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A prominent anti-abortion protester was gunned down this morning outside a Michigan high school, the Detroit Free Press reports. Owosso High School students were among the witnesses to the drive-by shooting, which police say was committed by a 33-year-old...
Tags: Anti Abortion, Activist, Killed, Aborion, Jim Pouillon
Lawmakers, used to a silent constituency, are having a hard time dealing with what was thought to be an apathetic and uninvolved electorate. Because the USA is a republic, our elected officials may vote as they see fit while...
Tags: congress, constituents, activist, conservative
Director J.T. Waldron, maker of the aspartame industry-busting films "Sweet Misery" and "Sweet Remedy", once again takes on alleged fraud and high office shenanigans in his new film, "Fatally Flawed", a true detective story about a two billion dollar...
Tags: election integrity, stolen elections, Election Defense Alliance, film festival, Arizona attorney general, cover-up, politics, activist, town hall, protest, lawsuit, elections database, citizen resistance, investigator, fraud, elections division
St.Petersburg, Russia, 31.07.2009 - A protest against new law about hunting took place in St.Petersburg. About 20 activists took part in the performance, in which a hunter "kills" the actors with masks of animals. The law about hunting was issued by Russian...
Tags: protest, action, performance, Green Peace, Russia, St.Petersburg, Saint Petersburg, activist, activism, hunting, law, hunting law
In eight US states, today is a holiday: the birthday of Mexican-American Cesar Chavez, co-founder of the organization that became the United Farm Workers. One of the most respected civil rights leaders of the 20th century, Chavez's influence lives...
Tags: Cesar Chavez, Uniter Farm Workers, nonviolence, economy, activist, civil rights, Mexican-American
In a major setback to the environment last night, the Laredo TX city council voted to allow the Border Patrol to aerially spray the US-Mexico border with the toxic herbicide Imazapyr, a substance which begins to kill all vegetation immediately...
Tags: environment, US Border Patrol, US-Mexico border, Attorney General Eric Holder, Imazapyr, carrizo, Rio Grande River, Rio Grande International Study Center, US Department of Justice, US Environmental Protection Agency, Jay J. Johnson-Castro Sr., activist
The citizen-journalism Website ALLVOICES is publishing a contributor's first novel, PSYCHEDELIC SUNRISE. Ken Boyte, who first joined the site in 2008, believes that the diverse audience of ALLVOICES will welcome the alternative views expressed...
Tags: Ken Boyte, Psychedelic Sunrise, novel, political satire, Cheech and Chong, Hunter S. Thompson, corporate corruption, George W. Bush, Devil, capitalism, magical realism, literature, poetry, activist, band, Love Dog 420, human rights, international, spiritual, historical, philosophical, book tour, Gulf War protest, mind, space, time, society, culture, rebirth, Tommy Chong, Cheech Marino, School of Journalism, Auburn University, Southern Illinois University, alumni, gonzo, Timothy Leary, William Burroughs, Alan Ginsberg, William Faulkner, profound, epiphony, Greece, Egypt, Rome, western civilization, popular culture, pop culture, Gulf War, Iraq, corporations, multi-national corporations, activism, social reformer, Gandhi, Satyagraha, SIUC, Metalicca, Clash, Mardi Gras, New Orleans, Illinois, 1990s, 1980s, 1970s, 1960s, 1963
Sr. Dorothy Stang, a 74-year-old US nun, read the Bible to the men who came to kill her. They listened for a moment. then pulled the trigger--there in the Amazon rainforest she loved enough to protect with her own life. She had lived among wealthy enemies...
Tags: Sister Dorothy Stang, HBO, environmentalism, activist, Amazon, Felicio Pontes, Incra, Regivaldo Galvao
Beverly Eckert: Friend, Colleague, Activist All of us at VOICES and the entire 9/11 community were tremendously saddened by the loss of our friend...
Tags: Voices of September 11: Beverly Eckert: Friend, Colleague, Activist
Palestinians protested on Friday against a rampage by settlers in response to Israel's eviction of squatters from a disputed building in Hebron, and Israel deployed extra forces to contain the unrest. Palestinian youths burned tyres in Hebron and threw...
Tags: israel, palestinians, jerusalem, Hebron District Civil Administration, Israeli, palestine, Palestinian National Authority, activist, Jerusalem Post, West Bank