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• Register Now: Brokaw, Bon Jovi and Others Discuss Social Injustice at USA Network Town Hall

  
  WebEx: Ideas in Motion — Authority: 110
  Register to participate on Wednesday, December 2 at 10am ETin an online event hosted by Tom Brokaw focused on identifying ways to overcomeintolerance and heal perceived cultural divides. The  Characters Unite Town Hall is presented by USA Network and will feature a panel of distinguished leaders. Register ...
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• Loving Our Veterans

  
  Last Free Voice — Authority: 100
  Loving our VeteransBy Don Meinshausenfreedonnow@yahoo.com Despite the holidays of Memorial Day and Veteran’s Day there is little appreciation for veterans. Oh there may be a few generals and politicians pontificating and maybe a parade and a concert but that’s usually seen as patriotic blather for the media and ...
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• Articlesmm/general-and-his-commands-part-2 by photayokeking

  
  democracy for burma — Authority: 157
  ကမၻာ့အလားအလာ ဗမာ့အလားအလာႏွင့္ လူငယ့္တာ၀န္ – အပိုင္း(၂) ရွာေဖြတင္ျပသူ – ေမာင္ေက်ာ္ရင္ အပိုင္း (၁) ကို ဒီေနရာမွာ ...
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• Morocco: Jail Sentence for HR Activist

  
  Project on Middle East Democracy (POMED) — Authority: 487
  A court upheld a three-year prison sentence for prominent Moroccan human rights activist Chakib Khayari. More information can be found on POMED’s Morocco Country Page here .
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• Does the U.S. Still Promote Democracy?

  
  Project on Middle East Democracy (POMED) — Authority: 487
  POMED’s own Stephen McInerney has published an op-ed for The Daily Star questioning whether the United States has “turned its back on democracy” in the Middle East. According to McInerney, the evidence is mixed. While democracy rhetoric was notably absent early in the administration, President Obama has ...
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• A Social Preference

  
  Socyberty — Authority: 551
  Is it possible to say naturally your social preference. In reality you have to stay polite and sometimes comply to the feelings of others. The culture of labor is very hard in matters of social preference. There are people who prefer quantity to quality. You have to make sure not to waste. In these times when there is ...
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• We Are Burma:Brussel December 12.

  
  democracy for burma — Authority: 157
  Dear friends, Burma workers, Europeans, supporters and all, As many of you know we are weeks away from a major event happening in Brussels this December 12. Director Ruud Gielens has put together an incredible line-up of speakers, entertainers, activists and all manner of engaged people. Speakers like Karel De Gucht, ...
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• Alan Johnsons dilemma is unbalanced | Henry Porter

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  The DNA database does not balance liberty with the needs of the state, the states unreasonable demand has eroded liberty When a politician talks about balance I reach for my taser. The word "balance" has become one of the primary means of distorting the political debate and eroding the stock of liberty. "Today, on ...
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• Information November-25-2009 Karen News

  
  democracy for burma — Authority: 157
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• The LA Times on a Mission along SE Asia’s Underground Railroad

  
  One Free Korea — Authority: 538
  As an active member of Justice for North Korea, maybe I’m a bit biased, but I highly recommend this one. John Glionna of the Los Angeles Times has the story behind the 9 refugees who successfully received asylum in the Danish Embassy in Hanoi in late September and now are safely in South Korea.  There also is a ...
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• ASEAN Mobilises Over US$ 88 Million for Cyclone Nargis Survivors

  
  democracy for burma — Authority: 157
  Bangkok, 25 November 2009 ASEAN, in partnership with the UN and humanitarian partners, mobilised over US$ 88 million to assist Cyclone Nargis survivors with recovery activities at the Post-Nargis and Regional Partnership Conference in Bangkok today. The conference – co-chaired by Dr Surin Pitsuwan, Secretary-General ...
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• Greece: Police violence against migrant woman triggers reforms

  
  Global Voices Online — Authority: 724
  Greece has been embroiled in a row over abusive migrant detentions and the lip service paid so far by the new socialist government to honor its pledges to reform the police. Two days before the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women , an incident of police brutality against a migrant mother ...
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• Judges blown away by top diversity award entry

  
  NewsWire.co.nz — Authority: 137
  TV1 journalist Adrian Stevanon may have been called a “slow learner” by the Samoan Prime Minister – but his piece about Samoa has won him a top award. Mr Stevanon (right) has won first place in the 2009 New Zealand Excellence in Reporting Diversity Awards for young journalists, with judges saying they were ...
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• Iran: Wholesale Crackdown on Students

  
  Project on Middle East Democracy (POMED) — Authority: 487
  The Huffington Post reports that the P5+1 countries have prepared a resolution criticizing Iran’s nuclear program expressing their frustration with Iran’s inability or unwillingness to make a deal. Such unified measures have led Michael Crowley to ask whether Russia is “finally getting serious about ...
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• UPDATE on Houston Gay Teen Bashing: Hate Crime Charges and Disciplinary Action

  
  Rod 2.0:Beta — Authority: 609
  There are new developments in the case of the 16-year-old black gay Houston high school student who was viciously attacked by a group of 8 students, one of whom wielded a metal pipe. Jayron Martin learned the boys were planning...
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• BC HRC victim Chris Kempling corrects the record

  
  No Apologies — Authority: 148
  as Ontario woman smears him with anti-homosexual falsehood. Guelph Mercury – November 23, 2009 Letter: Teacher sets record straight on comments By Chris Kempling , Kamloops, B.C. In her letter to the editor, published on Nov. 14, Allison Mackay alleges I informed gay students that as their teacher and ...
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• Puerto Rico: Voices Against Violence

  
  Global Voices Online — Authority: 724
  They are more than numbers. They are faces, lives, dreams, and hopes. They are mothers, daughters, sisters, grandmothers, aunts, nieces, friends, workers, politicians, lawyers, academics, activists, students, straight, gay. Violence crosses class, race, ethnicity, national boundaries, gender identity, and sexual ...
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• ‘The Three Most Important Issues’?: What the Manhattan Declaration Gets Wrong

  
  God's Politics Blog — Authority: 660
  As I said in my previous post , I can find things to applaud in the recent Manhattan Declaration along with things to dispute. But I don’t think Chuck Colson got it quite right when he spoke about the statement to the…
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• 26/11 victims not given entire compensation, alleges BJP

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 719
  New Delhi, Nov 25 (IANS) The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Wednesday alleged that the victims of last year’s Mumbai terrorist attacks have not received full compensation from the government and were facing harassment and red-tape in getting their grievances redressed.“Out of 475 victims, not a single victim has got ...
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• International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women

  
  PodBlack Cat — Authority: 474
  Recognised since 1999, after the United Nations General Assembly adopted the resolution , today is the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women . UNFPA : Every day, women and girls are subject to domestic violence, exploitation, sexual violence, trafficking, honour crimes, harmful ...
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