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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Pakistan's army lodged a formal protest Friday to "allied forces" in neighboring Afghanistan over a suspected U.S. missile strike this week that killed 14 people in a Pakistani border village. Army spokesman Maj. Gen. Athar Abbas said Pakistan concluded that Wednesday's attack on a house in Damadola village was launched by drones from Afghanistan. Abbas said a formal protest was lodged Friday with "allied forces" in Afghanistan, an apparent reference to the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force that is fighting the Taliban-led insurgency there. The U.S. is among the nations contributing to ISAF. Abbas said 14 people...

Residents took to the streets of a provincial capital over the weekend to protest a multibillion-dollar petrochemical plant backed by China’s leading state-run oil company, in the latest instance of popular discontent over an environmental threat in a major city.

Immigrant rights activists join protests nationwide By SOPHIA TAREEN, Associated Press Writer 19 minutes ago CHICAGO — Thousands of immigrants and activists gathered in cities across the country Thursday to demand comprehensive immigration reform, including citizenship opportunities for the estimated 12 million illegal immigrants in the U.S. Turnout has fallen sharply since the first nationwide rallies in 2006, when more than 1 million people — at least 400,000 in Chicago alone — clogged streets and brought traffic to a standstill. Activists hoping to re-ignite the immigration debate in time for the presidential elections say this year's efforts are focused less...

My e-mail box is over-flowing with alarming news from Pa. where the Gathering of Eagles witnessed a 14-year old boy attacked by Peace Thugs. This news is so disturbing and so typical, that a website has now been established to document this intensifying level of violence against patriotic Americans. Peace Thugs Exposed! Dan Maloney, my friend and GOE NY Coordinator writes about this outrage. _________________________________________________________________________________________________ Iraq War Veteran and Family Assaulted! April 22, 2008 Peace Fascists, College Professors and Hillary Supporters assault Iraqi War Veteran and Family while citizens do nothing to intervene. Edinboro, PA, Apr. 22 For the second...

Flesh and the College by: Deborah Lambert, April 22, 2008 The “Sex Workers Art Show” traveled to several campuses earlier this year, causing raised eyebrows at some venues and–an uproar at others like the College of William and Mary and Duke University. Although the show’s founder claims that the purpose of their performance is to dignify and “humanize sex workers” and “dispel the myth that [strippers and prostitutes] are anything short of artists, innovators, and geniuses,” the descriptions of the show “make it sound prurient, degrading and, above all, dehumanizing,” says the Education Reporter. Debate over the show at William...

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) is the United Nations of the sports world. Politically correct to the point of self-parody, it lectures developed countries on ethics, then ignores real human rights transgressions in developing nations. Full of Western delegates who are condescending internationalists and Third World delegates who are the cronies or failed siblings of dictators, the IOC exists mainly so that its members can jet about the world holding lavish meetings at posh hotels. Given the environment in which he operates, then, it is somewhat surprising that IOC president Jacques Rogge would go as far as he did on...

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - Argentine runners relayed the Olympic torch past fenced-off protesters on Friday, as hundreds of China supporters in red windbreakers tried to reverse weeks of bad publicity for the host of the Summer Games. Activists opposing China's human rights record unfurled banners and promised "entertaining surprises" but pledged to keep their demonstrations peaceful after protests marred stops in London, Paris and San Francisco. Hundreds of spectators cheered as Chinese delegates wearing Argentina's blue-and-white lit the torch from a lantern that has carried the flame from the site of the ancient Olympic games in Greece. Mayor Mauricio Macri...

It's important for Muslims to keep reminding us that there is absolutely, positively no relationship between Islam and violence. Otherwise it's easy to forget. The latest excuse for Islamic bonhomie is the documentary "Fitna" by Geert Wilders. In the 15-minute film, showing on YouTube and other Internet sites, the Dutch MP says that far from getting Islam wrong, terrorists understand their religion only too well. "Fitna" (Arabic for "upheaval" or "ordeal") has verses from the Koran -- which Wilders calls a "fascist book" -- artfully interspersed with scenes of carnage from 9/11 and the March, 2004 Madrid train bombing, as...

