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...including 80 incumbent M.P.s, from parliamentary elections next month. Otherwise, he warned, Iran might dissolve in a "chaos of disagreement." With the barring, Iran's hard-liners were hoping to regain control of the 290-member, reformist-dominated Parliament. But dissenting M.P.s began a sit-in at Parliament in protest: if the council doesn't back down, a source in the reformist camp tells TIME, they will make good on a threat to resign en masse and possibly force their moderate leader, President Mohammed Khatami, to step down as well. "It's becoming an all-or-nothing fight," says...
...Simply protesting injustice can at times sound a bit like the line from “Karma Police” by Radiohead: “We’ve given all we can but we’re still on the payroll.” People protest greed and human rights violations while still wearing the clothes, buying the soft drinks and driving the cars that fuel the system they are protesting. International boycotts, the only real weapon against transnational corporations worth billions of dollars, may be the next step in keeping tabs on corporate abuses. Coke...
...Jahncke says that’s what makes him the perfect protest candidate...
...offers voters the option of a protest vote that won’t cost them their chance to choose among the high-profile presidential candidates...
Edwards predicted that the protest behind Jahncke’s candidacy would be drowned out by the hurly-burly of the last days of campaigning...