Sustainability| More...
 

Revolution

Twitter Co-founder Jack Dorsey On Using Twitter For Social Change

Huffington Post | Shams Kazi | Posted 11.05.2009 | Impact

Read More: Social Good, Alliance for Youth Movements, Revolution, Twitter, Iran Election, Jack Dorsey, #Pman, Moldova, Twitter Revolution, Impact News

In case you haven't noticed, Twitter has made headlines recently as a platform for passionate people to effect social change. In April, the presiden...

Read Whole Story

Congratulations President Obama on the Nobel Peace Prize -- Now Please Earn it!

Michael Moore | Posted 10.09.2009 | World

Read More: War on Terror, Nuclear Weapons, Afghanistan, Michael Moore, Revolution, George W. Bush, Guantanamo, Nobel Peace Prize, Iraq, September 11th, Barack Obama, World News
Michael Moore

Freedom can not be delivered from the front seat of someone else's Humvee. You have to end our involvement in Afghanistan now. If you don't, you'll have no choice but to return the prize to Oslo.

Read Post

Honduras Allows Relief, But Military Digs In

Ashley Rindsberg | Posted 09.24.2009 | World

Read More: Honduras, Zelaya, Micheletti, Coup, Central America, Revolution, Roberto Micheletti, Manuel Zelaya, World News
Ashley Rindsberg

Today's curfew lift will reveal much. If the majority of the country remains quiet and orderly there might be a mellowing of the situation. If clashes erupt, the crisis will spiral.

Read Post

Gunfire, Tear Gas in Honduran Capital

Ashley Rindsberg | Posted 09.24.2009 | World

Read More: Zelaya, Honduras, Central America, Coup, Tegucigalpa, Revolution, World News
Ashley Rindsberg

Gunfire, the smell of burning tires, and tear gas woke me up Tuesday morning. Tegucigalpa's Palmira neighborhood erupted into violence at around 5 AM.

Read Post

Palestinian Nationalism Revisited

Daoud Kuttab | Posted 10.20.2009 | World

Read More: Syria, Armed Struggle, Palestine, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, Assad, Arafat, Jamal Abdel Nasser, Revolution, Palestinian Nationalism, Palestinian, World News
Daoud Kuttab

The 21st century has seen a major deterioration in Arab nationalism. Major pan-Arab movements have either been disgraced or have proven ineffective.

Read Post

The Unconstitutional Un-Islamic Republic of Iran

Melody Moezzi | Posted 09.14.2009 | World

Read More: Taraneh-Mousavi, Shiraz, Iran Twitter, Islamic Revolution, Ayatollah Khomeini, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Laleh, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Friday-Prayer, World News, Karroubi Rape, Shah, Iran, Green Movement, Shi’A, Mehdi Karroubi, Islamic Republic of Iran, Tehran, Iran Protests, Revolution, Iranian Constitution, Iranian Election 2009, Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, Rafsanjani, Islam, Neda Agha-Soltan, Rape, Ayatollah, Ayatollah Khamenei, Iran-Opposition, Rape Iran, Shi’ite, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Martyr, Mir Hossein Mousavi, Evin, Constitution, Show Trials, Iranian Election, Martyrs, Neda Agha Soltan, Neda, Torture, Ayatollah Hashemi Rafsanjani, World News
Melody Moezzi

With increasing accounts of rape, torture, forced confessions and skewed judicial proceedings, the Iranian government is losing any credibility it had left, including any legitimate claim to Islam.

Read Post

Asking Pakistanis, When?

Betwa Sharma | Posted 09.12.2009 | World

Read More: Radicalism, Susan Boyle, Islamabad, Pakistan, Swat Valley, Taliban, Karachi, Revolution, Pakistanis, Pakistan Taliban, Pakistan Army, World News
Betwa Sharma

Why have Pakistanis endured decades of bad politics and their violent consequences? Why do they watch their leaders play a foolhardy game with the Taliban? Can they not do more?

Read Post

Cuba: Next in Line for a Color Revolution?

Boris Mamlyuk | Posted 09.02.2009 | World

Read More: Cuba, Fidel Castro, Cuban Revolution, Revolution, Iran, Iran Protests, World News
Boris Mamlyuk

Revolutions start with powerful ideas. The mode of transmission is secondary.

