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An estimated 10, 000 people  have taken part in demonstration in Mashad, Iran, 2nd largest city and one of the holiest cities in Shia Islam. Last week a story broke about Abbas Palizdar, a member of the Judicial Inquiry and Review Commission, who had been speaking about how the mullahs were stealing the people's money and lining their own pockets.   http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2029279/posts   He was subsequently arrested. Demonstrations have broken out since his revelations, and arrest.   Video here of demonstration in Mashad, north eastern Iran,  yesterday.   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xLW9ZUrxW0&feature=related There were also demonstrations in Tehran yesterday. An Iranian friend reports that...

Local residents who want to add their two cents about the proposed Interstate 69 construction won't have to fill their tanks to do it. TxDOT is coming to Longview. The Texas Department of Transportation is holding 46 public hearings this month in East and South Texas along the planned corridor, including Tuesday's meeting in Longview. The hearings will give Texans a chance to comment and ask questions about the proposed Interstate 69/Trans-Texas Corridor, a collection of passenger and freight roadways, utility and rail lines from Texarkana to the Rio Grande Valley. A draft environmental impact statement released in November suggests...

Tehran University Demonstrations Michael Ledeen Here is an account of the anti-regime demonstrations in Tehran last week, written by a democracy activist on the ground. I don't know if they have entirely stopped yet. Please note the last lines, the plea that the rest of the world report these events and pay attention to the cause of Iranian people, workers, students, and women. I so wish I had a government that did that, or a candidate who spoke out on their behalf. Here you go: Sunday, Jan. 27, was marked by the third day of protest by Tehran University students...

Iranian Protesters Demand Release of Students By VOA News 09 December 2007 Iranian state media say students have staged a demonstration at Tehran University, damaging the main gate. The state-run IRNA news agency says the protesters Sunday chanted slogans against President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and carried banners calling for the release of three fellow students. The incident comes a day after intelligence agents arrested several people at Tehran University for allegedly planning an illegal demonstration. State media quote Iran's Intelligence Ministry as saying Saturday that those arrested had entered the university using fake student cards. The ministry says anti-government groups had...

<p>TEHRAN, Iran -- An estimated 100 students staged a rare demonstration Monday against Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, calling him a "dictator," which prompted scuffles with hardline students at Tehran University.</p> <p>Ahmadinejad, who was giving a speech to a select group at the university to mark the beginning of the academic year, ignored the chants of "death to the dictator" and continued with his speech on the merits of science and the pitfalls of Western-style democracy, witnesses said.</p>

Largest Ever Planned Parenthood Abortion Mill Threatens to Open Near Chicago Pro-Life Action League to hold major protest on Aug. 25 By Elizabeth O'Brien AURORA, August 22, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A huge new abortion clinic, said to be the largest Planned Parenthood Center in the United States, has been constructed near Chicago. In response Illinois pro-lifers have launched a major grass-roots campaign to prevent it from opening on its scheduled date this September. If the 22,000 square-foot, $7.5 million facility opens, it will offer contraceptives, pregnancy tests, sexually transmitted disease testing and abortions. Officials expect to receive 8,000 patients and...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. -- As protests on both sides of the abortion debate continued Friday in Birmingham, police said the director of Operation Rescue/Operation Save America was been arrested. Flip Benham was taken in on a noise ordinance charge. Police said he was using sound equipment he did not have a permit for and they had given him numerous warnings to stop using the equipment.

(05-22) 13:38 PDT STANFORD UNIVERSITY -- Eleven Stanford University students are staging a sit-in today at the university president's office in an attempt to convince officials that they should not use sweatshop labor to produce Stanford gear, protest organizers said. The students were joined by about 50 protesters -- a few of whom were naked -- who marched from White Plaza and rallied outside Hennessey's office for about an hour. The naked protesters were a bit shy, and several were covering their private parts. The students were cheering loudly, chanting ""What do we want to be? Sweat-free!" and carrying signs...

