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Pakistanis are using Protest4 to discuss democracy and freedom
Protest4, an app designed to allow non-violent protestors to connect and organize, launched last week and has already acquired a significant user base amongst political activists in Pakistan.
Case Study: Campaign to #FreeAlaa
This weekend, Egyptian blogger, Twitter activist, and human rights advocate Alaa Abd El Fattah (@alaa) went in to a military court in Egypt for interrogation. He refused to answer the military’s questions and was thus detained for 15 days. Activists in MENA and all over the world are campaigning on and offline for his release.
Tweeps use #hs4palestine to show solidarity and discuss prisoner swaps
About 2,000 Palestinian prisoners have joined a hunger strike in Israeli prisons at the same time Israel and Hamas have announced that they've reached a prisoner swap deal that would result in the release of Gilad Shalit, an Israeli prisoner in Palestine.
How to: Create Effective Advocacy Videos
WITNESS has created a toolkit for human rights defenders and social change activists interested in using video to strengthen their advocacy campaigns.
Campaign for Palestinians who were denied visas to Tunisia for Bloggers Meeting #ab11 #visarejected
Currently the 3rd Arab Bloggers Meeting is taking place in Tunis. While many influential and important Arab bloggers are in attendance, those coming from Palestine were denied entry visas by the Tunisian Interior Ministry. Bloggers at the conference and their supporters online have launched a campaign to draw attention to the injustice and find out why the visas were denied.
How Can You Help Saudi Women?
Over the past few months we've been covering the Saudi #women2drive movement and this week we've shared some horrible news about human rights abuses in Saudi Arabia. People are asking us- "How can we help?" We believe getting the word out and making people aware that these human rights abuses are real and serious, is the first step to achieving change. Here's what you can do:
10 Lashes for Driving
Originally published on the DailyBeast by David Keyes, Executive Director of Advancing Human Rights and CyberDissidents.org, this piece explains that the rights of women in Saudi Arabia are still severely limited and to applaud King Abdullah for "human rights improvements" is a mistake.
SNCC's Atlanta staff in 1963. Photo by Richard Avedon
How we made the media pay attention
Civil Rights veteran Mary Elizabeth King discusses lessons from trying to get the media to pay attention to their movement and applies those to the contemporary situation in Palestine. (Originally published on WagingNonViolence)
Wael Ghonim addresses his fellow Egyptian activists & gives media training via his Facebook page
This post, written by @zeinobia on her blog egyptianchronicles.blogspot.com, she shares a note written by Wael Ghonim (@ghonim) on his Facebook Page that provides tips for Egyptian activists using social and traditional media to further the cause of the revolution.
Case Study: Syrian Boycott of Mobile Telecoms
In 2009 fed up Syrian mobile customers used Facebook and blogs to organize a boycott of Syrian mobile telecoms. To learn more about how they did it, read our full case study.
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