Standing up to Israel through nonviolent resistance can produce encouraging results, Palestinians said on Tuesday, after a prisoner hunger strike produced some Israeli concessions. "The prime lesson here is that resistance, unity and solidarity can bear fruit for the political movement," said West Bank political analyst Hani Al-Masri. Some Palestinians said Israel was used to meeting violence with violence, but less adept at countering nonviolent tactics. Gaza Strip political analyst Hani Habib called it "a success for the prisoners and an example that should be copied by the politicians."

The danger, insults, humiliation and the exorbitant cost which the Syrian business sector have had to pay - especially when considering this category as one that is accustomed to "calculating" issues beforehand - have all caused businessmen to discover that they are now facing a losing proposition with this regime. This is why al-Assad is today witnessing an increasing number of businessmen defecting from the regime.

"Socrates might be surprised to find out that we have included him in the history of civil disobedience," says Tamara Eidelman, to the 300 people who have gathered in this park in central Moscow. This is the first in a series of lectures to be held at Occupy Abai, the latest chapter in Russia's protest movement, so named for the monument to the Kazakh poet Abai Kunanbayev next to which it is set . Everything here is pointedly legal, and so those who will stay the night spread out their sleeping bags under the open sky.

The Naxalite campaign in the so-called Red belt in central and south India, has been poorly treated by India's democratic disconnect. The tribal people of the region are fighting for the rights to their lands, and their demands are no more than an Indian community fighting for their dignity. We must realize how the Naxal campaign highlights how India is deviating away from the democratic and libertarian principles of its Constitution, casting a dark dictatorial shadow over its heritage.

During the brutal dictatorship of Agusto Pinochet, Chile's Mothers [of the disappeared] spent hours stitching stories of resistance and suffering in the 1980s into a traditional tapestry form, arpilleras. Disregarded as inconsequential women's work, it was possible to smuggle and sell these beautiful quilts both into and out of jails, and outside of Chile - moving information to sons and husbands, and spreading news beyond the borders even when a suppressed press corps could not. This galvanized anti-Pinochet sympathizers globally and resulted in both financial and political support for the resistance.