PARIS - Security officials snuffed out the Olympic torch and carried it through Paris in the safety of a bus at least five times Monday before canceling the final run of a relay repeatedly disrupted by chaotic protests against China's human rights record. Security officials put the torch on the bus for the last stretch but stopped right outside its destination, a Paris stadium, so a runner could finish the last 15 feet. At least two activists earlier got within almost an arm's length of the flame before they were grabbed by police. A protester threw water at the torch...

China is dealing with visible and invisible opposition in the months before the Beijing Olympics begin. The visible was front-and-center in the world media as the OIympic torch made its way through various countries on a circuitous route to the Games. Everywhere Chinese security is on guard against activists prepared to disrupt the flame's progress to protest China's human rights record in Tibet and in the enormous province of Xinjiang. In London, a protester tried to grab the flame away from its official bearer; at one point, the torch had to make its way through the city within the protective...

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - President Cristina Fernandez blasted striking farmers at a rally of 20,000 supporters Tuesday, comparing their nearly three-week-old protest to a 1976 strike that sowed chaos one month before a military coup. Seeking to build popular opposition to the strike against a disputed export tax increase, Fernandez urged farmers to immediately end hundreds of highway blockades. "Is it good that highways are cut so that food cannot be transported to market?" she said angrily, adding that such pressure tactics will not work in times of democracy. On the strike's 20th day Tuesday, farmers manned 300 road blockades,...

Department monitors increasingly raucous rallies at Marine center BERKELEY — In the last six weeks, the city of Berkeley has spent more than $210,000 on police overtime to try and keep the peace during protests at the U.S. Marine Corps recruiting center and Old City Hall, a police official said Thursday. Police spokeswoman Sgt. Mary Kusmiss said police department overtime from Feb. 12 to March 22 was $210,814.13. The city spent roughly $93,000 Feb. 12 during an all-day protest at Old City Hall that drew about 2,000 anti-war protestors and military supporters, she said. By comparison, the 186-officer department...

LONDON (AFP) - Flights began operating at Heathrow airport's new terminal on Thursday, slightly clouded by a few teething problems and a protest at the London air hub. Terminal Five, which cost 4.3 billion pounds and is the first addition to Heathrow in 20 years, was inaugurated by Queen Elizabeth II earlier this month. On Thursday the first flight to land was from Hong Kong, and while the British Airways aircraft landed 10 minutes ahead of schedule, some passengers reported delays while signs were also criticised. "It took an hour for our bags to come through from the time we...

Report Cites Increase in Attacks on Military Recruiting Centers Wednesday, March 26, 2008 By Melissa Underwood Shattered windows and bomb scares are growing threats for recruiters working to find young men and women to join the U.S. military, according to a new report that claims attacks on military recruiting stations are on the rise. The report, issued by a not-for-profit group that supports members of the military, calls the incidents — including the spray-painting of graffiti — "attacks," and claims there have been more than 50 since March 2003. "The peace protesters are not peaceful," said Catherine Moy, executive director...

Berkeley mayor, chamber on good terms By Doug Oakley STAFF WRITER Article Launched: 03/19/2008 03:00:38 AM PDT The love is back between Berkeley Mayor Tom Bates and the city's Chamber of Commerce. Just a month after the chamber released a letter saying that Bates and the City Council hurt business by telling the Marine Corps and its recruiting center to get out of town, the mayor is back in the group's good graces. During a lunch Tuesday billed as "A Conversation with Berkeley Mayor Tom Bates," chamber board member Mark McLeod introduced Bates as "our mayor and our friend." Afterward, chamber...

