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...Aguilera adds that SLAM—which has focused its protest and advocacy mainly on potential permanent employee layoffs this year—may move to address the loss of student jobs next year...
...sneaker that had been lobbed at Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao as he spoke at Cambridge University earlier this year, the verdict came with an air of denouement. On Tuesday, German biomedical research student Martin Jahnke, 27, who had tossed his footwear onto the stage during Wen's speech in protest over China's human-rights record, was found not guilty of a public order offense by the Cambridge Magistrates' Court...
...starting to emerge. Roeder had been following, and decrying, Tiller's work - which included performing abortions after 21 weeks - for years. Early reports on Roeder, who was taken into custody shortly after the shooting and is expected to be charged Tuesday, show a history of antiabortion, antigovernment philosophy and protest...
...mainstream pro-life movement operates as protest groups usually do - within the law, by peaceful means, working for legislative change on the one hand and cultural change on the other. But there is an uncomfortable consistency in the logic of the extremists: If abortion providers are mass child killers and the law refuses to act, the vigilante may see himself as the lone defender of justice - as vigilantes usually do. Operation Rescue founder Randall Terry, who in 1991 was arrested while protesting in front of Tiller's office, released a statement that began, "Dr. Tiller was a mass murderer...
...stated that Roeder was charged on Sunday with first-degree murder and two counts of aggravated assault. He has not yet been charged with a crime. It also stated that Operation Rescue founder Randall Terry's statement "appeared to condone the murder." In fact, it encouraged supporters to "peacefully protest" abortion...