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protests stories: 252 news summaries

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Chinese Use Texting to Keep Protest Alive

Activists wielding cell phones and blogs circumvent censorship

Jun 28, 07 12:56 PM CDT
(Newser) - Chinese activists used text messages and blog posts to organize and publicize a huge protest against the construction of a chemical plant, demonstrating continuing ingenuity in skirting government strictures against dissent in the media. Construction of the plant in the coastal town of Xiamen was put on hold following a... More »

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China • protests • Xiamen • text message • texting

Iran Erupts Over Gas Rationing

Leaders fear West will cut fuel imports

Jun 27, 07 4:49 AM CDT
(Newser) - Angry Iranians torched Tehran gas stations yesterday and smashed windows as protests against gas rationing turned violent, the BBC reports. Motorists formed huge lines to fill  tanks before new laws took effect limiting Iranians to 26 gallons of gas a month. Despite its oil reserves, Iran is short of refining... More »

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Iran • oil • Mahmoud Ahmadinejad • gas • protests • embargo • rationing

Jesse Jackson Arrested at Gun Shop Protest

Jackson and Catholic priest Michael Pfleger denounce sales of guns

Jun 24, 07 7:32 PM CDT
(Newser) - Rev. Jess Jackson and Fr. Michael Pfleger were arrested for blocking the door of Chuck's Gun Shop in Riverdale, a suburb abutting the southern edge of Chicago.  They and others were there protesting the ready availability of guns next to a crime-plagued part of the city, which bans the... More »

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Chicago • Jesse Jackson • crime • gun control • Michael Pfleger • protests • Riverdale • guns

Rushdie Honor Sparks Furor

Novelist's knighthood prompts uproar from some corners of the Muslim world

Jun 18, 07 1:05 PM CDT
(Newser) - Pakistan wants Britain to revoke Salman Rushdie's just-granted knighthood—and the UK should prepare for suicide attacks if it doesn't, a Pakistani cabinet minister said today. "If someone exploded a bomb on his body he would be right to do so unless the British government apologizes and withdraws the... More »

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Iran • Pakistan • Queen Elizabeth II • fatwas • Salman Rushdie • Satanic Verses • suicide bombing • knighthood • protests • Britain

China Eases Up Slightly
on Tiananmen Anniversary

Government allows memorials for the first time

Jun 5, 07 9:51 AM CDT
(Newser) - As part of its campaign to attract Western visitors to the 2008 Beijing Olympics, China allowed Tiananmen Square memorials this year for the first time since the protests of June 4, 1989. The government maintains that the uprising was a counterrevolutionary riot and refuses to release details; a security crackdown... More »

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China • Hong Kong • Beijing • Tiananmen Square • 2008 Beijing Olympics • protests • political reform • Olympic Games

G8 Protesters Clash With German Police

Demonstration ends with activists arrested, officers injured

Jun 2, 07 2:36 PM CDT
(Newser) - Riot police and anti-globalization activists collided in the streets of the German port of Rostock today after an early show of opposition to next week's G8 summit degenerated into violence. Police used water cannons and tear gas against demonstrators who showered them with bottles and stones, causing more peaceful protesters... More »

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Angela Merkel • Germany • globalization • G8 summit • protests • Heiligendamm • Rostock

14 Die in Indian Race Riots

Minority group pushing for affirmative action clashes with police

May 30, 07 4:24 AM CDT
(Newser) - An ethnic minority in Northwest India clashed with police yesterday during a demonstration, leaving 14 people dead. The Army has been called into Rajasthan to restore order, after tens of thousands of Gujjars blocked a key highway and fought with police trying to break up their protest. More »

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India • Gujjars • protests • affirmative action • Rajasthan • nomad • race riot • riots

Moscow Gay Rights Activists Arrested After Bloody Melee

Activists were petitioning for the right to hold a gay-pride parade

May 28, 07 7:06 AM CDT
(Newser) - Gay-rights protesters petitioning the mayor of Moscow to lift the ban on gay-pride parades  yesterday were punched and kicked by anti-gay extremists shouting "death to homosexuals."  About 20 protesters were detained by police. More »

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Russia • gay rights • Moscow • Germans • protests • Britain

Fewer March for Immigration

May 1, 07 4:05 PM CDT
(Newser) - Thousands turned out across the country today to rally in favor of a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants. But with immigration reform off the table in Washington, their numbers marked a sharp decrease from the 650,000 who congregated last year in L.A. alone. More »

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immigration • illegal immigrant • immigration reform • citizenship • protests • rally

Million Turks Rally for Secularism

Apr 30, 07 6:35 AM CDT
(Newser) - Secular Turks staged an enormous rally yesterday amid a constitutional crisis over the election of the next president, the BBC reports. As many as a million protesters turned out in Istanbul to oppose ruling-party candidate Abdullah Gul, who they're afraid is orchestrating an Islamic coup in the country even as... More »

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Islam • Turkey • Middle East • politics • European Union • Abdullah Gul • protests • modernization • rally • radical • secularism • Istanbul • election

Anti-American Protests
Mark Iraqi Anniversary

Al-Sadr demonstrations draw tens of thousands

Apr 9, 07 6:49 AM CDT
(Newser) - Tens of thousands of Iraqis converged today on the southern city of Najaf, a Shia shrine, to mark the fourth anniversary of the fall of Baghdad.  Waving Iraqi flags and chanting anti-U.S. slogans,  demonstators marched from Kufa to neighboring Najaf. AP reports that two cordons of Iraqi... More »

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Iraq • Shiite • Mahdi Army • protests • Najaf • Muqtada al-Sadr

Chocolate Christ  Show Cancelled

New York gallery
pulls sculpture after
Catholic outcry

Mar 31, 07 5:54 PM CDT
(Newser) - A  nude chocolate Christ, sans loincloth, was pulled from a midtown Manhattan gallery yesterday after torrent of complaints from offended Catholics . Bill Donohue, head of the watchdog Catholic League, which orchestrated the protest, said the sculpture, intended for display during Holy Week,  was "one of the worst assaults... More »

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Catholic Church • Bill Donohue • protests • sculpture • Christ • Catholic League

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