Read Post

Iran's Red Tulip Revolution

Melody Moezzi | Posted 08.29.2009 | World

Read More: Shiraz, Iran Twitter, Underground Railroad, Media, Islamic Revolution, Ayatollah Khomeini, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Friday-Prayer, World News, Shah, Iran, Shi’A, Islamic Republic of Iran, Tehran, Iran Protests, Revolution, Iranian Election 2009, Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, Rafsanjani, Neda Agha-Soltan, Ayatollah, Ayatollah Khamenei, Facebook, Shi’ite, Martyr, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Mir Hossein Mousavi, Iranian Election, Martyrs, Neda Agha Soltan, Neda, Ayatollah Hashemi Rafsanjani, Laleh, Taraneh-Mousavi, Tulip, Evin, Iran-Opposition, World News
Melody Moezzi

With each death at the hands of the regime, a martyr is born, and with each martyr, the seed of revolution is planted.

Read Post

GOP Senator: U.S. Is "Where Germany Was Before WWII"

The Washington Independant | Posted 08.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Jim Demint, Demint, Freedom, Germany, America, Iran, Tyranny, Socialism, Gop, Republican Party, Hugo Chavez, Obama Administration, Obama, Revolution, Politics News

Last night, Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) gave a short talk and Q&A at at the National Press Club about his book "Saving Freedom." DeMint told a room of ar...

Read Whole Story

Obama: Is it Time to Give Up? (Part III of a Series)

Peter Clothier | Posted 08.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Change, Hope, Revolution, Barack Obama, Progressives, Obama Hope, Politics News
Peter Clothier

I have watched with increasing dismay as "the system" manages to re-establish itself after the ripple of the Obama election.

Read Post

Separation of Mosque and Mosul

Jeff Schweitzer | Posted 07.30.2009 | World

Read More: Mir Hossein Mousavi, Iran, Obama, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Khomeni, Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, Revolution, World News
Jeff Schweitzer

With the Supreme Leader's divine authority in question, the appeal to God as a source of legitimacy is no longer a viable basis on which to promote democracy.

Read Post

Code Orange And June Bugs

Rochelle Lefkowitz | Posted 07.26.2009 | Politics

Read More: Media-Accountability, Media Activism, Lesbian, Kai Wright, Gay, Transgender Issues, Andy Humm, Journalism, Civil Rights, Pro-Media, Joan Garry, Lgbt, Transgender, Bisexual, Revolution, Media Criticism, Pride, Gay Pride, Gay Marriage, Stonewall, Gay Issues, Manhattan, New School, Nlgja, Politics News
Rochelle Lefkowitz

It's June, that month more or less identified with weddings -- and Rainbow Pride -- and we seem to have been busily courting a new generation to embrace gay marriage.

Read Post

Learning from Iran's Past Revolutions

Nathan Gonzalez | Posted 07.25.2009 | World

Read More: June 12, Iranian Revolution, Rafsanjani, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Uprising, Mosque, Mobilization, Iranian Election, The Green Revolution, Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Constitutional Revolution, Mir Hossein Mousavi, Revolution, Social Protest, Bazaar, Islamic Revolution, 1979, Tehran, Ayatollah Khomeini, Tobacco Portest, World News
Nathan Gonzalez

If the uprising can grow to include the massive bazaars of Tehran, Tabriz, Isfahan and Shiraz, it is hard to imagine how Ayatollah Khamenei would not change his tune, or even be forced to step aside.

Read Post

Obama is Doing Right by the Iranian People, So Far

Shirin Sadeghi | Posted 07.25.2009 | World

Read More: Lebanon, Hugo Chavez, Britain, Afghanistan, Iranian, President Obama, Sunni, Violence, Paramilitary, Hezbollah, Iran, Taliban, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Basij, George W. Bush, Arab, Revolution, United States, Protest, Tiananmen Square, Shiite, Occupied Territories, Mass Movement, Iraq, John McCain, World News
Shirin Sadeghi

The conflicts in Iraq, Afghanistan, Lebanon, and the Occupied Territories, which Bush et al either supported or outright committed, actually strengthened the Ahmadinejad government.

Read Post

Che Gueverette: Rodizio Slayer

Warren Holstein | Posted 07.24.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Steven Soderbergh, Vegetarian, Peta, Lydia Guevara PETA Campaign, Fubar, Che Guevara, Vegetarianism, Batista, The Green Revolution, Cuban Revolution, Cuban Missile Crisis, Revolution, Health, Lydia-Guevara, Cuba, Guerilla Warfare, Politics, Comedy News
Warren Holstein

Yesiree, the ole family legacy lives on as the Butcher of La Cabana's bodacious petite-fille is out to butcher the butchers by showcasing her prime cuts.

Read Post

Power and Protest, in Iran and at Home

Jesse Larner | Posted 07.24.2009 | World

Read More: White House, Bani-Sadr, Cairo, Bush, Moussavi, Revolution, 1979, Obama, Iran, Tehran, Rafsanjani, Farhang, Ahmadinejad, Election, World News
Jesse Larner

American conservatives who believe that any resistance to tyranny somehow must carry an American trademark would do well to remind themselves that theocracy is incompatible with liberal democracy.

