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...Soyinka joined the protest movement to free Nigeria from British rule. Ever since that moment when Soyinka was first introduced to demonstration as a political tool, he has tirelessly campaigned for the spread of human rights and democracy throughout Africa...
Furthermore, if evangelicals protest abortion because it is murder, then it doesn’t make sense for evangelicals to support the war in Iraq, where thousands of innocent Iraqis and Americans have met their ends prematurely. If the ultimate goal was to prevent murder, then it doesn’t make sense to support a president who allowed the automatic weapons ban to expire—a law that, even if ineffective as some have claimed, at least showed that America was committed to removing tools of mass death from the hands of individuals. If Christians care so much...
...that the official result has begun to set in, the feeling among many Americans in Paris is that of helplessness and disappointment. “People were able to protest in the United States. Here, we’re told not to,” said Amna Shamim, a junior at Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania...
...local rally, which began at 5 p.m., was part of a larger effort by the No Stolen Elections! campaign, for which people from over 30 cities nationwide have promised to protest the election results in upcoming weeks...
...It’s important to go out the first day after elections to protest against cuts in Social Security, Medicare, cuts to veterans and workers’ rights,” said Childs, who is also the chief steward of Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees Local...