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• David Brooks’ Sentimental Education: Bruce Springsteen

  
  Big Hollywood — Authority: 795
  In a recent New York Times column , David Brooks described a 1975 Bruce Springsteen concert as the start of his “other education,” not the intellectual one from schooling but the “emotional education” from the popular culture.  Brooks is a superstar pundit.  A featured journalist at The Weekly Standard, in ...
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• After Swiss Referendum on Minarets: Who is Radicalizing Whom?

  
  Enduring America — Authority: 605
  On Sunday, 57 percent of Swiss people who took part in a referendum voted in favour of a ban on the construction of minarets. The proposal had been put forward by the Swiss People’s Party (SVP), the largest party in parliament. Reaction to the Swiss people’s decision was immediate, with criticisms appearing in ...
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• Botched Investigations Lead to Executions

  
  The StandDown Texas Project — Authority: 528
  Thats the title of an OpEd in todays Asheville Citizen-Times in North Carolina.  Its by Larry Cox, the Executive Director of Amnesty International USA.   LINK When the United States abolishes the death penalty, some of its mostardent proponents ironically may be remembered for having made the mosteffective case ...
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• Speaker Set for Amnesty International’s Human Rights Day

  
  Appomattox Area News — Authority: 138
  Sarah Hager, a volunteer with Amnesty International USA who serves as chair of the Southern Africa Co-group, will speak at 7 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 10 at Sweet Briar College. The lecture will be held in Heuer Auditorium, Room 101 in Guion Science Center. Hager will speak on women’s rights abuses in South Africa as part ...
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• Have a Heart - Save the Date, Save a Life

  
  Giulia Geranium — Authority: 418
  Your signature is more powerful than you know. Amnesty Internationals Global Write-A-Thon is December 5-13, 2009. Register here if you are not with a local group. Residents of other countries, see this link . [photograph by Giampaolo Macorig via flickr. Full size format, here .]
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• Looking back at the Sri Lanka week of action

  
  Livewire - Amnesty International blogging for human rights — Authority: 113
  By Tim Molyneux, a volunteer working in Amnesty International’s Sri Lanka team.Last week Amnesty International launched a week of action for the “Unlock the Camps” campaign, highlighting the continued detention of thousands of displaced people in Sri Lanka.Looking back, the week was a great success; local groups ...
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• Fear and Loathing in Uganda

  
  RHRealityCheck.org — Authority: 738
  Shock, anger, frustration, protests.Ugandas anti-homosexuality bill, tabled by ruling party MP David Bahati, hasunsurprisingly seen global condemnation over the last few months. The bill proposes a seven-year jail termfor anyone who "attempts to commit the offence" or who "aids,abets, counsels or procures another to ...
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• Swiss Muslims express shock at overwhelming support for minarets ban

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 728
  Geneva, Nov. 30 (ANI): An overwhelming majority of the Swiss population voting against the construction of new minarets has caused greater pain to the Muslims in the country than the national ban altogether.Muslims no longer feel accepted in Switzerland after more than 57 percent of Swiss resident voters on Sunday - a ...
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• Swiss voters back ban on building of minarets

  
  Kirklees Unity Exposing the Far Right — Authority: 139
  . Swiss voters defied their Government and clerics yesterday and approved a ban on building minarets — reflecting an alarming hostility to a rising Muslim minority. Fifty-seven per cent of voters in a referendum supported the direct democracy initiative, which ensured international embarrassment for ...
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• Human Rights: Swiss ban on construction of minarets would breach Switzerland’s obligations to uphold freedom of religion

  
  i On Global Trends - Mike Hitchen Online - news, opinion, analysis — Authority: 443
  Amnesty International - A ban on the construction of minarets would breach Switzerland’s obligations to uphold freedom of religion, Amnesty International said ahead of a referendum Sunday on a constitutional amendment.The proposal, which was initiated by members of two Swiss parties, will ask Swiss voters if they ...
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• Belarusian youth activists speak out

