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...response to the gift account tax, which has been levied on student group gift accounts this year suggests that the UC may have more than position papers in its advocacy toolkit. The Student Group Tax Repeal Act was passed earlier this month. A week later, the UC organized a protest with students groups outside the Nov. 14 Faculty meeting, which earned them a meeting with Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles. The initiative ultimately fell short, but it represented a step beyond the perfunctory position paper, which often falls on deaf ears. More steps like this need...
...response to internet gambling provisions that pose an obstacle to online poker players, the letter asks every individual affected to protest the Security and Accountability for Every Port Act (SAFE) signed by President Bush...
...Dari, accusing him of fomenting terrorism and sectarian violence. Al-Dari is the head of the influential Muslim Scholars Association, who while condemning terror attacks on Iraqi civilians has nonetheless openly backed insurgent attacks on U.S. forces as "legitimate resistance." The arrest warrant was greeted with howls of protest by the Sunni parties participating in the government, who denounced it as a sectarian attack. Some Sunni leaders even warned that if it were not rescinded, they would quit the government...
...enforcement campaign against illegal dog ownership, which began November 13, has caused a storm of complaint and protest everywhere from Beijing's streets to the electronic bulletin boards and blogs of China's hyper-active cyber universe. And the issue has created some unlikely rebels: Xiaomei, for example, is the very model of a law-abiding Chinese and wouldn't dream of doing anything that might get her into trouble. But she nevertheless joined hundreds of protesters who showed up at the entrance to Beijing Zoo on November 12 to protest the crackdown. She says that riot police outnumbered...
...faith-healing prowess, shocked the Catholic Church in 2001 by suddenly marrying a South Korean woman in Rev. Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church. Milingo later patched things up with the Vatican, which simply never recognized his marriage to his handpicked bride, who held a weeks-long sit-in protest in St. Peter's Square, demanding her husband back. Milingo later published a book in which he repented his marital vows, and was eventually placed in a backwater Italian diocese where Church officials could keep an eye on him. But two months ago, Milingo, 76, burst back on the scene...