- Alert: Police raid opposition party headquarters, arrest protesters amid continuing unrest in Perak State
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2009
The Centre for Independent Journalism (CIJ) strongly protests continuing police arrests of protesters and a related raid at the headquarters of the opposition Democratic Action Party (DAP) to eliminate critical expression about the political crisis.
- The American Police State
The Government Against The People
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1978
- Amnesty International, Canadian Section
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Banned Books
Informal Notes on Some Books Banned for Various Reasons
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1970
- Chile Report
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1975
Describes the repression and injustice that exists in Chile and criticizes Canada's attitude.
- The CIA
A Forgotten History
Resource Type: Book
Describes the CIA's role in overthrowing governments, rigging elections, assassinating leaders, and manufacturing "news" in over 50 countries.
- The CIA's Greatest Hits
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1994
Brief case studies of the CIA's greatest 'triumphs'.
- Death threats sent to paper of slain editor in Sri Lanka
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2009
The Committee to Protect Journalists is greatly concerned by ongoing threats to Sri Lanka#s journalists and media organizations.
- Gandhi's Truth
On the origins of militant nonviolence
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1969
An examination of the life, vision, and actions of Mohandas Gandhi.
- The History of the German Resistance 1933-1945
Widerstand, Staatsstreich, Attentat
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1969
A thorough portrayal of the plans, hesitations, frustrations, and failures of the opposition to Hitler.
- How they shot those campus bums
Review of The Truth About Kent State
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1973
How Ohio National Guard troops out to "get" campus radicals and teach them "what law and order is all about" shot down students at Kent State University on May 4, 1970, killing four and wounding nine others.
- The I.F. Stone's Weekly Reader
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1973
- IFEX members call for protection for women journalists and activists to mark day against violence
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2009
40 IFEX members are marking the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women today, 25 November, with a joint call for action.
- IFJ Accuses Iran over Massive Attack on Media and Journalists
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2009
The International Federation of Journalists warned that a massive attack on independent media in Iran which has seen the jailing of journalists and a continuing crackdown on free expression reveals the desperation of the regime to curb democracy.
- IFJ Condemns Shocking Attack on Tamil Newspapers in Sri Lanka
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2009
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) strongly condemns an attack on three Tamil newspapers in the northern Sri Lankan city of Jaffna. According to reports from IFJ sources, news agents for Jaffnaâ##s three main newspapers were attacked.
- IFJ Condemns United States "Desperate and Dangerous" Backlash over WikiLeaks
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2010
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today condemned the political backlash being mounted against the whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks and accused the United States of attacking free speech after it put pressure on the website's host.
- IFJ Demands End to Intimidation as Iran Shuts Journalists' Association
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2009
International Federation of Journalists calls on Iranian authorities to end the campaign of intimidation of journalists in the country following closure of the Association of Journalists in Tehran whose offices were raided and sealed by armed men.
- Information Terrorists?
The Vile Campaign Against Julian Assange and Wikileaks
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2010
WikiLeaks is under concerted attack from the US government. Also under attack by the US government is the whole idea of freedom of thought and of information. It needs to be clearly understood that the attacks on WikiLeaks by the US government -- attacks which have included heavy pressure on companies like Paypal, Amazon Books, Visa and Mastercard, all of which have closed their accounts with the organization, making it difficult if not impossible for Assange and his team to raise money, and on internet servers, making it harder for WikiLeaks to stay online -- could as easily be used against news organizations and political organizations.
- Iran bars foreign media from reporting on protests
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2009
The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the Iranian government's decision to bar foreign journalists from leaving their offices to report, film, or take photographs--a restriction intended to prevent news coverage of protests.
- Israeli army raids on Bil'in village
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2009
Israeli army forces are launching night-time military raids on Bil'in village in Palestine. Military raids launched by Israeli forces in Palestine in parallel to court case in Canada.
- Journalists Killed since 1992
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2009
A database of more than 700 journalists who have been murdered or killed on dangerous assignments since 1992. Interactive maps, timelines, and statistical breakdowns providing analysis by country, year, and type of death with a special emphasis on unsolved murders, a focal point of CPJ's Global Campaign Against Impunity.
- A memorial to killed journalists, a call to action
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2009
More than 500 journalists have been targeted for murder, our research shows, and nearly nine in 10 of these slayings go unpunished. Another 200 journalists have been killed in combat or on dangerous assignments; their stories offer lessons in how to improve security and hold governments accountable. Through interactive maps, timelines, and statistical breakdowns, our new database provides analysis by country, year, and type of death. It puts a special emphasis on unsolved murders, a focal point of CPJ's Global Campaign Against Impunity.