  
  Livewire - Amnesty International blogging for human rights — Authority: 113
  Five Belarusian youth activists sentenced to ‘restricted freedom’ for attending a peaceful protest have told Amnesty International how they were targeted by the authorities.Tatyana Tishkevich, Alyaksei Bondar, Mikhail Kryvau, Ales Straltsou and Ales Charnyshou will be following this blog and contributing to it ...
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• British high street banks are lending to cluster bomb producers

  
  newsjiffy — Authority: 127
  British banks such as Lloyds TSB, Barclays and the Royal Bank of Scotland are lending or providing investment banking services to cluster bomb producers, according to a report released last month by IKV Pax Christi and Netwerk Vlaanderen , viewable at Stop Explosive Investments . Cluster bombs release hundreds of ...
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• Switzerland: Minaret Ban would Breach Religious Freedom

  
  loonwatch.com — Authority: 423
  The Swiss people will be going to the polls on Sunday to vote on a referendum on whether or not to ban Minarets. Amnesty International has stated that they if a ban on Minarets passes it will be a breach of religious freedom. Amnesty International: Ban would breach religious freedom A ban on the construction of ...
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• The little Mumbai survivor - a year later

  
  Israel News — Authority: 435
  This is the story of three year old Moshe, whose parents were murdered by Islamist terrorists in the Mumbai attack one year ago. Please try to keep this heart wrenching story in mind, when attempting to fathom the cynicism and depravity of those who blame the attacks on the "Mossad" and those who published their ...
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• Asia Cast for Thursday 26th November

  
  Asia Cast — Authority: 127
  A Taiwanese e-recycling company is turning thousands of scrap PCs into gold, copper and even art. (By rodrigo senna/Flickr) In this Bulletin… - Heavy fog causes travel chaos across China; - Taiwanese company turning scrap computers into gold; and - Arrests expected in Philippines massacre. But first, here’s ...
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• Human Rights Organizations Call for Investigation into Mysterious Death of Physician in Iran

  
  niacINsight — Authority: 544
  The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran reported today that along with Amnesty International and Physicians for Human Rights , it sent a letter to Iranian authorities demanding an investigation into the death of Dr. Ramin Pourandarjani, a 26-year-old physician at the Kahrizak detention center, ...
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• UN Child Rights Convention: How about online rights?!

  
  NetFamilyNews — Authority: 511
  This past week, "the world celebrated the 20th anniversary of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) – the most universally ratified human rights treaty," the European Commission reports . It adds that "the Convention is the first international legally binding instrument establishing minimum ...
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• Chomsky’s Implication with Revisionism Regarding Bosnia: A Response to the Edward S. Herman and David Peterson Article “Smearing Chomsky” – Part I

  
  Samaha — Authority: 92
  Perhaps it was easier for Herman and Peterson’s article Vulliamy’s Smears at Counter Punch ,  Monthly Review , and Media Lens to link to a blog that receives little attention from its creator because they just might pass under the radar in that manner or perhaps it was due to the post’s Google rank, ...
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• Canada’s torture trials – Who knew about transferring detainees and when?

  
  Faisal Kutty.com — Authority: 131
  By Enzo Di MatteoWhat is it about Canada and torture?Revelations this week by a high-ranking diplomat that Canadian troops handed prisoners over to Afghan authorities to be tortured has come as a shock to the ... Related Posts B Grave Allegations: If this week’s testimony by diplomat Richard Colvin is proven, ...
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• Canadians concerned about Sri Lanka

  
  Livewire - Amnesty International blogging for human rights — Authority: 113
  By John Argue, co-ordinator for Sri Lanka, Amnesty International in Canada Hundreds of Canadians, including many Tamils from Sri Lanka who live in Canada now, rallied in one of Toronto’s main shopping districts on Saturday, creating a personal Circle of Hope around the Sri Lankan consulate in the city.Tamils have ...
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