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More than 100 injured in South Korea beef protests Posted: 29 June 2008 1306 hrs SEOUL: South Korean police clashed violently with protesters opposing US beef imports here on Sunday, leaving more than 100 people injured, officials and witnesses said. Police fired water cannon and wielded batons to try to control protesters, who hit back with poles and steel pipes, smashing police bus windows and spraying street fire hoses. With rocks also hurled through the air, many of the injured suffered head wounds and were taken to hospitals in ambulances, according to witnesses on the scene

PIEDRAS NEGRAS, Mexico, The first of 400,000 trees are being planted to form a ``green wall' in protest of the fence the U.S. is building along the border with Mexico. The treeline will eventually stretch for 512 kilometres along the border between the Mexican state of Coahuila and Texas. Coahuila Gov. Humberto Moreira Valdes says ``our wall is of life, and it competes with shame and hate.' The U.S. government says the fence is critical to security. Critics say it fuels animosity between the two countries and raises environmental and private property concerns. The mayor of a Texas border town...

LARGO -- Five men who protested in last year's St. Pete Pride festival were found guilty of violating a city ordinance today, though the men still could win an acquittal if the judge rules the ordinance is unconstitutional. After about three hours of testimony, Judge Henry Andringa found that the men violated a city ordinance by carrying signs that were wider than their torsos during last year's festival, which drew more than 40,000 people. The signs said things like "Real men marry women" and "Heaven free of f---, hell full of f---." But Andringa said he will take more time...

OKAY,GANG,CALLING ALL FREEPERS IN SC TO COME COUNTER THE COMMIES. THESE NUTS WORSHIP COMMUNIST CUBA,SWAMP FOX AND I PAID THEM A VISIT BEFORE. FREEP MAIL ME IF YOU PLAN TO SHOW UP. June 24: Pastor's For Peace Written by Gerald L. Rudolph Thursday, 12 June 2008 WONDER WHY GEORGE W. DOESN'T WANT YOU TO KNOW THE TRUTH ABOUT THE CUBAN PEOPLE? Find out on June 24 when the Pastor's For Peace Cuban Caravan comes to Columbia. Participants in the Caravan will find: A healthy people, with free health care, who live on average to age 77 – the same as...

Three people - including a 60-year-old woman accused of indecent exposure - have been charged after an anti-war demonstration. Scotland Yard made 25 arrests after 10 officers suffered minor injuries during a demonstration in Parliament Square as George Bush visited Downing Street on Sunday. Up to 2,500 demonstrators gathered in the square to mark President Bush's farewell tour of London, with around 1,200 police officers working on each day of his visit. Members of the Stop the War Coalition, CND and the British Muslim Initiative organised the rally. A 60-year-old woman will appear before Tower Bridge magistrates on June 25...

More Tibetan Protests 2008-06-12 Five Tibetans are arrested for protesting in the southwestern Chinese province of Sichuan, amid sporadic demonstrations against Chinese rule. RFA HONG KONG—Small groups of Tibetans in the southwestern province of Sichuan have staged more protests against Chinese rule despite a major security clampdown after protests and rioting by anti-Chinese protesters this year. "There were about four or five protesters [Wednesday]," a resident of Kardze (in Chinese, Ganzi) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in western Sichuan said. "They are at the intersection of two roads downtown. There were no such protests during the past few days, but there are...

Rev. Al Sharpton plans Bell protest at Yankee Stadium for All-Star Game BY JOTHAM SEDERSTROM DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER Monday, June 9th 2008, 4:00 AM The Rev. Al Sharpton threatened Sunday to disrupt baseball's historic All-Star Game at Yankee Stadium next month unless the state passes new laws to curb police misconduct.A month after protesters blocked bridges and tunnels during rush hour, Sharpton said he wants to bring the outrage over the Sean Bell shooting to the national stage July 15 by targeting the midsummer classic. "We have plans to do the same at the All-Star Game," Sharpton said. "We...

Some stand in protest during President Bush's commencement speech at Furman University.