- Mohammed Khatib, coordinator of West Bank Coordination Committee arrested
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2010
Khatib#s arrest today is the most severe escalation in a recent wave of repression again the Palestinian popular struggle and its leadership. Khatib is the 35th resident of Bil#in to be arrested on suspicions related to anti-Wall protest since June 23rd, 2009. The recent wave of arrests is largely an assault on the members of the Popular Committees # the leadership of the popular struggle # who are then charged with incitement when arrested.
- Mohammed Khatib, coordinator of West Bank Coordination Committee arrested
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2010
Mohammed Khatib#s arrest today is the most severe escalation in a recent wave of repression again the Palestinian popular struggle and its leadership. Khatib is the 35th resident of Bil#in to be arrested on suspicions related to anti-Wall protest .
- More than 3,500 petition Iran to free journalists, writers
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2010
More than 3,500 concerned people from around the world are petitioning Iran#s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Sayed Ali Khamenei, to immediately release dozens of journalists writers, and bloggers currently imprisoned in the country.
- Police in Tunisia's Gafsa mining region harass reporter for banned newspaper
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2009
Reporters Without Borders is concerned about the way the police in Tunisia have been harassing political activist Ammar Amroussia in recent days. Amroussia writes for El Badil (Alternative), a banned newspaper.
- SDS
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1974
- Sentence Against US Journalists in North Korea is Inhumane and Unjust, Says IFJ
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2009
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) called for the immediate release of the two United States journalists, Euna Lee and Laura Ling, who have been jailed by North Korea.
- The Sixties
Years of Hope, Days of Rage
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1987
One of the best books on the Sixties in the U.S., bringing to life the political and cultural currents, including especially the music, which raged during that decade, and setting them in historical context.
- '68: The Year of the Barricades
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1988
Caute's book looks at the explosive year 1968 (while situating it in the context of what had led up to it). One of the great strengths of this excellent book is that it looks at what was happening around the world.
- The Story Inside: How Amnesty Does Its Work
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
- Strike!
The True History of Mass Insurgence from 1877 to the Present
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1997
A history-from-below that brings to light strikes as authentic revolutionary movements against the establishments of state, capital, and trade unionism.
- Take action: Help free imprisoned songwriter
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2009
Freemuse, a free expression organisation for musicians and composers, is asking for your support to help dissident singer/songwriter Lapiro de Mbanga. He was imprisoned in 2008 and fined US$640,000 for writing a song critical of Cameroonian President
- Thailand: Call for moratorium on prosecutions for criticising the King, dialogue on Internet freedom
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2009
Reporters Without Borders joined by 31 other organisations in a call for moratorium on prosecutions for criticising the King, dialogue on Internet freedom.
- The Truth About Kent State
A Challenge to the American Conscience
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1973
- Truth in Chains
The Arrest of Julian Assange
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2010
Tell a truth that discomforts power, that challenges its domination over our lives, our discourse, our very thoughts, and you will be destroyed. No institution, public or private, will stand with you; the most powerful entities, public and private, will be arrayed against you, backed up by overwhelming violent force. This is where we are now. This is what we are now.
- Tunisian journalist in desert prison could die from untreated asthma attacks
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2010
Tunisian journalist Fahem Boukadous has been in extremely poor health since police arrested him on 15 July to begin serving a four-year jail sentence for covering protests in the Gafsa mining region of Tunisia.
- Twelve journalists killed on Mindanao island in "dark day for press freedom"
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2009
At least 12 journalists were killed today in Maguindanao province, Philippines, by armed men, including two policemen, linked to the provinces governor. More than 30 other people were murdered.
- The Un-Canadians
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1992
Details the blacklisting which took place in Canada during the Cold War years.
- Uyghur journalist and website editor sentenced to fifteen years in jail
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2010
Reporters Without Borders said it was outraged at the harshness of a 15-year prison sentence handed down to journalist Gheyret Niyaz by a court in Urumqi, in Xinjiang province, China.
- A War on Wikileaks?
Unhinged at the US State Department and Pentagon
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2010
If the state fails to make any sense - not surprising - it is because it is has no intention of doing so. The state is appealing to something more visceral with all of this posturing: fear. It wants to strike fear into the minds and bodies of people working with Wikileaks, or anyone else doing such work, and anyone contemplating leaking any classified records. Fear is its greatest weapon of psychological destruction, with proven success at home. And in this case, the danger lies at home. The outcome the state hopes for is greater self-censorship and greater self-monitoring.
- West Germany: Censorship and Repression in the Model State
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1979
In West Germany, repression is now 'democratically' sanctioned and seen as a model for other countries to adopt.
- WikiLeaks appeals for help as attacks are stepped up
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2010
As the whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks comes under mounting cyber-attacks and as hosting companies continue to withdraw their services, it is appealing to its supporters around the world to create mirror sites.
- Winnipeg 1919
The strikers' own history of the Winnipeg General Strike
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1975
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