Are there any Western countries’ dissidents that for some reason were not included on this list.

For example, I am just wandering if there is someone protesting in the USA for the basic rights of Latino minority ( numbering around 60 million, legal and illegal ) to be allowed to educate themselves on their mother tongue ( Spanish ).
Same goes for Turkish minority in Germany ( 12 million ), Arab minority of France and so on.
Not to mention protests for autonomous regions to be allocated within Western countries for those minorities in the areas where they represent majority.

Is it possible that no one is protesting against something as basic as this in the Western countries. Or, maybe they are well hidden from the public eye, and as such did not deserve to be included on this kind of list.

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Dissidents in the west are capable of freely expressing their dissent. Also, the right to be educated in whatever language you wish is hardly a basic right. Public education is funded by the state, which deems it in the best interest of everyone to promote integration via education in one language alone.

Why no mention of US dissidents such as Noam Chomsky, or of dissidents of major US allies such as Saudi Arabia, or or major recipients of US aid such as Columbia?

That is exactly what confuses me.
Is it possible that no one from the Latino community of the USA has ever protested against not having autonomous region in, for example, California, where Latino people represent huge majority ??. Or, in regard to educating their children in their mother tongue like in any other country of the word ( in most of the countries of the world minorities are allowed that ).

Or, 12 million Turks in Germany. That is another question. Is it possible that no one has ever protested in that country for the basic right of that minority to be allowed education in Turkish language, or to be given autonomous region where they represent majority.

Not to mention probably 1/3 of France population that are Arabs.

I would like to hear a bit about that. Because, about the dissidents of other countries but Western one, I have heard it million timers already.

I believe that there's a man who escaped from there in 1959 and who has devoted the rest of his life to the liberation of his fellow Tibetans. Gosh, what was his name...

why no mention of Palestinian dissidents to Israels occupation and collective punishment of the people in Gaza? Foreign Policy just included an article on Mustapha Barghouti (an internationally recognized non-violent human rights advocate, who was recently on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart). Why not include Mustapha Barghouti? I sense politics and bias.

See Foreign Policy article on Mustapha Barghouti:

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2010/05/07/holding_obama_to_his_word_in_the_middle_east

The reason their is no mention of Western dissidents is because the American Government forbids it. It would shed an unfavorable light on the US. The US Gov't will abide no slander against its good name. It enforces laws on its own people prohibiting negative speech against America and its allies. The government places extreme pressure on others in the western hemisphere to never speak ill of the American Empire.

I think that was the answer some of you are looking for.

Lyudmila Alexeyeva has been attacked by unemployed drunkard, who was drunk at the moment of attack. She was happy for the court to give him shortest possible sentence. This was not calculated attack by Kremiln supporters as this article suggests.

Kasparov "forced to withdraw" - what a joke. One wouldn't be able to force Sakharov to withdraw "in the face of a campaign of harassment". Get away from the Russian dissident seat!

Norboose wrote that 'You have never been to America. You have never seen America through anything but the lense of propaganda...' You talk as if America itself was not spewing so much propaganda that some people were shocked to discover later that homelessness and other social injustices abound in America-of course predominantly among the minorities who incidentally were more in rank and file fighting Americas' wars here and there. Was what made Greenspan to advice that if America's minorities are dying for America, they should be cared for when they are discharged due to war disabilities. Or was that propaganda as well? In the eighties and earlier Americans were ignorant of what VOA was broadcasting to some parts of the world- facts tinged with propaganda.

Thanks to the information evolution, one does not need to come to America to understand many things about America or how it works.. Naturally those who speak against policies like the recent immigration laws and policies would be dissidents won't they? Or is that propaganda as well..?

Ray I believe that the dissidents will become our future, but if you look at the examples of other dissidents, many of them were for "one use only". That means when they get to power and enforce change they loos most of their appeal. So I do not think hat they represent the stability for our future.

Gerry from site lastlongerguide.com

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