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Opinion: What's really at stake in the abortion debate

CNN 08 Jul 2022
In schools everywhere, discriminatory dress codes have become a means to further oppress girls and marginalized communities under the guise of an educational institution ... The book touches on themes of intersectional feminism, allyship and student protest ... "Oppressive Curriculum.
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I've been 'attacked because I am gay' and now fear my marriage will be outlawed. |Opinion

The Columbus Dispatch 07 Jul 2022
A lifetime Ohioan, Mark Hiser is a retired high school English teacher and adjunct college instructor ... More. Discrimination is real ... More ... We have Pride Month to say we will not politely accept oppression. We have Pride to protest and demand a right to exist as we are and to work for liberation for all. We have Pride to protest, celebrate, and declare ... .
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Longtime Colorado Springs justice and peace nonprofit creates youth activist training program

Colorado Politics 06 Jul 2022
The session will be held July 25 through July 29, from 9 a.m ... The organization’s nonsectarian members have taken a cue from Gandhi to promote "nonviolent resistance" by bannering, demonstrating and educating people in their protests of war, nuclear weapons, taxes funding military operations and what they see as oppressive political policies ... ....
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Australia: AUTWA stages protest on Urumqi Massacre's 13th anniversary, demands ban on Uyghur forced labour products

Beijing News 05 Jul 2022
Since then, the lives of Uyghurs and their everyday freedom in East Turkistan under Xi Jinping and Li Keqiang have been under attack."AUTWA protested against the Chinese Communist Party's oppression of Uyghurs in East Turkmenistan and the leaked document, known as Xinjiang Police ...
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YouTube in India bans short film highlighting rights abuses in IIOJK

The Wire Network 05 Jul 2022
A product of award-winning documentary filmmaker Anand Patwardhan and Sandeep Ravindranath, and Carnatic singer TM Krishna, the short film was released on May 12 ... Also read ... The short film has visual references to forced disappearances and military oppression and is accompanied by a Tamil protest rock track ... ....
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YouTube in India bans short film highlighting HR abuses in IIOJK

Urdu Point 05 Jul 2022
A product of award-winning documentary filmmaker Anand Patwardhan and Sandeep Ravindranath, and Carnatic singer T.M. Krishna, the short film was released on May 12 ... The short film has visual references on forced disappearances and military oppression and is accompanied by a Tamil protest rock track ... "I have Kashmiri friends, it was a hard time ... ....
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Harvard must fall

Hot Air 02 Jul 2022
In 1951, William F. Buckley Jr. warned in God and Man at Yale of his alma mater’s inability to prepare its students for the real world ... Though published well before the Black Lives Matter protests of 2020 decided that the police were state-funded agents of racial oppression, Fryer’s research nevertheless made him enemies in the academic world ... .
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Senator condemns atrocities against Muslims in India

Urdu Point 01 Jul 2022
She said the reality of India's hollow slogan of being a democrat was exposed to the whole world when it used force against peacefully protesting Indian Muslims ... Zehri said the use of force against protesters was a violation of the international human rights law, while arbitrary detention and house demolition also fell under the same category.
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Lawsuit filed against Forest Hills over ban on 'anti-racism teachings'

WCPO 30 Jun 2022
It also states schools cannot force individuals to admit privilege or oppression. The resolution has sparked protests from both parents and students, led one superintendent candidate to withdraw his application and has fueled heated debate and arguments in several school board meetings this year.
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Did Beyoncé's Renaissance Cover Art Just Reference A Famous Painting?

MTV 30 Jun 2022
Renaissance, on Thursday (June 30) ... Others have speculated that it is a reference to the famed painting of Lady Godiva, an 11th-century Anglo-Saxon noblewoman who, according to English legend, rode a horse nude to protest the citizens’ oppressive heavy taxes enforced by her husband ... “My intention was to create a safe place, a place without judgment ... .
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'In every word I speak and everything I do, I'm thinking of Palestine,' singer tells Brazil

Middle East Monitor 28 Jun 2022
And whether protesting against oppression, criticising the occupation government or resisting the occupation, music has unique potential for the Palestinian struggle.
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Five ways you can get involved in fighting for women's reproductive rights

The Conversation 27 Jun 2022
Fundraising enables campaigns such as Abortion Rights , the UK’s only national grassroots pro-choice campaign, to organise protests, maintain pressure on the government to support women’s reproductive rights ... Protest marches have long been a way of expressing dissent – on everything from pollution and political oppression to war and racism .
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Beirut LGBT protests forced to postpone after death threats

The New Arab 26 Jun 2022
... counter protests ... “We place responsibility for our safety with the security forces, and will take all legal steps to fight every single threat we face and protests will continue in the face of all oppression, violence and killing,” said Helem in defiance against the threats.
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Pride parades march on with new urgency across US

Corvallis Gazette-Times 26 Jun 2022
“It has gone from being a statement of advocacy and protest to being much more of a celebration of gay life,” Sean Clarkin, 67, said of New York City's annual parade while enjoying a drink recently at Julius's, one of the oldest gay bars in Manhattan's Greenwich Village ... And for many people, it’s a protest.
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D.C. businesses boarding up windows in case post-Roe protests turn "mostly peaceful"

Hot Air 24 Jun 2022
To those who work to oppress us ... Allegedly, protesters outside the Court this afternoon were circulating Clarence Thomas’s home address. ... “Violence is a legitimate and appropriate response to oppression.” ... "Keep all protests peaceful.

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In this photo provided by the Luhansk region military administration, Ukrainian firefighters work to extinguish a fire at damaged residential building in Lysychansk, Luhansk region, Ukraine, early Sunday, July 3, 2022.
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