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Fewer flock to SOA Watch protest
San Salvador :: El Salvador | 1 day ago
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The couple joined thousands of other protestors who gathered Saturday at Fort Benning’s gates for the 20th annual event. The protest seeks to close the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation — formerly known as the School of the Americas,...
Tags: SOA Watch, El Salvador, San Salvador, School of the Americas Watch, Fort Benning, Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation, Veterans for Peace, Columbus Georgia metropolitan area, Muscogee County Georgia, Activism, Politics, Excommunication, Priesthood, Ordination of women, Maryknoll, Roy Bourgeois, Religion Belief
Polar bears fall from sky in shock ad
London :: United Kingdom | 2 days ago
Credibility Airline pollution activists Plane Stupid are on a collision course with the advertising regulator after launching a graphic cinema campaign that sees CGI polar bears falling to bloody deaths to highlight the impact of carbon emissions. Plane Stupid's...
Tags: polar bears, bears fall, United Kingdom, London, Sky, Bears, Inuit culture, Environment, Civil disobedience, Plane Stupid, Polar ice cap, Action on climate change, Activism, Climate change
SOA Watch marks 20th anniversary of assassinations
San Salvador :: El Salvador | 2 days ago
Credibility It was 6 a.m. on Nov. 16, 1989, when a gardener named Obdulio Ramos saw that six Jesuit priests and his wife and daughter had been gunned down by soldiers in El Salvador. From these killings came the movement that 20 years later Columbus knows as “SOA...
Tags: jesuit priests, 20th anniversary, El Salvador, San Salvador, Blase Bonpane, Salvadoran Civil War, Society of Jesus, Religion Belief, Activism, School of the Americas Watch, Fort Benning, Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation, Columbus Georgia, Columbus Georgia metropolitan area, Muscogee County Georgia, Chattahoochee County Georgia
X17 XCLUSIVE - Lindsay Follows The Rules, Goes To Her Alcohol Education Class
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | 2 days ago
Credibility Anonymous I wish she'd just do the world a favor and OD already...CD Lindsay Lohan 41 new from $1.92 127 used from $0.01 Posted by: Anonymous "Chain smoking, boozer, drugger hag at 23...We would add, self-cutter, almost friendless and consumer addictive.
Tags: Los Angeles, Internet activism, Internet censorship, Project Chanology, Anonymous, Anonymity, Human Interest, Scientology and the Internet, Internet memes, Activism
Silence Requests Crosses Constitutional Bounds
Muscat :: Oman | 5 days ago
Credibility Cynthia Wong, the Ron Plesser fellow at the Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT), said Friday in a phone interview that "the new media technology and the way that things can be tracked on the media" makes government more likely to "issue these types...
Tags: Kristina Clair, gag ordering, NYC Indymedia, ip addresses, EFF, Kevin Bankston, attorney generally, jury subpoenaed, grand jury, Steven DeBrota, Oman, Muscat, DIY culture, Independent Media Center, Reporters' privilege, Subpoena, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Freedom of expression, Legal documents, Activism, Law Crime
Report: Muslim extremists recruiting from UK jails
London :: United Kingdom | 5 days ago
Credibility Two of Britain's most high-profile Muslim extremists have been given free rein to recruit fellow inmates in prison and are spreading propaganda from behind bars, a think-tank founded by two former Islamic radicals said Monday...It said another inmate...
Tags: muslims extremists, Britain, United Kingdom, London, Antisemitism, Activism, Quilliam Foundation, Maajid Nawaz, Ed Husain, English Muslims, Islamism, Terrorism in the United Kingdom
Patkar's plea in SC on transfer of defamation case opposed
Ahmedabad :: India | 7 days ago
Credibility Patkar for her alleged defamatory remarks during a television debate pertaining to Sardar Sarovar Project (SSP). He has accused her of concealing facts from the apex court in her transfer petition, which is likely to be heard tomorrow. Patkar, a Magsaysay...
Tags: Patkar, India, Ahmedabad, Law enforcement in Pakistan, Chargesheet, Indian law, Law enforcement in India, Law Crime, Medha Patkar, Gujarat, Crimes, Gujarat violence, Religious violence in India, Activism, Narmada Bachao Andolan
IAVA Heroes Gala - Video
Baghdad :: Iraq | 9 days ago
Credibility Third Annual Heroes Gala NBC�s Brian Williams Hosts; Iraq Veteran and Actor J.R. Iraq and Afghanistan, hosted its Third Annual Heroes Gala at Gotham Hall in New York City...More than 350 guests attended the Gala and helped raise more than $450,000. NBC...
Tags: IAVA Heroes Gala, J.R. Iraq, Iraq Veteran, Iraq, Baghdad, Military personnel, Veteran, Activism, Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America, Paul Rieckhoff, Health Medical Pharma, Saatchi & Saatchi, Posttraumatic stress disorder
4 Demonstrators in Favor of Healthcare Reform Arrested at Lieberman’s Office
According to WTNH, protesters who are miffed about Joe Lieberman’s position against the current healthcare reform package held demonstrations yesterday at his offices in Washington, DC and Hartford. 30 people showed up at Lieberman’s...
Tags: activism, civil disobedience, healthcare reform, Joe Lieberman, protest, single-payer, universal healthcare
Stupak Ammendment Sacrifices Women's Health
Boise :: ID :: USA | 11 days ago
Credibility It was a big day Saturday, as the United States House of Representatives passed a healthcare bill that would be a foundational step for people all over the country who don't have access to health insurance. It was a sad day too, because they did it on...
Tags: House of Representatives, Boise, Feminist theory, Women's rights, Reproductive justice, NARAL Pro-Choice America, Reproductive health, Politics, Sexual health, Activism, Community organizing, Health Medical Pharma, Social Issues, Labor, Hyde Amendment, Health insurance exchange, Abortion, Insurance, Planned Parenthood, Gynecology, Pregnancy, Healthcare reform in the United States, Abortion in the United States, Fertility
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