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...addition to the Guard, Phelps' antics provoked anti-funeral-demonstration legislation, passed in nine states and proposed in more than 12 others and in Congress. Most of the laws establish a protest-free buffer of several hundred feet around memorial services. Civil libertarians say such statutes are vulnerable to challenge, especially since a Supreme Court decision in 2000 allotted only an 8-ft. buffer around anyone entering protested abortion clinics. David Hudson of Washington's First Amendment Center argues that the bikers' vroom trumps clearing room. Paraphrasing former Justice Louis Brandeis, Hudson says, "The remedy is more speech, not enforced...
Deborah A. Popowski, a student at Harvard Law School (HLS) and co-coordinator of the protest, identified two main goals of the demonstration: “to call for accountability up the chain of command for abuse of detainees in custody” and to call attention to the issue of torture...
...take-no-prisoners approach to stanching immigration is the main reason for her popularity. Even so, for a Continent whose demographic growth depends increasingly on immigration, creating more obstacles for immigrants may bear heavy costs in the future. And demonstrators who gathered on the weekend in France to protest the new immigration law, and in Britain at London's Trafalgar Square for a concert to show solidarity against the ever-bolder presence of the British Nationalist Party (bnp), indicated that even as an electoral strategy, a crackdown on immigrants can be risky. What's remarkable about the recent posturing...
...about to write a scathing letter asking why the general waited so long to make his views known. Then I realized that I never made my views known either. I strongly opposed the Iraq invasion, but like many others, I chose inaction. I stayed silent and let others protest. I'll never know whether I could have made a difference, but I regret not having tried...
Nearly four decades ago, Harvard was electrified as a group of students, opposed to the war in Vietnam, ejected the administration from its dazzling white fortress in the center of the Yard. This radical act of protest began a new era, redefining the relationship between students, faculty, and administrators at the College...