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• Maine Fare! A Food Celebration

  Published: September 1, 2007, 10:48 am

  Tags: Bounty, Celebration, Classes, Cooking, Demonstrations, Festival, Food, Maine Fare, Mainefare, Produce, Tastings

  cooking classes and demonstrations, great food and beverages of all kinds, and over thirty of the best chefs in the state getting together to show off the bounty of food in Maine. If you are a foodie, then this is the place to be the third weekend in September, Friday 9/14, Saturday 9/15, and Sunday 9/16/2007. Originally this event

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• Burma - this news sent at great risk

  Published: October 15, 2007, 11:52 am

  Tags: Asia, Media Journalism, Politics News, Religion Spirituality, Southeast Asia, Buddhist Monks, Burma, Democracy Demonstrations, Myanmar

  the situation is awful. The demonstrations have been crushed in the most brutal way. Thousands (probably 100s of thousands of monks have been beaten, detained and in many instances killed). The most revered Buddhist pagoda of Rangoon is now under military occupation. Abbots of monasteries have been shot. Last night the army sent boats down the

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• Protesters for Toy Safety Reach Owner’s Front Door

  Published: October 15, 2007, 3:16 pm

  Tags: Government Politics, Housing Economy, Business, Demonstrations

  A congresswoman and others protest "toxic toys" in Manhattan at an equity firm that partly owns the Toys "R" Us chain.

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• Burma Junta Drops Curfew

  Published: October 20, 2007, 7:15 pm

  Tags: Announced, Assembly, Confident, Crackdown, Crushed, Curfew, Deadly, Decades, Demonstrations, Drops, Ended, Fully, Government, Imposed, Largest, Latest, Myanmar, Politics, Pro Democracy, Protests, Regime, Rulers, September, Streets, Yangon

  At first I thought that this was good news, but it's more likely that the ruling junta simply thinks that they've squashed the protest to the point where they don't need the military manpower to pa read more

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• Thousands face down Pakistani police

  Published: November 5, 2007, 11:18 am

  Tags: Activists, Arrested, Authorities, Constitution, Demonstrations, Dissent, Emergencies, Emergency, Independent Media, Islamabad, Judges, Lawyers, Muslim, Pakistan, Pakistan Protest, Pakistani, Pervez Musharraf, Police, President, Protesting, Rights Workers, Stranglehold

  "ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Police fired tear gas and clubbed thousands of lawyers protesting President read more

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• Talk Dirty to Me, Baby: Apple's iPhone Alleged to be Toxic

  Published: November 9, 2007, 11:50 pm

  Tags: California, Allege, Apple, Clash, Culture, Demonstrations, Details, Dose, Environmental, Equivalent, European, Fake, Fingers, Greenpeace, Handed, Health, Ingestion, Iphone, Laced, Laws, Lawsuits, Life, Long Awaited, Macnn, Nasty, Phon

  Things to think about: what you put in your mouth, phone sex, the allure of an Apple, and whether or not that techno-darling iPhone is a totable landfill of toxins. read more

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• YouTube shuts down Egyptian anti-torture activist's account

  Published: December 1, 2007, 3:07 am

  Tags: Content, Egypt, Flag, Officer, Police, Abbas, Abuse, Account, Activist, Anti Torture, Asked, Award, Award Winning, Blog, Blogger, Brutality, Click, Comment, Community, Complaints, Culture, Demonstrations, Driver, E Mail, Election, Graphic, Ian, Image, Impact, Inappropriate, Incident

  This is not just another youtuber, but "an award-winning anti-torture watchdog". My only comment on this is that yes the material was very graphic, but that's the point. It's the ultimate reality show. Obviously the video is not for everyone or every website, but youtube is...read more

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• In a Park Known for Battles, a Lost Fight Over Its Renovation

  Published: December 6, 2007, 3:02 pm

  Tags: Featured Box, Top Story, Courts And Law, Parks And Recreation, Manhattan, Demonstrations, Greenwich Village, Washington Square

  A judge's ruling clears the way to spruce up Washington Square Park, which sports a long history of protests and demonstrations that have exhibited free speech and a free spirit.

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• Luxury Hotel Exposes Competing Visions of Chinatown

  Published: December 20, 2007, 5:05 pm

  Tags: Top Story, Housing Economy, People Neighborhoods, Labor, Manhattan, Business, Bowery, Chinatown, Demonstrations, Development, Gentrification, Hotels

  A luxury Wyndham Hotel under construction on the Bowery has become a touchstone about Chinatown's future. Community groups protested against the hotel today.

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• Union Protests Atmosphere of Fear' at FreshDirect

  Published: December 20, 2007, 3:57 pm

  Tags: Featured Box, Housing Economy, Immigration, Labor, Queens, Business, City Council, Demonstrations, Food, Freshdirect, Long Island City, Unions

  The United Food and Commercial Workers union protested the online grocery delivery company's decision to let go of scores of immigrant workers. A unionization vote is planned this weekend.

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• A YIMBY Crowd Rallies on the Lower East Side

  Published: December 20, 2007, 3:20 pm

  Tags: Top Story, Housing Economy, People Neighborhoods, Manhattan, Business, Activism, Chinatown, Demonstrations, Lower East Side, Supermarkets

  It's not every day that a community rallies in favor of a chain store, but that is what happened today on the Lower East Side, where residents fear they will lose their supermarket.

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• Mao to Now

  Published: December 22, 2007, 1:12 pm

  Tags: International, Hong Kong, Guangyuan, Beijing, China, Taiwan, Suzhou, Shanghai, Tiananmen Square, People S Liberation Army, Shenzhen, California, Chinese Politics, Politics, Protests And Demonstrations, World Politics

  China is thousands of years old but has been made anew in the last three decades, and my family with it.

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• The Crisis in Kenya -- Searching for Understanding and Hope

  Published: January 5, 2008, 3:05 pm

  Tags: Africa, Law, Media Journalism, Politics News, Demcracy Demonstrations, Jendayi Frazier, Mwai Kibaki, Raila Odinga, Voting Rights, War On Terror

  Since Dec. 27, when Kenya's president Mwai Kibaki was pronounced the winner of a widely-disputed election, violent clashes have killed as many as 360 and displaced at 250,000 more, according to reported United Nations estimates. While the crisis has not claimed the kind of Western press attention given to the assassination of former Pakistani

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• 'There Will Be Blood'

  Published: January 16, 2008, 4:49 pm

  Tags: International, Raila Odinga, Mombasa, Kenya, Hussein Khalid, Nairobi, Mwai Kibaki, Protests And Demonstrations

  A surge of political protests re-ignites clashes in Kenya.

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• A Protest Over Bus and Train Citizenship Checks

  Published: April 2, 2008, 5:01 pm

  Tags: Top Story, Transportation, Immigration, Amtrak, Buses, Demonstrations, Homeland Security, Latinos, Trains

  Stepped-up border patrol inspections on Amtrak trains and Greyhound buses are drawing protests from immigration advocates who say that Latinos are being profiled.

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