International Solidarity Movement - International Solidarity Movement The International Solidarity Movement (ISM) is a Palestinian-led activist organization that recruits civilians from western countries to participate in accompaniment and non-violent acts of resistance against Israeli occupation. The ISM is devoted to ending the Israeli occupation via non-violent activity, however, they do "recognize the Palestinian right to resist Israeli violence and occupation via legitimate armed struggle." ISM have been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize [1]. Past ISM campaigns have used the following strategies: Acting as human shields to deter Israeli military operations. According to the group specifically "detering the shooting of unarmed children". ISM members do not themselves use the term human shield to describe their work because the Israel Defence Forces routinely force captive Palestinians as human shields when searching.
International Lesbian and Gay Association - International Lesbian and Gay Association International Lesbian and Gay Association is an international organization bringing together lesbian and gay groups from around the world. In the past it had among its membership organizations which defended pedophilia (see NAMBLA), and as a result had its consultative status with the United Nations ECOSOC rescinded. Its leadership has since expelled all pro-pedophile organizations, but its quest to regain consultative status has so far been unsucessful: on May 3, 2003, ECOSOC voted to again decline consultative status to ILGA. ILGA may re-apply in 2005. Currently, the only specifically homosexual NGO at ECOSOC is the Australian Coalition of Activist Lesbians, which gained consultative status in 1999. Relationship to pedophilia advocacy groups In 1993, the ILGA was an organization of about 300.
International Women's Day - International Women's Day International Women's Day is on March 8 every year. IWD is a major day of global celebration for the economic, political and social achievements of women. Amongst other relevant historic events, it commemorates the Triangle Factory Fire (New York, 1911), where 129 women lost their lives. see also: Feminism Women's rights The idea of an International Women's Day first arose at the turn of the century, which in the industrialized world was a period of expansion and turbulence, booming population growth and radical ideologies. On 8 March 1857, women working in clothing and textile factories (called 'garment workers') in New York City, in the United States, staged a protest. They were fighting against inhumane working conditions and low wages. The police attacked the.
International Socialist Tendency - International Socialist Tendency The International Socialist Tendency is an international grouping of organisations around the ideas of Tony Cliff, founder of the Socialist Workers Party in the UK. It has sections across the world, however its strongest presence is in Europe, especially in the UK and Ireland. The politics of the IST are similar to the politics of many Trotskyist Internationals. Where it differs with many is on the question of Soviet Union, the IST adopting the position that it was state capitalist, rather than a degenerate worker's state, and the theories of the permanent arms economy and deflected permanent revolution. Unlike many international tendencies the IST has no formal organisational structures and has only ever made one publically known decision, which was to expell the.
United National Movement - United National Movement The United National Movement (UNM) is a Georgian political party, founded in October 2001 by Mikhail Saakashvili. It is a centre-right, moderately nationalist party which favours radical reform of the Georgian state and closer ties with NATO and the European Union. It is currently the largest opposition grouping in the Georgian parliament. Saakashvili and other Georgian opposition leaders formed a "united people's alliance" in June 2003 to bring together the United National Movement, the United Democrats, the Union of National Solidarity and the youth movement "Kmara" in a loose alliance against the government of President Eduard Shevardnadze, which was widely criticised in Georgia and abroad for failing to tackle the country's endemic corruption. The United National Movement and its partners in the opposition played a.
Anti-Israel movements - right of self definition in a independent state. Such groups are usually declared illegal in their countries. Anti-Zionists: these groups are usually identified with the radical left and their motto is "we are not against Jews, only against Zionism". These group claim that Zionism is a racist colonialist movement that stealing the land from its rightful owner - the Palestinians. Such group accusing the Zionist movement in colonialism, imperialism, racism and policy of apartheid and even "ethnic cleansing" toward the Palestinians. Although they do not define themselves as anti-semticis, some of them are tend to use antisemite motives in their propoganda. They usually do not take direct violent actions against Israel although some of these groups advocating terrorism against Israel. Such groups are usually take legal steps to promote their cause.
Communists in the U.S. Labor Movement (1937-1949) - Communists in the U.S. Labor Movement (1937-1949) The Communist Party and its allies played an important role in the United States labor movement, particularly in the 1930s and 1940s, but never succeeded, with rare exceptions, either in bringing the labor movement around to its agenda or in converting their influence in any particular union into membership gains for the Party. The CP has had only negligible influence in labor since its supporters' defeat in internal union political battles in the aftermath of World War II and the CIO's expulsion of the unions in which they held the most influence in 1949. Historians disagree why the union movement never formed a labor party and why American workers have never embraced socialist parties in any numbers in the last ninety.
