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'...not normal and very worrying' IOL News After a clearly sketchy election 'victory' by Vladimir Putin's United Russia Party, authorities in central Moscow were clearly caught off-guard by social-network-driven demonstrations (largest in years) from those who less than thrilled with Putin's authoritarian streak, official corruption and cronyism, and dubious return to the top of the ticket.  Youngish crowds shouted "Russia without Putin!" filled Red Square as the Russian Interior Ministry pledged 'as many troops as needed'.  Many were reportedly injured over the last few hours, with over 2000 hauled off in police vans as the crackdown arrived in full...

As President Barack Obama gave his speech to the United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday, a pro-Israel rally was taking place outside. One of the participants in the rally was a Palestinian Authority Arab named Mazen, who also came to demonstrate in support of Israel. video Wearing a white shirt which read “shalom, peace, salam,” Mazen told Arutz Sheva that he was born in 1971 in Ramallah “in the nation of Israel.” “I come here today to stand before my Jewish brothers, to stand in front of the United Nations, to stand for Israel and to tell Israel how much...

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We had been on the sidewalk in front of the Planned Parenthood abortion mill for quite awhile before the security guard arrived. Several abortionist staff had showed up already as had a few clients. Alongside me on the sidewalk were Catholic pro-lifers as well as several evangelicals who are part of the Vital Signs team: Keith, Carol, Bev, Quint, Val, Chet and Claire. We had been praying and, when possible at this difficult facility, talking to the clients across the parking lot.

Police cars have been set on fire during a demonstration outside a police station in north London, according to witnesses. Tottenham resident, Maria Robinson, says the disturbance is linked to the fatal shooting of a man during a Scotland Yard operation on Thursday. Dozens of protesters have been gathering on the High Road in Tottenham.

More than 100 Northwestern University students watched as a naked 25-year-old woman was penetrated by a sex toy wielded by her fiancee during an after-class session of the school’s popular “Human Sexuality” class. The woman said she showed up at the Feb. 21 lecture in the Ryan Family Auditorium in Evanston expecting just to answer questions, but was game to demonstrate. The course’s professor on Wednesday acknowledged some initial hesitation, but said student feedback was “uniformly positive.” And Northwestern defended the class and its professor. “Northwestern University faculty members engage in teaching and research on a wide variety of topics,...

MoveOn is staging a protest in Dallas on Saturday the 26th. I was going to post the "call to action" from their site, but when I tried I got a message that informed me that MoveOn material is not wanted. So instead I will just put the location information up and give the rest of the material to those who specifically request it. It can be found at the bottom of this post. I remember the gathering we pulled off at the Cindy Sheehan circus down in Crawford. Can we do that again? Or improve on it? We can put...

What will happen Monday, history will record in less than 24 hours. The atmosphere is filled by suspense over the call for demonstration. Certainly the city is not calm. There were chants of "Allah-o akbar" across Tehran. People expect something to happen. Publicly, Mr. Karroubi and Mr. Mousavi have called for a demonstration in solidarity with the people of Egypt. Nobody thinks or believes this is about Egypt or will remain focused on Egypt. No wonder that their request has been rejected as illegal. Their advisers have announced that according to Article 27 of Iran's Constitution there is no need...

The Obama administration on Wednesday voiced its support for the Egyptian people’s rights to freedom of expression and assembly, as a second day of protests in Cairo saw police using tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse stone-throwing demonstrators. Speaking to reporters on Wednesday, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs declined to say whether the U.S. still supports Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, reiterating only that Egypt remains a “strong ally.” “We have an unyielding belief that all people yearn for certain things: the ability to speak your mind and have a say in how you are governed; confidence in the...

A rare anti-Vladimir Putin rally has been held in central Moscow, demanding the Russian prime minister's resignation amid signs he is planning to take back his old job as president. Up to 500 protesters from left wing and liberal anti-Kremlin opposition groups gathered on Moscow's Pushkin Square to call for Vladimir Putin's removal, kicking off what they said was the start of a campaign to oust him. "Our task is to free Russia from this awful regime," Garry Kasparov, a former world chess champion turned opposition leader, told the crowd. "Putin is Russia's disgrace."

Boilermakers who staged a large, rush-hour rally yesterday along Banksville Road to support energy production with clean coal technologies say they're trying to prevent their profession from becoming obsolete. Roughly 400 members of Boilermakers Local Union 154 held a morning demonstration on both sides of the key, four-lane traffic artery, near their union hall. They urged policy makers to include coal in plans to meet the nation's future energy needs. "Just keep coal in the mix," said Ray Ventrone, business manager for the union. "If they don't go with clean coal technology -- if they decide to go with windmills...

Tea Party in Davenport, Iowa on Labor Day Monday, 6 Sep.