A group of demonstrators protesting the war in Iraq will be allowed to parade as close as 300 feet from the Xcel Energy Center on the first day of the Republican National Convention, police said Wednesday. But protesters - who plan to march from the state Capitol to the site of the convention and back again - say that's not good enough. The authorized route released Wednesday will allow marchers near the Xcel Energy Center at the corner of West 7th Street and West 5th Street - an intersection kitty-corner and across the street from the auditorium. The route is...

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While Gov. Rick Perry was in Johnson Coliseum addressing SFA graduates, on the other side of campus a group of citizens were not so happy about his appearance in Nacogdoches. In the free-speech area of campus, near North Street and Vista Drive, many farmers, property owners and concerned citizens gathered for a Citizens Against the Trans-Texas Corridor Rally. Holding protest signs and using a tractor as a symbol of the farming community, those who gathered wanted to make their cause heard by the governor, as well as the community. Many vehicles traveling on North Street honked in support of the...

Straight Kids Unite by: J. Matt Barber, May 08, 2008 On April 25, adult homosexual activists with the Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education Network (GLSEN) held their annual “Day of Silence” (DOS) propaganda push. During DOS, teachers and students in roughly three thousand middle schools, high schools and colleges across the country are cynically used as culture war pawns in an effort to legitimize conventionally immoral, objectively deviant and demonstrably high-risk sexual behaviors. Kids and teachers are encouraged on DOS to disrupt the school day by refusing to speak in class as a show of support to students who self-identify...

Protest groups sue in Denver Groups aiming to protest at the Democratic National Convention in Denver have filed a lawsuit, claiming the Secret Service and city are impeding free speech. The suit, brought Friday to U.S. District Court, claims the Secret Service and city of Denver are thwarting many groups' plans to hold demonstrations at the August political convention by delaying security and permit regulations, The New York Times reported Saturday. The American Civil Liberties Union of Colorado reportedly is representing 12 groups involved in the legal action. As the convention approaches, groups are putting pressure on the court to...

The MSM focused on the diminished numbers of May Day protesters earlier this week, but those who did turn out were as militant as ever. Blog correspondents from across the country sent in their coverage. Here's a taste of what you missed–with thanks to all the bloggers, photographers, and readers who sent in their submissions.

It appears as if the illegal’s support is running out of steam here in Dallas. The link is to video I shot of the "protest march" staged by criminal illegal alien Border and immigration law violators. They marched and nobody cared. VIDEO

Today, I stood outside our county courthouse, in Bradley County, Tennessee, from 9-3 PM holding a sign which read.. ILLEGAL ALIENS GO HOME As I did last year, I acknowledged the comments of the Americans with thanks, and tried to ignore the illegal alien enablers. The hundreds of American passers-by honked, waved and gave me "thumbs up". The encouraging words and thanks are worth the hours of standing in the sun, and getting odd looks, in a town that does not protest. One of the best comments came from a well educated, sharp looking American, who told me that he...

Planned Parenthood Mysteries & Scandals by: Malcolm A. Kline, April 30, 2008 The once-glowing image of Planned Parenthood (PP) has become tarnished in the wake of revelations that PP employees eagerly sought donations to abort black babies in several large states, as a reporter for the student newspaper at UCLA discovered. Now, black pro-lifers, many of them ministers, are taking on the abortion provider, ubiquitous on many college campuses, although the dissenters’ efforts receive little media attention. “Planned Parenthood plants itself in inner city neighborhoods frequently next to schools,” Day Gardner of Black Americans for Life said in front of...

Alex Gillis has become the face of immigration activism in Madison The roar of "Si, se puede!" ("Yes, we can!") that galvanized immigrant workers has been replaced this season by the plea "No mas redadas!" ("No more raids!"). But when workers and their allies rally Thursday at Brittingham Park in Madison, Alex Gillis again will be in the thick of things -- greeting the demonstrators, leading the cheers, talking with the media. Gillis has no illusions about a resurgence of the mass marches that spilled into streets across the country in spring 2006 to mark the emergence of immigrant Latinos...