Solidarity - Solidarity Solidarity (in Polish - Solidarność) is a Polish trade union federation founded in September 1980, originally led by Lech Walesa. The founding of Solidarity was an unprecedented event not only in Poland, ruled by a one-party Communist regime, but also in the whole Eastern bloc. It meant a break in the hard-line stance of the Party which in another protest in 1970 had ended in bloodshed with dozens of people killed by machine gun fire and over 1,000 injured. Two factors contributed to the initial success of the unions: it was backed by a group of intellectual dissidents (KOR) and it was based on the rules of non-violence. The ideas of the Solidarity movement spread like wildfire throughout Poland; more and more new unions were.
Illegal combatant - seeking to gather military information and communicate it to the enemy, or an enemy combatant who without uniform comes secretly through the lines for the purpose of waging war by destruction of life or property, are familiar examples of belligerents who are generally deemed not to be entitled to the status of prisoners of war, but to be offenders against the law of war subject to trial and punishment by military tribunals." Other countries, including the United Kingdom, Israel, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand make theoretical distinctions between lawful and unlawful combatants and the legal status thereof. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Criticism 2 Protest 3 References Criticism The legal status of unlawful combatants in these nations has been the subject of criticism by many other Geneva Convention signatories and international.
Israel Defence Forces - jet (upgraded and improved Mirage V) Nammer fighter jet Lavi fighter jet (development wasn't complete) Mazlat (UAV) - unmanned small areial vehicle More information: Israeli Weapons Nuclear capability? Most analysts hold it that Israel is the only nuclear power in the middle east. The Israeli government has neither acknowledged nor denied that it possesses nuclear weapons, an official policy referred to as "ambiguity". Gathering information from various sources, it is generally believed that nuclear weapons have been developed at the Dimona nuclear reactor since the 1960s. Very little can be said with certainty beyond this. The Federation of American Scientists (see references) claims that the first two nuclear bombs probably were operational before the Six-Day War. It is widely reported that Prime Minister Eshkol ordered them armed in Israel's first nuclear.
Israeli-Palestinian conflict timeline - territories "can't continue endlessly." April 30, 2003 The details of the Road map for peace are released. March 24, 2003 Hilltop 26, an illegal Israeli settlement near the city of Hebron, is peacefully dismantled by the Israel Defence Force. March 19, 2003 Mahmoud Abbas is appointed as the first Palestinian Prime Minister. March 16, 2003 Rachel Corrie, an American member of the International Solidarity Movement is crushed by an Israel Defence Forces bulldozer, becoming the first ISM member to die in the conflict. Eyewitnesses allege murder, while Israel calls it a "regrettable accident". August 14, 2002 Marwan Barghouti, captured April 15, was indicted in a civilian Israeli court. July 22, 2002 In an interview with the British newspaper the Independent, Yasser Arafat's chief political representative in Jerusalem, Professor Sari Nusseibeh, condemned.
ISM - ISM ISM is an abbreviation of: International Solidarity Movement interstellar medium.
Israeli security barrier - 15% and 45% of the West Bank will eventually be outside the barrier. In October 2003, the region between the barrier and the border of the West Bank (the "green line") was declared a special military area. Although all Israelis and all Jews regardless of nationality can enter the region freely, Palestinians can enter only with special permits even if they are residents of one of the dozen or so Arab villages in the region. Many of the latter Arabs who tried to obtain permits were refused them. In October 2003, the United States vetoed a United Nations Security Council resolution stating: The construction by Israel, the occupying power, of a wall in the Occupied Territories departing from the armistice line of 1949 is illegal under relevant provisions of international law.
History of Guatemala - State John Foster Dulles, denounced the communist tendency of Guatemalan government and decided the Arbenz government had to be overthrown. Despite most Guatemalans' attachment to the original ideals of the 1944 uprising, some private sector leaders and the military adhered to the U.S. imposed ideas about communist threat and started to view Arbenz's policies as a menace. The army refused to defend the Arbenz government when a United States and United Fruit -backed group led by Col. Carlos Castillo Armas invaded the country from Honduras in 1954 and quickly took over the government. The late 20th Century In response to the increasingly autocratic rule of Gen. Ydigoras Fuentes, who took power in 1958 following the murder of Colonel Castillo Armas, a group of junior military officers revolted in 1960. When they.
