Last month, for the first time, the Iraqi-Canadian community came together to organize a week of action in Toronto to commemorate the 5th anniversary of the invasion of Iraq. rabbletv covered this historic occasion and interviewed the keynote speaker, American-Iraqi peace activist Dr. Dahlia Wasfi.

Mexican farmers fight back against a genetically-engineered invasion.

La Paz, Bolivia - As traffic lights changed from green to red, no cars, buses or pedestrians passed through usually busy intersections in central La Paz, Bolivia. Beginning Tuesday, February 26, social movements from across the country flooded Plaza Murillo to demand the new constitution be approved for a national referendum.

Native Resistance to the Olympics

Those who make peaceful evolution impossible make violent revolution inevitable."

— John F. Kennedy

Global Voices Advocacy is pleased to announce the second of several planned manuals focused on the topics of circumventing internet filtering, anonymous blogging and effective use of Internet-based tools in campaigns for social and political change.

Around 3 p.m. on Jan. 2, nine shots were fired into the air. The perpetrators withdrew, leaving behind a button-down shirt with the cuffs tied to two lone trees in the cornfield. Machetes had hacked the shirt and cut a thick cross into one of the tree trunks at chest height. A bullet case was embedded at the center of the cross.

Encounters with the Zapatistas

SAN ANDRÉS, Cuba, Jan 9 (IPS) - Cuban small farmers are strengthening their traditional ties with the land through a farming project that links scientific know-how with ancestral techniques and encourages greater local autonomy in decision-making on food production.