Uprising

Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet at the Joyce Theater

Margaret Fuhrer | Posted 05.18.2012

Read More: Acacia Schachte, Grace Engine, Jon Bond, Harumi Terayama, Crystal Pite, Owen Belton, Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet, Uprising, Joyce Theater, Ten Duets on a Theme of Rescue, Angelin Preljocaj, Violet Kid, Hofesh Shechter, Ohad Naharin, William Forsythe, Contemporary-Ballet, Sock Ballets, Cedar Lake Ballet, Arts News

Fluid and changeable, they flatter dancers: Each beautiful position bleeds into the next one, so that mistakes and flaws don't have time to crystallize. Not that it's hard to make Cedar Lake's dancers -- ballet's cool kids -- look good.

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Remembering Revolution: A Few Thoughts on the 20th Anniversary of the Los Angeles Riots/Uprising.

Javon Johnson | Posted 05.02.2012

Read More: Los Angeles Riots, Remembering, Uprising, Race, Class, Los Angeles, Culture, Bv-Politics, Los Angeles Riots: 20 Years Later, Lame Duck Session, Black Voices News

As we reflect on the 20th anniversary of one of the most significant human events in recent history, many are asking if we are better off now than just two decades before. While I understand the impetus for this kind of thinking, the question is far too simplistic.

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How To Make A Difference (PHOTO)

Carolita Johnson | Posted 10.08.2011

Read More: Unemployment, Social Networking, General Strike, Oscarina, Carolita Johnson, Middle Class, Pensions, Jobs, Uprising, Health Benefits, Comedy News

You'd think there'd be some kind of general uprising against the way large corporations are still not raising salaries or even hiring until they get more tax breaks. Good thing there's social media, or they'd be quaking in their boots...

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"Syria's Rulers Cannot Hold Back the Arab Spring"

Meedan | Posted 10.02.2011

Read More: Arab Spring, Uprising, Middle East, Homs, Arab, Revolution, Syria, World News

As part of the Meedan translation series on the Arab Spring, a journalist from Homs recounts his experience of living through an uprising facing a vio...

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The Carnage Continues in Afghanistan

Robert Greenwald and Derrick Crowe | Posted 07.18.2011

Read More: Hamid Karzai, Afghansitan, Rethink Afghanistan, Osama Bin Laden, Riot, Uprising, Counterinsurgency, Brave New Foundation, Taloqan, World News

A quiet city in the north of Afghanistan ignited today after yet another NATO night raid reportedly tore another family apart. Thousands of people took to the streets, again chanting, "Death to America!" as they pelted Karzai's billboards with mud and stones.

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Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire: 7 Books To Remember The 100th Anniversary

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire Books, Shirtwaist Factory Fire, Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, Factory Fire, Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire Anniversary, Uprising, Ashes of Roses, Slidepollajax, Triangle a Novel, Books News

One hundred years ago today, the Triangle Shirtwaist fire killed 175 people who were either trapped or leapt to their death to escape the flames. The ...

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Tehran's Dilemma in Trying to Have It Both Ways

Alireza Jafarzadeh | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Egypt, Khamenei, Irgc, Gaddafi, Iraq, Ben Ali, Hezbollah, Uprising, Iran, Mek, Ahmadinejad, Tehran, Protest, Unrest, Baghdad, Libya, Mubarak, Maliki, World News

To no one's surprise, the regime ruling Iran is watching the unrest in the Middle East and North Africa, searching for a way to exploit the outcomes to its advantage.

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Obama Should Give Second Cairo Speech

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: People Power, Egypt, White House, President Obama, Speech, Pakistan, Iraq, Obama, Cairo Speech, China, Uprising, Tiananmen Square, North Africa, Military, Middle East, Saudi Arabia, Revolution, Demonstrations, Democracy, Bahrain, Barack Obama, Foreign Policy, Barack Hussein Obama, Monarchies, Chris Weigant, Cairo, Libya, Afghanistan, Hillary Clinton, Cuba, Politics News

People in America need to hear this type of leadership, and the people in the region who are risking everything -- including their lives -- to protest tyranny absolutely deserve to hear from Obama at this point.

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Demonstrators Overthrow Al Jazeera

MP Nunan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Egypt Protests, Television, Emir of Qatar, Egypt Revolution, Bbc, Middle East, Pakistan, Al-Qaeda, Protests, Mubarak, Al Jazeera, Algeria, Censorship, State Department, Bahrain, Qatar, Aid, Producer, Cable, Revolution, Analysis, Foreign Affairs, Comedy Central Policy, Humor, Correspondent, Nbc, Letterman, Field Producer, Policy, Egypt, Network, Columnist, Media, Anderson Cooper, Leno, Uprising, Comedy Writer, Satire, Protest, Aid-Work, Cable News, Development, Comedy, Stewart, Reporter, Colbert, Writer, Yemen, Democracy, Foreign Policy, Fake News, Television Reporter, Ngo, Cnn, Foreign Correspondent, Cairo, Current Affairs, News, Non-Governmental Organization, International, Comedy News

(Doha, Qatar) - In the latest twist to the wave of protests spreading across the Middle East, demonstrators have overthrown the Al Jazeera television ...

