Opinion Forum

At the Movies: Rising Up Down South

November 23rd, 2011

By Jan Barry The myriad marches, sit-ins, camp-ins and other protest demonstrations sweeping across America these days didn’t spring up out of nowhere. Such actions against entrenched injustice were honed in the civil rights movement that shook up authorities in the 1950s and 1960s. That movement energized and inspired a groundswell of grassroots movements against […]

Articles written by Jan Barry
Tags: civil rights, democracy, demonstrations, dissent, environment, film, protest
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Protest at Wall Street

October 9th, 2011

By Jan Barry

Articles written by Jan Barry
Tags: Military Families Speak Out, Occupy Wall Street, protest, Veterans for Peace
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How To Turn Off the Internet

January 30th, 2011

One response by the Mubarak regime was to turn off the internet nationwide. It’s the first time a country has done that, and it raises an interesting question: How can it be turned off?

Articles written by Tom Carter
Tags: cyberattack, Egypt, internet, ISP, Mubarak, protest, riot, security
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Is the (Red) Tide Turning in Venezuela?

September 12th, 2010

By Dan Miller More people now talk about el Presidente Hugo Chávez like a dog. * * * The recent loud but silent protest by the very beautiful outgoing Miss Universe, a Venezuelan, has not gone unnoticed in a country where the Miss Venezuela and Miss Universe contests are major distractions from daily woes. Miss […]

Articles written by Dan Miller
Tags: criticism, flag, Hugo Chavez, Miss Universe, opposition, protest, Venezuela
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Close, But No Cigar

June 11th, 2010

By Brianna Aubin Last weekend on the anniversary of D-Day, there was a protest in NYC against plans to build a mosque at Ground Zero. Of course there were the usual slurs and foolish statements by the mainstream media. The protest organizers gave attendance estimates of 5,000 to 10,000. The MSM gave estimates of 500 […]

Articles written by Brianna Aubin
Tags: Coptic Christians, Ground Zero, mosque, MSM, Olbermann, protest
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