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KHQ Right Now
April 22, 2019
After new info came out over the weekend accusing Shea of running surveillance on political activists and offering to run background checks onÃâà...
BBC News
April 22, 2019
Thousands of people have protested in Morocco's capital Rabat, demanding the release of 42 activists who had rallied against corruption andÃâà...
Phys.Org
April 22, 2019
... set up expansive domestic surveillance networks to monitor and harass civil rights protesters, political activists and Native American groups.
The Bulwark
April 22, 2019
Or political activists. Or journalists. Or pundits. Whether they graduate or not, whether they are conservative or liberal, White or people of color,Ãâà...
The Guardian
April 22, 2019
Since 2016 it has outsourced work to two rightwing New Zealand political activists called Ben Guerin and Sean Topham through theirÃâà...
BBC News
April 22, 2019
They have included many human rights defenders, political activists, journalists and religious scholars. Last week, a court sentenced 139 menÃâà...
STLtoday.com
April 19, 2019
... to pose as anti-immigration groups, Tea Party activists, Black Lives Matter protesters, and other U.S. social and political activists,” it said.
Foreign Brief
April 4, 2019
A Hong Kong court is expected to deliver a ruling on the fate of nine pro-democracy political figures today. The accused have been charged forÃâà...
McClatchy Washington Bureau
December 19, 2018
... a constituency with significant representation in the donor community, growing numbers of political activists and candidates—and a sizableÃâà...
Face2Face Africa
December 19, 2018
In the history of Ghana, J. B. Danquah stands out as one of the prolific political activists who helped found Ghana's independence and had aÃâà...
CNN
December 19, 2018
... many nations and, with its concentration of wealthy political activists, happens to fund a significant portion of these nationwide campaigns.
CNBC
December 19, 2018
... campaign and election on his Facebook page, where her race gained a wider audience, including some Washington-based political activists.
The Straits Times
December 19, 2018
Fourth, while some political restrictions were lifted last week, pro-junta politicians have more freedom than their rivals. Political activists remainÃâà...
Daily Excelsior
December 19, 2018
While addressing party workers at Pathipur in Bishnah today, Luthra appealed the women political activists to play their important role inÃâà...
The National
December 18, 2018
Speaking to The National, Communication Minister Lambert Mende insisted the persecution of political activists is not among his country'sÃâà...
Daily Pioneer
December 8, 2018
Several political activists from Kishtwar, including a Congress leader, on Saturday joined the BJP here and pledged to work for strengtheningÃâà...
Fort Worth Star Telegram
April 29, 2018
The Facebook-fueled uprising is spearheaded by three local characters who look more like extras from a Duck Dynasty episode than firebrand political activists: There's Lann Murphy, the cherubic, outspoken, smiling owner of LannTex Electric; Russell Hess, the Second Amendment fanatic and gun-storeÃâà...
Online Athens
April 29, 2018
Americans today enjoy many of the fruits of a long struggle by political activists like labor movement crusaders who brought us the weekend, higher wages, better working conditions and an end to child labor. The Athens Human Rights Festival carries on the spirit of men and women who have struggled forÃâà...
Xinhua
April 29, 2018
"Though both of them were immediately removed to the nearest hospital but they succumbed there during treatment." Police have registered a case and ordered an investigation into the incident. The killing came three weeks after two political activists from Shiv Sena were killed in the similar incident.
RadioFarda
April 29, 2018
The CHRI reported that hackers have also targeted the accounts of the members of Imam Ali Charity as well as those of tens of civil and political activists in Iran. The Imam Ali Charity is an NGO in Iran that supports underprivileged women and children. The charity told Telecommunications and IT MinisterÃâà...
Winston-Salem Journal
April 28, 2018
That event, organized by survivors of the Florida shooting and backed by celebrities and political activists, had a more partisan tone and pushed gun control measures. The student-led event at Collinswood, a K-8 English-Spanish magnet school in south Charlotte, drew attention because a student video ofÃâà...
RadioFarda
April 27, 2018
Iranian security forces on April 6 arrested two Iranian political activists, Kamran Ayazi and Maryam Shariatmadari, near the site where a mummy believed to be Reza Shah Pahlavi's body was unearthed on April 23, say incoming reports from Tehran. Meanwhile, as the controversy about the whereabouts ofÃâà...