Spring in Iran was marked by the outbreak of protests nationwide by virtually every sector of Iranian society, beginning with demonstrations and strikes by tens of thousands of workers in March. By April and May, the level of discontent had escalated dramatically as tens of thousands of workers kept their pledge to turn out en masse. More than one hundred thousand staged a rally in Tehran on May Day, making it one of the largest protests in Iran in the past two decades. Chanting "death to oppressors" and "freedom is our inalienable right," they displayed their burning desire for change....

Iran labour protest against president, "Death to the oppressors" By Shahriar, N. - Persian Journal May 1, 2007 Hundreds of Iranians took part on Tuesday in a demonstration in Tehran to mark labour day, accusing President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's government of failing to improve their working conditions. The workers converged on a stadium in central Tehran in the officially sanctioned demonstration to mark May Day but were dispersed by anti-riot police when the march moved out into the street, witnesses said. "Some 600 workers demonstrated at the exit to the stadium and shouted slogans against the minister of labour," Mohammad Jahromi,...

Iran: Arrests of peaceful demonstrators and activists continue Source: Amnesty International 4/21/07 Amnesty International is calling on the Iranian authorities to release immediately and unconditionally all those detained in connection with recent peaceful demonstrations by teachers, students and others, to halt all trial proceedings that could result in the imprisonment of prisoners of conscience and to cease harassment of those campaigning to uphold human rights, including trade union and political rights. The organization is concerned that such protestors have been increasingly targeted since Minister of Intelligence Gholam Hossein Mohseni Ejeie publicly accused the womens' movement and student campaigners of being...

If the cause of peace is worth supporting ? and we believe it is ? then peace protesters must demonstrate the values they promote. The vast majority of the estimated 15,000 protesters who took part in a peace march Sunday in downtown Portland did just that. They were well-behaved, well-intentioned and serious about their cause. But then there was a smaller group of demonstrators ? if they can even be called that ? who engaged in numerous actions that violated the sensibilities of ordinary people and damaged the very cause the activists claimed to endorse. This splinter group of protesters...

Iran crushes teachers' pay protest Robert Tait in Tehran Saturday March 17, 2007 Guardian The authorities in Iran have arrested up to 1,000 teachers in a brutal crackdown that signals their determination to break a pay revolt. Riot police beat demonstrators with batons as they tried to gather outside Iran's parliament and education ministry and herded them into police vans and buses before transporting them to detention centres across Tehran. Around 150 of those arrested in Wednesday's protest are still in custody, with the ringleaders believed to be in the capital's notorious Evin prison. Others were released after signing a...

Tehran, 6 March (AKI) - Thousands of teachers staged a rally on Tuesday in front of the Majlis, the Iranian parliament, in Tehran asking Iranian education minister Mahmoud Farshidi to step down, their salaries to be raised and that colleagues fired for political reasons be reinstated. The protest, the second in just a week by teachers, was called by 30 teachers' unions. Last Saturday, an estimated 50,000 professors protested, threatening to block mid-term exams and to strike until their fired colleagues, as many as 1,500 only in Kurdistan, were given their jobs back. Iranian authorities are openly worried about the...

Using Unmanned Aerial Vehicle at Violent Demonstrations FEBRUARY 20, 2007 06:49 The police are considering introducing state-of-the-art equipment such as a small sized unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) in order to collect visual evidence at violent demonstrations. The National Police Agency announced on February 19, “If police officers or riot police try to take a picture of a violation, a huge fight between the demonstrators and the police may occur, therefore we have decided to introduce high-tech surveillance equipment including a miniature unmanned aerial vehicle to prevent riots from occurring between protesters and the police.” The UAV has been used as...

Special trains and buses brought in protesters from across Italy Thousands of people have been arriving in the north-eastern Italian city of Vicenza for a march against a planned extension of the US army base there.Organisers say the majority of local people are opposed to US plans. They say Prime Minister Romano Prodi has ignored strong local objections. Thousands of extra police are on duty in Vicenza for what is planned as a peaceful march. There are fears that extremist fringe groups will try to cause violence. Vicenza's mayor fears the march will be infiltrated by left-wing extremists from...

