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William Gomes: An Outspoken Voice for the Voiceless

"I have seen journalism from a very different point of view for years." - William Nicholas Gomes

(TEHRAN / SALEM) - William Gomes is a young, progressive journalist and human rights activist from Bangladesh.

He has written widely about the human rights violations around the world and was recently declared as the Human Rights Ambassador for the U.S.-based news website Salem-News.

Postcolonial Theory, Whiteness & Palestine

Zionism, and Israel are actually primarily ‘Judeo-centric’ to the bone.

(LONDON) - Postcolonial, feminist and gay studies share many similarities to the extent that some academics regard these fields as theoretically and ideologically complementary.

These fields of study are primarily concerned with politics, the structure of hegemony, the oppressed and the mechanism that brings about injustice.

Son Of Arab MK Held For Refusing Military Service

Hundreds of Arabs, Druze and Jewish-Israelis who have been imprisoned for rejecting the compulsory military service.

(BEIT JIN, Occupied Palestine) - Israeli Police kidnapped Amro Naffa’, 18, the son of Arab Member of Israeli Knesset, Sa’id Naffa’, after he refused to go for compulsory military service, rejecting any part of a military that occupies and oppresses the Palestinian people.

Naffa’ is from Beit Jin in the occupied Galilee; Israel will be sending him to court and will likely impose a prison term against him.

Commemorate the Innocent

ACT NOW continues to work side by side with Tamils.

(CHENNAI, India) - This year the Tamil community and their friends are commemorating the genocidal massacre of Tamils that took place in Mullivaikal in May 2009 in a week of action and activities.

Act Now will be attending the two large rallies that are to take place this weekend.

Gaza`s Ark: Building Hope

With your support, the work on Gaza's Ark will start this summer.

(BEARSVILLE, NY) - The Canadian Boat to Gaza, in cooperation, with international initiatives in the US, Australia and other countries, is launching a new initiative to challenge the illegal and inhumane Israeli blockade of Gaza.

This new initiative: Gaza's Ark, will build a boat in Gaza, using existing resources.

When Seeing Leads to More than Believing

"My pain and suffering is the nursing log out of which so many and so much will grow."

(NANAIMO, Vancouver Island) - What I held in my hand yesterday caused me to flee from the University of British Columbia library, and seek solace in the deep forest that surrounds the campus where I grew up, and where I have discovered the unimaginable.

It was an unusual reaction, for I had encountered much worse over the years.

Stemming the Tides of Protest

The only solution is revolution; organizing a mass political movement based in the working class that will overthrow capitalism and build democratic socialism.

(OLDENBURG, Germany) - As the living conditions of ordinary people inevitably worsen under capitalism and as its wars cause increasing devastation, tides of protest rise up from the population.

The ruling elite then seek to stem these tides before they reach flood state.

War Widows Turn to Sex Work in Sri Lanka

"We try to wean them away from sex work but they say they have no choice" - activist asking not to be named for fear of reprisal.

(COLOMBO, Sri Lanka IPS) - On May 18, some 800 women in Sri Lanka’s northern region will hold Hindu religious ceremonies for the welfare of their husbands who disappeared or surrendered at the end of the country's 30-year civil war.

According to government estimates, the ethnic conflict has widowed 59,000 women, the bulk of them in the Tamil-dominated north and east.

Madame D.E.M. O`Cracy: Terminally Ill in India, also Worldwide

Basically, even the largely illiterate villagers in India know what these dregs are.

(CHENNAI, India) - India's government passed an executive order on Information Technology that needs a discussion in the Parliament.

If six Parliamentary sessions pass without discussion, an executive order automatically becomes law.

Sri Lankan Peace Process to be Expedited

Clinton and Singh agree to work closely.

(COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, Ceylon Today) - The US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Indian Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh have agreed to work closely in expediting the Sri Lankan peace process.

Hillary Clinton who was on a three day visit to India met the Indian Premier at his residence in New Delhi on Tuesday.