Pacific Standard
April 25, 2018
So the eruption of these issues at the recent Colorado Democratic State Assembly was perhaps inevitable. At that convention, a group of Denver political activists introduced a platform plank proposal saying the following: "We oppose making Colorado's public schools private or run by private corporationsÃâà...
STL.News (blog)
April 25, 2018
VATICAN CITY | April 24, 2018 (AP)(STL.News) The key whistleblower in Chile's clerical sex abuse scandal has arrived in Rome for his audience with Pope Francis and said Tuesday he will urge the pope to get rid of the “toxic” bishops and cardinals who have defamed and discredited abuse survivors around the world.
The Guardian
April 25, 2018
Despite the political hurdles looming, the afterglow from Armenia's peaceful revolution has not worn off just yet. On Tuesday, the morning after Serzh Sargsyan's resignation, Maral Aznauryan, 15, skipped toward the capital Yerevan's central square with the red, blue and orange Armenian flag draped overÃâà...
The Guardian
April 23, 2018
Political activists are encouraged to identify the differing concerns, priorities and values of those they meet. Starting from the simple premise that voters are individuals, not “categories”, this kind of authentic engagement has started to change the way campaigning is done. Only the willingness of Labour'sÃâà...
Daily Times
April 21, 2018
However, these laws have come under severe attack for the last many years, with some disturbing developments in the recent days including disappearances of secular and liberal bloggers and peace activists from urban centres of Pakistan, targeted killings of political activists, extrajudicial killings, andÃâà...
WIRED
April 21, 2018
Naomi Oreskes, co-author of “Merchants of Doubt,” an influential study of foundation- and industry-backed attacks on science, said the reproducibility debate has already been exploited by political activists. “These guys are loving it,” Oreskes, a historian of science at Harvard, told me. “Any time scientistsÃâà...
Human Rights Watch
April 12, 2018
The Tajik government has carried out a severe human rights crackdown over the past three years, with hundreds of political activists imprisoned, including several human rights lawyers, and opposition parties banned. Human Rights Watch and the Norwegian Helsinki Committee have documented aÃâà...
Amnesty International
April 11, 2018
Following news that Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir has released at least 56 opposition activists after they spent up to 84 days in arbitrary detention for protesting against the escalating cost of food and healthcare, Amnesty International's Regional Director for East Africa, the Horn and the Great LakesÃâà...
The Guardian
April 3, 2018
The last time the radical leftwing Jewish group Jewdas was in the headlines a decade ago, four of its members were arrested for distributing flyers for a party in east London called the Protocols of the Elders of Hackney. The tongue-in-cheek title of the party, a play on the antisemitic hoax the Protocols of theÃâà...
The Nation
March 29, 2018
COUNTRY SINGER and political activist Thanat Thanawatcharanon, known by his stage name “Tom Dundee”, has been acquitted of a lese majeste charge for a public speech he made in Lamphun province in 2011. The Criminal Court's verdict yesterday dealt with only one of four charges he faced underÃâà...
AlterNet
March 28, 2018
The Students Who Hosted the D.C. March for Our Lives—and Became Political Activists in the Process. How high schoolers in the Washington, D.C., area arranged housing, food, and programs for the weekend's marchers, and transformed themselves into political organizers. By Kristen Doerer / TheÃâà...
The American Prospect
March 27, 2018
The Kids Who Played Host -- and Became Political Activists in the Process. How high schoolers in the Washington, D.C., area arranged housing, food, and programs for the weekend's marchers, and transformed themselves into political organizers. Kristen Doerer. March 26, 2018Ãâà...
The Verge
March 22, 2018
Netflix's Santa Clarita Diet loves people. That's unusual for a zombie narrative. Most zombie narratives present people as lurching, decaying, cannibalistic monsters. Misanthropy, paranoia, and loathing have been central to the modern zombie genre since George Romero first gleefully showed humansÃâà...
