Mahbod Seraji | Thirty Years Later ...
An Iranian woman whose daughter was killed in post-election violence prays at the grave of Neda Agha Soltan, another victim of the backlash against the opposition. (Photo: AP)
Mahbod Seraji, Truthout: "As the 40th day of Neda's death was commemorated in Iran a few days ago, and as I read in an article on Truthout on August 11 that a staggering number of 4,000 people were detained in protests that followed June's disputed presidential election, I was reminded of my years there as a high school student just before the Islamic Revolution subdued the country and cast it into a nightmare from which it is still trying to awaken 30 years later." Continue Reading
Climate Disobedience: Is a New "Seattle" in the Making?
Tuesday 11 August 2009
by: Mark Engler | Visit article original @ TomDispatch.com
In Oxford, England, residents hold a demonstration as floods ravage their city. A growing global movement is using direct action to combat policies that exacerbate climate change. (Photo: Chris Ison / PA)
Mark Engler, TomDispatch.com: "In the early morning of October 8, 2007, a small group of British Greenpeace activists slipped inside a hulking smokestack that towers more than 600 feet above a coal-fired power plant in Kent, England. While other activists cut electricity on the plant's grounds, they prepared to climb the interior of the structure to its top, rappel down its outside, and paint in block letters a demand that Prime Minister Gordon Brown put an end to plants like the Kingsnorth facility, which releases nearly 20,000 tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere each day." Full Story
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