Originally published in xxx This chapter will present the criminalisation of opponents by making ordinary political actions illegal and labelling them ”terrorism” in Israel. Three examples will be used to illustrate this new form of criminalising opponents; two forms of…
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Criminalising ”the others”
Tagged with: boycott, Freedom Flotilla, Gaza, Israel, Middle East, UN
Posted in Political comment and analysis
Posted in Political comment and analysis
Two weeks after September 11
By Jan Oberg, TFF director and Jorgen Johansen, TFF associate Originally published by TFF, September 25, 2001 Constructive thoughts two weeks after September 11 Can something positive come out of the terrible events in New York and Washington on September 11? Can the…
Tagged with: Jan Øberg, Richard Falk, September 11, terrorism, TFF
Posted in In English, Political comment and analysis
Posted in In English, Political comment and analysis
Conditions for Civil Resistance
Originally published in xxx History When Gandhi introduced the concept of Passive Resistance in his article on “The Benefits of Passive Resistance” on September 7 1907 he for sure did not understood how that concept would develop over the years.…
Tagged with: Charta 77, Civil Resistance, Gandhi, Georgia, Iran, Martin Luther King, nonviolence, nonviolent resistance, Nonviolent revolutions, Palestine, Passive Resistance, Phillippines, Poland, revolution, Revolutions, Social Forum, World Social Forum
Posted in In English, Nonviolence, Social Movements
Posted in In English, Nonviolence, Social Movements
Conscientious Objection: Legal Rights
Originally published in International Encyclopedia of Peace xxx Conscientious Objection (CO) is to refuse participation in a system of obligatory service when one is conscientiously opposed to the service. In most cases the objector refuses to do military service, but individuals may…
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Posted in In English, Nonviolence, Political comment and analysis
Posted in In English, Nonviolence, Political comment and analysis
Deterrent Nonviolence
Originally published in xxx The best-prepared and most successful large-scale civil disobedience action in Scandinavian history never took place. In the end the government had to resign. In 1996 the Norwegian Parliament decided to build two large power stations…
Tagged with: civil disobedience, FAG, Fellesaksjonen mot Gasskraftverk, Naturkraft, Norway
Posted in In English, Nonviolence, Political comment and analysis
Posted in In English, Nonviolence, Political comment and analysis
Cases on Nonviolence
Originally published in xxx Iran Iran does not have long traditions of nonviolent movement, and few had predicted what should happen in 1979. A country where the secularisation had gone far beyond what was acceptable for the Shiite clergy…
Tagged with: Bolivia, Eastern Europe, Iran, Philippines, Poland, South Africa
Posted in In English, Nonviolence
Posted in In English, Nonviolence
Bombning av Iran är farligt för alla
Originally published in xxx Det har spekulerats i om USA kommer att bomba Iran innan president Bush avgår nästa år. Senast förra veckan publicerade The Times en läcka från Pentagon om en plan för en intensiv tre dagars bombning av…
Vem skall äga våra liv?
Originally published in xxx Bokrecension av Vandana Shiva: Skydda eller skövla. Patent, etik och nykolonialism Ordfront 2003, 156 sidor. ISBN91-7324-937-8 Vem skall äga våra liv? Denna fråga har fått ökad aktualitet i takt med att patentlagstiftningen expanderar såväl geografiskt som tematiskt.…
Verdens urettferdighet er alles ansvar
Originally published in xxxx Bokanmeldelse av Alfred Fidjestøl: Hans Jonas Universitetsforlaget, 2004. ISBN 82-15-00548-9, 188 sider. Det er over ti år siden den tyske filosofen Hans Jonas gikk bort. Selv om han i visse tyske kretser har fått heltestatus og…
Tagged with: Alfred Fidjestøl, etik, filosofi, Hans Jonas, Jens Bjørnebo, Zygmunt Bauman
Posted in Book Reviews, På norsk
Posted in Book Reviews, På norsk
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Demokratisk underskudd: ikke bare et EU fenomen
Originally published by TFF, July 6, 2005. Motstanden mot EUs grunnlov hos den vanlige europeer ser ut til å være proporsjonal med elitenes støtte til den samme grunnlov. Denne avstanden mellom de styrende og de styrte er et voksende…
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