Close to 20 businesses were damaged after what started as a peaceful immigrants' rights march in downtown Santa Cruz turned violent, requiring police to call other agencies for help, authorities said. Police spokesman Zach Friend said an estimated 250 people started marching through the city around 10:30 p.m. Saturday. It was a harmonious but "unpermitted and unsanctioned event," he said, until some in the crowd started breaking windows and spraying paint on retail shops that line the downtown corridor. Friend said he wasn't sure if the damage was caused by people marching in support of immigrants' rights, or if the...

United we stand, divided we rule. At least, that appears to be the motto of our President. While violence spills over the border with Mexico, Obama is more concerned with the mid-term elections. He refuses to address the gaping holes in our borders and the thousands of illegals that are committing crimes on our streets, but he has time to produce a video urging Democrats to maintain their grip on the House and Senate. In the two-minute and 42-second video released Monday, Obama emphasizes that, "It will be up to each of you to make sure that the young people,...

Snips: ....The Vanguard of St. Catherine of Siena,called for the ex-communication of Nancy Pelosi in a demonstration just outside the Vatican. They are also asking Archbishop Wuerl of the Archdiocese of Washington, DC to enforce the Pope´s position on the distribution of Communion to pro-abortion politicians which was communicated in a 2004 letter, "Worthiness to Receive Holy Communion," which he wrote when he was Cardinal Ratzinger. Terry stated, "Nancy Pelosi has betrayed the Catholic faith, fought to shed innocent blood, and repeatedly voted to take money from Americans to pay for the murder of innocent babies......"Meanwhile, Washington DC Archbishop Donald Wuerl,...

I'm looking on a good video link to the events on Capitol Hill today. Any suggestions?

As a member of our local Northern Pinellas County 9-12 Group, in Florida, we have held many demonstrations at a very busy street corner on Saturday mornings. The 9-12 Groups, first initiated by Glen Beck, have ignited like wild fires all around the nation as a way for like minded Americans to learn about their nation’s history and our governmental rights. The political pressure of the Tea Party and 9-12 groups on our more liberal thinking neighbors must be taking its toll as their totally unexplainable reactions to our signs is becoming more and more exaggerated. Can someone please explain...

Date: Saturday, December 12, 2009 Time: 11:00am - 3:00pm Location: Washington, DC Lafayette Square across from White House (Metro: Farragut West or Farragut North) 10:30 AM YAF will counter protest the 9/11 "inside job" conspiracy theorists. They call it an anti-war rally, but the nuts and bolts are coming from the left coast for this!!! This just cam in last minute!!!! Contact: jordan@yaf.com or 202-596-7923 to join with YAF In Freedom, YAF Come protest the likes of: Scheduled Speakers Dennis Kucinich US Representative (D-Ohio) and former Presidential candidate, www.kucinich.house.gov Cynthia McKinney 2008 Green Party candidate for President, former six-term Democratic...

Picture and sound. About 11 minutes. A few events from our FReeper convention in Washington, D.C.

PITTSBURGH — Police fired canisters of pepper spray and smoke at marchers protesting the Group of 20 summit Thursday after anarchists responded to calls to disperse by rolling trash bins and throwing rocks. The afternoon march turned chaotic at just about the time that President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama arrived for a meeting with leaders of the world's major economies. The clashes began after hundreds of protesters, many advocating against capitalism, tried to march from an outlying neighborhood toward the convention center where the summit is being held. The protesters banged on drums and chanted "Ain't no...

There were angry clashes in a city centre today as right-wing protesters fought with anti-fascist campaigners in a busy shopping street. A planned demonstration by The English Defence League in central Birmingham descended into violence as the group charged along New Street, close to the city's main train station. More than twenty men have been arrested. 'There were about 250 people in total, fighting and Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1211414/Anti-fascists-clash-right-wing-protesters-Birmingham.html#ixzz0QFxinqVM

Hello fellow patriots! Consider attending, feel free to pass the invitation. "Government versus Liberty" Feel a little choked out by big government? Join students of Western and Southern Connecticut in collectively exercising what all hard-working, principled Americans do every day -- personal sovereignty. Please help support Connecticut's students for liberty. A procession will sweep a section of Main Street Danbury on August 29th, handing out fliers and inviting the media; while picking up litter to prevent a Federal Bureaucracy from legislating its way into your lives with a fateful War on Trash. Join us in telling government that Americans can...

Amazing pro Iranian people demonstration ins Paris today. With moving huge fabric ribbon circling walkway. Music of Hamed Nikpay "The Owner of This Land" (Maalek-e Een Khaak) [Iranian music video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqONCJoADtQ Mentioned on FR some time ago=> http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2281798/posts

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. – A federal grand jury has indicted the environmental group Greenpeace and 11 people involved in hanging a banner on Mount Rushmore. Greenpeace has said three of its members hung the 65-by-35-foot banner calling for a stop to global warming July 8 while others blocked access to the site.

