An inspiring story about a man who has saved 160 lives just by offering people cups of tea The famous ocean cliff in Sydney’s east, The Gap, is surrounded by multimillion dollar properties and is home to some of Australia’s wealthiest people. However the scenic locale has become an infamous landmark because of its reputation […]

HE’S a battler from Sydney’s west, a factory worker whose dream is to win a share in Lotto and take his wife on her first overseas holiday. But Ghazi Adra could also be the state’s most honest man — finding $50,000 cash on a train seat, then handing it straight to police. The money — […]

17/01/2011 Nagwa Raouf has written a message, following the massacre in front of the Coptic church on New Year’s Eve in Egypt, and sent it by email to her Christian friends in Egypt and Lebanon. In its original Arabic form, it was published by the Lebanese newspaper Al-Nahar (probably the most important Lebanese daily) on […]

Egypt Muslims to act as “human shields” at Coptic Christmas Eve mass Nourhan El-Abbassy, Thursday 6 Jan 2011 Coptic Churches around the country expect an influx of Egyptian Muslims to share with the country’s Christians their Christmas Eve mass “Although 2011 started tragically, I feel it will be a year of eagerly anticipated change, where […]

By Robert Hirschfield January 5, 2011 CALCUTTA–Subhas Dutta does not look like the man busy fathering the Green Party of India. Balding, with a pencil thin mustache, the legendary green activist looks more like an accountant, which he was trained to be. Dutta is best known in West Bengal for beating environmental polluters in court. […]

2010 Nobel Peace Prize Winner Liu Xiaobo’s Words of Peace and Optimism Following are highlights of the address made to a court by Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo during his trial for subversion in December 2009. The transcript was due to be read on Friday by Norwegian actress Liv Ullmann at a ceremony in Oslo marking […]

By SHAILA KOSHY 
koshy@thestar.com.my Vengeance killing was just another day in the life of Imam Dr Muhammad Nurayn Ashafa and Pastor Dr James Movel Wuye. But since 1995, the two Nigerians known worldwide as ‘The Imam and the Pastor’ have been spreading the message of forgiveness, healing and peace through their interfaith initiatives. THEY used […]

Stan Davey. In The Age 27.10.10) By JO WAINER and JAN RICHARDSON STAN Davey, who campaigned and worked for Aboriginal communities across Australia for more than 50 years, has died of pneumonia at a nursing home in Frankston. He was 88. Stan co-founded five organisations and introduced community development practices to remote areas of Western Australia […]

How do justice-focused whites fit into the struggle against racism in America? By Micah Uetricht September 22, 2010 When confronting racism in the United States, past and present activists for justice have repeatedly run into a problem: white people. In the struggle against a system created to benefit whites–or at least some of them–where do justice-focused […]

By David Sirota August 28, 2010 “Will you join me in lowering our impact?” That was the subject line on a recent e-mail I sent out to family, friends, column readers and radio listeners asking them to join me for a week in trying to reduce our individual environmental footprint. Inspired by Colin Beaven’s prophetic […]

A new book shows how grassroots community organizing and persistence turned around one of the country’s most corrupt school districts. By Louis Nayman August 16, 2010 No admonition is more likely to piss off an organizer than, “Hey. Let’s not get stuck in the weeds.” It’s among the weeds that organizers spend their working lives, […]

Julio Diaz has a daily routine. Every night, the 31-year-old social worker ends his hour-long subway commute to the Bronx one stop early, just so he can eat at his favorite diner. But one night last month, as Diaz stepped off the No. 6 train and onto a nearly empty platform, his evening took an […]