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September 12, 2013

The Other 9/11 — Forty Years Already!

Last night we went with old friend Jean Cormier (author of several books & videos on the Che, among many other writings) to Ivry (one of the last communist held suburbs of Paris) to...

"Arab Spring" / Freedom of Speech / Human rights / Journalism / Maghreb / Tunisia

June 21, 2013

Letter on (In)Justice in Tunisia by Hind Meddeb

The Tunisian poet & scholar Abdelwahab Meddeb forwarded me the following letter by his daughter Hind Meddeb, a cinematographer & journalist. It goes to the heart of the matter of how in Tunisia, the...

Arab Culture / Book Launch / Freedom of Speech / Intellectuals / Israel / Palestine / Poet / Translation

April 6, 2012

PEN Presses for Visa for Palestinian Poet

from th PEN Advocacy pages: April 4, 2012 | Larry Siems Yesterday, we got word through our Translation Committee that Palestinian poet Ghassan Zaqtan , whose collection Like a Straw Bird It Follows Me is being released by Yale University Press this...

@Occupy / Agitprop / Freedom of Speech / Human rights / Journalism

January 30, 2012

300 Arrested at Occupy Oakland

via Retort & Alternet: 300 Arrested at Occupy Oakland Corporate Media Dutifully Report City Officials’ Version of Events Joshua Holland [Read the original version here]. January 29, 2012 – Downtown Oakland turned ugly once...

Agitprop / Censorship / Education / Freedom of Speech

January 16, 2012

Simon Ortiz: Shocked at banning of Native books in Arizona

Photo: Ethnic Studies students march in honor of Martin Luther King today, Monday, in Tucson, protesting the decision by Tucson schools to forbid Mexican American Studies and ban books by Chicano and Native American...

Censorship / Film / Freedom of Speech / Intellectuals

February 11, 2011

Protest Media Law in Hungary

I received the following email yesterday, asking for support for Bela Tarr and other Hungarian film artists, organizing resistance to impending legislation in Hungary that would allow the government total control of what the media may or may not...

Agitprop / Arab Culture / Egypt / Freedom of Speech

February 4, 2011

al-Tahrir Square Protesters’ Declaration

Again via Jadaliyya site, the English translation of the al-Tahrir protesters’ Declaration. Translation thanks to Fida Adely. Declaration: Egyptian Youth Protesting in Midan al-Tahrir First Main Point: The Promises of the President and the...

Arab Culture / Egypt / Freedom of Speech / Middle East / Poetry

February 4, 2011

The Poetry of Revolt

Drawing again on the excellent Jadaliyya site here are the opening paragraphs of an article speaking to the poetry — not meant metaphorically — that the Egyptian uprising is giving birth to: The Poetry of Revolt...

Arab Culture / Freedom of Speech / Human rights / Journalism / Middle East / Politics

January 29, 2011

Dead-Enders on the Potomac

Here are the opening paragraphs of a just published editorial on MERIP (The Middle East Report). You can read the rest of the excellent analysis here. From the Editors January 29, 2011 Every US...

Freedom of Speech / Human rights / Intellectuals / Poetry / Translation

December 28, 2010

Liu Xiabobo @ 55

Today is Chinese poet, writer, activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiabobo‘s 55th birthday, which he ‘celebrates’ in jail. Below a poem of his written 9 April 1999, reprinted today in the German...