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...game—it’s already up in “DISSENT!,” the new exhibit that opened on Veterans’ Day and will run through Feb. 25 at the Fogg Art Museum. The shirt is a sardonic contemporary comment among a plethora of protest prints in an exhibit that spans six centuries and features works from playing cards and t-shirts to images by Goya, Picasso and Warhol. For its scale, the show is incredibly comprehensive in its scope. Representative pieces from movements as dissimilar as AIDS awareness and backlash against Louis Philippe?...
...Justice (HIPJ), Socialist Alternative, and the Stop Torture Coalition are all planning rallies to offer a counterpoint to the speech by the officer credited with coining the term “The Long War” to describe the war on terror. Off-campus groups will also join the protest. The speech comes in the wake of a mid-term election in which voter dissatisfaction with the war in Iraq played a significant role in the Democratic takeover of Congress. Groups that are planning rallies are protesting Gen. Abizaid’s central role in the war in Iraq...
...said the decision marks a significant victory for SLAM, which has made unionization one of its primary focuses this year. SLAM held a teach-in last month featuring David Bonior, a former Democratic Minority Whip in the House, urging Harvard security guards to unionize, and SLAM co-sponsored a protest for guard unionization attended by nearly 100 Harvard employees, students, and SEIU representatives.“This is a decision that the guards, the union, slam, and the student body have fought very hard for,” Usmani wrote in an e-mail. “It is...something...
...Right-wing pundits and some conservative politicians have argued that the midterms were, in the words of Rush Limbaugh, a "loss for Republicanism, not conservatism," and that genuine conservatives stayed away from the polls (or cast protest votes) to show their displeasure with a party that had strayed from first principles. Rep. Mike Pence (R-In.) is running for minority leader with a statement that posits, "I believe that we did not just lose our Majority - we lost our way. We are in the wilderness because we walked away from the limited government principles." But, says the White House...
...than Republicans to “reduce the the deficit,” “cut taxes for the middle class,” and “keep government spending under control.” It seems that, at least in part, Democrats were elected as a protest against Republicans’ failure to live up to their own promises. Preventing similar future failures must become a lasting concern of our party...