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• Protesting teachers baton charged in Lucknow

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 719
  Lucknow, Nov 24 (IANS) Police said that they had to resort to baton charge here Monday to disperse hundreds of teachers and non-teaching staff from schools across Uttar Pradesh after their demonstration in demand of regularization of service and hike in salaries turned unruly. They were also protesting at a prohibited ...
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• Chhattisgarh seeks higher support price for paddy

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 719
  Raipur, Nov 24 (IANS) Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Raman Singh Tuesday asked the central government to raise the minimum support price (MSP) for paddy to Rs.1,400 per quintal from the present Rs.950 per quintal.“The MSP for paddy for the current fiscal should be increased to Rs.1,400 per quintal from the current ...
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• Eva Mendes In Calvin Klein: Sexy Or Obscene?

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 719
  By Madhuri DeyNew York, Nov. 24, (THAINDIAN NEWS) A billboard that has been put up in the SoHo area of New York has stirred up quite an amount of controversy. The content of the billboard is being considered too racy even by New York standards, and the residents are demanding that it be pulled down [...]
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• Rabbis to Discuss Anti-Expulsion Orders

  
  Schmoozing with Elya & Ellie Katz — Authority: 121
  BS”D Cross-posted at Avid Editor’s InsightsPosted in Life in Israel Tagged: Expulsion Orders, IDF protests, R Mordechai Rabinowitz, Rabbinical Council of the Council of Jewish Communities in Judea and Samaria, Yesha
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• STRIKE * Canada - DriveTest strikers protest during commercial road tests

  
  trucks world news — Authority: 147
  Caledonia,ONT,CAN - Truck News -19 Nov 2009: -- Yesterday morning, Serco driver examiners , lead by United Steelworkers Union 9511 president Jim Young , protested at KRTS Transportation Specialists headquarters to oppose Serco management conducting road tests on site... The drivers ...
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• The true desecrators of our Jewish tradition Posted by Rabbi Andrew Sacks

  
  The Jerusalem Post BlogCentral — Authority: 141
  Lets get something straight. The State of Israel is a democracy, not a theocracy. However, the lines are frequently blurred as Israel is also a Jewish state and often reflects Jewish values. Unlike the American system that creates a "wall of separation between church and state," Israel has no constitutional ...
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• Fur: Frivolous, Offensive, And Cruel

  
  Vegan Soapbox — Authority: 483
  Wayne Pacelle wrote: “it’s hard to think of a more frivolous, offensive, and cruel luxury purchase than a full-length mink coat [...] there’s no excuse for such a purchase—anyone with even a mild level of awareness knows about the cruel realities of fur and the abundance of stylish and functional ...
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• Protesters Target Al Gores Nov. 24 Chicago Appearance

  
  Chicago News Bench — Authority: 578
  On Tuesday, Nov. 24, activists will gather at Noon to protest Al Gores book signing visit to the Borders book store at 150 N. State Street in downtown Chicago. Outraged by the former Vice Presidents advocacy of the U.S.’s shift to a cap-and-trade policy, many activists are targeting any politician - Democrat or ...
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• Refuse Allegiance to Coal by Chris Hedges

  
  BuzzFlash.net: published — Authority: 531
  "There are some 614 coal-fired power plants in the United States, and it is up to us to shut them down. No one in the White House will do it. No one in Congress will do it. And no one at the coming U.N. climate change conference in Copenhagen will do it. We will build local movements to carry out acts of nonviolent ...
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• Manohara, Corruption, and Cemeteries

  
  The RAB Experience — Authority: 129
  I have decided not to go with the traditional Manohara post heading. I think we are up to the mid-twenties or something, but who really cares about that. There is one thing you have to acknowledge about Manohara and her handlers, they are master manipulators of the media. Manohara is often referred to as a teen ...
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• Molly’sBlog 2009-11-23 18:00:00

  
  Anarchoblogs — Authority: 156
  CANADIAN POLITICS-TORONTO: NO PAN-AM EITHER: The upcoming Vancouver/Whistler Winter Olympics and the resistance to it has been extensively reported here at Mollys Blog, often with material from the Olympic Resistance Network . This mega spectacle is not the only upcoming public trough where ...
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• Useful Sites for Students: The Covenant with Black America website

  
  racismreview.com — Authority: 541
  Since the 1980s black leaders have held several State of the Black Union overview conferences. In 2006 a document, “ The Covenant with Black America ,” was presented to eight thousand attendees at the seventh conference in Houston, a book-length statement of strong recommendations to policymakers that would ...
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• Naomi Klein on Climate Debt

  
  Dandelion Salad — Authority: 540
  Dandelion SaladDemocracy Now!Nov. 23, 2009Naomi Klein on Climate Debt: Why Rich Countries Should Pay Reparations To Poor Countries For The Climate Crisis.With the Copenhagen climate summit two weeks away, best-selling journalist Naomi Klein examines the grass-roots movement behind the climate debate proposal that ...
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• Will Students and Workers Save the Universities? Giving Thanks for the Disobedient

  
  Schools Matter — Authority: 436
  A piece by Marc Bousquet from Brainstorm : Yesterday [November 18] the University of California Regents walked into a room packed with gasoline and nonchalantly lit their cigars -- handing down tuition increases that will hike 2010 rates 44 percent over 2008, turning higher ed into a gated community for the ...
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• District Settles 2000 Mass Arrest Case For $13.7 Million

  
  City Desk — Authority: 697
  Within 20 minutes of a hearing in federal court this afternoon, the District and plaintiffs attorneys settled a class-action lawsuit stemming from mass arrests and a police raid during the April 2000 anti-globalization protests. The suit involves roughly 600 people arrested. The District agreed to a record $13.7 ...
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• CurbedWire: 184 Kents Big Banner, Rat Sighting at Manhattan House, Hudson Hill is Very Effective

  
  Curbed NY — Authority: 689
  WILLIAMSBURG— Curbed legend 184 Kent has gotten a wee bit of signage for its upcoming opening as luxury rentals, a tipster reports. The gutted and renovated and reborn waterfront warehouse was supposed to be ready around now, but were hearing that January may be the magic month for the first move-ins. ...
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• Tiburon Approves Recording Every Car That Enters/Leaves... Despi...

  
  Computer & Internet - computer-internet.marc8.com — Authority: 167
  Earlier this year, we wrote about plans in the wealthy coastal town of Tiburon here in northern California to photograph and record the license plate info of every car entering or leaving the town. It kicked off quite a debate in the comments, and now comes the news that the town is moving forward with the plan , ...
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• A resolution to the Kerr Hall occupation at UCSC

  
  Xatal — Authority: 120
  In light of the protests in California over the increases in higher costs, I’ve been following Occupy CA , a blog that’s had pretty accurate information from the student’s side of things over these protests. Anywho, Saturday night Occupy CA posted that the Kerr Hall occupation at UCSC would probably end that ...
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• Crazy for a Cause: 14 Bizarre Green Protests

  
  Life within me — Authority: 139
  Some of the weirdest, most attention-grabbing green protests are gross, like the group of students who skinned and ate a cat – and then posted the photos on Facebook. Others are hilarious, like the world’s tiniest eco-terrorists scaling a Lego power plant. But (almost) all of them have managed to publicize ...
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• Yang Xianyi obituary

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Distinguished translator of Chinese classics jailed during the Cultural Revolution When they came during the Cultural Revolution to take away Yang Xianyi, Chinas distinguished translator who has died aged 94, he had one regret – that he was hauled off to prison, accused of being a British spy, in his old slippers. ...
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