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...After an Ann Arbor retailer he worked with was served a cease-and-desist order, a co-op member offered her nearby home as a new pickup site. Meanwhile, some of Hebron's clients in Michigan and Illinois have been flooding the fax machines of state agriculture officials to protest the treatment of the mild-mannered dairyman. In Feburary, the Amish farmer who supplies Hebron's co-op with raw milk received a warning letter from the FDA about potential interstate commerce violations. Hebron met with federal officials in Detroit on March 6th to defend the legality of herd-sharing...
Quite a turnaround for an airline that lost nearly $1 billion in 1993--the same year marauding workers shocked the travel world by occupying runways and halting traffic at both Paris airports to protest proposed cost cutting. Still bleeding cash the following year, Air France needed a $3.9 billion injection from the government to stay afloat. And despite a considerable restructuring and divestment plan put into place as part of that bailout, by 1998 the airline was back to its bad old tricks. A strike on the eve of the 1998 World Cup, to which France played host, cost...
...Thousand Acres” and her Twain-bashing essay “Say It Ain’t So, Huck.” Despite the advantage of returning to known terrain, Smiley stumbles, and her attempt to translate Hollywood to the page is as artificial as her political protest. As the war in Iraq is just beginning to start, Max and Elena take refuge in the filmmaker’s outdated estate—their escape from modernity and its discontents. But they slowly realize that what they need to escape from is each other. Max’s glamorous...
...Despite its very local character, the confrontation over Youth House appears to have resonated beyond Denmark's borders. Besides the hundreds of foreign youths who turned up in Copenhagen to join the protests, others launched demonstrations in sympathy with their Danish comrades in Sweden, Norway and in several cities in Germany. And on Tuesday, some 50 Italian activists occupied the Danish consulate in Venice as a protest against the eviction of Youth House...
...According to the Danish Foreign Ministry, the activists peacefully left the building after the consul promised to convey their protest to the Danish government. Even as the young and the restless around Europe took up the lost cause of Youth House, the tired young Danish lefties seemed to be letting it go, retreating - in many cases to their parents' homes - to lick their wounds...