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  • 27 Feb
    2008
    Airport runway objectors take protest to parliament's roof

    Protesters from the campaigning group Plane Stupid have today mounted a hight profile protest against the proposed Heathrow third runway by waving banners from the roof the the parliament building, in a major breach of security.

  • 27 Sep
    2007
    Desmond Tutu hails Aung San Suu Kyi as Burma troops react

    South Africa's Nobel peace winner and Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu has hailed the courage and inspiration of Burmese pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi - as he expressed support for nonviolent direct action against the dictatorship.

  • 24 Aug
    2007
    Direct action may be needed to address climate change

    Nonviolent direct action - often criticised for bypassing representative democracy - can have both political and moral legitimacy in the face of inertia over major issues like social injustice and

  • 15 Aug
    2007
    We need more peaceful troublemakers

    The sixtieth anniversary of India's independence reminds us, says Jonathan Bartley, that the nonviolent activism of Gandhi and the the peaceful and environmental 'awkward squads' point to a more hopeful form of politics and social change.

  • 16 Feb
    2007
    Resisting and Hope: Casting Fire
    RESISTANCE AND HOPE: CASTING FIRE was used at the "Just Trade Agreements? Churches in North America Discuss Globalization" consultation held in Stony Point, New York, 11-14 January 2004.
  • 13 Dec
    2006
    Right to protest legally upheld for UK anti-war demonstrators

    Peace and civil liberties campaigners have welcomed a legal victory by a group of UK anti-war demonstrators who have established that their rights to public protest were violated when police stopped them from attending a non-violent action against the Iraq war at an airbase.

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