tags: HumanRights, humanrights, freedoms, 'HUMANRIGHTS!', world, society, terrorism, iran )

Ana
- 6 days ago - amnesty.org
The Iranian authorities must immediately release dozens of journalists arrested since 12 June and who are at risk of torture in detention, Amnesty International said today as it adopted all of them as prisoners of conscience.
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Arrest, Censorship and Manipulation Amid Trial of Aung San Suu Kyi
World  (tags: HumanRights, Burma, freedoms, asia, violence, society )

Ana
- 6 days ago - rsf.org
Reporters Without Borders and the Burma Media Association today condemned the military junta for intimidating the press trying to cover recent national and international events, as a journalist was jailed for two years after being arrested...
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Partial Victory in Peru, Laws to Be Repealed
World  (tags: humanrights, 'HUMANRIGHTS!', environment, goodnews, freedoms, world, society )

Cal
- 11 days ago - indiancountrytoday.com
Some 350,000 Amazon Natives finally got Peruvian President Alan Garcia's government to make good on a year-old promise to sit down for talks while the government party in Congress works to repeal a set of laws threatening Native lands.
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Iran's Regime: Marching Toward A Cliff
World  (tags: Iran, revolution, riot, Ayatollah, Khomeini, Ahmadinejad, election, fraud, crisis, students, twitter, world, islam, violence, middle-east, government, humanrights, freedoms, conflict, repression, police, abuse, killing, death, arrests, crime, society, cul )

Tom
- 11 days ago - therumpus.net
The Khomeinist regime in Iran is in terminal trouble. That doesn't mean Iran will repudiate Islam and become a secular democracy. The "Islamic Revolution" of Iran was never just about Islam. It was caused by three revolutionary currents coming together.
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Iranian Guards Issue Warning as Vote Errors Are Admitted
World  (tags: 'CIVILLIBERTIES!', 'HUMANRIGHTS!', conflict, corruption, crime, death, freedoms, government, iran, middle-east, politics, rebellion, society, terrorism, violence )

Kit
- 12 days ago - nytimes.com
Threatening to crush dissent, the powerful Revolutionary Guards warned protesters Monday that they would face a "revolutionary confrontation" if they returned to the streets to challenge the presidential election results in defiance of the country's ....
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Memo Reveals US Plan to Provoke Invasion of Iraq
World  (tags: 'HUMANRIGHTS!', conflict, corruption, crime, government, iraq, middle-east, politics, society, terrorism, USA, UK, violence, world, war )

Kit
- 12 days ago - truthout.org
A confidential record of a meeting between President Bush and Tony Blair before the invasion of Iraq, outlining their intention to go to war without a second United Nations resolution, will be an explosive issue for the official inquiry into the UK's....
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Social Networks Spread Defiance Online
World  (tags: media, middle-east, iran, politics, government, conflict, freedoms, HumanRights, society, humans )

Holly
- 17 days ago - nytimes.com
New kinds of social media are challenging those traditional levers of state media control and allowing Iranians to find novel ways around the restrictions.
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Are Arab Leaders Really So Unhappy to See Ahmadinejad Re-Elected?
World  (tags: world, iran, government, society, politics, interesting, middle-east, corruption )

Cal
- 20 days ago - mideast.blogs.time.com
So far most Arab leaders have reacted to the Iranian electoral crisis in typical Middle Eastern fashion: they haven't.
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OPP Brutally Attacks Peaceful Bocakade in Tyendinaga
World  (tags: Mohawk Nation, OPP, Canada, Genocide, Police State, Rights, Ethics, Politics, culture, society, rights, police, news, freedoms, blog, politics, violence )

Kat
- 20 days ago - letstalknativepride.blogspot.com
6:30 AM, June 12, 2009 In an early morning raid of the Mohawk blockade of the Skyway Bridge in Tyendinaga, swarms of OPP officers attacked and brutally assaulted demonstrators. The blockade was undertaken for a couple of reasons. One was to show of.
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India, Enlightened
World  (tags: India, poverty, slums, environment, society, HumanRights )

LaJana
- 21 days ago - onearth.org
Raise a Billion People out of Poverty Without Destroying the Environment. Can It Be Done?
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Both Sides Claim Victory in Iran Election
World  (tags: middle-east, iran, elections, government, humans, humanrights, society )

Cal
- 21 days ago - reuters.com
State media declared President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad the winner of Iran's election on Friday but challenger Mirhossein Mousavi alleged irregularities and claimed victory for himself.
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Ahmadinejad Declared Winner of Iran Election
World  (tags: 'CIVILLIBERTIES!', conflict, corruption, elections, government, iran, middle-east, politics, society, terrorism, violence, world )

Kit
- 22 days ago - washingtonpost.com
Iran's Interior Ministry declared Saturday that President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad won a decisive victory in Friday's presidential election, but the incumbent's leading challenger protested the results, and clashes broke out between the two candidates'....
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U.N. Security Council Adopts Stiffer Curbs on North Korea
World  (tags: 'HUMANRIGHTS!', conflict, death, dictatroship, government korea, society, terrorism, UnitedNations, violence, war )

Kit
- 22 days ago - nytimes.com
The Security Council unanimously passed a resolution on Friday to tighten sanctions targeting North Korea's nuclear and missile development programs, including encouraging United Nations members to inspect cargo vessels and airplanes suspected of....
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Oil and Indians Don't MIx
World  (tags: 'HUMANRIGHTS!', africa, alaska, amazon, conflict, corruption, crime, government, society, violence )

Kit
- 22 days ago - truthout.org
There's an easy way to find oil. Go to some remote and gorgeous natural sanctuary, say Alaska or the Amazon, find some Indians, then drill down under them. If the indigenous folk complain, well, just shoo them away. Shooing methods include: bulldozers...
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