Viet Nam Memorial Wall Washington, D.C. The anti-war/anti-America groups are planning a "march to the Pentagon" on March 17, 2007... this group has intentions that defenders of freedom cannot overlook or allow to occur... there must be a challenge. Here's a portion from the "anti-war" web site March 17 -- March on Pentagon!: Time to Turn Up the Heat! that causes considerable concern: "The biggest single group of new volunteers and activists are soldiers and marines who have returned from Iraq. Their family members and other veterans are also organizing to March on the Pentagon. The opening rally will assemble...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - "No justice, no peace, U.S. out of the Middle East" was one of many chants shouted by protesters at the anti-war demonstration Saturday in Washington D.C. According to the United for Peace and Justice Web site, approximately 500,000 demonstrators from across the United States attended an assembly and march on the capital protesting America's involvement in Iraq. The demonstration was sponsored by United for Peace and Justice, a national association comprised of over 13,000 organizations. The association sponsored simultaneous demonstrations on Saturday in Seattle, Austin, Los Angeles and San Francisco. "Iraqis should have the right to determine...

Here is the latest ranting from the mouth foaming leftist radicals in San Diego... "Saturday, January 27, 2007 at 2pm Demonstration at Horton Plaza 4th and Broadway, Downtown San Diego NOT ONE MORE DEATH NOT ONE MORE DOLLAR NOT ONE MORE DAY End the War on Iraq! Bring the Troops Home Now! The US occupation of Iraq is the greatest source of violence in Iraq today. Only the immediate and complete withdrawal of US and other occupation troops will clear the path for Iraqis to determine their own future. We need to bring our sons and daughters home now. Join...

BOGOR, Indonesia: Nearly 150 people rallied Wednesday in support of U.S. President George W. Bush's planned visit to the world's most populous Muslim nation — a rare sight amid rising anger over the U.S.-led invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan. "Welcome Mr. Bush, president of the world's most powerful country!" said a banner carried by 100 demonstrators in the city of Bogor, where the American leader is scheduled to meet President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on Monday. Supporters also turned out by the dozens in the Sulawesi town of Manado. Small, peaceful demonstrations against Bush's trip have taken place in cities across...

This message sent on behalf of Soulforce - I don't know why I received this in my email, but I'm glad I did I already have the number of the recruitment center and as soon as it opens I'm calling them to let them know they are being targeted by the libs. I was wondering if we could get anything together from local freepers. ________________________________________________________ Right to Serve – Tampa Recruitment Center Sit-In This Friday, October 6th at 10:00AM 765 W Brandon Blvd., Brandon On October 6th, young gay Americans will attempt to enlist into the US Army in direct...

Venezuelan people’s photos protest against Chavez in New York and this letter of apology, if you wish to sign it. To: Pro democracy venezuelan citizens: “After President Hugo Chavez irresponsible speech at the UN General Assembly, as a Venezuelan citizen I feel compelled to write this letter to President George W. Bush, the American people and the international community. I have added the names of Presidents Vicente Fox and Alan Garcia as they have also been victims of Mr. Chavez's verbal aggression. If you wish to sign this letter, please join me in signing this letter of apology”. Federico...

Sep 3, 2006 — A member of the World Knights of the Ku Klux Klan held an umbrella over Wrightsville resident James Lewis on Saturday, keeping the steady drizzle from his tall pointed hood and long white robe with black accents. The robe's an old one. His other one has green stripes added to show his new status as Grand Dragon of the Pennsylvania chapter of the Klan, a position he took two weeks ago. Lewis, a Klansman since he was 15, was one of three in white robes who led a group of about 26 Klan members and supporters...

Everyone is scientific circles is abuzz with the big news: there's proof that dark matter exists! The paper from the scientists who made the discovered is here; and a Sean Carroll (no relation) has a very good explanation on his blog, Cosmic Variance. This discovery happens to work as a great example of just why good science needs good math. As I always say, one of the ways to recognize a crackpot theory in physics is by the lack of math. For an example, you can look at the electric universe folks. They have a theory, and they make predictions:...