MAYDAY MARCH On May 1, 2008, the open borders crowd and countless illegal aliens will again march in the streets of this Nation. In Houston U.S. Border Watch will be there to counter their protest. They will march in our streets to protest the S.A.V.E Act and to again push amnesty. Come out and show you support for the rule of law. Place: Antioch Park 1400 Smith Houston, Tx Time:1:30pm March begins at 2:00PM) Don’t let your voice go unheard! Curtis Collier U.S. Border Watch Texas Director of The Firecoalition www.usborderwatch.com 6046 F.M. 2920 suite 401 Spring, TX 77379 1-800-759-0948...

April 28 convoy to Washington, DC, will protest fuel prices As a rocky economy continues to beat up the trucking industry, many truckers around the country are banding together to show their outrage at high fuel prices and how they are struggling to just break even.OOIDA members Michael “JB” Schaffner of Nocona, TX, is one of the organizers of a national truck convoy and rally scheduled for Monday, April 28, in Washington, DC. The group is protesting rising fuel costs and how they are negatively affecting the entire economy. Click here for rally and route information.“People need to wake up...

More than 100 Zimbabweans have been arrested for taking part in an illegal protest at the Chinese embassy. Inspector Malose Mashiane said the protesters - who expressed anger over China's sale of arms to Zimbabwe - broke the Public Gatherings Act, which stipulated that a march had to be authorised. Of the 129 Zimbabweans arrested, only 18 had permits to be in the country legally. The other 111 will appear in the Hatfield community court next week Tuesday, as a decision will be taken whether they will be deported. The protesters arrived in two buses at about 11am yesterday to...

The D.C. Chapter of Free Republic invites all FReepers and lurkers in good standing to join us in our nation’s capital for the Tenth Annual Freep of the White House Correspondents Association (WHCA) Dinner next Saturday. When: Saturday, April 26, 4 p.m. to 8: 30 p.m. What: The D.C. Chapter’s Tenth Annual Freep of the White House Correspondents Association Dinner. Location: Outside the Washington Hilton, Connecticut Avenue and T Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. Our most fun protest every year. This is your chance to tell the mainstream media to their faces what you think about their biased reporting. You’ll also...

China visa curbs criticised by foreigners Reuters - Friday, April 18 12:21 pm HONG KONG (Reuters) - Foreigners travelling to China from Hong Kong are being subjected to new visa restrictions ahead of the Beijing Olympics, which one foreign business chamber has criticised as inflexible, costly and lacking transparency. (Advertisement) Hong Kong, a gateway to China for foreign businessmen given the convenience of shuttling across the border on swiftly obtained China visas, was hit this week by tightened rules amid increased security just months before the Games begin. Citizens of 33 countries, including India, Pakistan, Iraq and Nepal, have been...

Hillarie’s Victory Speech said it all. Listening to Hillary Clinton has an undesirable effect on anyone that approves of or is proud to be an American. Last night, in her Pennsylvania Victory speech, she read off a brief Latinity of those who had preceded her.

Disgusted by the Chinese brutality against Tibet - and China's lying about it - some have called for a boycott of this summer's Olympic Games in Beijing. Then, others say we shouldn't, or can't, do that, because that would somehow mix "politics" with a "purely sports event". No politics in the Olympics now? C'mon folks, let's get real. Just look at the way the Games are composed: an opening ceremony with a parade of national flags. Athletes wearing "national" colors/outfits. Medal ceremonies where one flag is raised above all the others, and only that country's national anthem played. Medal counts...

China salaries overseas Chinese for anti-Tibetan protests Phayul[Saturday, April 19, 2008 21:25] By Phurbu Thinley The Global Human Rights Torch Relay, scheduled to pass through 37 countries, arrived in Minnesota (MN) State on April 16 on its America leg of the ongoing relay. The torch arrived after passing through New York earlier on Sunday. The organisers of the torch relay hope to draw attention to human rights concerns in Tibet, as well as the Chinese government's persecution of the Falun Gong, Buddhists, rights advocates and others. In Minnesota, the relay kicked off from the State Capitol and arrived at the...

