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Indiana county sued by arrested Occupy protesters
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Two Occupy protesters filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday against sheriff's officers in a central Indiana county who they say shoved one of them roughly into a wall and arrested them as they tried to enter the county courthouse....
Tags: American Civil Liberties Union, Trials, Justice System, Litigation, Laws
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Man climbs onto dome of St Peter's to protest Italian politics
ReutersROME (Reuters) - A man climbed onto a ledge on the dome of St Peter's Basilica on Monday and unfurled a banner protesting against a "political horror show", an apparent reference to Italy's embattled coalition struggling with recession and high...Tags: Italy, National Government, Mario Monti, Politics, Government
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Russian opposition seek to revive protests against Putin
Reuters* Opposition marks anniversary of rally that turned violent * Protests have faded since peak early last year * Putin denies repression, has tightened grip on power By Timothy Heritage MOSCOW, May 6 (Reuters) - Russian protestors unfurled a huge banner...Tags: Political Corruption, Parliament, Activism, Political Dissent, Punishment
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Campaign for Liberty planning protest in Havre de Grace [letter]
Editor: My name is Joe Fleckenstein, and I'm a Steering Committee Member with the Harford County Campaign for Liberty. This Saturday, May 4 from 4 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. in Havre de Grace, the Harford County Campaign for Liberty (www.harfordliberty.org) and...Tags: Regional Authority, Havre de Grace, Harford County, Executive Branch, Martin O'Malley
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Anti-war demonstrators at Boeing annual meeting protest drones
Tribune reporterAbout a dozen anti-war activists protested Boeing's annual meeting at the Field Museum of Natural History on Monday, arguing against the world's largest plane maker's production of drones and its financial support by the city of Chicago. While most...Tags: Military Equipment, Annual and Special Corporate Meetings, Boeing Co., Field Museum of Natural History, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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'Right wing' doesn't equal 'terrorist'
"If history were to repeat itself," warned President Franklin D. Roosevelt in his 1944 State of the Union address, "and we were to return to the so-called normalcy of the 1920s, then it is certain that even though we shall have conquered our enemies on...Tags: John Kerry, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Times Square, Rush Limbaugh, Mitt Romney
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Egypt president sees 'deep state' as enemy within
CAIRO — President Mohamed Morsi casts himself as a leader navigating a landscape bristling with conspiracies by corrupt businessmen and shadowy figures plotting from inside a vast bureaucracy his Islamist inner circle has been unable to tame....
Tags: Political Corruption, Mohamed Morsi, Cairo (Egypt), Judges, U.S. Department of State
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Occupy Art
Protest Art is all the rage. And yet it's often so orderly, calm and collected. Currently it's collected at Wesleyan's Davison Art Gallery in the exhibit Artists Take Action: Protest Posters Today. Many of the posters relate to the nationwide 2011...Tags: Middletown, Arts, New Haven (New Haven, Connecticut), Artists, Arts and Culture
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Wide search expected in hunt for next UC president
With no obvious inside candidate to be the next president of the University of California system, experts predict a wide search that will concentrate on similar university systems elsewhere but could also stretch beyond academia. Whoever replaces Mark...
Tags: University of Wisconsin-Madison, Students, Executive Branch, Gavin Newsom, Jerry Brown
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UC expected to launch wide search for new president
Mark Yudof likes to point out that he was the first real outsider in more than a century chosen to run the sprawling University of California system. And he often jokes that, as a result of his leadership, it is likely to take a hundred years more...Tags: University of Wisconsin-Madison, Students, Executive Branch, Gavin Newsom, Jerry Brown
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IU students on strike
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) -- Protesters marched across Indiana University's main campus to demand tuition cuts, increased enrollment of African-American students and other requests on Thursday, the same day trustees were meeting on campus. After a tense...
Tags: Indiana University, Students, Activism, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, Teaching and Learning
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Vietnam veterans to be recognized during welcome-home day in The Villages
Those of us of a certain age remember the Vietnam War. Many served in Vietnam or had brothers or sons who did. Others, like me, came home from school and watched it on television every day on the news. Vietnam was the first war to come into the American...
Tags: Veterans Day, Japan, Southeast Asia, Amputation, Vietnam War (1955-1975)
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