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Cortright reviews the extent and nature of the Iraq antiwar movement, describing the mammoth scale of global protest prior to the invasion and the continuing and growing political opposition to the war in the years since. He highlights a few specific dimensions of the antiwar upsurge, particularly the rise of Internet organizing, and offers some observations about the overall impacts of the movement.

In contrast to the junta’s claims of “normalcy” and “restored stability,” sources inside Burma have been telling some extraordinary stories of ongoing resistance over the past several weeks. These forms of resistance represent several categories of nonviolent tactics, and they serve as further support for the thesis that the uprising in Burma is more than a spontaneous series of protests by a few disgruntled students and monks.

While much as been written on the philosophy and practice of nonviolence, there has been little systematic analysis of the effectiveness of different types of nonviolent action for social movements. Fuller presents a summary of the available scholarly evidence of what works – the conditions under which various nonviolent strategies and tactics are most effective.

Since 1984, Dr. Neil Wollman has undertaken the long struggle for moral criteria to be applied to TIAA-CREF investment policies. The TIAA-CREF campaign has confronted the greatest obstacles but has reaped significant success. TIAA-CREF has added a Social Choice fund as well as significant community and micro-finance investments, thanks to Neil.

In 2007 a newly formed global antibase network convened in Ecuador to hold their inaugural conference.  In addition to a report on the 2007 No Bases conference, Leiter provides brief accounts of antimilitary base struggles being waged in Hawaii, Guam, Okinawa, Diego Garcia, and Europe.

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