With restive Tibetan areas swarming with troops and closed to scrutiny from the outside world, China's government turned up efforts Saturday to put its own version of the unrest before the international public. Information barely trickled out of the Tibetan capital Lhasa and other far-flung Tibetan communities, where foreign media were banned and thousands of troops dispatched to quell the most widespread demonstrations against Chinese rule in nearly five decades. The Chinese government was attempting to fill the vacuum with its own message. It disseminated footage of Tibetan protesters attacking Chinese and accusations of biased reporting by Western media via...

MOSCO (AFP) — US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Monday called on China to open talks with the Dalai Lama amid mounting international unease over China's crackdown on protests in Tibet. The Netherlands summoned the Chinese ambassador to express concern and the European Union also said it was troubled, but Russia insisted the Tibet crisis was an "internal matter" for China. Rice renewed a US appeal for China to show restraint in Tibet saying there was now a "terrible situation". "We have really urged the Chinese over several years to find a way to talk with the Dalai Lama,...

A five-day anti-war camp-out at the downtown Marine Recruiting Station (MRS) aboard a Code Pink truck, designed to draw attention to the March 19 five-year anniversary of the Iraq War, turned nasty Tuesday afternoon: An attorney says the city may be using code enforcement to selectively stifle free speech at the Code Pink protest, and a Code Pink activist says she was assaulted by a city of Berkeley code enforcement supervisor. The large truck dubbed “Green Zone,” adorned with potted plants and trees, has been parked since Monday in front of the Marine Recruiting Station at 64 Shattuck Square. A...

Rutgers Daily Targum reports "about 50" demonstrators braved the weather to demonstrate on behalf of those "poor mistreated" Palestinians.

Sen. John McCain is praising the recent wave of pro-illegal immigration demonstrations, saying that if the protesters hang tough they will succeed in forcing Congress to liberalize immigration laws. "If such demonstrations continue, I think we will have a bill for the President to sign soon," the Arizona Republican told a New York City gathering on Friday sponsored by the Irish Lobby for Immigration Reform. "The more debate, the more demonstrations, the more likely we will prevail," McCain added, in quotes picked up by the New York Daily News. The Irish group backs the McCain-Kennedy bill that would allow illegal...

VATICAN CITY — The pope's top aide said Wednesday that Benedict XVI's reason for canceling a visit to a Rome university was that he did not want to create a pretext for further "unpleasant" protests by professors and students opposed to the religious leader speaking at a secular campus. Anti-pope slogans have appeared on banners and posters around buildings at La Sapienza University, where Benedict was to have spoken on Thursday. A group of professors, mainly from the sciences, wrote to the university rector late last year to object to the pope's visit, depicting Benedict as a religious figure opposed...

January 9, 2008 This 40th anniversary of the turbulent year 1968 is already starting to spawn nostalgic accounts of that year. We can look for more during this year in articles, books, and TV specials, featuring aging 1960s radicals seeking to relive their youth. The events of 1968 have continuing implications for our times but not the implications drawn by those with romantic myths about 1968 and about themselves. The first of the shocks of 1968 was the sudden eruption of violent attacks by Communist guerillas in the cities of South Vietnam, known as the "Tet offensive," after a local...

A few dozen anti-war protesters marched Wednesday from the state Capitol to the Xcel Energy Center, hoping it will guarantee them to chance to hold a demonstration along the same route during the Republican National Convention in September. The sign-toting, slogan-chanting crowd set out around noon in near-zero temperatures on what they described as the first part of a recurring protest. They contend a St. Paul ordinance allows permits for recurring events to be considered and granted outside the six-month permit window used to assess single demonstrations. But the lead St. Paul police official warned that it's not so clear...

Helmet Law Protesters to Circle the NC Governors Mansion, with Freedom Rides in 3 other counties on New Years Day. Citizens who love freedom and want to defend individual liberties are urged to picket the Governors Mansion on New Years Day from 2 - 4 pm. On New Years Day, the helmet law in North Carolina will be changing to reference FMVSS 218 as its' standard. Motorcyclists have many questions, such as how they can ensure compliance with certainty, because FMVSS 218 is nothing that motorcycle operators and consumers can comply with. It is a manufacturers self-certifying standard. Janice MacKay...

