Zimbabwe: MDC MP jailed for ten months, with hard labour By: Violet Gonda, SW Radion Africa Zimbabwe, May 11, 2009 Mathias Mlambo, the MDC MP for Chipinge East, was convicted and sentenced to ten months in jail with hard labour by a Chipinge magistrate on Monday. Mlambo, who was arrested in early April, was found guilty of allegedly obstructing the course of justice and inciting violence at a funeral. Magistrate Zuze gave him ten months but suspended three months on condition of good behaviour. http://www.swradioafrica.com/news110509/mdcmp110509.htm
Zimbabwe: Police pick up two journalists By: Bruce Sibanda, AfricaNews, May 11, 2009 Zimbabwean police on Monday picked up two journalists from the Zimbabwe Independent for questioning after exposing State security agents responsible for the abduction and torture of MDC-T officials and human rights activists late last year. ZimInd editor, Vincent Kahiya and the author of the story Constantine Chimakure, were taken by three officers from the Law and Order department situated at the Harare Central Police. http://www.africanews.com/site/Zimbabwe_Police_pick_up_two_journalists/list_messages/24760
Zimbabwe: The woman who took on Mugabe By: Dave Fish Eagle, Zimbabwe Metro, May 10, 2009 Freedom campaigner Jenni Williams is a persistent thorn in the side of the Zimbabwean dictator. She tells Elizabeth Day about her shocking experiences of police brutality and jail - and how the fight for justice has meant sacrificing a normal family life. http://www.zimbabwemetro.com/current-affairs/the-woman-who-took-on-mugabe/
Kenyan sues over abstinence strike By: CNN, May 9, 2009 A Kenyan man has sued activists who called on women to boycott sex to protest the growing divide in the nation's coalition government. James Kimondo said the seven-day sex ban, which ended this week, resulted in stress, mental anguish, backaches and lack of sleep, his lawyer told the state-run Kenya Broadcasting Corp. http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/05/09/kenya.sex.lawsuit/index.html
Madagascar: Detained Radio Mada reporter is charged and transferred to prison By: Reporters Without Borders, May 7, 2009 Reporters Without Borders is alarmed by todayís decision to keep Radio Mada sports reporter Evariste Ramanantsoavina in detention and charge him with ìinciting revolt against the republicís institutions,î defamation and disseminating false information. He was arrested on 5 May and forced to reveal the location from which the radio was broadcasting in defiance of a closure order. http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=31238
Growing military repression in Madagascar By: Lova Rakotomalala, Global Voices, May 3, 2009 While more protests have erupted in Madagascar and were repressed severely by armed forces, the members of the transitional government of Madagascar have been hard at work explaining the circumstances of their rise to power to the international community. The recent reversal of the high constitutional court (HCC) decision on the illegitimacy of the power transfer (fr) seems to have caught the transitional government by surprise and was what most likely led to the arrest of the head of security at the HCC. http://globalvoicesonline.org/2009/05/03/growing-military-repression-in-madagascar/
AMERICAS
Hugo Ch·vez accuses Venezuelan media of inciting rebellion By: Christopher Toothaker, Miami Herald, May 11, 2009 Ch·vez said privately owned media are inciting hatred among Venezuelans and even conspiring against his government by trying to spur military rebellions and assassinations attempts. He appeared to be directing his comments at Globovision -- the last TV channel broadcast on the regular airwaves that remains fiercely critical of the government. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/AP/story/1042527.html
2009 already leaves eleven Latin American journalists dead By: Jessalyn Mastrianni, Impunity Watch, May 11, 2009 It is only May of 2009, yet all of Latin America is already suffering the loss of eleven journalists. These journalists all died at close-range gunpoint during the first quarter of this year. A report by the Investigation Commission of Attacks to Journalists (CIAP) listed the deaths as follows. http://www.impunitywatch.com/impunity_watch_south_amer/2009/05/2009-already-leaves-eleven-latin-american-journalists-dead.html
