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Janell Ross

Whistleblowers Face Deportation

HuffingtonPost.com | Janell Ross | Posted 05.08.2012

Read More: New Orleans, Texas, Natural Disasters, Whistleblowers, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, All Dry, Protest, Hurricane Gustav, Rally, Hurricane Ike, Immigration, Immigrant, Undocumented Immigrant, Ice, Day Laborers, Latino Voices News

In September 2008, Hurricanes Ike and Gustav ravaged cities along the Texas coast. Ambitious contractors and those just eager to help went looking for...

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Thousands to March in Denver Saturday

Nancy Cronk | Posted 04.26.2012

Read More: Rights, War Againts Women, Women, Grassroots, March, Wearewomenco, Rush Limbaugh, Brandon Shaffer, Reproductive, Naacp, Foxfield Four, unitewomen.org, Morgan Carroll, Girls, Mike Coffman, Joe Miklosi, Civic Center Park, Rally, Health Care, Raging Grannies, Denver, Denver News
Nancy Cronk

On April 28th, 2012, thousands of Colorado women and their family members will gather at Civic Center Park's Greek Amphitheater for a rally to protect women's access to health care and for their right to make their own decisions.

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Aaron Sankin

'Occupy SF' Stages Mass Squatting In Vacant Buildings

HuffingtonPost.com | Aaron Sankin | Posted 10.16.2011

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SAN FRANCISCO - Homeless advocacy group Homes Not Jails has teamed up with members of the Occupy San Francisco protest movement in a coordinated campa...

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Wall Street Occupennial, A Database Of Protest Art

Priscilla Frank | Posted 12.07.2011

Read More: Artist Protest, Youth Movement, Civil Disobedience, Art Fag City, Wall Street Occupennial, Art Activism, Activist, New York, 1%, Art Gallery, Chris Hedges, Wall Street Protest, Corporations, Occupy Wall Street, Protest, Rally, 99%, Occupennial, Economic Inequality, Occupy Art World, Inequality, Arts News

For the past 3 weeks Occupy Wall Street (OWS) has shaken up our nation in what one protester called a "protest movement not seen in America since the ...

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Tyler Kingkade

Unemployed Lobby Super Committee Members During Rally At Capitol

HuffingtonPost.com | Tyler Kingkade | Posted 12.05.2011

Read More: Video, Progressive Caucus, Unemployed, Unemployment, Super Committee, Van Jones, Jobs Bill, American Dream, Rebuild the Dream, US Capitol, Progressives, Rally, Keith Ellison, Job Creation, Jobs Not Cuts, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- Linda Evans cried Wednesday outside the U.S. Capitol building as she described the unemployment crisis and her own struggle to find work...

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1,000 Young Protesters, Angered by Troy Davis Execution, Take To NYC Streets

Kate Fridkis | Posted 11.26.2011

Read More: Occupy Wall Street, Protest, Troy Davis Vigil, Troy Davis Execution, Nypd, Rally, Amnesty International, Death Penalty, March, Kate Fridkis, New York News
Kate Fridkis

On Thursday evening, what started as an Amnesty International vigil in honor of Troy Davis in Union Square soon became a full-blown march through the streets of New York.

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Christine O'Donnell Dropped From Tea Party Rally, Then Reinvited

Posted 10.31.2011

Read More: Iowa, Sarah Palin Tea Party, Tea Party Movement, Politics News, Christine O'donnell Tea Party, Tea Party Rally, Sarah Palin, Rally, Restoring America, Christine O'donnell, Tea Party, Politics News

Christine O'Donnell has been re-invited to a Tea Party rally in Iowa after being dropped from the event's lineup early Tuesday morning. O'Donnell -...

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PHOTOS: SlutWalk Takes Over Chicago

The Huffington Post | Joe Erbentraut | Posted 08.06.2011

Read More: Rape, Feminism, Lgbt, Politics, Chicago Rallies, Activism, Protest, Rally, Chicago Around Town, Slutwalk Chicago, Slutwalk, Chicago Activism, Chicago News

In the middle of a sunny Saturday when many Chicagoans were hightailing it to the beach, hundreds headed, instead, to the inaugural SlutWalk Chicago i...

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Wisconsin Weekend Rally: More Philosophy Than Politics

Rev. Barbara Kaufmann | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Rally, Civil Liberties, Wisconsin Unions, Civil Rights Movement, Wisconsin, Labor Unions, Wisconsin Protests, Scott Walker, Governor Scott Walker, Politics News
Rev. Barbara Kaufmann

I joined first a trickle, then a river and finally a sea of people making their way to the Capitol Mall in Madison, Wisconsin on Saturday.

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The Awakening

Jerry Waxman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Florida GOP, Rick Scott, Activism, Rally, Tallahassee, Florida, Florida Taxpayers, Tea Party, Republicans, Politics News
Jerry Waxman

After almost thirteen years of Republican rule (certainly not governance), ordinary Floridians are beginning to awaken from their corporately-induced stupor and realize something is very wrong.

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Rally Against Hearing On US Muslims Held In Times Square

AP | KAREN MATTHEWS | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Rallies, US Muslims, Al Sharpton, Times Square, Liberty Alliance, Muslim Rally, Ny News, Russell Simmons, Protest, NY Around Town, Rally, New York News

NEW YORK — Some 300 people gathered in Times Square on Sunday to speak out against a planned congressional hearing on Muslim terrorism, criticiz...

