Technologies can be liberating, but it can also be a tool of coercion and control.

To some degree it matters who's in office, but it matters more how much pressure they're under from the public.

In societies that profess some respect for law, suspects are apprehended and brought to fair trial. I stress 'suspects.'

My own concern is primarily the terror and violence carried out by my own state... It is very easy to denounce the atrocities of someone else. That has about as much ethical value as denouncing atrocities that took place in the 18th century.

Cuba has become a symbol of courageous resistance to attack. Since 1959, Cuba has been under attack from the hemispheric superpower.

In some ways, [the student anti-sweatshop movement] is like the anti-apartheid movement, except that in this case its striking at the core of the relations of exploitation. Much of this was initiated by Charlie Kernaghan of the Institute for Global Labour and Human Rights.

What Wikileaks exposed is kind of superficial in a way.