History of Poland - (Pomeranian) of the North. Some historians even question whether Mieszko was Slavic and suggest that he was Scandinavian, and have seen evidence to support this claim in one of the earliest written documents about Mieszko (the Dagome Iudex), where he appears under the name Dagome, which they say could be the Scandinavian name Dago. Some military equipment found in Poland and dated to around Mieszko's time has been claimed to be of Scandinavian appearance, though archaeologists today are generally skeptical, and there is no trace of characteristically Scandinavian architecture among the remains of the Polanian structures, not even in the leaders' quarters. (See summary of arguments at Scandinavian connections to Mieszko I). Mieszko's successor Boleslaus I expanded the early state, and gave it an international recognition due to the meeting at.
History of East Germany - to former Nazis and war criminals and generally limited ownership to 100 hectares. Some 500 Junker estates were converted into collective people's farms, and more than 3 million hectares were distributed among 500,000 peasant farmers, agricultural laborers, and refugees. Soviet and Western cooperation in Germany ended with the onset of the Cold War in late 1947. In March 1948, the United States, Britain, and France met in London and agreed to unite the Western zones and to establish a West German republic. The Soviet Union responded by leaving the Allied Control Council and prepared to create an East German state. In June 1948, the Soviet Union blockaded Berlin in an effort to incorporate the city into its zone. The Soviet Union envisaged an East German state controlled by the SED and.
History of Socialism: Part 1 - contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Early socialists 2 Marxism and the socialist movement 3 Social Democracy to 1917 4 Socialism and Communism (1917-39) 5 Social Democracy (1945-70) Early socialists The word socialism came into English from French in the 1820s, but the idea that goods should be held in common and that all men should be equal is much older. Quasi-socialist elements can be identified in Plato's Republic, the Sermon on the Mount, the millenarian movements of the Middle Ages and Thomas More's Utopia. Socialist ideas were certainly current among the Levellers and other sects of the English revolution of the 1640s and the more radical sans-culottes of the French revolution of the 1790s, though they never achieved real influence. As a coherent body of ideas, socialism dates from the early 19th century..
Human shield - civilians to deter an enemy from attacking certain targets - in particular military targets. International law considers the use of human shields to protect military targets a war crime. However, in more recent times it has increasingly being used by civilian volunteers as an anti-war strategy to protect civilians and civilian targets. It may also be used to describe the use of civilians to literally shield soldiers during attacks, by forcing the civilians to march in front of the soldiers during human wave attacks. Of course the civilian casualty rate is extremely high and use of this technique is highly illegal. There were some instances of this in the Soviet Union during WWII. The tactic was used by the Bosnian Serbs in 1994 and by Iraq in 1990. Some anti-war activists.
Fidel V. Ramos - 1998. His six-year term as president was widely recognized in building economic and political growth and stability in the country despite facing communist insurgencies and an Islamic separatist movement in Mindanao. He launched a reform of the notoriously corrupt police force and attempted to disband hundreds of warlord groups engaged in smuggling operations. He increased production of electric power and encouraged international investment. Ramos anchored his government on his philosophy of people empowerment as the engine to "operationalise economic growth, social equity and national solidarity". That engine, however, stalled with the onslaught of the 1997 Asian financial crisis. Born in 1928 in Lingayen, Pangasinan, the son of a United Nations ambassador and a cousin to Ferdinand Marcos, Ramos pursued a career in the military and in engineering. His long association with.
Foreign relations of Indonesia - outlines of Soeharto's independent, moderate foreign policy. Preoccupation with domestic problems has not prevented President Wahid from frequently traveling abroad and continuing to participate vigorously, though peripatetically, in many international fora. The traumatic separation of East Timor from Indonesia after an August 1999 East Timor referendum, and subsequent events in East and West Timor, strained Indonesia's relations with the international community. A cornerstone of Indonesia's contemporary foreign policy is its participation in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), of which it was a founding member in 1967 with Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, and the Philippines. Since then, Brunei, Vietnam, Laos, Burma, and Cambodia also have joined ASEAN. While organized to promote common economic, social, and cultural goals, ASEAN acquired a security dimension after Vietnam's invasion of Cambodia in 1979; this aspect.
