August 2012

Articles

• 1 August 2012

  Confrontation Politics: The Importance of Civil Disobedience Today

  Beginning on February 13, 2012, students throughout Quebec province began to go on strike in response to the provincial government’s long- and short-term plans of hiking their tuition. Several (...)
• 1 August 2012, by Houda Chergui

  Project Briefs

  World Social Forum Free Palestine Alternatives, Alternatives Asia, Alternative Espaces Citoyens, Alternatives Information Center (AIC), Forum des Alternatives Maroc (FMAS), Initiatives Pour un (...)
• 1 August 2012

  AIJ August 2012 podcast

  This month on AIJ’s podcast, the theme is Civil Disobedience. Check out AIJ’s August 2012 podcast here.
• 1 August 2012, by Houda Chergui

  Indigenous Movements Over Mining in Guatemala

  On July 4 2012, community leader and coordinator of the K’iche’ People’s Council (CPK), Lolita Chavez, escaped an attack by a large group of armed men following a peaceful protest in Santa Cruz del (...)
• 1 August 2012, by Jillian Ward

  Human Rights in the Occupied Territories: B’Tselem’s 2011 Report

  The NGO B’Tselem, which calls itself ‘The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories’, released its annual report in March 2012. The sixty-three page document provides a (...)
• 1 August 2012, by Michael D’Alimonte

  Iowa Citizens Speak out Against African “Land Grabs”

  Iowa-based civil rights group Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement (CCI) has spoken out against Regent Bruce Rastetter, claiming him to be a corrupt politician that has misused his political (...)
• 1 August 2012, by Michael D’Alimonte

  Book review: Behind the Beautiful Forevers, Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity by Katherine Boo

  Integrating three years of research and reporting, Katherine Boo has streamlined the complex issues and social dynamics of a Mumbai slum into the compelling narrative, Behind the Beautiful (...)
• 1 August 2012, by Ronald Cameron

  The International Council lays the foundation for 2013’s World Social Forum

  Roughly a thousand people participated in the preparatory assembly for World Social Forum (WSF) 2013, held over six days beginning July 12 in Monastir, Tunisia. Various workshops and meetings (...)
• 1 August 2012, by Sara E. Levac

  Is International Humanitarian Law a Rear-Guard Action?

  The situation in Syria. The Kony 2012 campaign. The alleged war crimes in Mali. The trial of Ratko Mladic adjourned in the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) due to (...)
• 1 August 2012, by Arij Riahi, Sara E. Levac

  Bill 78: When the Exception Becomes a Rule of Law

  The special law adopted under gag order by the National Assembly on May 18, 2012, has entailed its share of challenges. Since then, the debate has raged and opinions have become polarized. Some (...)
• 1 August 2012, by Michael Reford

  The Battle for Land and Survival

  There is a certain practicality to civil disobedience that ends with meaningful results. One simple act or specific instance can become a rallying point or spark that lights the fuse of something (...)
• 1 August 2012, by Geneviève Lavoie-Mathieu

  Protests on Mining Projects in Peru: A Crisis of Governance

  Five hundred years ago, Spanish conquistadors, who conquered the Inca Empire, pillaged gold and silver from what is today known as Peru. Five hundred years later, gold and other minerals are (...)
• 1 August 2012, by Arij Riahi

  Question Whose Authority?

  Two dead brothers. Only one will receive the honoured burial. The other will be left without proper sepulture. His body will be abandoned, to be feasted on by birds and dogs. It is the king who (...)