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• in Politics
  Rahm Emanuel Tossed Off Chi Ballot For Residency Requirement
  After pleasing board of election commissioners and lower court, Rahm gets no love from Appeals Court.
  by bastetmax / on Jan 24, 2011

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “dissent”

 

• Revealed: how the FBI coordinated the crackdown on Occupy

  
  The Travelin' Librarian — Authority: 147
  It was more sophisticated than we had imagined: new documents show that the violent crackdown on Occupy last fall – so mystifying at the time – was not just coordinated at the level of the  FBI , the Department of Homeland Security, and local police. The crackdown, which involved, as you may recall, violent ...
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• Left starts to turn on the Pope: Why

  
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  First, Fr. Z. writes : Here is something that I never thought I would write Fr. Z kudos to Jamie Manson of the National Schismatic Reporter . One of Fishwrap‘s headliners, a darling of LCWR, the openly-lesbian, Margaret Farley-mentored Jamie Manson has sobered up about Pope Francis. She has a piece ...
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• Of Ghosts and Flows

  
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  How can one consider the relation between cinema and politics today, in an era that has been branded as one of both “post-politics” and “post-cinema”? Even if we for a moment put aside the apocalyptical discourses of today’s cultural and political climates, there is no denying that we experience once again ...
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• Not everyone is intimidated

  
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  Recent news reports have concentrated on government efforts to stifle opposition. Andrew E. Kramer, writing in The New York Times , reports on a large protest in Moscow. Is the government less powerful than it sometimes appears? Thousands in Moscow Rally Against New Trials Thousands of people turned out Monday ...
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• “I want my country back”

  
  Livewire - Amnesty International blogging for human rights — Authority: 134
  A young woman from Eritrea describes how her country’s joy of independence was smothered by a political stranglehold that is still keeping thousands of people locked up. “We are moving back to our home country, it’s a beautiful place – … Continue reading →
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• Brunsman Wants Every Student To Know They Can Opt-Out Of The Beliefs Of The Cultural Mainstream

  
  Secular Left — Authority: 121
  August E. Brunsman IV, Executive Director of the Secular Student Alliance I have known August Brunsman, Executive Director of the Secular Student Alliance (SSA), for at least 13 years through my Humanist group in Columbus Ohio. I got to watch from the front row as SSA hatched and grew into the premium secular student ...
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• Thiago Silva’s ridiculous red card for PSG vs Valenciennes

  
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  The culture of disrespect and even violence against referees is something that needs to be outlawed, but even bearing that in mind you have to feel sorry for PSG defender Thiago Silva. When his side had been awarded a goal kick, the Brazilian went to question the official over an earlier incident, and literally ...
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• These are not the crimes you are looking for

  
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  The Russian president is adamant: no one is prosecuted for their political views. Putin denies dissent crackdown as trials test legal system President Putin While one Russian court imposed heavy fines on the country’s only independent election-monitoring group and another heard contentious ...
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• Shakib Al Hasan fined for showing dissent

  
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  Bangladesh Allrounder Shakib Al Hasan has been fined 75 % of his match fee for showing dissent during the 2nd ODI against Zimbabwe at Bulawayo on Sunday. The International Cricket Council says in a statement that Shakib pleaded guilty and agreed on the sanction on Monday offered to him by match referee Chris Broad. ...
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• Bishop Thomas Gumbleton: Scandalizing in Retirement

  
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  Some bishops are so predictable. They spent their active ministry committing scandals without end. Why stop after retirement? Case in point: Bishop Thomas Gumbleton who spent his entire "career" (I use the term deliberately) pushing the gay agenda and filling the diocese of Detroit, where he was an auxiliary bishop, ...
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• Zlatan Ibrahimovic kicks advertising board, looks surprised after getting booked for dissent

  
  The Next Football Superstar — Authority: 142
  PSG could have sealed their first Ligue 1 title since 1994 on Sunday. Instead, they ended up getting a whole mess of frustration and a busted advertising board courtesy of Zlatan Ibrahimovic. With local celebrities (and David Beckham) packed into the Parc Des Princes hoping to see a celebration, PSG could only manage ...
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• Committee on protest policies to hold open meeting on May 13

  
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  The Ad Hoc Committee on Dissent and Protest, convened to examine policies and practices related to protest actions at the University of Chicago, will hold an open meeting at 5 p.m. on Monday, May 13 in the Swift Hall Common Room. Provost Thomas F. Rosenbaum convened the committee last quarter, after a protest at the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Dissent still under attack in post-Mubarak Egypt

  
  Livewire - Amnesty International blogging for human rights — Authority: 134
  By Diana Eltahawy, Egypt Researcher at Amnesty International While the world is celebrating the 20th World Press Freedom Day on 3 May, the crackdown on freedom of speech and dissent continues unabated in post-Mubarak Egypt. Instead of drawing from the … Continue reading →
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• Some socialism is more acceptable than others

  
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  May 1st was International Workers Day. Do NOT discuss in China. China’s version of Google marks Worker’s Day by banning discussion on Marx, ‘labor,’ ‘strikes’ Baidu HQ It’s one of the great ironies of present-day China that the world’s largest and arguably most successful ...
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• Brazilian Priest Excommunicated for Being Too Liberal

  
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  Not for being liberal-- just too liberal. In one of the recent videos he posted on YouTube.com and his own Website, the priest said a married person who chose to have an affair, heterosexual or otherwise, would not be unfaithful as long as that persons spouse allowed it. "If someone is in an extramarital ...
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• Moses Harrison, 1932-2013

  
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  "Former Illinois Chief Justice Moses Harrison dies," is the AP filing, via the State Journal-Register of Springfield, Illinois. The Illinois Supreme Court has announced the death at age 81 of former Chief Justice Moses Harrison. And: Harrison began his career...
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• The best account of women and the priesthood I have ever seen

  
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  Brilliant! Here is the audio form of an article by Peter Kreeft I remember reading in Crisis Magazine probably more than two decades ago. I thought it the best concise and lucid accessible account of why the Church ordains only men when I first read it, and I was glad to come across this audio form of the piece ...
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• South Africa: Two years have past yet still no justice for Noxolo Nogwaza

  
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  From Inkanyiso – Two years have past yet still no justice for Noxolo Nogwaza  who was raped and murdered in  KwaThema, Gauteng on the 24th April 2011.. Ekurhuleni Pride Organizing Committee (EPOC)  together with  Amnesty International  hosted a commemoration service on Wednesday, 24th April 2013. The day ...
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• Abp. Chaput: "America is mission territory—whether we recognize it yet or not..."

  
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  Here is an excerpt from the Foreword to Russell Shaws book, American Church: The Remarkable Rise, Meteoric Fall, and Uncertain Future of Catholicism in America , written by Archbishop Charles J. Chaput, O.F.M.Cap., of Philadelphia: What people really believe,they act on. And when they don’t act, they don’t ...
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• Haiti: April 26th, Memories of a Duvalier Massacre

  
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  From [The Progressive](http://www.progressive.org/). Memories of a Duvalier Massacre, 50 Years Later” by Edwidge Danticat “Recently, Francois Duvalier’s grandson, Jean Claude’s son, François-Nicolas Duvalier, an adviser to Haiti’s current president Michel Martelly, wrote an opinion piece praising his ...
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