There were picket signs, picket lines and protesters imploring motorists to honk for their cause. But all similarities between Friday afternoon's rally in front of City Hall and other political gatherings in San Francisco ended there. About 50 exotic dancers and other adult club employees gathered to protest outside as the Entertainment Commission heard public testimony on a proposed ban on private rooms and booths at the clubs. The Commission on the Status of Women proposed the legislation on the ban based on interviews with dancers who said sexual assaults have occurred inside the private rooms. The rally more closely...

After watching yesterday's demonstrations in D.C., I was inspired to make a video about it. I still can't believe that people in THIS country were marching in support of terrorism. There are no dead bodies or gory images in the video, unless you consider kids with guns in their hands and hate in their eyes gory, like I do.

Lopez Obrador and his supporters say they're staying until judges order a full recount MEXICO CITY - Militants loyal to leftist presidential contender Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador threw up tents and blockaded streets in the center of Mexico's capital Monday, snarling traffic, disrupting business and forcing workers to walk many blocks, even miles, to their jobs. Newspapers and the airwaves filled with condemnation from officials and citizens alike. But Lopez Obrador and his followers say they're staying for as long as it takes to convince a tribunal of seven election judges to order a full recount of the July 2...

Says the country is calm, there is no nervousness The PAN national leadership accused the ex-presidential candidate of the PRD, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, of carrying out an "inadmissible blackmail" after assuring that Mexico will not have peace so long as it does not open the electoral packets1 and count vote by vote. The Adjutant Secretary General of PAN, César Nava Vázquez, assured that a possible civil resistance promoted by the PRD and its candidate is not viable, since the votes already "were counted by a million citizens, as precinct officials," one by one. He added that the pretension [that...

AMLO calls for a working day of peaceful civil resistance(Translation) The presidential candidate of the For the Good of All coalition exhorted thousands of followers brought together in [Mexico City's] Zócalo capitol plaza to "defend democracy." Andrés Manuel López Obrador headed a march of hundreds of thousands of his sympathizers who overwhelmed the streets of the center of Mexico City to demand a recount of each vote cast in the July 2 presidential elections and which, in his opinion, would permit [everyone] to ascertain that he won the fight and not his conservative rival. "We are going to start, to...

Presidential election protests will call for ballot-by-ballot recount MONTERREY, Mexico - Supporters of leftist presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador headed to Mexico City on Wednesday, leaving mountain towns and sprawling industrial cities to demand a ballot-by-ballot recount. Protesters gathered outside the country’s 300 electoral districts before heading to the capital, where a mass rally is planned for Sunday to denounce official results showing conservative Felipe Calderon as the apparent winner of the July 2 election. Carrying signs that read “Vote by vote! No to electoral fraud!” and wearing yellow, the color of Lopez Obrador’s Democratic Revolution Party, dozens of...

/begin my translationK-6 Merchants Pummel anti-U.S. base activists Tension between owners of stores at Anjung-ri in front of K-6 (Camp Humphreys), who are in favor of U.S. base expansion, and Nationwide Response Committee Against Expansion OF U.S. Base Expansion(NRC) came to a boil, finally resulting in violence. Around 9pm, July 8th, at Won-jung Intersection, which is the entrance to Daechu-ri, Paeng-sung Town, Pyong-taek City, a site scheduled for U.S. base expansion, an NRC member Mr. Kwak(age:33, Daechu-ri, Paeng-sung Town) and two of his colleagues rode a van into Daechu-ri, when he was battered by Anjung-ri merchants, according to NRC. Mr. Kwak...

The meeting begins with the circulation of recordings of two telephone conversations that speak to the support PRI Party Governors in the northern states are giving to Felipe Calderón. The Informative Assembly which Andrés Manuel Lopez Obrador, candidate of the For the Good of All coalition, summoned began this Saturday around 5:30 p.m. in the Zócalo capital plaza in Mexico City. The Informative Assembly Andrés Manuel Lopez Obrador called began with the circulation of two recordings in which Elba Esther Gordillo, leader of the teacher's union and Pedro Cerisola, Secretary of Communications and Transport, were heard speaking with the Governor...

