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...kind of banter that only the most verkrampte, or hard-line, Afrikaner would find amusing. But when Andries Treurnicht and Jaap Marais, the leaders of two of South Africa's right-wing political parties, shared a platform in Pretoria earlier this year to protest the government's repeal of laws banning interracial sex and marriage, their racist exchanges produced waves of laughter from the conservative audience...
...long as you were alone. The government can still be brutal--particularly with anyone who tries to organize politically. Remember Falun Gong? After 10,000 practitioners of the meditation philosophy showed up outside Beijing's leadership compound in 1999 to protest discrimination, the government launched an effort to wipe out the religion, arresting and, according to believers, beating thousands of members. In China's Northwest, the government has jailed ethnic Uighurs who complained about Han Chinese repression of Islamic culture. The government also controls the media (a Chinese assistant in the New York Times's Beijing bureau was detained...
...later, Morissette is getting dumped by those stores, who resent the Ottawa-born singer's hawking an acoustic version of Jagged exclusively at Starbucks for the first six weeks of its release. HMV Canada and indie U.S. music stores are removing Morissette's old CDs from their shelves in protest. "Anytime there's a paradigm shift like this, people are going to be resistant," the singer says. "It happened with the Internet too." Here's to you, Ms. Morissette, pioneer of the CD-with-a-soy-latte frontier...
...April 4, they made Harvard the first major institutional shareholder to alter its stock portfolio as a protest against the ongoing genocide in Darfur...
...semester, allowing students to donate their Crimson Cash to support peacekeepers in Sudan with a “swipe” of their ID card. These measures prove that campus activism is still alive and students can make a difference, as long as they are not too hasty to protest...