Read Post

Iran: Media Loves a Revolution

Michael Wolff | Posted 07.24.2009 | Media

Read More: Michael Wolff, Joe Klein, Iran, Media, Iranian Revolution, Revolution, Media News
Michael Wolff

More than murder, corruption, war, scandal, it's revolution that the media adores.

Read Post

Iran Is the World's First Pink Revolution

Diane Francis | Posted 07.24.2009 | World

Read More: Islam, Iran, Human Rights, Islamic Republic of Iran, Revolution, Ukraine, Orange Revolution, Democracy, International Women's Rights, Neda, China, China Human Rights, Rebellion, Tiananmen Square, World News
Diane Francis

Iranian women are standing shoulder to shoulder in a way never before seen in a society that mistreats them so severely.

Read Post

Revolution.com

Cedric Perrier | Posted 07.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Blackberry, Left Wing, Twitter, Digg, Referendum, Obama, Iran, China, Tiananmen Square, Iphone, Mir Hossein Mousavi, Change in Regime, Centrism, Conservatives, Revolution, Tehran, Mao Zedong, Bono, Politics News
Cedric Perrier

In the last six months alone, we have begun to see the rise of the electronic electorate and with it a real prospect for the growth of Referendum politics.

Read Post

Prague, Beirut, or Tiananmen? Iran Teeters on the Edge

Mark Levine | Posted 07.17.2009 | World

Read More: Elections, Iran, Democracy, Obama, Middle East, Revolution, Obama Middle East, World News
Mark Levine

It's hard not to wonder why a government that is confident it won fair and square would authorize police to beat citizens with abandon.

Read Post

Post-Election Iran: What America Must Do Now

Shirin Sadeghi | Posted 07.15.2009 | World

Read More: Freedom of the Press, Dialogue, Palestine, Women's Rights, Hostages, Martyrdom, President Obama, Reformist, Obama, Iran, Iran-Contra, Revolution, Freedom, Israel, Khomeini, Ayatollah, Islamist, Iran-Iraq War, Iranian, Afghanistan, Cultural Revolution, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Khatami, Mir Hossein Mousavi, Anti-Americanism, Barack Obama, Superpower, Iranian-Presidential-Election, Iraq, Muslim, Non-Muslim, Islamic Republic of Iran, Iran News, Iran Election, Iran Elections, Iran Election News, Election Iran, Shirin Sadeghi Post-Election Iran, World News
Shirin Sadeghi

The Iranian Republic requires American antagonism to uphold its regional influence and its stranglehold on the Iranian people - the United States should deprive it of this gift.

Read Post

Threats of Secession and Other Recent Republican Rhetoric

Lincoln Mitchell | Posted 05.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Taxes, Bill Clinton, Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush, Secession, Texas, Franklin Roosevelt, Civil War, Vice President Barack Obama, Tea Bag, Tea Baggers, Revolution, Texas Governor Rick Perry, Rick Perry, Socialism, Tea Party, Republican Party, Politics News
Lincoln Mitchell

Those on the far right can't have it both ways, calling for revolution and secession on the one hand, while protesting a report raising concerns about right wing extremist violence on the other.

Read Post

Tea And Sympathy

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: American Revolution, President Obama, Washington, Rebel, Boston, Monopoly, Fox, Obama, Media, Tin Foil Hat, Taxation Without Representation, Dc, Britain, East India Company, Teabag, Tax Day, Tea Taxes, Tea Bag, Almost Got Shagged, Cuppa Tea, Cigarettes, Fellow Traveler, Revolution, British East India Company, Protest, Lower Taxes, Higher Taxes, Tea Party, Protestors, Tea, Parliament, Taxes, Tobacco Tax, Smokers, Tea Tax, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Boston Tea Party, Washington DC, Anti-Tax, Smuggler, Barack Obama, Teabag Party, Smuggling, Tax, Chris Weigant, Smuggle, Giles, Fox News, Cigarette Taxes, Boston Harbor, Colonies, Spike, Cigarette Tax, Tinfoil Hat, Tax Day Tea Party, Buffy, United Kingdom, Politics News
Chris Weigant

If the modern-day Tea Parties are smart, they would try to educate the public and hang their whole protest on the "anti-bailout" hook.

Read Post

Forget Utopia, It's Only an Illusion: I'll Work for a Viable Cuba, Not a Perfect One

Yoani Sanchez | Posted 02.22.2009 | World

Read More: Raul Castro, Cuba, Fidel Casto, Revolution, Politics, World, World News
Yoani Sanchez

Faced with the promises of a future that never takes shape, I lean toward the prospects that begin today, toward the dreams that materialize on this day.

Read Post