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...years, student activists have fought a battle to build a campus women’s center by pitching tents and staging protest rallies. But with such a center slated to open this fall, students can now make themselves heard with a simple click of the mouse...
...final, fallacious argument against the wall comes from within the U.S. Immigrant advocate groups complain that the wall will somehow make it more difficult for Mexican immigrants to find representation in the U.S. and will infringe upon their rights to organize and protest. This claim is absolutely absurd. The only people who will be affected by this wall are illegal immigrants, not the ones who have legally come to this country. Illegal immigrants are not part of the U.S., do not participate in the country’s social contract, and are therefore not entitled to the same rights...
Blasphemy, after all, is commonplace in the West. In America, Christians have become accustomed to artists' offending their religious symbols. They can protest, and cut off public funding--but the right of the individual to say or depict offensive messages or symbols is not really in dispute. Blasphemy, moreover, is common in the Muslim world, and sanctioned by Arab governments. The Arab media run cartoons depicting Jews and the symbols of the Jewish faith with imagery indistinguishable from that used in the Third Reich. But I have yet to see Jews or Israelis threaten the lives of Muslims because...
...Kevin Griffey, a 27-year-old mechanical engineer from San Diego, Calif., interrupted the proceedings midway through the day by jumping up and calling Gonzales, at the top of his lungs, a "lazy fascist." Griffey, who was subsequently escorted from the hearing, had attended a protest at the White House on Saturday and wanted to attend the hearing because he felt Gonzales has been misinterpreting the law. "It might be the only opportunity to talk to the Administration," he told TIME after he was taken out of the building. "He might hear what...
Raouf Abdel-Rahman was appointed last month to head the five-judge panel. For security reasons, three judges are not identified and never photographed. Abdel-Rahman took over after former chief judge Rizkar Mohammed Amin resigned to protest meddling by Iraqi government officials. One of Saddam's lawyers claims that Abdel-Rahman, a Kurd from Halabja, has a "personal feud" with Saddam and isn't impartial. Abdel-Rahman has rejected complaints by the defense, declaring that "political speeches have no place in this courtroom...