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...maxim that "the seizure of power by armed force, the settlement of the issue by war, is the central task and the highest form of revolution," killing and abducting enemies and using coercion and force to win support among the very same villagers they claim to be liberating. To protest state "exploitation," the Maoists regularly order farmers in their regions to stop growing food or to raise the sale prices for certain items. Farmers who defy such bans have been summarily executed, say human-rights groups such as the Chhattisgarh-based Forum for Fact-Finding Documentation and Advocacy...
AMID AFTERSHOCKS, PARENTS PROTEST In the wake of the May 12 earthquake that killed at least 68,000 people--including an estimated 10,000 children--Beijing has announced that it will relax its strict one-child policy for parents left childless by the disaster. Grieving parents protested in the town of Mianzhu on May 25, as a local official pleaded with them to stop (above). The parents demanded that the government investigate why thousands of schools crumbled in the quake, amid claims that government corruption and shoddy construction left such "tofu dregs" buildings prone to collapse. Powerful aftershocks struck Sichuan...
...members remained in the station to protest the policy, and after approximately 30 minutes, the police came to formally ask the group to leave the premises. Four of the 20 did not cooperate, leading to their arrest...
Ross said they suggested the group lobby lawmakers, not the officials carrying out the law. But the rising Winthrop House senior said that he believed that the recruiting station is a site of discrimination and thus a valid place to protest...
...have nothing against eating horse meat. I wouldn't eat it, but millions of people in the world do." Chaffee says he has stopped hauling horses to a plant in southern Alberta, Canada, because of costlier trucking restrictions and Canadian humane-group pressures at border crossings. "People who protest slaughter ought to have a bunch of these old horses starving to death in their backyards...