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...animal rights group Hugs for Puppies has been demonstrating outside the homes and businesses of chefs who serve the delicacy. But now a group of Philly restaurateurs are fighting back, under the banner Philadelphia Chefs for Choice, marking the first time anywhere that chefs have organized to protest the foie gras protesters. During the first week of October, nearly 20 restaurants served foie gras specials on their lunch and dinner menus for just $5. The chef group has stated: "In the city of Philadelphia, the birthplace of American liberty, we want to keep the right to serve foie gras...
About 30 people gathered on the steps of Memorial Church Sunday to protest China’s continued investment in Sudanese oil, before heading to Boston to join a statewide rally and torch lighting ceremony that included such speakers as Massachusetts Congressman John F. Tierny...
...silent protest was HDAG’s first major event for the year. The group, which is the Harvard chapter of the national organization Students Taking Action Now: Darfur (STAND), was founded in 2003, the same year the conflict in Darfur erupted. [SEE CORRECTION BELOW...
...with Krasner and Matter’s teacher Hans Hofmann and Alex Matter’s godfather and namesake, Alexander Calder.Presented chronologically, “Pollock Matters” begins with Lee Krasner and Mercedes Matter’s first acquaintance (they met while being arrested at a 1936 protest rally).A disparate but telling mixture of objects and art are on hand for illustrative purposes. Case in point: drawings and paintings they produced under the same teacher are presented alongside a wedding album.Meanwhile, the uninitiated are introduced to examples of Herbert Matter’s work as a graphic...
...Worse, if a dictator in some god-forsaken part of the world captures an American soldier, the U.S. may protest. But it is the Red Cross's assertions of a violation that will be the immediate point of pressure on the captors. "What it virtually guaranteed is that dictatorships will cite the U.S. government's own arguments to defend themselves and that will make it harder for the ICRC and everyone else to condemn and shame those governments," says Tom Malinowski, a spokesman for Human Rights Watch...