The Secretary of the Capital Government, Ricardo Ruiz, informs that the Comptroller's office will be open to answer any complaint or denunciation that it is [requiring government employees to attend]. The Secretary of the Federal District Government, Ricardo Ruiz, said that no employee of the GDF1 will be obligated to participate in the meeting called for this Saturday en the Zócalo capital plaza, [which will be] headed by the candidate of the For the Good of All Coalition, Andrés Manuel López Obrador. The capital functionary indicated that the Comptroller's office will be open to anyone complaining and denouncing [the Federal...

The stations of the Metro Collective System of Transport (STC), which come together in the downtown district, will not be closed but some interruption of circulation will become necessary. Starting at 1:00 p.m. [Saturday] the police operation will get underway, in which 750 officers of the units of Citizen Protection will participate, as well as the Rescue Squadron and Emergency Medical Services (ERUM)1, to protect the meeting which Andrés Manuel Lopez Obrador has called for in the Zócalo capital plaza this Saturday. The monitoring authority will consider which interruptions of circulation are necessary; and in addition, all the stations of...

Today in Scotland massive demonstrations were planned against the US using the airports of Glasgow,Prestwick and Edinborough for the purpose of 'Rendition'. A huge crowd of 6 (thats six)turned up at Glasgow Airport but the weather in Scotland was very nice today and those planning to attend at Prestwick and Edinborough decided to picnic instead.

Iranian police with batons and shields beat women's rights demonstrators in a downtown Tehran square Monday, injuring one protester and detaining 20. The injured woman was taken to a hospital with wounds to her face and head. Her identity and further details were not immediately available. The protest by about 200 women was organized by a previously unknown group calling itself the Labor and Communist Party. An invitation delivered to The Associated Press on Sunday demanded equal rights for women and the nullification of a law allowing Iranian men to have four wives. "We are women, we are human, but...

Tehran, 7 June (AKI) - Iranian women will stage an unauthorised rally on Monday in Tehran to demand more rights. Organizers said on Wednesday that 400 activists including men have already signed up to take part in the demonstration which will group for the first time Iran's leading feminists and intellectuals in favour of a secular state, including Nobel Prize laureate Shirin Ebadi. Demonstrators want among other things the abolition of polygamy, of men's right to repudiate their wives, the joint custody of children and a law raising the minimum age required to get married to 18 from today's 13....

Nationwide Rally to Stop Illegal Immigration on Saturday, July 1st, at noon, at every City HallOn May 1st - Million of Illegal Aliens Marched in our StreetsTwelve million illegal aliens demonstrated their political power, and declared May 1st to be A Day Without Undocumented Workers ( illegal aliens ). They boycotted the USA, all US businesses and institutions. Millions of them marched in our streets, carried Mexican flags, shouted "Si se puede!", and demanded new laws from our Congress. On July 1st - U.S. Citizens Nationwide Rally and BoycottRally to stop the invasion by millions of illegal aliens. 1-Day boycott...

This is what you are NOT seeing on the nightly news. This march took place on May 24, 2006. This is HISTORY in the making and the d@mn MSM refuse to show the world. Please keep in mind that this is illegal. Even groups of 4 or 5 people gathered on a street corner are told to disperse or they may face accusations of conspiring against the gov't. The crowd has been estimated between 200,000 to 300,000 and more. This is not the only demonstration that has happened in Iran recently, though it is believed to be the largest. President...

Demonstrations at Armory Park today are part of a national effort dubbed "A Day Without an Immigrant." Latinos across the country skipped work and boycotted businesses in an effort to demonstrate the importance of immigrants to the economy. At Tucson's Armory Park, hundreds sat in small groups listening to music, eating lunch and mingling around. The tone is low-key, unlike the demonstration last month ---

Immigrant rights forces keep up the heat Search WWW Search pww.org The continuing mass upsurge for immigrant rights, with hundreds of May 1 demonstrations being organized nationwide, drew a reaction from the Bush administration last week. Nationwide raids by the Department of Homeland Security on April 19-20 were followed by presidential pro-immigrant rhetoric and meetings to broker a compromise Senate immigration bill. Although the Senate reconvened April 24 after a two-week recess, Republican leaders Bill Frist (Tenn.) and Arlen Specter (Pa.) delayed any formal debate on immigration legislation on the floor and in committee until after the May 1 demonstrations....

