Celebrations for St Patrick's Day

"Today parades are taking place at home and around the world to mark St Patrick's Day. For marchers and spectators in Ireland, the weather was generally dry though with some rain in the east.In Dublin up to 3,000...

Thousands march in NYC to say: 'Kosovo is Serbia'

Protests by Serbs around the world continue to protest Kosovo's independence, which the US and most of Western Europe has backed while Russia and China have opposed."A march more than five blocks long went from...

Oaxaca Remembers Brad Will

"Oaxaca Remembers Brad Will October 29th, 2007 · No Comments As many as 20,000 people gathered in Oaxaca City on Saturday this weekend to remember Brad Will, the American journalist shot dead a year ago. The...

Antiwar protesters hit nation's streets

Before the Iraq war, there were many very lage protest, if i remember correctly, Bush is the most protested man EVER in history.It seemed to matter not though, the spin machine just went into a higher gear touting...

Gay Pride Rocks Sao Paulo

How big is gay pride in Sao Paulo, Brazil? Big. Very, very big. According to organizers, it's the largest such parade ever."More than 1 million people packed the streets of Sao Paulo for what organizers said was...

Latvia holds first successful gay pride parade

UPDATE: Check out this great photoset of the Riga pride parade. This week's gay pride parade held in the Latvian capital of Riga was the first ever pride parade held in the country not to end in violence or...

Hong Kong Protestors Demand More English Classes

Hong Kong, one of the world's business epicenters, thrives in Chinese and English; however, there are evidently not enough spots English-language schools to accommodate those who aspire towards a university education, particularly immigrants who do not speak either Cantonese...

Bataan Memorial Death March reenacts WWII POW strife

Bataan is a region of the Philippines in which battles between American/Philippine forces and Japanese soldiers took place during WWII. After a formal surrender on April 9, 1942, the Japanese found themselves in...

Hong Kong crusades for democracy

The protest was the first in a long time for Hong Kong residents to focus purely on issues of democracy, rather than other political concerns. Quite a feat for a quarter of a million people, I'd say. The march was...

We Are the Deciders

""In a democracy," the actor told the cheering crowd, which organizers said numbered in the hundreds of thousands, "we are the deciders." Saturday's anti-war demostrations, which filled the streets of cities from...

New Orleans residents march on City Hall

"NEW ORLEANS - More than 3,000 people marched on City Hall on Thursday, seeking an end to the violence that has claimed nine lives in this struggling city since New Year's Day. "A city that could not be drowned in...

The 'Battle in Seattle' Returns

On Sunday the streets of Seattle were filled with protesters. Many signs were seen mirroring the same ones used in 1999 during the famous demonstrations against the WTO. That year over five hundred people were...

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Immigration activists to go back on march

The marches represent the beginning of a new Hispanic/Latino social movement.

The unpaid bills of illegal alien health care were send to Mexico

In 2005, Parkland Hospital spent $76.5 million to treat people from outside Dallas. Multiplied by all the hospitals, in all the cities, in the U.S., it comes to an absolute minimum of 18.25 billion dollars (it's probably more).

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