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Perhaps Derwish deserved the fate of the company he kept, or perhaps he was a certified bad guy. Nevertheless, an American citizen not charged or convicted of any crime was killed by a CIA Predator, targeted in cooperation with the Pentagon, and there was hardly a peep of protest in this country. Where is the outrage? Intelligence officials say killing an American with a Hellfire missile was perfectly fine because he was an "enemy combatant," a term that the government seems to apply freely these days. Besides, the CIA claims, it didn't know that an American...
...were the start of civil rights for all. For instance, the gay rights movement has mimicked many of the tactics pioneered by civil rights activists during the 1960s, such as legal challenges to unfair laws, civil disobedience in the form of “sip-ins” to protest discrimination in bars and the “rights” rhetoric. Before there was the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967, Title IX of 1972, or the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, there was the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights...
...Shanghai scores the first 10 points and leads Hong Kong 44-29 after one quarter. By this time gentle Dan McClintock has slammed home three dunks and has dared to yelp in protest to a referee. His wife is glowing with pride. When Dan-ni-er sits down in the second quarter with 25 points (and Byrne?who will be cut in a couple of weeks and replaced by an American guard?comes in to score 20 points), he almost seems to smile. But this would be vanity...
...great genius of the Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM), which staged a massive takeover of Massachusetts Hall during the spring of 2001 to protest the low wages received by Harvard workers, was that it acknowledged real class differences. The PSLM members were not ashamed to say that the janitors were of a different class from them. Moreover, PSLM knew the only way to press for workers’ power was to use the brute instruments of mass protest, civil disobedience and humiliation. Many students reacted with amused disdain to the sit-in. What are these rich kids doing protesting...
...When reports of the plan trickled out last month, the village of Borobudur buzzed with controversy. Almost everyone, particularly the asongan, believed the cure was worse than the problem. On Jan. 10, opponents of Java World, many of them writers and performing artists, staged a "poetry protest"?a charming concept in a country where demonstrations sometimes turn violent...