This is getting ugly. Brutally suppressing Buddhist monks is not going to win the regime in Myanmar any friends."YANGON, Myanmar - Security forces in Myanmar opened fire on demonstrators Wednesday, and...
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As anti-war sentiments reach new heights, APEC leaders are set to gather in Sydney Australia. The meeting comes at a sensitive time for President Bush as he prepares for a report from US military leaders on the...
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"One group of militant APEC protesters is secretly plotting an outbreak of violence for US President George W. Bush's arrival in Sydney tomorrow, distributing a rioter's training manual on how to wear gas masks, confront police and even evade fares."
Over a dozen environemental protestors on surfboards tried to stop the second voyage of the first ever passenger ferry service, Hawaii Superferry. The inter-island ferry that makes daily runs between the...
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From the CBC Radio 3 Blog:"I was checking out the comments on a CBC story about the Security and Prosperity Partnership summit, and one of the commenters said they'd heard a story on local radio about three men...
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Washington (ANTARA News) - The Pentagon said Tuesday it is shutting
down a counter-intelligence reporting system called TALON that came
under fire for monitoring the activities of anti-war protesters.
The system...
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"Climate change protesters who caused disruption at Biggin Hill airport in Kent this morning have been arrested.
Three protesters chained themselves to the entrance gate at Biggin Hill, while others lay across the airport's only entrance road with their arms chained together...
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"Thursday, August 2, 2007
Logging threatens drinking water in Sechelt: protesters
(CBC) - More than 40 protesters blockaded a road in Sechelt, B.C., on Wednesday, saying logging in the Chapman Creek watershed threatens their water supply.
"It's notorious in B.C. for how bad...
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The annual Jerusalem Pride Parade has again fought for its right to march through the streets of the Holy City. The ferocious protests by the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community have sadly become commonplace. "Roughly...
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A boat filled with Greenpeace protesters trying to deliver a petition to G8 summit leaders was "intercepted" by German police boats yesterday. Police have been trying to enforce an exclusion perimeter in the...
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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...
Amidst violent protests, the G8 summit is underway. President George W. Bush is attempting to sell his own version of a global-warming plan, but German Chancellor Angela Merkel isn't buying."The
US President's...
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Any thought of battling climate change has to begin with attitude.
There has to be a shift in consciousness, which begins with us. We need
people to not just talk about global warming and climate change, but to
do...
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Although attendance is down this year, there was still a massive turn-out at this year's May Day celebrations that spanned across the country. Thousands joined immigration marches around the country demanding a...
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