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...Reported for the network on the civil rights movement as a staffer at WSB-TV in Atlanta...
...said a leader of Thailand's anti-government protest movement, the "final battle." On one side, the People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD), a hodgepodge group of demonstrators that has occupied Government House, Thailand's seat of power, since late August, forcing newly elected Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat to work out of the VIP lounge of Bangkok's old airport. Pitted against the PAD are those associated with former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, who was ousted in a military coup in 2006. On the evening of Oct. 6, members of the PAD swarmed the streets around parliament in what they...
...more big time players start jumping across the pond for briefcases full of Euros, the NBA will lose the foundation of its business: talented players. While this movement has not taken off yet, it makes sense that if one league loses its best talent, the level of play will decrease. Tom Brady, star quarterback of the Patriots football team, offers an object lesson for these issues. Brady completely changed the scope of the 2008 NFL season when he tore a muscle in his left knee during the first game of the year against the Kansas City Chiefs. While many Patriots...
...idea of an African renaissance of good governance and economic development had been championed by the likes of South Africa's former President Thabo Mbeki and other veterans of the struggle to end white rule on the continent, Farhan argues that it's precisely because the liberation-era movements are on the wane - as South Africa's African National Congress seemed to be last week, amid a very public schism - that governance is improving. "Those movements used to say, We have the right to stay in power because we are a liberation movement," she says. Across the continent, the liberation...
...founder of the “One Million Signatures Campaign” who was awarded Sweden’s illustrious Olaf Palme human rights award in March, was jailed last month along with three others for the crime of threatening national security. While the women’s movement had a slight victory in recent weeks, with the Iranian Parliament deleting Ahmadinejad’s abhorrent clauses to the bill, it is likely not the end of Ahmadinejad’s attempts to “re-Islamize” Iranian women...