Former head of Colombia's security agency is charged for his role in politically motivated murders By: Victor Ray Garza, Impunity Watch, May 10, 2009 Jorge Norguera, the former director of the Departmento Administrativo de Seguridad (DAS), has been charged with collusion for his role in the assassination of university professor and human rights activist, Alfredo Correa DíAndreis. D'Andreis was gunned down by members of the Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia in 2004 shortly after being released from the custody of the DAS. Juan Carlos Rodriguez de Leon is a demobilized member of the AUC who confessed to the killing of D'Andreis. http://www.impunitywatch.com/impunity_watch_south_amer/2009/05/former-head-of-colombias-security-agency-is-charged-for-his-role-in-politically-motivated-murders.html
Guatemalan anti-mining activist wins rights prize By: Shawn Pogatchnik, Miami Herald, May 8, 2009 A leading Guatemalan environmentalist who recently survived an assassination attempt won an international human rights award Friday for his efforts to stop the rapid development of mines in the mineral-rich Central American nation. Dr. Yuri Melini received the annual Front Line Award for Human Rights Defenders at Risk from American actor Martin Sheen in a Dublin City Hall ceremony attended by dozens of Irish politicians and human rights activists. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/story/1038182.html
Video: Si se puede By: Jake Blumgart, Campus Progress, May 7, 2009 Last week few people in the United States celebrated May Day, but in other parts of the world they call it International Workersí Day and commemorated it with marches, rallies, and, occasionally, confrontations with the police. In recent years the increasingly powerful immigrant rights movement has rescued the holiday from obscurity, bringing throngs of workers into the streets to march for their rights. http://www.campusprogress.org/fieldreport/3988/si-se-puede
Bolivia: Plan 3000 - resistance and social change at the heart of racism By: Ra˙l Zibechi, Upside Down World, May 5, 2009 In the middle of a racist city of white elites, the nucleus of the agro-export oligarchy, Plan 3000 is an immense and poor suburb of almost 300,000 inhabitants mostly of Aymara, Quechua, and Guarani descent; a microcosm composed of 36 Bolivian ethnic groups. It is a city thatóin the name of the struggle against inequalityóthe residents of Plan 3000 resist the machista, oppressive, and violent culture of the local elite. http://upsidedownworld.org/main/content/view/1849/68/
ASIA/ SOUTH ASIA
Indonesia: Voters reject terror of Timor By: Tom Allard, The Age, May 12, 2009 Eurico Guterres, the pro-integration militia leader who terrorised East Timor as it voted for independence, has failed to win a seat in Indonesia's Parliament. Mr Guterres' failure to get the lucrative sinecure as West Timor's representative was confirmed at the weekend with the release of the final results of April's legislative elections. http://www.theage.com.au/world/voters-reject-terror-of-timor-20090511-b0k7.html
Burma: U.S. journalists question motives for deportation By: Francis Wade, DVB, May 11, 2009 Two American journalists deported from Burma last week after delivering workshops on photography and feature writing say reasons for their arrest may lie in their meeting with a local Burmese business owner. Following a series of workshops organised by the American Centre in Rangoon last Wednesday, Jerry Redfern and Karen Coates were arrested by immigration authorities and deported to Bangkok. http://english.dvb.no/news.php?id=2508
Burma: Suu Kyi's doctor allowed back in after delay By: CNN, May 11, 2009 Nobel Prize-winning democracy activist Aung San Suu Kyi met with her doctor Monday after being barred from seeing him over the weekend, a spokesman for her party told CNN. Dr. Pyone Moe Ei saw Suu Kyi on Friday, but was denied permission to see her the next day, National League for Democracy spokesman Nyan Win said. The Myanmar opposition leader is showing signs of dehydration and low blood pressure, Nyan Win said. The doctor put her on an intravenous drip Friday. http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/05/11/myanmar.suukyi.doctor/index.html
China: Tiananmen Square leaders issue declaration of repentance and reconciliation on 20th anniversary By: Radio Free China, May 11, 2009 An unprecedented statement regarding the June 4 1989 massacre at Tiananmen Square has just been released. The document from 80 Chinese Christian leaders calls for forgiveness, repentance, truth, justice and reconciliation. In a news release, ChinaAid said the majority of the signatories were directly involved with the studentsí movement, and suffered severe repercussions at the hands of authorities for their participation. http://radiofreechina.wordpress.com/2009/05/11/tiananmen-square-leaders-issue-declaration-of-repentance-and-reconciliation-on-20th-anniversary/
