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...fellow at Harvard Law School’s Berkman Center for the Internet and Society and a well known blogger and activist who focuses on issues of technological development in some of the poorer countries in Africa. In late October a small group of NYU students led a protest in New York outside of a Virgin Megastore to inform consumers of what they thought to be unreasonable copy protection measures put in place by major record labels. Dozens of blogs, Boing Boing among them, picked up on the story, and it spread across interested circles...
...Morales. The Peruvian press has started calling them the "Andean Troika." At the meeting, Chavez praised Humala and glowingly compared him to Peru's last nationalist military leader, Gen. Juan Velasco, who ruled between 1968 and 1975. The current government of Peru later recalled its ambassador from Caracas to protest what it described as the Venezuelan leader's interference in Peru's internal affairs...
...recent municipal elections in major West Bank towns were swept by Hamas, largely as an expression of protest by traditional Fatah supporters against the corruption of the leadership-Nablus, for example, used to be a Fatah stronghold; Hamas won 11 of the 13 seats on its local council. We may see a similar phenomenon in parliamentary elections. I would break down the likely vote in this way: 5 percent of voters will go to the polls to express their support for the Popular Front, Democratic Front and other organizations of the Left; 20 percent of voters will...
...Rainbow/PUSH Coalition Inc. and former presidential candidate He would be challenging the war in Iraq. The war has no moral foundation. It's built upon a lie, built upon imminent threat, weapons of mass destruction, an al-Qaeda connection. He'd focus on that. Second, of course, he'd protest vehemently that we've gone from lying about the war to spying on people protesting the war. He was on the anti-Vietnam war list. He would be protesting this violation of constitutional rights. Third, his last mission was to build a working poor people's campaign, declaring that there...
...quick disintegration, with defenders of the Bush administration particularly gleeful to find that the student had made up his account. A spokesman for UMass-Dartmouth, John Hoey, told the Globe that the student would not be disciplined as a result of his deception. That statement has sparked protest from another professor at the school, Clyde W. Barrow, director of the Center for Policy Analysis, who said the student should be suspended and forced to make a public apology for deceiving the public. He also called on the faculty members who relayed the student’s tale to issue public...