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Revolutionary Thoughts

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Egypt, People Power, Al Qaeda, White House, Fifth Fleet, President Obama, Cia, Obama, American, Iraq, Media, Uprising, America, North Africa, Iran, West Western, Military, Middle East, Revolution, Protest, US, Navy, Transfer of Power, Tunisia, Terrorism, Yemen, Joe Biden, Bahrain, Barack Obama, Election, Protesters, Tourism, Revolutionary, Chris Weigant, Banking, Hillary Clinton, Bloodbath, Coup, Tunisami, World News

Don't expect an outcome equal to the (mostly) peaceful overthrows in Tunisia and Egypt in every single country now affected by this "people power" movement. There are major differences from country to country.

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What the South Side of Chicago Could Learn From Egypt

Anne Peterson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Civil Resistance, Chicago Public Schools, Chicago, Slidepollajax, Uprising, Chicago South Side, Bronzeville, Chicago News

The South Side has so much to offer. Yet we've allowed it to fall into decay through sheer greed and ignorance.

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Egypt's Revolt: Puncturing the Myth of Arab Immaturity

Sharon Waxman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Egypt, Democracy, Uprising, Middle East, Arabs, Revolution, World News

It's the day after the Egyptian revolution, and now it's time for us in the West to take our man-pill. Our public posture has always been that we sup...

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Why Egypt's Nonviolent Victory Is a Win for Us All

Cynthia Boaz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Egypt, Mass Nonviolent Action, Media Criticism, Tibet, Violence, Media, Uprising, Peace, Iran, South Africa, Gandhi, Belarus, Egypt Revolution, Middle East, Revolution, Peacemaking, Jordan, Civil Resistance, Yemen, Repression, Mideast, Tunisia, Chile, Palestine, Democracy, Egypt Uprising, Mainstream Media, Nonviolence, Burma, Nonviolent Action, Mubarak, Israel, World News

The movement in Egypt had been planned carefully and had been effective in conveying the need for both sustained pressure on the regime and strict nonviolent discipline.

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The F Word: Media Miss the Al Jazeera Story

Laura Flanders | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Egypt, Detention, Free Speech TV, Frank Rich, Broadcast, Mosaic, Media, Uprising, Grit Tv, Linktv, Television, Big Noise Films, Cable, Laura Flanders, Cairo, Grittv, Al Jazeera, Independent Media, Detained, Media News

One of the biggest stories of the past few weeks has been the story of Americans discovering Al Jazeera English. It shouldn't have been so hard. As ...

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Egypt Protests: Books On Uprisings And Revolts

newyorker.com | Posted by Jon Lee Anderson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Egypt, Uprising, Egypt Protests, Revolt, Egypt Uprising, Egypt Revolution, Egypt Riots, Egypt Government, Egypt Revolt, Books News

We asked Jon Lee Anderson, who has been blogging about the uprisings in the Middle East on News Desk, to recommend some titles that might shed light o...

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Cycling Through Egypt on the Eve of an Uprising

Chris Fenar | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Egypt, Travel, Cairo, Uprising, Cycling, Tour D'Afrique, Travel News

A week before I left my home in a suburb of Buffalo, New York to cycle across Africa, the most common question I was asked is: "is it dangerous?" Now, danger is a relative term.

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Egypt Needs the E-Team

Mike Bonifer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: James Dean Conklin, Egypt, Sybille Culhane, Ucla, Middle East, Politics, Mike Bonifer, Garbage, Solar Circus, Michael Culhane, T. H. Culhane, Mubarek, Sustainability, Gamechangers, Uprising, Green News

It takes an E-Team to convert a community, to show how the twin levers of science and art can get the genie back in the bottle.

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Iran: People's Vitality, Regime's Paleness

Ali Safavi | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Green Movement, President Obama, Irgc, Ali Khamenei, Protests, Mir Hossein Moussavi, World, Mehdi Karroubi, Uprising, Mujahedin-E Khalq, Iran, PMOI/MEK, Festival of Fire, Fatwa, Terror Label, World News

Despite a flurry of threats and a hodgepodge of suppressive measures arranged by flustered authorities, Iranians, led by youths, came out in force in defiance of the regime and its Supreme Leader.

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Learning from Iran's Past Revolutions

Nathan Gonzalez | Posted 05.25.2011

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.

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