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G8 Italy Protests: George Clooney & Greenpeace

World leaders have gathered in L'Aquila, Italy for the G8 conference. They've also attracted the attention of protestors... more

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Thousands protest in Iran, defying crackdown

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Thousands of protesters streamed down avenues of the capital Thursday, chanting "death to the... more

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Iran opposition urges EU not to recognize Ahmadinejad

Washington, 9 July (WashingtonTV)—A spokesperson for Iranian opposition leader, Mir Hossein Mousavi, on Wednesday called on... more

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South Florida Hondurans show support for military coup

More than 200 Hondurans lifted candles, waved their blue-and-white flags and chanted "Zelaya must go" outside the... more

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Ethnic tensions boil over as 156 die in China riots, police arrest 1,400

URUMQI, China - Police fired tear gas Tuesday to try to restore order as hundreds of Han Chinese armed with clubs marched through... more

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Dubai Police stop Iranians from signing anti-Ahmadinejad petition

Washington, 6 July (WashingtonTV)—Dubai Police on Sunday blocked Iranian protesters from signing a petition against... more

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2009 San Francisco Gay Pride Parade

On Sunday (06-28-09) was the 36th Annual San Francisco LGBT Pride Parade. The gay community gathered on a joyful march along... more

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Protesters awarded $200,000

A group of student protesters who sued police and a former parliamentary speaker over their arrests in Parliament Grounds 12 years... more

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New York fund to divest from Iran- and Sudan-linked companies

Washington, 1 July (WashingtonTV)—New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli announced on Tuesday that the state’s... more

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The West Des Moines Project

This submission examines my home town's reaction to its high school production of The Laramie Project. About a Wyoming... more

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100,000 rally against U.S. in N. Korea

SEOUL, South Korea - Punching their fists into the air and shouting "Let's crush them!" some 100,000 North Koreans... more

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China, Cuba and Burma fear activism in Iran could spread

Out of fear that history might repeat itself, the authoritarian governments of China, Cuba and Burma have been selectively censoring the news this month of Iranian crowds braving government militias on the streets of Tehran to demand democratic reforms.

Between 1988 and 1990, amid a lesser global economic slump, pro-democracy protests that appeared to inspire and energize one another broke out in Eastern Europe, Burma, China and elsewhere. Not all evolved into full-fledged revolutions, but communist regimes fell in a broad swath of countries, and the global balance of power shifted.

A similar infectiousness has shown up in subtle acts of defiance by democracy advocates around the world this week.

In China, political commentators tinted their blogs and Twitters green to show their support for Iranians disputing President Ahmoud Ahmadinejad's reelection. The deaths of at least 20 people in violent clashes in Tehran have drawn comparisons online to "June 4," the date of the Tiananmen Square crackdown in Beijing in 1989. And a pointed joke about how Iranians are luckier than Chinese because sham elections are better than no elections made the rounds on the country's vast network of Internet bulletin boards.

"The Iranian people face the same problems as us: news censorship and no freedom to have their own voices," 28-year-old blogger Zhou Shuguang said in a telephone interview from the inland province of Hunan. Zhou said he and several friends were among those who had colored their online pictures green, the signature color of the Iranian opposition.

In Cuba, President Raúl Castro's government has imposed a complete blackout of news surrounding the Iranian elections. But word of developments is trickling through, anyway.

In Burma, the junta's mouthpiece, the New Light of Myanmar, has drowned out news from Tehran with articles on bombings in Iraq and Afghanistan. But some of the nearly 200 journals published privately in Rangoon and Mandalay have seized on the topic as a way to pass subversive messages to readers.Out of fear that history might repeat itself, the authoritarian governments of China, Cuba and Burma have been selectively... more

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Michael Jackson pays tribute to Iranians

A montage of Iran's protest photos along with Michael Jackson's "Beat It".

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Ahmadinejad tells Obama to stop “interfering” in Iran

Washington, 25 June (WashingtonTV)—Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Thursday accused US President Barack Obama... more

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Ahmadinejad: Obama acting like Bush

Editor's note: Iranian authorities have barred journalists for international news organizations from reporting on the streets and ordered them to stay in their offices. This report is based on the accounts of witnesses reached in Iran and official statements carried on Iranian media.

TEHRAN, Iran - President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad accused Barack Obama of behaving like his White House predecessor and called on him to apologize for what he called U.S. interference following Iran's elections.

Obama has ramped up his previously muted criticism, saying he was "appalled and outraged" by a crackdown on protests which followed Ahmadinejad's disputed re-election.

"Mr. Obama made a mistake to say those things ... our question is why he fell into this trap and said things that previously (former U.S. President George W.) Bush used to say," the semi-official Fars News Agency quoted Ahmadinejad as saying.

Before the election, the Obama administration had indicated that it was interested in reaching out to Iran, after years of a diplomatic freeze following the 1979 Islamic Revolution. Iran has given no clear signal that it is interested in Obama's overture, and in the wake of the election, the U.S. leader has slowly ratcheted up his criticism of Iran.

Meanwhile, 70 university professors were detained in Iran in a widening government crackdown on protesters, according to a Web site affiliated with opposition politician Mir Hossein Mousavi, who says he was robbed of victory in a rigged presidential election.

The professors were detained on Wednesday, immediately after meeting with Mousavi, the Kalemeh site said. The report said it is not clear where the detainees were taken.

Mousavi said for the first time Thursday that he is being isolated by authorities and pressured to drop his presidential election challenge.

In a statement on his Web site, Mousavi suggested he would stand strong. "I cannot modify black as white and white as black," he was quoted as saying. "This is not the solution to expect me to express something in which I don't believe."Editor's note: Iranian authorities have barred journalists for international news organizations from reporting on the streets... more