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• RNC Eight to go to trial together

  
  Minnesota Independent: News. Politics. Media. — Authority: 651
  The eight people facing felony conspiracy charges from their pre-emptive arrests ahead of last year’s Republican National Convention will go to trial together, not separately. The RNC Eight are greeting that news as a victory. In a statement, co-defendant Luce Guillen-Givins said, ”This is an affirmation ...
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• Taiwan’s former dissidents recall Kaohsiung catalyst for democratic transition

  
  Democracy Digest — Authority: 431
  In some cases it starts with a plumber scaling a Polish shipyard wall or a group of schoolchildren protesting the compulsory teaching of Afrikaans. Other times, it is activists mobilizing to challenge attempts to steal an election or referendum.Recent history provides plenty of cases in which individual or collective ...
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• Action Alert: Single Payer sit ins tomorrow

  
  Corrente — Authority: 627
  More Sit-Ins for Single-Payer, Thurs. Dec. 10th The Mobilization for Health Care for All , about which we have blogged several times, is having another Day of Action for single-payer this Thursday, December 10th, on the occasion of International Human Rights Day. I hope some regular D&S blog visitors can ...
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• Police officer quit job to support Telangana movement (Lead)

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 728
  Hyderabad, Dec 9 (IANS) A senior police official in Andhra Pradesh Wednesday quit her job to express solidarity with the mass movement for a separate statehood to the Telangana region.D. Nalini, the deputy superintendent of police in Medak district, resigned saying she could not obey the orders of higher-ups from ...
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• Buddhadeb slams UPA on price rise, privatisation

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 728
  Kolkata, Dec 9 (IANS) West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee Wednesday slammed the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government for failing to control rising prices of essentials and its pro-privatisation policies.“The central government claims to be a government of aam aadmi. But it has failed to bring ...
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• Telangana on boil as KCR continues fast (Roundup)

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 728
  Hyderabad, Dec 9 (IANS) The Telangana region of Andhra Pradesh was on the boil Wednesday as massive protests demanding separate statehood and the fast-unto-death by Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) president K. Chandrasekhara Rao entered the 11th day. Doctors said Rao was in a serious condition.All eyes are on Prime ...
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• Telangana protests reach Delhi’s Andhra Bhavan

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 728
  New Delhi, Dec 9 (IANS) Around 20 students Wednesday barged into the Andhra Bhavan in the capital and shouted slogans against the state government, demanding the creation of a separate Telangana state, police said.The group shouted slogans in front of Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister K. Rosaiah’s cottage in the Andhra ...
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• Mars retro and the protests in Iran

  
  Astrological Musings — Authority: 529
  by Lynn Hayes Iran is in the news again as new anti-government protests result in a tough crackdown by that countrys military.  The Wall Street Journal writes: "Authorities appear concerned that the protest movement could pick up new steam after Mondays demonstrations. Students have revitalized protests that ...
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• Poll: Americans Ponder New National Tea Party

  
  The Gates of Hell — Authority: 133
  A third of adults in the United States appear satisfied with the proposal to establish a third political party, according to a poll by Angus Reid Public Opinion. 32 per cent of respondents think the National Tea Party would be a good thing for the country. Throughout 2009, numerous Tea Party protests have been held ...
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• Tea Party, Argentine style

  
  Paranominal — Authority: 160
  May 1st, 2009–Stuck in a road block outside of Tilcara, Argentina, I decided to leave the car and investigate what the problem was. It seems this was a very unhappy group of farmers who were protesting the government tariffs on produce. They would indiscriminately stop the highway traffic to get their point across. ...
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• We are at war

  
  WHAT REALLY HAPPENED — Authority: 680
  If we accept the thesis that the states arise and have arisen, not through the hocus-pocus of “social” “contracts”, but through conquest, and are perpetuated as systems of exploitation — especially, to use Nock’s terminology, “of one class by another” — does it not follow that we are at war? Does it ...
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• Kokesh Challenges the GOP, Asks for Salary Pledge

  
  WHAT REALLY HAPPENED — Authority: 680
  THIS is the kind of candidate I want in Congress: http://kokeshforcongress.com WRH permalink
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• Dozens of Tibetan Protesters Arrested in Southwestern China

  
  China Digital Times (CDT) — Authority: 620
  Dozens of people protesting the imprisonment of a Buddhist monk in Yajiang, Sichuan were arrested today. VOA reports : China has reportedly increased security in parts of Sichuan, where protests have been taking place since December 5. The exact number of people detained is unclear. Estimates range from 60 to ...
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• Does this guy look racist to you?

  
  THE INTERSECTION OF MADNESS & REALITY — Authority: 497
  Does the guy in the picture above look racist? No seriously, does he? I mean, what exactly does a person whos racist look like? OK, so he isnt wearing a white robe and a pointy hat as he rides a horse enthused to act on his pyromania somewhere in the south. Truth is, hes black. Yep, and well, theres no way that a ...
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• Remarkable Iranian protests

  
  Orange Punch — Authority: 144
  Middle Eastern expert Juan Cole — not always right but with a better track record than most and a from-the-first opponent of the Iraq war — has an extensive post including several videos on the Students Day protests in Iran yesterday. He was impressed with the extensive nature of the protests — in over a ...
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• Iran: Protesters Defiant

  
  Project on Middle East Democracy (POMED) — Authority: 440
  Time magazine reports on yesterday’s  Student Day protests  in Iran:  ”the regime was clearly taking no chances: Thousands of police, Revolutionary Guards troops and religious vigilantes closed off universities and fired tear gas at student marchers in Tehran, as the government cut off cell phone and internet ...
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• Turning Iran’s paper money green

  
  niacINsight — Authority: 473
  Via Payvand , an ingenious new strategy from the Iranian protesters: scribbling opposition messages on bank notes. Anti-government activists are not allowed to express themselves in Iranian media, so theses activists have taken their expressions to another high circulation mass-medium, banknotes. The Central Bank ...
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• US-Iran history an ‘object lesson’ of cost of failing to stand for democracy

  
  Democracy Digest — Authority: 431
  With this week’s protests confirming the resilience of opposition to Iran’s Islamic Republic, the regime will inevitably react with its familiar narrative that the green movement is a tool of the hostile West and, more specifically the Great Satan itself.While this narrative has lost much of its appeal inside ...
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• Special Report Shows ‘Handwriting On The Wall’ For Failing Abortion Industry

  
  Operation Rescue — Authority: 534
  Pro-Life Movement gaining ground: Over two-thirds of all abortion clinics have closed since 1991, resulting in saved livesWichita, KS – Operation Rescue has released the results of an extensive research project into the abortion industry showing that the number of abortion clinics continues to dwindle as Americans ...
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• Climate activists get creative

  
  PRI's The World — Authority: 614
  PHOTO: ATTILA KISBENEDEK/AFP/Getty Images Activists are planning both theatrical and confrontational demonstrations for Copenhagen. Protesters are bidding for media attention, but it’s unlikely they will significantly sway the outcome of the climate negotiations. The World’s Marina Giovannelli reports on how ...
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