Hundreds of protesters, many of them Iranian-Americans, marched from Capitol Hill to the White House on Saturday, most holding Iranian flags and chanting demands for the U.S. to more take action after Iran's disputed election. Hundreds of protesters, many of them Iranian-Americans, marched from Capitol Hill to the White House on Saturday, most holding Iranian flags and chanting demands for the U.S. to more take action after Iran's disputed election. After marching through several blocks of downtown Washington, more than 200 people rallied in front of the White House. They shouted demands for President Obama and leaders of other countries...

Iranians prepared for another violent day of confrontations between demonstrators and security forces on Friday, after riot police used tear-gas against hundreds of demonstrators who defied government warnings and swarmed the streets to commemorate the anniversary of a student massacre in 1999.

WICHITA - About 30 members of anti-abortion groups met Saturday at the headquarters of Operation Rescue for a memorial service and to pray for healing from the shooting death of abortion provider George Tiller. They later laid flowers at various locations. "This is a time for healing and life," the Rev. Patrick Mahoney, head of the Washington-based Christian Defense Coalition told those attending. "We're not celebrating the death of Dr. Tiller." Tiller was shot to death in his church May 31. Scott Roeder, 51, of Kansas City, Mo., has been charged with first-degree and aggravated assault in the case. He...

From the organizers of successful 28 Feb Tea Party, bigger and better Tea Party on Tax Day, 15 April. Who: Freedom loving Americans. What: Tea Party Demonstration. Where: 4th & Main St., Davenport, IA (in front of office of Congressman Bruce Braley D-IA). When: NOON till 2 PM, Wednesday, 15 April 2009....Tax Day. Why: Because you are fed-up with the galloping socialist agenda. Bring your own tasteful sign. Expect to be interviewed. Be able to explain and defend your sign, concisely and coherently. Costumes ok, but that may make YOU the story. DO NOT react to counter-protesters. Check website below...

When: This should be just prior to the 4th of July holiday. Before Congress recesses for summer break. Middle of June would be probably be perfect and for many other reasons as well. Where: Washington D.C. and every major American city with a population over 500,000. This allows the entire nation to join in and display unity wherever they are. Many cannot afford a trip to Washington DC What: Organized protest - It is of utmost importance as Americans of all political parties to state clearly what we want to occur, including problem solving and the approach to problem solving....

(IsraelNN.com) Police evacuated leaders of the Jewish community in the southern Swedish city of Malmo out of fear for their lives after pro-Arab demonstrators attacked a demonstration in support of Israel there Sunday afternoon. About 700 people took part in the pro-Israel rally, including members of Sweden's Democratic party. Participants carried signs saying, "Stop Eight Years of Kassam" and "Peace for Children in Israel and Gaza." The Arab supporters, who had been holding a demonstration of their own, threw a tear-gas grenade, bottles and eggs at participants in the pro-Israel demonstration about half an hour after it began.

A week after the election, I was riding the bus home in Santa Monica when we went past one of the many protests around the city against the narrow passage of Proposition 8, which amended the California constitution to eliminate marriage rights for an entire class of people. The bus driver surveyed the situation and exclaimed, loud enough for the passengers to hear, "sodomites!" I've been so hurt and angry since my theoretically liberal and gay-friendly state passed Proposition 8 that I instantly replied, just as loudly, "Hey, I'm one of those sodomites, too!" Maybe I should have had a...

Hi Freepers! Call to preparation for action! Just got an email from my new friend at www.FreedomMarch.org that he plans to be marching on the LA Times, Thursday, October 30 at 10:00 AM, if it does not release the Rashid Khalidi video of Obama. He has posted here before. He is a genuine conservative, working 12 hours daily on behalf of McCain. He is sick now. He said okay to contact him there if you could join in. Which one of you will respond to the call of duty? Can you round up some helpers there? Please ask any reliable...

Before ACORN became a household name, Larry Johnson and Eastan McNeal reported that the Obama campaign has been funneling hundreds of thousands of dollars to a shady ACORN shell corporation called Citizens Services, Inc. New information, including the photo above, proves that Obama’s past denials of his relationship with ACORN are not the truth. According to the Leftist Dissent Magazine, the nebulous term, “community organizing,” has shaped Barack Obama: Although he didn’t make community organizing a lifetime career—he left Chicago to attend Harvard Law School—Obama often says that his organizing experience has shaped his approach to politics. Since embarking on...

In what is believed to be the biggest public protest since 1954, over 10,000 people have gathered in Hanoi to protest the demolition by the Vietnamese government...

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...