For one Chinese Duke student, Wednesday's pro-Tibet and pro-China protests did not end when the participants went home. Since her appearance in front of the Chapel, the student, who requested anonymity because she fears retaliation, has found herself the target of a wave of threatening messages from individuals who believe she advocated for Tibetan independence. After the protests, the student's personal information, including her name, phone number and Chinese identity number were posted to the Duke Chinese Scholars and Students Association Web site, according to documents obtained by The Chronicle. Photographs and a video of the student from the rally...

April 11, 2008 India fears a macabre turn to protests as China ‘foils terror plot’ Indian police say that they are ready for the possibility that Tibetans will set themselves on fire in front of world’s media Rhys Blakely and Jane Macartney Thousands of anti-Chinese demonstrators took to the streets of Delhi yesterday, foreshadowing the reception the Olympic torch is likely to receive when it reaches India next week. Demonstrators carried placards accusing China of cultural genocide in Tibet, and 154 shrouded effigies, which they said represented compatriots killed in a crackdown in Lhasa, the Tibetan capital. Chinese authorities claim...

I was on the ground today in San Francisco with the protestors. This was a first for me - I haven't protested anything or anybody since Ted Kennedy's visit to my university many years ago (I had far less company then, being the only person holding a "Justice for Mary Jo" sign - but I digress). I arrived at the Ferry Building around 1pm. The area was packed with thousands of protestors. I would estimate that there were 100 protestors for every 1 of the Chicom supporters. It probably didn't appear to be quite that lopsided on TV because the...

Olympic Games torch rushed into hiding Daily News[Wednesday, April 09, 2008 15:03] Tibetans and supporters hold up flags at a rally in protest of China's Olympic torch at the U.N. Plaza in San Francisco as the torch arrived there Tuesday. (Chiu/AP) San Francisco officials were playing hide-and-seek with the Olympic torch on Tuesday to keep it safe from protesters for Wednesday's 6-mile trek through the city's hilly streets. The torch arrived in the San Francisco Bay area in the morning and was whisked off to a secret location as demonstrators vowed to douse the clarion call of the Summer Games...

As the state's population continues to grow in its urban centers, expansion plans for the highway system continue to be the focus for transportation improvements. The Trans Texas Corridor proposal is aimed to alleviate traffic congestion, improve air quality and provide safer traveling for drivers, among other goals. In 2002, Texas Governor Rick Perry released the plan to create the passageway, which spans northeast from Laredo to Oklahoma and is set to total 4,000 miles in the next 50 years. The $140 billion project calls for the incorporation of new toll roads, commuter railways, power lines and gas pipelines, while...

Tibetan community mobilizes for protests Mercury News[Tuesday, April 08, 2008 15:01] RALLIES SET AS OLYMPIC TORCH RELAY COMES TO S.F. By Jessie Mangaliman Usha Lama is expecting eight or nine people at her home in Fremont. Jamyang Nordup is ready for up to 50 people at his 3,500-square-foot home in Richmond and has been collecting bedding for months. Stanford University graduate Yangchen Lhamo is sharing her small one-bedroom in San Francisco's Sunset district with four cousins from Portland and Seattle. Sunnyvale resident Tenzin Tethong is expecting a guest or two from New York. An army of 2,000 exiled Tibetans from...

Officials put out Olympic torch 3 times By JEROME PUGMIRE and ELAINE GANLEY, Associated Press Writers 1 hour, 12 minutes ago Security officials extinguished the Olympic torch three times Monday as protests against China's human rights record turned a relay through Paris into a chaotic series of stops and starts. Despite massive security, at least two activists got within almost an arm's length of the flame before they were grabbed by police. Officers tackled many protesters and carried off some of them. A protester threw water at the torch but failed to extinguish it and was also taken away. At...

