Nonviolent Action

Every time the regime represses, it further undermines its own power while simultaneously helping to recruit new members to the resistance.

There has been a longstanding Iranian tradition of such largely nonviolent civil insurrections against imperialist powers and autocratic rulers. No outside power is needed to convince the Iranian people to rebel.

To seriously question the Iranians' ownership of their struggle serves the interests of a brutal regime and risks undermining the morale of individuals participating in a true peoples' movement.

In case you missed it, another blow to the Iranian regime's legitimacy was delivered yesterday when the Grand Ayatollah Montazeri issued a statement d...

The Iranian people alone have the right and the capability to reform or bring down the country's increasingly illegitimate regime and establish a more just and democratic society.

On the eve of the Tiananmen Square Massacre, musicians sang together in the Catskill Mountains, protesting not only the tragedy unfolding in Beijing, but the betrayals of 20th century socialism.

Roxana Saberi's story should be the beginning of another story, and that is the US government's speaking up about human rights atrocities in all parts of the world, rather than just Darfur.

The triumph of democracy in the Maldive Islands should be counted as yet another example of the power of civil resistance to create a government by the people, for the people.