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Velvet Revolution

Lessons from the Velvet Revolution

Stephen Zunes | Posted 11.23.2009 | World

Read More: Communism, Ronald Reagan, Freedom, Nonviolent Action, Czechoslovakia, Democracy, Velvet Revolution, Fall of Berlin Wall, World News
Stephen Zunes

These movements were largely led by democratic socialists who mobilized workers, church people, intellectuals, and others to face down the tanks with their bare hands.

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MAZIAR BAHARI RELEASED: Iran Frees Newsweek Reporter On Bail

AP | ALI AKBAR DAREINI | Posted 10.17.2009 | World

Read More: Mass Trial, Election Fraud, Vote Rigging, Iran Election, Iran, Media, Khatami, Ahmadinejad, Mousavi, Newsweek, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Velvet Revolution, Saeed Hajjarian, Bahari Released, Bail, Maziar Bahari, Tehran, Iraq, Bahari, World News

TEHRAN, Iran — Iran released a foreign Newsweek reporter on bail Saturday almost four months after he was arrested following the country's dispu...

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How Sweet The Sound: An Interview With Joan Baez

Mike Ragogna | Posted 10.15.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Richard & Mimi Farina, Thomas Friedman, David Crosby, Ipod, Mimi Farina, David Mansfield, Vaclav Havel, Steve Earle, Rev. Jesse Jackson, Velvet Revolution, Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Political News, Jonas Kaufmann, Segregation, Entertainment News, Richard Farina, Bishop Ernest Palmer, Martin Luther King Jr., Dar Williams, Jussi Bjorling, Joni Mitchell, The Band, Roger McGuinn, Entertainment News
Mike Ragogna

For most of the fifty years since she debuted at the Newport Folk Festival, Joan Baez has dedicated her life and music to fighting for equality and social justice, and for bringing about positive change in the world.

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Freed Academic Haleh Esfandiari: 'Iranians Want Evolution, Not Revolution'

Diane Tucker | Posted 10.01.2009 | World

Read More: Evin Prison, Kennebunkport, Harsh Interrogations, Iran Election, One Million Signatures Campaign, Iran Regime Change, Iran, Iran Liveblogging, Diane Tucker, Mental Stress, Green Wave, The Inner Life, Voting Problems, Haleh Esfandiari, Civil Rights, Stress, Green Movement, Iran Post Election Crisis, Women’s Rights, Kian Tajbakhsh, Press Freedom, Mixed Marriage, Women’s Books, Voting, Fear Watch, Tehron Mass Trial, Twitter, Hijab, Iran Solitary Confinement, Middle East Politics, European Union, Georgia, Color Revolution, Obama Mideast Trip, Velvet Revolution, Islamic Veil, Iran Protest Movement, Ukraine, Barack Obama, Foreign Policy, Nico Pitney Iran Liveblogging, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Haleh Esfandiari Solitary Confinement, Bush Administration, My Prison My Home, Mir-Hossein Mousavi, Iran Family Protection Law, Islamic Revolution, Democracy Promotion, Diane Tucker Iran Blogs, Iranian Women’s Rights, Voter’s Rights, Woodrow Wilson Center, Iran's Cultural Prison, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, World News
Diane Tucker

Every two or three years, there has been a wave of protests like this in Iran. But this time I think there has been a fundamental change.

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Yemen: A Powder Keg Ready to Explode

Jamal Dajani | Posted 09.07.2009 | World

Read More: Hussein Al-Houthi, Yemen, Middle East, Yemen-Houthi, Saudi Arabia, Terrorism, Velvet Revolution, Sa'ada, Osama Bin Laden, Al Qaeda, Ali Abdullah Saleh, World News
Jamal Dajani

The Obama administration may be ignoring what could potentially be the hottest spot in the Middle East, the country which is the ancestral birthplace of Osama bin Laden: Yemen.

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Iranians Worldwide Roll Out Green Scroll Against Ahmadinejad (SLIDESHOW, UPDATES)

Diane Tucker | Posted 08.19.2009 | World

Read More: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Cn Tower, Iran Election, Vaclav Havel, Iran, Velvet Revolution, Radio Free Europe, Diane Tucker, Iran Protests 2009, Green Scroll Movement, Dubai, Eiffel Tower, Shah of Iran, Slideshow, Toronto, Portland, Zurich, Stockholm, Hamburg, austinforiran.org, portlandstandswithiran.org, Antone's, India, Germany, Canada, Switzerland, Sweden, Alfred Hitchcock, Women and Politics, Wall for Peace, Ali-Akbar-Hashemi-Rafsanjani, France, Paris, World News
Diane Tucker

Updates, and video screen grabs from the ceremony in Paris, follow the post. AUSTIN, TX -- When a reporter asked Vaclav Havel to comment on Iran's p...

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Kian Tajbakhsh: Iran Arrests First American Citizen

AP | DESMOND BUTLER | Posted 08.10.2009 | World

Read More: Kian Tajbakhsh Arrested, Velvet Revolution, Kian Tajbakhsh Iran, Iranian Election, Iran Arrests American, Kian Tajbakhsh, Iran, Iran Arrests, Tajbakhsh, World News

NEW YORK — An Iranian-American scholar whom Iran once accused of fomenting political unrest has been arrested by authorities there for the secon...

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Iran Uprising: Historic Parallels To Today's Protests

Huffington Post | Stuart Whatley | Posted 07.17.2009 | World

Read More: Bulldozer Revolution, Iran Demonstrations, Iranian Revolution, Iran Election, Foreign Affairs, Iran, Velvet Revolution, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran Elections, Tiananmen Square, Carnation Revolution, Tulip Revolution, Mir Hossein Mousavi, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran Protests, Iran Election 2009, Second Chimurenga, Islamic Revolution, Rose Revolution, Orange Revolution, Advocacy, Civil Disobedience, Iran Uprising, Iran Today, Protests in Iran and Tiananmen Square, Todays Iran Protests, World News

The massive socio-political movement in Iran, following the highly controversial announcement Saturday declaring Mahmoud Ahmadinejad the victor of tha...

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If Democracy Is Denied

Michael Carmichael | Posted 11.24.2008 | Politics

Read More: Civil Rights Movement, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., McCain Palin, Vote Suppression, Greg Palast, Amy Goodman, Democracy, Obama Biden, Velvet Revolution, John Roberts, Voter Suppression, Voter Caging, 2008 Presidential Election, Mark Crispin Miller, Women's Suffrage, Rachel Maddow, Election-Rigging, Electoral College, Rigged Elections, Voting, Politics News
Michael Carmichael

The sheer momentum of the Obama-Biden ticket has triggered frantic and massive Republican vote-rigging operations in key battleground states designed ...

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