China quake: From rubble, civil society builds By: Peter Ford, CSM, May 10, 2009 Last year's earthquake, which provoked a tsunami of sudden sympathy and solidarity in China, has proved to be the catalyst for deeper social changes. "It has strengthened a sense of civil society," says Han Junkui, who has studied activity by nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in Sichuan over the past year. "Society's enthusiasm for earthquake-hit areas has changed from a passionate attitude to a rational one... The level of enthusiasm does not compare with a year ago, but it definitely still exists." http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0510/p06s07-woap.html
China: Concerns for health of Hu Jia in Beijing Prison By: China Digital Times, May 10, 2009 In her blog entry of April 25, Zeng Jinyan discusses how on April 22 she went with their one-year-old child to visit her husband, activist Hu Jia, at the prison where he is being held on the outskirts of Beijing. http://chinadigitaltimes.net/2009/05/zeng-jinyan-concerns-for-health-of-hu-jia-in-beijing-prison/
Philippines: Rights groups used as Red fronts By: The Daily Tribune, May 10, 2009 MalacaÒang accused human rights groups of being used as fronts for the local communist movement while disputing a new report of United Nations Special Rapporteur Philip Alston stating that human rights violations continue in the country mainly as a result of President Arroyoís order for the military to neutralize the communist movement in the country. http://www.tribune.net.ph/headlines/20090510hed2.html
Protest Monks escape Tibet By: Palden Gyal, RFA, May 9, 2009 Five Tibetan monks who took part in widely publicized 2008 protests against Chinese rule have arrived safely in the Indian capital after eluding Chinese security forces for more than a year. The monksóidentified as Gendun Gyatso, Kelsang Jinpa, Lobsang Gyatso, Jamyang Jinpa, and Jigme Gyatsoóhad disrupted a government-controlled tour by foreign journalists of Labrang monastery, in a Tibetan-populated area of Chinaís Gansu province, in April last year. http://www.rfa.org/english/news/tibet/escape-05092009123135.html
China: Government blunts activism set off by quake By: Charles Hutzler, AP, May 9, 2009 The Chinese leadership has long restricted private activist groups, known as non-governmental organizations, or NGOs. After watching popular movements oust autocratic governments in Ukraine, Georgia and elsewhere earlier this decade, the government redoubled efforts to prevent such groups from becoming a social force that could challenge its authority. Activists had hoped the quake would change that, opening up more space for private efforts to flourish. Now, a year after the disaster, the wave of volunteerism has largely dissipated. http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/world/6416421.html
China: Uyghurs protest orchard sales By: RFA, May 8, 2009 Authorities in the northwestern Chinese region of Xinjiang have confirmed a plan to buy back orchards from ethnic minority Uyghur farmers two decades before their contracts expire, saying they will auction them off to Han Chinese farmers instead. Orchard farmers have strongly protested the plan, saying government compensation takes no account of years of labor put into the orchards to make them profitable. http://www.rfa.org/english/news/uyghur/orchard-05082009102415.html
India: Activist doctorís incarceration flouts democratic norms By: Human Rights Tribune, May 8, 2009 Even while India goes to the polls in a lumbering show of democracy, human rights activist-doctor Binayak Sen remains in prison on unproven terrorism charges. Senís bail plea was finally admitted by the apex Supreme Court (SC) on May 4, 10 days short of his second anniversary in jail in Raipur, capital of the central state of Chhatisgarh where Sen has practiced as a doctor to the rural poor for nearly three decades. http://www.humanrights-geneva.info/India-Activist-doctor-s,4422
EUROPE
Belarus: Fight for release of political prisoners goes on By: Charter '97, May 11, 2009 Rallies of solidarity with political prisoners take place in Minsk and in regions of Belarus every day. Belarusians take to the streets as a sign of solidarity with political prisoner Mikalay Autukhovich, who is on indefinite hunger strike of protest in the remand prison in Valadarski Street of Minsk city executive committeeís main directorate of Internal affairs, and with other political prisoners ñ Uladzimir Asipenka and Yury Lyavonau. http://www.charter97.org/en/news/2009/5/11/18055/
Hungary's role in the 1989 revolutions By: Brian Hanrahan, BBC News, May 9, 2009 Imre Pozsgay was a leading reformer in Hungary's Communist Party. He had fought his way up to the top of the party, and in 1989 was one of the handful of people who controlled it. He used his position to open up the Iron Curtain which separated Hungary from Austria. He also helped persuade the Communist Party to give up power voluntarily rather than be forced out as happened elsewhere. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8036685.stm
