Naked protest arrests - but police not annoyed

14/07/08 06:59
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Arjun Ramachandran

Animal rights group PETA claims three of its activists have been arrested under new "annoyance" laws after a semi-naked protest at KFC in Sydney's CBD today.

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Protesters Get A Jump Start

14/07/08 06:53
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MICHAEL SCHERER

A contradiction lies at the heart of the quadrennial presidential nominating conventions. These most grand celebrations of the democratic process are, in fact, private affairs, organized for club members of the political parties, not the general public. The best after-hours events are thrown for corporate sponsors and high-dollar donors, not voters, and the best hotel rooms are saved up for official delegates from the key swing states. The general public is not welcome too near the convention halls, let alone on the convention floors.

Read the rest: Time
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Murdering God: Of Shotguns, American Capitalism, and Moral Expediency

13/07/08 07:53 Filed in: Culture
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Jason Miller

Experiencing decreasing levels of the comfort that ensures our loyalty to the criminal enterprise of American Capitalism, we “average” US Americans comprising the poor, working class, and rapidly shrinking middle class still revel in our relatively meaningless social freedoms (we can say “fuck you” to George Bush but can’t even get our “elected representatives” to impeach him for his Nuremberg class war crimes) as the economic manacles and shackles of wage slavery clamp ever tighter about our wrists and ankles.

Read the rest: Thomas Paine's Corner
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Anti-G8 protesters rally in Japan

06/07/08 06:54 Filed in: International | Protest
Several thousand people rallied on Saturday on the streets of central Sapporo, Japan, to protest against a Group of Eight summit due to start next week at a luxury hotel a two-hour drive away.

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Quieting the Riot

06/07/08 06:52
In the early hours of May 16, about 200 students gathered outside in Middletown, Conn., to celebrate the end of the semester at Wesleyan University. The crowd chatted and drank as friends said goodbye to each other and seniors anticipated graduation. Around 1:30 a.m., when local police officers couldn't clear the street after several announcements to "go home," they used Taser guns and canines to disperse the crowd. Five students were arrested on charges ranging from inciting a riot to possession of marijuana.

Read the rest: The Nation
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