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Where have all the protests gone? US students in limbo
21 hours ago ago from The SIXTIES
Where have all the protests gone? US students in limbo http://www.telegraph.co.uk/expat/expatnews/6580188/Where-have-all-the-protests-gone-US-students-in-limbo.html When Hemnecher Amen, a student, joined a protest outside the White House recently, it was the latest visible opposition here to US wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Hardly anyone took any notice. By Michael Mathes, in Washington 16 Nov 2009 There's a lot of apathy and a ...
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1 day ago ago from THE POLITICIZER
Ian Goldin, Columnist Ideology: Left-Independent | Writing from: Washington, DC The title of this article is taken from John Lennon and Yoko Ono's iconic Christmas/protest song. Although it was recorded in 1971 as a protest of the war in Vietnam, it seems applicable today. In fact, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are constantly compared to the Vietnam War . The prospect of ending the war by simply wanting it is overly simple, but ...
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22 hours ago ago from ibn Ezra
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20 hours ago ago from Lost on Jeju
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22 hours ago ago from My Arse
On February 15, 2003 coordinated anti-war protests across the world against the imminent invasion of Iraq saw the largest protest in human history. Millions of people took to the streets in approximately 800 cities around the world. According to the BBC (always conservative in their estimations) between six and ten million people took part in protests in up to sixty countries over the weekend of the 15th and 16th; other estimates range from ...
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Thomas de Zengotita: Hollywood Politics: Up in the Air
6 hours ago ago from Huffington Post
I feel so ambivalent about the way Hollywood packages progressive messages--messages I agree with, in substance. But the way they do it; it's like a symptom of a basic problem. The obvious cases are movies about the war in Iraq, from In the Valley of Elah to The Hurt Locker . Opposition to the war saturates the atmosphere of these films, but it's not explicit. The focus is on the personal price that's paid--as if the war were a condition of ...
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