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Tomorrow there will be a demonstration in downtown Prague. We got a little flyer in our mailbox. If you're thinking that this looks like some hyped-up, jingoistic crap— you’re right! Flip the flyer over and it's from PRO. The back of the flyer sets out...
by Marko the Werelynx
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on Fri Mar 22, 2024 at 08:16 AM PDT
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Both the Jerusalem Post and The Telegraph are reporting the results of a confidential survey by the state-run Iranian Culture and Islamic Guidance Ministry of nearly 16,000 Iranians polled anonymously that were leaked to Iran International, a...
by Irontortoise
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on Sun Feb 25, 2024 at 07:33 PM PST
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As reported in the AP today: Some of Hungary's best-known online personalities led a crowd of at least 10,000 protesters in Budapest on Friday to demand a change in the country's political culture, a response to the conservative president's recent...
by Irontortoise
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on Fri Feb 16, 2024 at 04:59 PM PST
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The majority of this piece will consider the issue of inclusion of disabled people; however, in order to understand the problem of inclusion for disabled people we need to understand what disability is. It is not the opposite of being abled bodied,...
by NY brit expat
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on Sun Dec 10, 2023 at 03:00 PM PST
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For those of you just joining us from all the other not happy news, a recap with a few more details. On Friday 20 October, President Cortizo signed the new mine contract with First Quantum, a Canadian company. The current copper mine is huge and there...
by Carmeninvermont
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on Tue Oct 31, 2023 at 09:49 AM PDT
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Popular music featured much more diversity in the 1960s and 70s than it does today, and one noteworthy strain that was common then was the Protest Song, driven largely by the Vietnam War. The most hard-hitting example may have been Ohio, by Crosby,...
by EvanJellicoe
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on Sat Oct 21, 2023 at 08:11 AM PDT
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I heard Keith Olberman and agree with him. I do think he is preaching to the choir as many of us including me do everyday. We are in a situation right now in America that reminds me of a person who is having a baby that is breach and rather than get to...
by Vetwife
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on Sat Sep 30, 2023 at 12:36 AM PDT
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The spotlight is a weekly categorized compilation of links and excerpts from Daily Kos environmentally related posts. Any posts that are included in the collection do not necessarily indicate my agreement with or endorsement of them. Because of the...
by Meteor Blades
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on Sun Sep 24, 2023 at 08:06 AM PDT
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Beginning with the Boston Tea Party, or before, this Nation has always had protests; some achieved the intended results, others failed miserably. The recent protests by members of the USWNT are an example of accomplishing nothing except blowback...
by OutsideTheBoxToo
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on Tue Aug 08, 2023 at 08:21 AM PDT
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People squeezed by inflation and demanding economic justice took to the streets across Asia and Europe to mark May Day on Monday, in a global outpouring of worker discontent not seen since before ...
by Associated Press
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on Mon May 01, 2023 at 06:46 PM PDT
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Since last writing about the need for direct action, news from certain states in the country has only gotten worse, as expected. In the meantime I've been contacting and emailing legacy interest groups for two reasons: first to see if they have any...
by Turnip50
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on Thu Apr 13, 2023 at 05:00 PM PDT
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UPDATE: Thursday, Apr 6, 2023 · 10:20:06 PM +00:00 · Walter Einenkel Just going to leave this here. UPDATE: Thursday, Apr 6, 2023 · 9:53:43 PM +00:00 · Walter Einenkel Another update as the Tennesseans who respect the concept of a representative...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Thu Apr 06, 2023 at 11:56 AM PDT
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I was waiting for someone else to write this story, but since no one has, I will. Where are the huge protests that were supposed to happen today at Trump’s arraignment? Where is the blood in the streets? Where are the images of New York’s Finest in...
by Mercy Ormont
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on Tue Apr 04, 2023 at 03:38 PM PDT
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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene took time away from fundraising by saying offensive and objectively false things during House Committee meetings to go and fundraise off of Donald Trump’s impending arraignment in New York City. In Greene’s defense, she is...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Tue Apr 04, 2023 at 10:30 AM PDT
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Only two members of the Tennessee state House have been expelled from the chamber since the Civil War. On Thursday, Republicans plan to expel three Democrats at once for the unpardonable sin of leading “gun reform now” chants from the podium without...
by Laura Clawson
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on Tue Apr 04, 2023 at 07:00 AM PDT
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Happy Friday! Grocery day is tomorrow for us this week Bit has a shorter day, though we’re still going to have to go later in the afternoon, unfortunately. She’s had a long week this week.�
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by FloridaSNMOM
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on Thu Mar 23, 2023 at 09:55 PM PDT
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Philadelphia officials announced a $9.25 million settlement Monday with hundreds of people over several lawsuits challenging the police response to the protests and civil disorder in 2020 after George Floyd's death at the hands of Minneapolis police....
by Associated Press
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on Tue Mar 21, 2023 at 07:09 AM PDT
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Donald Trump's initial reaction to a potentially imminent indictment was to issue a call to arms. "PROTEST, TAKE OUR NATION BACK!" Trump implored his followers on Saturday. But incitement by Trump—who's still under investigation for inspiring the Jan....
by Kerry Eleveld
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on Mon Mar 20, 2023 at 01:49 PM PDT
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It’s 1968 again in Paris. Days before the start of Spring, Revolution is in the air along with the slight aroma of garbage. A strike by garbage collectors in about half of the city is scheduled to continue at least until Monday. Refinery workers have...
by Alan Singer
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on Sun Mar 19, 2023 at 08:24 AM PDT
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The war on the humanity and rights of our transgender friends and neighbors has seemingly been raging forever, but over the past few years, we’ve seen a serious surge. In 2022 alone, as the Human ...
by Jessica Sutherland
73 comments
on Fri Feb 17, 2023 at 10:50 AM PST
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