5.02.08 countering media bias

Do We Hear the 'Very Silent Minority'?: A Call for Solidarity Work with Muslims and Arab Americans

Authors: Nancy Milio

Summary:

Dialogue can begin on our initiative or in unexpected ways, and can be followed up - when there is a concerted search for opportunity.

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Repression at the Republican Convention: The Criminalization of Dissent

Anti-war demonstration in St. Paul, MN, September 4, 2008. photo: Zoe Prinds-Flash
Authors: Tom Good

Summary:

The Republican Party Host Committee bribed St. Paul to violate protesters' rights. The city, and Homeland Security, complied.

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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

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

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How to Undo the Silence: Six Tools for Social Change Writing

Silence=Death, photo: Malik Williams
Authors: Louise Dunlap

Summary:

I feel like a leader because I know I can say what I mean.

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Civil Rights Photographer Ernest Withers

Protest March with police.
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Withers documented the Montgomery Bus Boycott, the Medgar Evers funeral, the integration of Little Rock High School, the March Against Fear, the Memphis sanitation workers' Strike and the assassination and funeral of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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What do you read for alternative progressive news?

Posted December 14th, 2007 by sdiener
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When I tell folks I'm co-editor of Peacework, one of the questions I get asked most is, "Where do you go for alternative news?" I'm never sure where to start, because of course, there are so many excellent peace and justice oriented magazines, newsletters, websites, and blogs out there. But in putting together a preliminary blog-roll for this site, I tried to pull together some of the sites I visit most often (see the blog roll on the right side of this page for links, and I'll paste the names in below as well).

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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Russia's Secret Heroes

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Authors: Anna Politkovskaya

Summary:

The logic of murder is a logic that is understood by the government and propagated by it. The way things are, you need to kill to become a Hero.

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