For Peyton Gilbert, the battle over the Trans-Texas Corridor is reminiscent of the moment in 1836 when Lt. Col. William Travis drew a line in the sand at the Alamo and invited those willing to fight thousands of Mexican soldiers to step across. "That line in the sand is the Trans-Texas Corridor, and it's a threat to our sovereignty again, just like at the Alamo," said Gilbert, 14, who is from Whitehouse, near Tyler. Gilbert was among a large crowd of people who marched down Congress Avenue to the Capitol on Saturday afternoon to demonstrate against the proposed highway-rail-utility corridor...

His movie chronicled the trial of the Chicago Seven, the free-wheeling activists whose protests during the 1968 Democratic National Convention prompted a police riot and became a touchstone for the movement to end the war in Vietnam. (The "10" in the title includes co-defendent Bobby Seale and the two lawyers who defended them, William Kunstler and Leonard Weinglass.) .... A year later, "Chicago 10" was the opening-night film at Sundance '07. The movie was sold to Roadside Attractions, which at first pushed for an August '07 release. But the political climate didn't seem ready for the movie, Morgen said. "There...

ASHCROFT, CRITICS FACE OFF Former U.S. attorney general peppered with questions in wide-ranging talk at Skidmore College By MARC PARRY, Staff writer SARATOGA SPRINGS -- Nobody threw eggs. The crowd didn't walk out in protest. But John Ashcroft was treated to a verbal grilling Wednesday as a guest speaker at largely liberal Skidmore College. An overflow assembly of more than 600 people questioned Ashcroft, President Bush's former attorney general, about the war in Iraq, abortion, torture, surveillance, drugs and immigration. A gay student asked him about gay marriage. "You can have a relationship, you just can't have the special status,"...

“But, you’re an Anglo” By Jack Furnari My first public act of political speech was spoken in Spanish. A language I do not speak. The recent “retirement” of Cuban dictator Fidel Castro made me think of a brisk sunny day in New York City when I first found my political voice. It was 1979, and I was on the train going to my job at a midtown corporation when something I read in the newspaper struck me in a profound way. Juanita Castro, the sister of Fidel Castro was going to protest her brother Fidel’s speech at the United Nations...

April 1, 2008 Olympic Torch Begins Its Journey in Beijing By JIM YARDLEY BEIJING — President Hu Jintao of China waved the Olympic torch at a ceremony in Tiananmen Square on Monday, smiling broadly as balloons, streamers and confetti rose into a mostly blue sky. Then came the uncertain part. Mr. Hu sent the torch on a 130-day journey around the globe where protests and controversy likely await. First stop on what Beijing is calling a “Journey of Harmony” will be Lhasa, the Tibetan capital still simmering from violent anti-government protests. “I now declare the launch of the torch relay...

A young supporter of Tibet joins a rally 'Stand Up For Tibet Global Day of Action' in Sydney, Australia, Monday, March 31, 2008. The lunch time rally was organized by the Australia Tibet Council, who are calling for the Olympic Torch to be kept out of Tibet. (AP Photo/Mark Baker)

Updates on Tibet Demonstrations - 29 March Saturday, 29 March 2008, 6:13 p.m. Update for Saturday, March 29, 2008, last updated 2pm (IST) Re: Tibet demonstrations 29th March, 2008 Lhasa - Massive protests erupt again after many days of suppression. Around 2 PM (local time) in the afternoon, Tibetans gathered for a protest in front of Ramoche Monastery, Lhasa. Also, nearby, in front of Tsuglag-khang (Jokhang) temple and Beijing East road, protests were started, and thousands joined into the protests within no time. These protests are happening after many days of intense suppression, where we witnessed Chinese armoured vehicles and...

This is the ONLY photo from the film in the wire coverage I see on Yahoo, everything else is of Geert Wilders or the protesters: A demonstrator holds a banner with a photo of Geert Wilders during a demonstration in Amsterdam, Netherlands, Saturday, Jan. 19, 2008. Wilders released a film criticizing Islam and its holy book the Quran on Thursday, March 27, posting it on a Web site. The Dutch government had warned Wilders that a film offensive to Muslims could spark violent protests in Islamic countries, like those two years ago after the publication of cartoons of the Prophet...

