By Ken Kelley Candidates from three right-wing parties allied with Colombian President Alvaro Uribe won a clear majority in both the Senate and lower house in elections held on March 14.  The results are considered to be a sign of how Colombians will vote on May 30 when they choose a successor to Uribe, who was [...]

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Local tea party members meet to protest bill
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Guggenheim said when many members showed up at the supermarket for the protest, they were greeted by signs urging them not to park there and security ...
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Hillsdale High students prepare counter-rally to anti-gay protest
San Jose Mercury News
When Hillsdale senior Meghan Souther first learned about the church's protest, she said, "I was a little bit shocked." But now she's looking forward to it. ...
Hillsdale High students prepare counter-rally to anti-gay protestTips-Q GLBT News (blog)

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Telegraph.co.uk
Bangkok swamped with protest rallies as thousands take part
TimesNewsline.com
Calling for new elections, thousands of protesters participated in a mass rally in Bangkok today. Protesters were on motorcycles and trucks as the ...
Protest winds through BangkokLos Angeles Times
Thai protest talks scheduled; resolution unlikelyReuters
Thai Protesters Reject Abhisit's Offer Of TalksWall Street Journal
Bangkok Post -Sydney Morning Herald -Earthtimes (press release)
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It’s socialism! It’s historic! Actually, it’s neither but the pundits have to call it something if they’re going to spend all day talking about it. So what should we know about the health care “reforms” that Obama and the Democratic Congress have just passed? For a quick rundown of the talking points and the unsurprisingly [...]

Community colleges, students join for protest
San Francisco Chronicle
One way to protest education cuts is to block classroom doors, shut down campuses and hurl torches at a chancellor's house. All have been tried recently by ...

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USA Today
Protesting: An American tradition
Daily Caller
Since I live on Capitol Hill, I had a chance to see not only what was going on with my neighbors, but also who was out protesting today. ...
Health Bill Protest: Day 2Wall Street Journal (blog)
Eyewitness to Tea Party Protest: Adding Insult to InsultBig Government (blog)
GOP, Tea Party try to distance themselves from racial tauntsKansas City Star
David Horowitz's NewsReal Blog (blog) -Newsopi : Breaking News & Politics (blog) -Washington Post
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By John Bachtell

March 17, 2010 -- People's World -- In a potentially important development, exiled members of the former People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan are returning to the country to re-found the organisation. They plan to hold a congress in Kabul later this year and rename the organisation the Democratic Party of Afghanistan.

The PDPA was the ruling party that led the country on a path of socialism before being ousted from power in 1992 by the US government-backed Taliban. Thousands of PDPA members were slaughtered or driven into exile where they have functioned over the years as scattered groups.

Exiled members met recently in Germany to unite their ranks and agree on an approach to reestablishing a legal political party on Afghanistan soil.

"The main goal is to return to Afghanistan and bring a situation of peace and stability in the region", said Dr. Zalmay Gulzad, professor of social sciences at Harold Washington Community College in Chicago. Gulzad was born in Afghanistan and came to the US as a student in 1971 and stayed. "Once peace is achieved the movement will evolve into different stages."

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Protest Halts Aqueduct Race
New York Times
By AP The first race at Aqueduct was canceled by a horsemen's protest over the failure to select an operator for the track's video lottery terminals. ...

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By Peter Boyle, photos by Ulfa Ilyas

March 19, 2010 -- Hundreds residents of the urban slum village of Kampung Guji Baru in West Jakarta besieged office of Jakarta Governor Fauzi Bowo from early in the morning on March 18 to reject the planned their eviction of their settlement. The residents demanded that the governor immediately stop the eviction plans which would rob the poor residents of their rights of occupancy and ownership.

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Hundreds of demonstrators swarm Capitol lawn to protest and support health ...
Los Angeles Times
Outside the Capitol, Bruce Majors, 51, said he was protesting because he believes that supporters of the current bill would "slowly force everyone into a ...
Pro-Health Care Reform Supporters and Anti-Health Care Reform Protesters Rally ...FOXNews (blog)
Anti-Reform Crowd Vows To Fight OnTPMDC (blog)
Health care reform passes HousePlain Dealer
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Local protest of nation's immigration system
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Nearly 6000 people from the Chicago area were among the tens of thousands in Washington Sunday urging the President and Congress to improve the nation's ...

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Telegraph.co.uk
Miles from the Kremlin, protesters aim fruit and fury at Putin
Independent
The was frantic manoeuvring in the government in the days and weeks before Saturday's protest. A protest in the city in January drew more than 10000 people ...
Thousands in Russia protest government in Â'Day of Wrath'Washington Post
Russians Protest Economic Conditions, Lack of FreedomVoice of America
Rallies Calling for Putin's Ouster FizzleThe Moscow Times
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San Francisco Chronicle (blog)
Saturday's anti-war protest: A critique
San Francisco Chronicle (blog)
So we had the first big Obama-era war protest. How did it rate? To be honest it seemed to lack focus. On Saturday, it appeared that the majority of liberals ...

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New York Times (blog)
Eyewitness to Tea Party Protest: Adding Insult to Insult
Big Government (blog)
I don't attend political events on the Jewish Sabbath, so I simply decided to go and observe, lending a quiet voice of protest. ...
Health Bill Protest: Day 2Wall Street Journal (blog)
Tea Party protest turns hostileThe Hindu
Racism, bigotry in health care protestCapitol Hill Blue
NBC Washington -Kansas City Star -Washington Post
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BBC News
South Africa commemorates Sharpeville massacre
ABC Online
Apartheid security forces opened fire on a peaceful protest outside the Sharpeville police station, killing 69 and wounding hundreds. ...
South Africa Marks 50th Anniversary of Sharpeville MassacreVoice of America
South Africans mark Sharpeville massacreMontreal Gazette
Sharpeville: Legacy of a massacreAljazeera.net
CBC.ca -Earthtimes (press release) -Global Voices Online (blog)
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  In a series of interviews by the Talking Dog, lawyers for Bagram and Guantanamo detainees have been discussing why they do what they do; namely, represent clients who the government has and continues to maintain are ‘terrorists.’ In the most recent of  these interviews, Ellen Lubell, co-counsel for Abdul Aziz Naji, tells us what’s at [...]

Bloggers post photos of mass protests dedicated to the “Day of Anger” held on March 20, 2010. Protests in 48 cities gathered around 20,000 people. Here are the links to pictures and videos from Moscow, Kaliningrad, Vladivostok, Novosibirsk and Irkutsk.

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Health Bill Protest: Day 2
Wall Street Journal (blog)
By Shayndi Raice Tea partiers continued their protest against the health-care bill outside the Capitol on Sunday, a day after black lawmakers reported that ...
Tea Party Protests: Loud, Mad and Dangerous (For Republicans)Newsweek (blog)
Republicans rally Tea Party activists to oppose the health-care legislationWashington Post
Frank: 'Mass hysteria' on the HillSeattle Post Intelligencer
Media Matters for America (blog) -Politico
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