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Kishor Tiwari usually e-mails me a couple times a day. Tiwari is the head of an activist group that keeps track of farmer suicides in the central Indian region of Vidarbha, and lobbies Delhi for policy changes and more subsidies. Farmer suicide is a big problem in some parts of India, and Tiwari regularly fires off vitriolic e-mail missives to reporters. But his most recent e-mail, two days ago, was different. This time the source of his fury was not Indian farmers, but its cricketers whose disastrous performance at the World Cup - losses to neighbors Bangladesh...
...this year's race, after denouncing immigrant rioters as "scum" during nationwide disturbances in 2005. So, his party, the UMP, sought to repair some of the damage by chosing as its song "Mon pays France" (France, my country), a hip-hop track laid down by a young party activist. Unfortunately for Sarko, the kids were not amused. "Unbearable," writes blogger Cédric on fluctuat.net. "The chorus hurts my ears...
HDAG is targeting Schlumberger for divestment because of the company’s ties to the Sudanese oil industry. According to a report by the Sudan Divestment Task Force—a national activist group that HDAG is a member of—Schlumberger has increased the number of oil rigs it has in Sudan by 400% since the start of the genocide...
...fact a whole axis of evil. But he hasn't produced Reagan's results: North Korea is nuclear, Iran swaggers across the world stage, Iraq is a morass. "Conservatives are divided on the Iraq war, but there is a growing feeling it was a mistake," says longtime conservative activist and fund-raiser Richard Viguerie. "It's not a Ronald Reagan?type of idea to ride on our white horse around the world trying to save it militarily. Ronald Reagan won the cold war by bankrupting the Soviet Union. No planes flew. No tanks rolled. No armies marched...
...Huckabee and California Congressman Duncan Hunter, to name just a few. Many conservatives say a long election season offers the advantage of letting conservatives work through their doubts about their options for 2008, especially when they turn their attention to November. "When it's Hillary vs. Giuliani," asks antitax activist Grover Norquist, "who's going to vote for Hillary?" But others on the right say they are looking at this election as a write-off. "I'm not focusing on 2008," Viguerie says. "Realistically, it will probably take until the year 2016" before the movement regains anything resembling its former...