Kitsch song contest is Russian gays' secret weapon against hatred By: Shaun Walker, The Independent, May 9, 2009 Russians are some of the least tolerant people in Europe when it comes to homosexuals. Research by the Pew Research Centre found that just 20 per cent of Russians believe that homosexuality should be accepted by society. In protest, the country's gay community is planning the biggest pride march in its history next Saturday, with many fearing it could end in a bloody riot. This year, however, there's a secret weapon ñ the Eurovision Song Contest. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/kitsch-song-contest-is-russian-gays-secret-weapon-against-hatred-1681832.html
Russia: Kremlin control vs. grass-roots modernisation By: Nikolai Petrov, openDemocracy, May 8, 2009 Despite increasingly desperate attempts by the Kremlin to assert top-down control, grassroots modernization still might win out. In mid-April,while it was still cold in Moscow, Dmitry Medvedev was giving out a number of signals. Among these were the interview he granted to the opposition newspaper Novaya Gazeta, his meeting with liberal economists at the Institute of Contemporary Development, and a meeting that was charged with strengthening the institutions of civil society. There was harsh criticism of the authorities. http://www.opendemocracy.net/russia/article/kremlin-control-v-grass-roots-modernisation
MIDDLE EAST/ NORTH AFRICA
Iran frees US journalist Roxana Saberi By: Robert Tait and Matthew Weaver, The Guardian, May 11, 2009 An Iranian-American journalist who was sentenced to eight years in prison by Iran on spying charges has been freed, according to her lawyer. Roxana Saberi was released today after her sentence was reduced to a two-year suspended term by an Iranian court, her lawyer, Abdolsamad Khorramshahi, told the Guardian. She had been banned from reporting in Iran for five years, Khorramshahi said. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/may/11/roxana-saberi-sentence-cut
Lessons for Americans from Roxana Saberi's release By: Sam Sedaei, The Huffington Post, May 11, 2009 Roxana Saberi, the Iranian American journalist was freed in Iran after a higher court overturned the 8-year sentence given to her for alleged (and absurd) espionage accusations. There are a number of lessons that President Obama should take form Roxana's release. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sam-sedaei/lessons-for-americans-fro_b_201627.html
Iraq: Organised ëcrackdown' on homosexuals By: Katharine Ganly, Global Voices, May 10, 2009 In the past few weeks there has been an increase in the persecution of homosexuals in Iraq, due to an organised ëcrackdown' based on a religious decree for their death, reports UAE- based media network alarabiya.net. There has been a spate of deaths resulting from a previously unheard of and particularly gruesome torture method being employed against homosexual men. http://globalvoicesonline.org/2009/05/10/iraq-organised-crackdown-on-homosexuals/
Afghanistan: Students rally over air raid deaths By: Al Jazeera, May 10, 2009 University students have rallied in the Afghan capital, Kabul, angered by the deaths of more than 125 villagers in a US air raid. The students took to the streets on Sunday, saying they held the US responsible for the killings in Farah province and demanding that those who ordered the air raids be put on trial. http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2009/05/200951094449204960.html
Palestine: Israeli forces suppress Niílin demonstration By: International Solidarity Movement, May 8, 2009 Around 100 demonstrators gathered, accompanied by international and Israeli solidarity activists, to march against the construction of the Apartheid Wall on Niílinís land. Demonstrators reached the construction site and were able to damage a part of the illegal Wall. Then protestors were pushed back into the village when Israeli forces opened fire with numerous tear-gas canisters http://palsolidarity.org/2009/05/6554
Iran: Report about detainees of polytechnic university By: IHRV, May 7, 2009 The Deputy Prosecutor in charge of security in Tehran charged detained students from Amir Kabir University with association with the organization Mojahedin Khalgh after holding them for three months in detention. Hasan Zare (aka. Hadad) announced the news in a press interview, saying that the connections between the students and M.K. have been evident to the Ministry of Intelligence for some time now. However, the activists refuted all the charges once they were released. http://www.ihrv.org/inf/?p=2263