I am writing to commend the work of the San Diego Police Department at the recent Immigrants Rights March. As a member of the organizing team's effort to keep the march orderly and peaceful, I was struck by the contrasts in style between the San Diego Police Department and the California Highway Patrol. As the march began, I looked over toward an off-ramp from the freeway near Balboa Park, and there stood the California Highway Patrol, seven to 10 strong. They were in riot gear. Their long, black sticks and helmets gleamed in the Palm Sunday sun. Ominously dangling from...

Ladies and gentlemen, the scope of the out-of-countrol illegal immigration problem is more massive than even those who've been warning about it for years may have realized. The photos on this thread are only a sampling of the hundreds available from yesterday's coast-to-coast demonstrations. They are intended to show -- in stark visual terms -- the scope of what we are up against. I think they also show that, in some respects, we have already lost the arguments so many have been making. We lost with immigration "reform" in the 1960's. More significantly, we lost in 1986 when President Ronald...

Millions of people have been protesting because of America's immigration stance. Do you.. Support the demonstrations Not support the demonstrations

Remember the Superintendent of Schools (Ennis, Texas)last week who told his students, 'If you demonstrate you will be suspended.'?? And then they demonstrated and they were SO SURPRISED that they were suspended. And missed the prom. And were whining and carrying on. I emailed him a note of support. I just got a note from the newspaper; they are publishing my letter. Superintendent Mike Harper is getting a lot of flak for his decision. I told the editor that there were MANY people who supported him, and I would make this public. mike.harper@ennis.k12.tx.us is the Superintendent of Schools there whom...

Citizens for Immigration Reform is asking for people to take part as local chapters visit the nearest office of their US Senators on Monday to discuss the immigration issue. Here's the e-mailed Anouncement: "Dear Friends, We need your help. We have to do more to stop the amnesty and guest worker. The Senate is debating these bills this week and next. It may even last a third week but we can't be certain. So here is the plan. Next Monday all Americans who want an enforcement only bill to pass the Senate, as it did in the House, you need...

To update on the CFIR rally on April 8, it seems that some corporate bigwigs are throwing their weight around trying stifle any attempt at a significant rally to close our borders, at least when it comes to allowing their on-air assets to take part. I just got this e-mail from CFIR Dallas: Friends, Mike Gallagher, KSKY, 660am, 6-9a.m., has had to put aside his plan to hold a protest on April 8th. The reason: The companies who own the other stations would not allow their talk show hosts to take part. Gallagher feels that he would need help from...

We need to show who runs this country. 91% of Americans oppose illegal aliens invading our country and even if only a small fraction came out and were counted, they'd easily blow away the numbers of sleezy mechistas we've seen the last few days. Citizens for Immigration Reform, Dallas will be holding a demonstration Saturday April 8 11am-1pm. CFIR Dallas will be meeting at the NW and SW corners of Walnut Hill & Central Expressway in Dallas. For more details, visit the CFIR Dallas website: http://www.cfirdallas.com/cfir-Event20060408.html

EU urges Belarus to free march leader 26/03/2006 The EU called on its European partners today to protest at Belarusian violence against demonstrators and the detention of opposition leader Alexander Kozulin. Austria, which holds the EU presidency, said it was “appalled by the violence used against demonstrators by the Belarusian authorities”. It also demanded the immediate release of Kozulin and other opposition members, and called for international solidarity. Austria “urges the international partners of the EU, and in particular Belarus’ other neighbours, to follow the same approach towards Belarus”. Human rights group Vasnya said more than 100 people were detained...

By Lisa M. Sodders, Staff Writer HOLLYWOOD - Actor Martin Sheen and other Hollywood figures called for an immediate end to war in Iraq, addressing some 1,000 anti-war activists who marched through Hollywood Saturday on the war's third anniversary. From a stage erected in the street near Grauman's Chinese Theater, speakers condemned President George W. Bush as a liar and criticized his administration for the Iraq war, its record on the environment, the handling of Hurricane Katrina relief and other issues. "Your voices are the only ones worth listening to, and lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for,"...