OLYMPIA — This normally laid-back town is on edge after a week of raucous war protests that have resulted in dozens of arrests, broken windows and police firing pepper-spray projectiles to control restive crowds. More than 40 people were arrested Tuesday night after anti-war protesters tried to block shipments of military gear at Olympia's port for an Army Stryker Brigade recently returned from Iraq. Continued protests seem likely. Fort Lewis spokesman Joe Piek said the Army expects to finish moving equipment from the port in the next day or so. The protest group watches for military shipments at local ports...

On November 18, in solidarity with the School of the Americas Watch vigil and protest at Ft. Benning Georgia, hundreds of people from around the country will gather at Fort Huachuca to continue the nonviolent witness against U.S. policy sanctioning torture. These are the supporters and followers of-- Fr. Louis Vitale, OFM, (75) and Fr. Stephen Kelly, SJ (54) were sentenced on Wednesday, October 17 to five months in prison for attempting to deliver a letter to then-commander Major General Barbara Fast at Fort Huachuca, Arizona, denouncing torture and the Military Commissions Act of 2006. October 17th is the first...

Over the weekend, anti-war protesters filled the streets of San Francisco chanting their new anti-war mantra, Support the Troops - End the War! These are the same folks who have been calling our troops baby killers, accusing them of raping, torturing and murdering innocent women and children around the world since Woodstock, free sex, homegrown marijuana and Jimmy Hendrix… You think they really support our troops? They represent themselves as the real supporters of our troops, those brave patriots willing to retreat in defeat, in support of the troops they have spent a lifetime maligning, of course. Can you imagine...

Thousands of voices echoed through the streets here on Saturday as they called for an end to the war in Iraq. Some 4,000 protesters from Oregon, Idaho and Montana wove through Seattle, shouting anti-war slogans like "Bush, Cheney, what do you say? How many kids have you killed today?" and "Peace throughout the world. We're going to let it shine." The crowds set out to challenge the status quo, calling for the U.S. to redirect its course in Iraq. "As a starting point, it's something. Obviously we need to do a lot more of this," said Lori Jones. Crowds gathered...

BEIJING - China has gently urged Myanmar's military rulers to ease the strife that has seen tens of thousands take to the streets in protest, diplomats said Tuesday, even as Beijing said publicly it would stick to a hands-off approach toward its neighbor. China has quietly shifted gears, the diplomats said, jettisoning its noninterventionist line for behind-the-scenes diplomacy. A senior Chinese official asked junta envoys this month to reconcile with opposition democratic forces. And China arranged a low-key meeting in Beijing between Myanmar and State Department envoys to discuss the release of the leading opposition figure. For a country that...

The monks have vowed to continue their action Lorries with loudspeakers have been driving through Burma's main city of Rangoon warning residents to stop anti-government protests.The broadcasts threatened that "action will be taken against those who violate this order". But hundreds of monks and civilians defied the threats and began fresh protests at the Shwedagon pagoda. On Monday, there were protests in at least 25 towns, with tens of thousands of people marching in Rangoon. Several military trucks are now parked near Shwedagon pagoda, which has been the focus of the protests. Eyewitnesses said several hundred monks gathered at...

NEW YORK (AFP) - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was to face angry protests Sunday in New York, where he was due to arrive amid a storm of controversy over his appearances at the United Nations and a top university. The outspoken Iranian leader, who has openly called for the destruction of Israel and questioned the scale of the Holocaust, is due to speak at Columbia University on Monday, a day before addressing the UN General Assembly. The Iranian leader said before leaving Tehran earlier Sunday that the visit would allow him to meet independent politicians from Tehran's arch foe and...

... Meanwhile, a motley crew of antiwar groups, including Iraq Veterans Against The War, CODEPINK, ANSWER, and MoveOn.org, are organizing a week of demonstrations in Washington beginning September 15. The "mobilization" will be kicked off with a "Die-In," sponsored primarily by ANSWER and Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW). As they explain, "IVAW is asking that participants in the Die-In/Funeral select the name of one of the almost 4,000 soldiers who have been killed in Iraq. You can select a family member, friend or someone from your city, town or state. Please bring a photograph of that person and a...

