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20 years on: Poland’s election sparked ‘year of wonders’

20 years on: Poland’s election sparked ‘year of wonders’

By Michael Allen on June 10, 2009

The twentieth anniversary of the Tiananmen massacre has tended to obscure an even more momentous event – the election victory of Poland’s Solidarity movement. The poll triggered a chain reaction that led to the collapse of communist regimes across central and eastern Europe and eventually in the Soviet Union itself.
As one observer recently noted:
It was [read full story]

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Democracy in Cuba – an international and moral obligation

Democracy in Cuba – an international and moral obligation

By Michael Allen on April 21, 2009

The United States will keep the issues of “political prisoners, freedom of speech, freedom of religion, [and] democracy” on the agenda of any future engagement with Cuba, President Barack Obama insisted at the end of the Summit of the Americas last Sunday.
The U.S. represents “a set of universal values and ideals – the idea of [read full story]

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Coddling Cuba?

Coddling Cuba?

By Michael Allen on April 9, 2009

Excellent op-ed in the Washington Post today berating those pushing for a shift in policy towards Cuba without linking such changes to democracy and human rights. It observes that the congressional pressure could undermine President Obama’s promise that “liberty” will be at the center of his administration’s Cuba policy and that the lifting of the [read full story]

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Policy review prompts solidarity with Cuba’s democrats

Policy review prompts solidarity with Cuba’s democrats

By Michael Allen on April 8, 2009

Democracy and human rights groups are urging the Congressional Black Caucus, which yesterday met with Fidel Castro, to press Cuba’s communist authorities on the welfare of the island’s political prisoners and democracy activists, including Afro-Cuban prisoner of conscience Dr. Oscar Elias Biscet and civil rights activist Jorge Luis Perez Garcia, aka “Antunez.”
The World Movement for [read full story]

Posted in Cuba, Democracy assistance, Human rights, Labour/labor unions, NGOs/Civil society, authoritarianism, dissidents | Tagged , , , , , , , | Leave a response

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