Chimes
March 21, 2018
Only recently has a third story surfaced—a darker story that has led a non-participating student to suspension and a questioning public school teacher to administrative probation. Overnight, radical political activists turned our public schools into the new political frontier, turning students into child soldiers.
America Magazine
March 20, 2018
The report documents cases of extrajudicial murders committed by police, illegal house raids and threats and harassment against journalists and social and political activists since the end of November 2017 within “the context of a political, economic and social crisis inherited since the 2009 military coup.”.
The Badger Herald
March 20, 2018
Hateful rhetoric and ignorance are responsible for history's greatest tragedies, from slavery to genocide. Anyone with a shred of common decency knows to speak out against it. Yet, there is a prejudice largely overlooked, even by people who claim to advocate for equality: Anti-Semitism.
GhanaWeb
March 18, 2018
Registration exercise for mass distribution of bed-nets in Eastern and Volta Regions are to start from March 22 to 28. Heads of households who would be registered would be provided with coded registration cards for the collection of their bed-nets from designated places in their district. The issuing of theÃâà...
The Independent Barents Observer
March 17, 2018
A police hunt-down of political activists is going on in downtown Murmansk. As the Russian Arctic city is preparing for elections, police cracks down on local supporters of Aleksey Navalny.
Irish Legal News
March 16, 2018
Russian authorities are systematically violating the rights of political activists through arbitrary arrests and detentions in a fierce crackdown ahead of the presidential elections on Sunday, Amnesty International said today. Using a law on public assemblies, authorities have deliberately targeted activistsÃâà...
Amnesty International
March 15, 2018
Russian authorities are systematically violating the rights of political activists through arbitrary arrests and detentions in a fierce crackdown ahead of the presidential elections on 18 March, Amnesty International said today. Using a draconian law on public assemblies, authorities have deliberately targetedÃâà...
Amnesty International UK
March 15, 2018
The Russian authorities are systematically violating the rights of political activists through arbitrary arrests and detentions in a fierce crackdown ahead of the presidential elections on Sunday, Amnesty International said today. Publishing a new seven-page briefing on Russia's increasing restrictions onÃâà...
Hollywood Reporter
March 15, 2018
"Cointelpro" was the name of a massive rogue spy operation conducted by the FBI targeting progressive political activists. Cointelpro comes from writing partners Leon Hendrix and Ajani Jackson, who met at Columbia University's MFA Film program. Long and Ayer are set to produce the feature via CedarÃâà...
Al-Monitor
March 15, 2018
Those who are raising eyebrows, however, are the new class of political activists preparing to face off with the political heavyweights. An array of activists has clubbed together to form a national coalition called Tahaluf Watani — which includes around 11 different movements, including Li Baladi, BaalbakÃâà...
Irish Legal News
March 15, 2018
Russian authorities are systematically violating the rights of political activists through arbitrary arrests and detentions in a fierce crackdown ahead of the presidential elections on Sunday, Amnesty International said today. Using a law on public assemblies, authorities have deliberately targeted activistsÃâà...
RFI
March 13, 2018
The trial of eight political activists accused of accused of sabotaging high-speed trains ten years ago opened in Paris on Tuesday. Investigators initially pursued and then dropped controversial terrorism charges, and the trial maintains an air of political intrigue. In November 2008, somebody placed steelÃâà...
ANI News
March 13, 2018
Geneva [Switzerland], Mar 13 (ANI): Political activists from Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) held a massive protest outside the United Nations office here on Tuesday against the gross human rights violations committed by Pakistani state in the region. The protest was organised by the United KashmirÃâà...
Fast Company
March 13, 2018
Beautycounter enlists its sales team to fight for better regulation in the beauty industry. It's part of a wave of activist brands taking on Washington. [Photo: Chelsea Prestin]. 1/9 [Photo: Chelsea Prestin]. By Elizabeth Segran 9 minute Read. It's 10 a.m. in Washington, D.C., and 100 saleswomen from skincareÃâà...
AllAfrica.com
March 12, 2018
Lagos based rights group, the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) yesterday urged the African Union (AU) to suspend the rights of membership of Cameroon from the AU to put pressure on its government to end alleged torture and ill-treatment of 47 political activists. The group in anÃâà...