It's time for America to decide a course of action to deal with the infection......allow the cancer to grow or cut the sucker out.

Volunteers are need for Jackson Heights, Queens, and Flushing for prayer vigils in front of abortion mills for a 40 day vigil beginning on September 26, 2007.

All vehicle and pedestrian traffic at the city's border crossings may be blocked Friday during demonstrations in Mexico over that country's pension laws, U.S. authorities said. U.S. Customs and Border Protection on Wednesday urged travelers to avoid the border crossings during the protests, citing Mexican news reports that traffic in both directions may be blocked for up to six hours at San Ysidro, the nation's busiest border crossing, and at Otay Mesa. The California Highway Patrol plans to close all southbound traffic on interstates 5 and 805 just north of the San Ysidro crossing at 8:30 a.m. Friday. CBP will...

I have a message for our gallant warriors and their families...Eagles will have your back and the back of your Commander, General Petraeus, in Washington, DC on September 15.....we will not abandon or betray over 200 years of warrior sacrifices to a minority willing to surrender it all.

Not that they're worried or anything. But the White House evidently leaves little to chance when it comes to protests within eyesight of the president. As in, it doesn't want any. A White House manual that came to light recently gives presidential advance staffers extensive instructions in the art of "deterring potential protestors" from President Bush's public appearances around the country. Among other things, any event must be open only to those with tickets tightly controlled by organizers. Those entering must be screened in case they are hiding secret signs. Any anti-Bush demonstrators who manage to get in anyway should...

There will be a gathering of former POWs at Lincoln High School, Sioux Falls, SD, on Saturday, September 15th, 10:30 AM. Former Sioux Falls resident, Senate candidate and POW himself, Leo Thorsness will be speaking. There are 64 former POWs living in South Dakota.

PAINT, banners, chant sheets and whistles are being sorted into survival kits for protesters preparing to rally against the Sydney arrival of US President George W Bush. Mr Bush will jet into Sydney on September 4 in preparation for APEC meetings later in the week. His arrival will be marked on September 5 by a planned peaceful "student strike" organised by the anti-war group Resistance. Resistance member Simon Cunich said creating the bright red Stop Bush Bags was a practical way of promoting protests during APEC. The bags also contain chalk, stickers, leaflets, umbrellas, water and a know your rights...

PARIS (Reuters) - Petitions in London, protests in Cologne, a court case in Marseille and a violent clash in Berlin -- Muslims in Europe are meeting resistance to plans for mosques that befit Islam's status as the continent's second religion. Across Europe, Muslims who have long prayed in garages and old factories now face skepticism and concern for wanting to build stately mosques to give proud testimony to the faith and solidity of their Islamic communities. Some critics reject them as signs of "Islamisation." Others say minarets would scar their city's skyline. Given the role some mosques have played as...

A “very preliminary” report by law enforcement in Maryland has come across the wire saying that an anarchist group is looking to deface the Wall on September 15th during ANSWER’s rally in Washington, D.C. This will not be allowed to happen, period. We are acting on this intel and we’re certain that Eagles will be there in force to assure the safety and sanctity of our hallowed grounds. Be aware–September 15th will be quite a showdown. Please consider either being there yourself or helping someone else get there by donating to GOE.

Robert Rudnick and Luke Otterstad, members of a small California church, were on a mission. They had traveled to Minnesota and three surrounding states in 2004 to defeat political candidates who support abortion rights. On Sept. 21, they set up two huge signs on the sidewalk of Ferry Street bridge above Hwy. 10 in Anoka, visible to westbound rush-hour traffic. One sign had a graphic photo of an aborted fetus. The other said, "Patty Wetterling is Pro-Abortion." Wetterling was defeated by incumbent Mark Kennedy for the Sixth Congressional District seat. Within an hour, the two men were arrested by Anoka...

