protests | protests
Mar.13.2013
The One Billion Rising campaign demanded “an end to this violence”. Violence does not knock on doors and seek permission to enter.
It has been almost three months since the Delhi gang rape of December 16. Ever since, the media has been carrying articles or doing television stories on different...
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Sep.25.2012
New articles have been published about what it used to be like, like 15,000 years ago.
They've found ceramic pieces in Croatia, remnants from an ice age. Folks are excited. It's more ceramics that our ancestors left in one place than all the other places combined. Experts didn't think...
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Aug.25.2012
We want out for a light early dinner last night. My wife suggested as a joke the new pizza place. We ate at Ruby's, a new place that opened earlier this year. They started as a lunch place and then expanded to breakfast and dinner. I suggested strolling around town afterward. Sure, my wife replied...
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Dec.31.2011
Verizon has Netflixed itself, reversing a previously announced decision to charge customers $2 to pay their bills online. We could also say Verizon BoFad itself. Netflix and Bank of America were two larger companies which attracted publicity, petition and outrage about new plans and then said, "Oh...
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Nov.07.2011
Today, inspired by the Occupy Wall Street Movement, thousands of protesters gathered in front of churches and temples to decry the slipshod methods used by the Creator. They demanded change and insisted on higher quality control by used by the so-called omniscient deity...
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Oct.27.2011
I've been watching the news, reading wall posts on Facebook and now I'm feeling cranky. Why? It's all the Wall Street stuff. I came of age during the Vietnam protests. I know about protesting something that's unfair and certainly that was a war we shouldn't have been in but, ironically, after the U...
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Oct.26.2011
I know it works. Millions of people around the world have risked life and limb to make it happen. But I don’t know, when it comes down to it, if I have the courage or moral strength to do it myself. In country after country, against the world’s worst governments, tyrants, military invaders and...
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Sep.22.2011
After many people had made their peace with the idea of Georgia death-row inmate Troy Anthony Davis’ life ending at 7 p.m. on September 21, 2011, the U.S. Supreme Courts just after 7 p.m. issued a call for a “temporary delay” of his death, but then again at 10:20 said it would not block the...
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May.25.2011
How do you protest against an economic crisis? You set up a group on Facebook, get over 16,000 people to click “attending” and set up tents in front of your parliament. The Spaniards did it, and tonight, the Greeks plan to follow suit.
But what is it that we are really protesting? The debt...
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Feb.10.2011
Wonderful photo from Cairo on the front page of today's (paper and ink, delivered to the door) NYTimes: a high shot of the light streams made by the candles of protesters circling a tank. Really the most hardened cynic would have to admit that there is something thrilling, perhaps hopeful,...
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