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Chinese police will deal harshly with social or political demonstrations at the Beijing Olympics, a top security official said Friday.
A U.S. peace activist who was barred from Canada after past arrests for anti-war activities was denied entry to the country again Thursday, despite having an invitation from several members of parliament.
Two peace activists who were denied entry into Canada because their arrests for protesting the Iraq war landed them on an FBI-run database say they will try again to enter the country on Thursday.
Riot police opened fire into a crowd of retired army officers Saturday, killing four people, activists and local medical officials said.
Peace activists Medea Benjamin and Ann Wright have been arrested in the U.S. while protesting the Iraq war, but they never dreamed that would prevent them from entering Canada.
A 70-year-old Roman Catholic nun who was arrested during a demonstration at a nuclear weapons site on the 62nd anniversary of Hiroshima has been sentenced to 20 days in jail.
White House officials can exclude dissenters from taxpayer-funded appearances by President Bush without violating the protesters' rights, according to lawyers for volunteers who helped eject three people from a hall where Bush was to speak.
Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld will not have to testify in the trial of five people who occupied a congressman's office to protest the war in Iraq, a judge ruled Friday.
Protesters greeted Florida Gov. Jeb Bush on his way to a campaign event for a Pennsylvania senator, and he briefly took refuge in a subway station supply closet to avoid the anti-Republican demonstrators.
When school was canceled to accommodate a campaign visit by President Bush, the two 55-year-old teachers reckoned the time was ripe to voice their simmering discontent with the administration's policies.
In a rare public dissent, 19 Catholic priests have denounced the Vatican's opposition to gay marriage and allowing homosexuals into the priesthood.
The Police have a lot of experience crushing protests, curtailing protesters rights and provoking confrontations in otherwise peaceful demos, however when it comes to actually protesting themselves, they are rank amateurs.
It was one of the few blights reported by the organizers of a 20,000-person civil rights demonstration held last year in a Louisiana town at the center of a national race debate.
Myanmar's military government has jailed dozens of political activists since November despite promises to a UN envoy that it would halt such arrests, human rights group Amnesty International has said.
Allison Kilkenny takes a look at the collective outrage of "Those Crazy Liberals" : "Last night, two Dennis Kucinich supporters screamed during Jay Leno's Tonight Show." "Let Dennis debate! Stop censorship! Help save democracy!" and "GE, NBC, Put Impeachment on TV!"
Digital video and satellite communications technology is playing a vital role in the PR battle over Japanese whaling in the Southern Ocean. When environmental protesters boarded a Japanese whaling ship in the Southern Ocean, images of the action quickly flashed on the world's TV …
An anti-whaling group is accusing the crew of a Japanese vessel of kidnapping two activists who climbed on board the ship to try to stop its whaling operations in Antarctic waters.
One Washington, D.C., welcoming party plans to greet Premier Ed Stelmach with placards bearing slogans like: "Canada, Keep Your Dirty Oil!"
Police used chemical spray and stun guns Thursday protesters seeking to halt the demolition of public housing tried to break through an iron gate at City Hall. NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- Despite occasionally violent protests outside, the City Council voted Thursday in favor of demolish …
They had come to challenge Matt Bostrom, but now the peace-and-justice activists were applauding him. Bostrom — an assistant chief of the St.
THUMBS DOWN to the Sudanese government for sentencing Gillian Gibbons to 15 days imprisonment for clearly making a mistake in her actions.
Thousands of protesters in Sudan are demanding that a British woman be put to death for blasphemy after allowing her class to name a teddy bear "Mohammed."
Protesters gathered Friday afternoon in Tacoma to "send a very clear message that will be heard by the powers that be" that they're unhappy with federal immigration policy.
I wonder what these folks would do if they had to find honest work..
The students are demonstrating against constitutional reforms proposed by Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez. One of the reforms would abolish term limits for the presidency, thus allowing President Chavez to stand for re-election indefinitely.
St. Paul city officials say they can't grant a permit until six months before next year's Republican National Convention, but protest organizers think they've found a loophole.
One of the most controversial state visits to Britain of recent times began officially yesterday with a royal welcome, set against a backdrop of protest placards.
At an antiwar rally in Lafayette Square in Washington last month: "I heard someone say: 'Oh my god, look at those'," the university student recalled. "I look up and I'm like, 'What the hell is that?' They looked kind of like dragonflies or little helicopters.
One by one, about six young women marched out of the downtown Macy's women's lounge Sunday afternoon wearing supersized garbage bags and little else, save the signs taped to their backs. "I'd rather wear trash bags than Macy's sweatshop clothing," the signs read.
Thousands of protesters are dead and the bodies of hundreds of executed monks have been dumped in the jungle, a former intelligence officer for Burma's ruling junta has revealed.
Up to 10,000 Burmese Buddhist monks and civilians have defied police tear gas and live bullets on the ninth day of protests against the military rulers. At least one monk was killed, hospital sources in the main city of Rangoon said.
Afghan protesters shouted "Death to Canada" in a small village outside Kandahar city on Wednesday, but the Canadian military said it was not involved in raids that killed two local clerics.
While Representative Saxton commented on General Petraeus's dedication to helping Iraq, the report came to a brief pause as two women in the crowd began shouting.
My seat mate explained what happened: a YouTube video of protesters during the visits of Presidents Bush and Fox to Montebello contained images of three of the protesters whose boots had yellow markings like police boots.
This video had me enthusiastic and riled up in favor of the protesters until they started to spew crazed thinking about Kucinich and the UN.
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.
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