U.S. Senator Arlen Specter was in our area Monday talking about his efforts to help get federal dollars for local projects but the senator's visit to Hazleton took an unexpected turn. The tables were turned, when some in the Mountain City wanted to ask their senator about another hot button issue: illegal immigration. Specter was in Hazleton to talk about a project that involves a bus terminal, offices and a parking garage. But some of those gathered wanted to talk about illegal immigration. "I know you're not here for us but this bill is coming up this week. We want...

The more than a thousand people positioned outside a Dana Point resort, awaiting President Nguyen Minh Triet, weren’t part of the welcoming committee. The crowd made up of mostly Vietnamese-Americans spent Friday afternoon lined up across the street from the St. Regis Monarch Beach Resort and Spa, hoping Triet would get an earful of their anger and frustration during his first visit to the United States. “Go home, go home … Down with communism. Down. Down. Down,” the crowd chanted, waving American flags alongside pre-communist Vietnamese flags. Some protesters ran into the street as Triet’s limousine whizzed by the main...

Opponents of eminent domain finally have something to celebrate. After a public campaign, Target Corp. has decided not to build a store on condemned property in Arlington Heights, Ill. Five years ago, the Village trustees declared the International Plaza shopping center and other properties blighted, setting the stage for condemnation under eminent domain. The business owners who were to lose their stores fought the "blight" designation in court but failed.

Zanesville “Library Rally” Friday, 6/15/07, 11am, John McIntire Library COPE is working with Citizens Against Sexually Oriented Offenders (CASOO) to present a “library rally” in Zanesville, Ohio. We will be at the John McIntire Library on June 15, 2007, at 11am, and we encourage others to join us. CASOO has been instrumental in getting ordinances passed in many towns/cities throughout Ohio that restrict registered offenders from living in certain areas where children frequent. CASOO has tracked and helped incarcerate offenders who neglect to register. COPE is proud to be standing with CASOO. Please join us.

<p>Protesters costumed as clowns demonstrate at a fence near the G8 press centre in Kuehlungsborn June 7, 2007.</p> <p>A German police officer chase two naked anti G8 protestors who tried to block a road in Bargeshagen near Heiligendamm, northeastern Germany, Thursday, June 7, 2007.</p>

http://www.denverpost.com/ci_6054327 With thousands of demonstrators expected to descend on Denver for the 2008 Democratic National Convention, top city officials have been meeting with a protest group in hopes of minimizing the potential for conflict. And the City Council next week will consider a proclamation prepared by the group - dubbed Re-create '68 - that restates Denver's commitment to protecting First Amendment rights during the event. Re-create '68 says "tens of thousands" of peace and community activists hope to make Denver a pivotal political convention when the delegates come to town Aug. 25-28 next year.

While thousands of Venezuelans demonstrate in Caracas against the government shutdown of opposition RCTV, TV and radio operators, pro- and anti-government bloggers have taken their fight to the Internet. Despite going off the air Sunday when its broadcasting license was not renewed by the government, RCTV still sends out its main news program "El Observador" morning, noon and night, through YouTube, Internet's video-sharing network superstar, employees of the now-pirate TV station said. The 45-minute program is also retransmitted Monday-Saturday at midnight by Colombia's international TV channel Caracol and a host of Internet radio stations working mostly out of Miami, Florida....

President Hugo Chavez has claimed that a right-wing conspiracy led by Washington is out to demonize his government for forcing an opposition TV channel off the air. The government refused to renew the license of Radio Caracas Television, or RCTV, forcing the channel off the air Sunday and sparking both angry protests at home and condemnation abroad from governments, press freedom groups and international organizations. Speaking during an event Thursday with the visiting leader of Vietnam's communist party, Chavez said "international rightist, extreme-rightist and fascist movements are attacking Venezuela from everywhere — from Europe, the United States, Brasilia." [Snip] "Nobody...