Lebanon: The legacy of May 7 By: Nadine Elali, NOW, May 7, 2009 For those who lived though it, May 7th was more than just blocked roads, burning tires and protests. The events of that day were not simply a reaction to a government decision or a demonstration by a labor union. Rather, May 7 was a willful rejection, through arms, of the Lebanese state, human rights, coexistence and, finally, peace. Some prefer to ignore the legacy of the events, with elections right around the corner, in favor of reconciliation. http://www.nowlebanon.com/NewsArticleDetails.aspx?ID=92231
Moroccan court upholds unjust sentence against Western Saharan By: ASVDH, May 4, 2009 The appellate court in Marrakech decided today to maintain the heavy and unjust sentence pronounced by the court of first instance. Ikhalihlna is a Sahraoui student at the University of Marrakech incarcerated in prison of Boulemharez on 13 April 2008 for various charges, that the inmate has totally rejected, and confirmed that his arrest is linked to his political views and his struggle in favor of self-determination of the Saharawi people. http://asvdh.net/english/?p=536
The struggle for equality in Iranian Azerbaijan By: Habib Azarsina, Gozaar, April 27, 2009 As Western media has focused on Iran's nuclear program, Iran's authoritarian government has continued its policy of cracking down on any form of dissent. Civil liberties, including freedom of speech, press, assembly, and religion, continue to be severely restricted. All Iranians suffer from such restrictions by the central government of the Islamic Republic. However, Iran's non-Persian ethnic groups are subject to even more restrictions and discrimination. http://www.gozaar.org/template1.php?id=1243&language=english
ARTICLES OF INTEREST
Guide to nonviolence in practice By: Craig Zelizer,Peace and Collaborative Development Network, May 11, 2009 One of the key questions around the globe today, is what is the role or the possible impact of non-violence and non-violent action in helping to end violent conflict and build peace? In many of complex and challenging conflicts in the world, where civilians are increasingly the targets and victims of violence, does non-violence have a positive role to play? http://www.internationalpeaceandconflict.org/profiles/blog/show?id=780588%3ABlogPost%3A137583&xgs=1
A table for tyrants By: Vaclav Havel, NY Times, May 10, 2009 Imagine an election where the results are largely preordained and a number of candidates are widely recognized as unqualified. Any supposedly democratic ballot conducted in this way would be considered a farce. Yet tomorrow the United Nations General Assembly will engage in just such an ìelectionî when it votes to fill the vacancies on the 47-member Human Rights Council. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/11/opinion/11havel.html?ref=opinion
Islam and democracy can ñ and do ñ coexist By: John Hugnes, CSM, May 8, 2009 Over the years American presidents have preached the power of freedom to the un-free nations of the world. In recent times, the focus has been on the Arab world, where democratic progress has been scant. Throughout all this, skeptics have argued that this is a lost cause, and that democracy and Islam are incompatible.So it is heartening to see the integration of democracy and Islam taking place in three huge countries whose Muslim populations make up somewhere between a quarter and a third of the world's entire Muslim populace. http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0508/p09s02-coop.html
UN sanctions human-rights activist By: Steven Edwards, Canwest News Service, May 8. 2009 The United Nations human-rights office on Friday banned for a month an accredited human-rights activist who was at the centre of a recent controversy involving Canada's top diplomat in Geneva. David Littman of the World Union for Progressive Judaism said he is convinced his protest over the incident involving Canada's Ambassador Marius Grinius provided impetus for the UN to move against him. http://www.thestarphoenix.com/news/sanctions+human+rights+activist/1578130/story.html
Listen up: UN must hear women on violence By: Charlotte Bunch, On the Issues Magazine, Spring 2009 Violence against women is an issue that has come onto the global agenda from the grassroots level of the women's movement, that is, from women's lives and feminist organizing. No issue better illustrates how the women's movement can and has moved a concern from local women's spaces to the tables of power. Over the past year, key agencies inside the UN developed a Framework for Action for what the campaign sees to achieve in all countries. http://www.truthout.org/050809WA
IN OTHER LANGUAGES