A pro-Tibet group holds a rally protesting China's crackdown on Tibetan demonstrations in front of the Chinese Embassy in Seoul on Thursday.

25 March 2008 [Press Release] Protest erupts after prayer for deceased in Drango County Following a peaceful protest in Drango County (Ch: Luhuo xian), Kardze "TAP", Sichuan Province, on 24 March 2008 which resulted in the death of one Tibetan and another left in critical condition after People's Armed Police (PAP) fired indiscriminately into the protesting crowd, the monks of Drango Gaden Rabten Nampargyalpeling Monastery organized a special prayer session for the deceased in the morning of 25 March. According to confirmed information received by the Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD), at around 8:00 AM (Beijing Standard...

24 March 2008 [For Immediate Release] One shot dead and another in critical condition in Drango protest According to confirmed information received by the Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD), at least one Tibetan protester was shot dead and another left in critical condition following indiscriminate firing by the People's Armed Police on the protesting Tibetans in Drango County, Kardze "Tibet Autonomous Prefecture" today afternoon. At around 2:00 pm (Beijing Standard Time), a peaceful protest was initiated jointly by the monks of Chokri Monastery and nuns of Ngyoe-go Nunnery of Drawo Township, Drango County (Ch: Luhuo Xian), Kardze...

Event day: 4/9/2008 City: EVERYWHERE Organization: Minuteman Civil Defense Corps Location: College Campuses Everywhere Phone: 520-829-3112 Cost: $0.00 "Secure Our Borders" day of national rallies and activities on college campuses. College Students across the nation remain unconvinced by the media's portrayal of our country's illegal immigration issues. As a conscientious college student, you have a unique opportunity to open the discussion on your campus and we have a clear message to share: "SECURE OUR BORDERS!"

A reader who witnessed yesterday's anti-war protest sent us several photos of the incident so we thought we'd share a couple of them with you. Milwaukee police arrested four people during the late afternoon march, according to Officer Bobby Lindsey, a department spokesman. At least two of the arrests were for disorderly conduct, Lindsey said. The photos show that a number of paper boxes and trash cans were dumped in the street during the afternoon rush hour at N. Water St. and E. Wisconsin Ave. The march later moved south toward the Historic Third Ward. It was unclear whether the...

ORLANDO, Fla. -- Members of a nationally known church will be picketing outside of several Central Florida churches on Easter Sunday with a message pastors say is more about shock value than God's words. A group from the Kansas-based Westboro Baptist Church has announced they will be outside Easter services at St. Luke's United Methodist, First Baptist Church, Calvary Assembly of God and Mary Queen of the Universe churches early Sunday. Westboro church members said they believe school shootings, 9-11 and solider deaths are "God's revenge" for America's moral decline and tolerance for homosexuality and abortion. "This nation is awash...

March 19 War Anniversary Protest UPDATED! Evict the military recruitment station, cage the recruiters! When: Wednesday, March 19 Rally: 6:00pm March: Departs at 6:30pm for the Military Recruiting Station Where: Meet at the dinosaur sculpture in front of Carnegie Library (4400 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213) This March 19 hundreds of cities across the U.S. will hold events to mark the anniversary of the war in Iraq and remember the tragic toll the world has and continues to pay; nearly 4,000 U.S. soldiers killed, 30,000 wounded, at least 100,000 Iraqis killed, four million displaced, and nearly a trillion dollars squandered.

We have a spy in the midst of the left-wing anti-American protests all over DC today who sent us these pictures. Can't wait for the rain to start and ruin all their paper mache to melt. Shouldn't polar bears be pro-war since we're supposedly killing them at record rates? We assume by War Profiteers they mean Michael Moore... Pauly Shore was apparently there trying to relive his Bio-Dome glory days. These people are the leisure class, living off their parents money, trust fund babies with nothing better to do and a lifetime spent without an original thought in their heads....

I was lured to the Unitarian Universalist Church on Geary in San Francisco by a press release saying that actor Sean Penn, "peace mom" Cindy Sheehan, and a plethora of far-left anti-war semi-celebrities would be participating in a "vigil for peace" followed by a march through the city.