Detenida foto reportera independiente por advertir sobre el virus H1N1 By: Roberto de Jes˙s Guerra PÈrez, Cuba Matinal, May 6, 2009 Sandra Guerra PÈrez, Foto Reportera del Centro de InformaciÛn Hablemos Press (CIPRESS), fue detenida en su domicilio ubicado en la Finca Ojo de Agua, municipio Melena del Sur provincia La Habana, la semana pasada por agentes de la PolicÌa Nacional Revolucionaria (PNR) que fueron orientados por el Departamento de la Seguridad del Estado (DSE) para su arresto, informÛ Lisandra, hija de Sandra Guerra. http://www.cubamatinal.com/Noticia.cfm?NoticiaID=11637
Apoyan opositores al Parlamento Europeo por pedirle a Cuba que respete los DDHH By: Radion Marti Opositores pacÌficos cubanos manifestaron su apoyo a la decisiÛn del Parlamento Europeo de instar a La Habana a que respete los pactos internacionales de derechos humanos. La Euroc·mara seÒala en su informe anual que Cuba suscribiÛ en Febrero de 2008 el Pacto Internacional sobre Derechos Civles y PolÌticos y el Pacto Internacional sobre Derechos EconÛmicos, Sociales y Culturales. http://www.martinoticias.com/FullStory.aspx?ID=E36D62FA-D6E5-422A-AE5344F5DB7F90D3
BOOK REVIEWS
Rights-Based Approaches to Development By: Eds. Sam Hickey and Diana Mitlin, Stylus Publishing, May 2009 "Rights-Based Approaches to Development" reflects on the effect of the development communityís major shift in focus from market-based frameworks to a rights-based one. Contributors, both academics and practitioners, reflect on their experience with rights-based development activities. They draw out the current debates, theoretical and practical concerns and achievements, and larger implications about poverty and the relationship between citizens and the state. http://www.styluspub.com/Books/BookDetail.aspx?productID=208800
Freedom From Want By: Ian Smillie, Stylus Publishing, April 2009 BRAC, arguably the worldís largest, most diverse and most successful NGO, is little known outside Bangladesh, where it formed in 1972. Author Ian Smillie predicts, however, that this is bound to change. BRACís success and the spread of its work in health, education, social enterprise development and microfinance dwarfs any other private, government or non-profit enterprise in its impact on tens of thousands of communities in Asia and Africa. http://www.styluspub.com/Books/BookDetail.aspx?productID=208980
NOTICES
Latin America evening with openDemocracy in London By: openDemocracy, May 14, 2009 at 7:15pm Latin America's Democratic Opening. What was the role of media and what should be the role for new media? Hear two of openDemocracy's distinguished authors on Latin American affairs, Colombian journalist Juanita Leon and the Madrid-based writer Ivan Briscoe. One hour of seminar-style discussion followed by social. The room can hold about 30 people. Email Julian Stern (
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) if you'd like to come. http://www.opendemocracy.net/article/circle/thursday-may-14th-london-od-pub-evening-media-and-democratisation-in-latin-america
Photo contest: Bajo La Sombra By: Craig Zelizer, Peace and Collaborative Development Network, deadline June 28, 2009 Bajo La Sombra is a photo contest that tries to sensitize and view the struggle of women around the world to enforce their rights. We want to attract attention of society and the governments to meet the Millennium Objectives and the goals of the Beijing Platform. Your vision of the world can contribute to the change. Show it to us! http://www.internationalpeaceandconflict.org/forum/topic/show?id=780588%3ATopic%3A137249&xgs=1
United Nations mandated University for Peace By: Nick Martin, Peace and Collaborative Development Network, deadline June 30, 2009 The United Nations mandated University for Peace (UPEACE) in Costa Rica may be a good fit for you and it's not too late to apply for the fall 2009-2010! Every year, 200 students from over 60 countries convene on a 600 acre campus/natural reserve to study systematic and innovative approaches to peacebuilding in one of our ten masters programs. UPEACE offers intensive one-year MA degree programs in Costa Rica, 40 minutes outside the capital city of San JosÈ. http://www.internationalpeaceandconflict.org/forum/topic/show?id=780588%3ATopic%3A137247&xgs=1
Freedom Summer 2009: Defend the Land and Jerusalem By: International Solidarity Movement, June 6 - August 15, 2009 The International Solidarity Movement is issuing a call-out for internationals to volunteer as field activists and office workers in the West Bank, Gaza, and occupied East Jerusalem this summer. Whether you can come for only few weeks or several months, your presence is needed to support Palestinian communities who are nonviolently resisting the Israeli occupation. http://palsolidarity.org/2009/04/6314