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Weekly Audit: Police Defy Order to Clear Protesters from Wisconsin Capital

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Media Consortium

By Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium blogger On Monday afternoon, the Capitol Police in Madison, Wisconsin refused to enforce an order to clear the...

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100,000+ Protest Across America, 3,000 in Denver

Nancy Cronk | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Women's Reproductive Rights, Collective Bargaining, Signs, Workers, Solidarity, Colorado, Denver, Labor Unions, Protesters, Crowd, Wisconsin, Protest, Rally, Teachers, Pro-Choice, Union, Washington, Dennis Kucinich, Chicago, Oregon, Illinois, Boston, Madison, New York, Indiana, Ma, New Mexico, Ca, Albany, Oakland, Denver News
Nancy Cronk

Rallies were held at state capitols in all fifty states on Saturday, bringing out hundreds of thousands of Americans to stand in solidarity with workers in Wisconsin.

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Lucia Graves

Liberal Tea Party? U.S. Uncut Disrupts Service At Bank Of America

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucia Graves | Posted 05.25.2011

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Demonstrators posing as a liberal Tea Party disrupted service at banks across the country on Saturday, in an effort to spotlight the gimmicks multi-bi...

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Planned Parenthood To Rally In Lower Manhattan Saturday

http://www.ny1.com/content/top_stories/134654/planned-parenthood-to-rally-in-lower-manhattan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Abortion, Federal Funding, Abortion Rights, Ny News, Protests, Rally, Planned Parenthood, NY Around Town, Planned Parenthood Rally, New York News

On the heels of a vote last week in the House of Representatives that sought to cut federal funding for Planned Parenthood, elected officials, celebri...

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School Re-Segregation: How Faith Has Re-Ignited the Struggle for Justice

Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Wake County Schools, School Integration, Baptist Church, Wake County, Naacp, Brown v. Board of Education, Martin Luther King, Wake County School Board, Rally, Nonviolent Action, Christianity, Integration, Tea Party, Raleigh, Rev. William Barber, Hkonj, Civil Rights, Religion News
Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove

The radical faith that inspired the prophetic leadership of Martin Luther King, Jr. is now igniting a contemporary civil rights movement in North Carolina, led by the Rev. William J. Barber.

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Jon Stewart & Stephen Colbert Debate Sanity vs. Fear (VIDEO)

The Huffington Post | Katla McGlynn | Posted 05.25.2011

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One of the funniest moments during Saturday's Rally To Restore Sanity And/Or Fear occurred when Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert did a version of the c...

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Stewart Rally -- Why It Was Vastly Bigger Than The Beck Event

Peter G. Miller | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Lincoln, OurBroker.Com, Attendance, Capitol Hill, Crowdsourcing, Colbert, Memorial, Reflecting Pool, Beck, Jefferson, 7th Street, Martin Luther King, Mall, Madison, Rally, People, 3rd Street, Pennsylvania Avenue, Stewart, Politics News
Peter G. Miller

If there's one thing that's certain about the Jon Stewart rally it's that the attendance has been grossly under-counted. This is not just sour grapes...

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Rally To Restore Sanity: Who Will Appear Onstage?

Posted 05.25.2011

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This week, the Christian Science Monitor got ahold of the schedule for the Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear. Said to be appearing are musicians She...

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Entertainment and Politics

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Rally to Restore Sanity, Tea Party, Ronald Reagan, Political Rally, Al Franken, National Mall, Media, Journalism, Reagan, Rally, Comedy, Stewart, Gil Scott-Heron, Entertainment, Comedian, Colbert, Stephen Colbert, The Daily Show, Fake News, Rallies, Jon Stewart, Rally to Restore Fear, Glenn Beck, Politics News
Chris Weigant

The phenomenon of TV personalities throwing their own "rallies" certainly breaks new ground in both the political arena and the entertainment world -- politics has truly become indistinguishable from show business.

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Sarah Palin at the Phoenix Tea Party Rally

Francine Hardaway | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Rally, Sheriff Joe Arpaio, GOTV Efforts, Tea Party Express, Phoenix, Sarah Palin, Tea Party, Politics News
Francine Hardaway

Friday's Phoenix Tea Party Express rally, which took place outside the State Capitol at noon, was in some ways predictable, and in some ways totally unexpected.

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Rally To Restore Sanity Signs: Submit Your Own!

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Rally to Restore Sanity, Rally to Restore Sanity Signs, Jon Stewart, HuffPost Bus, Slidepollajax, Rally, Sanity Bus, Politics News

If you're planning to attend the Rally to Restore Sanity on October 30 -- whether on HuffPost's Sanity Bus or otherwise -- you'll no doubt want to bri...

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Rally To Restore Sanity Signs: Submit Your Own!

Posted 05.25.2011

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If you're planning to attend the Rally to Restore Sanity on October 30 -- whether on HuffPost's Sanity Bus or otherwise -- you'll no doubt want to bri...

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President Obama's Magical Moment at a Philadelphia Rally

Debbie Hines | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Democrats, Midterm Elections, Republicans, President Obama, Elections 23010, Barack Obama, Rally, Philadelphia, Joe Sestak, Politics News
Debbie Hines

There are two more Move America Forward rallies scheduled for Ohio on October 20 and Nevada on October 22. Time will tell if magic works the second time around for Democrats. It worked on Sunday, October 10 at the rally in Philadelphia.

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'One Nation Rally' Photo Gallery

Jeff Malet | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Photography, Civil Liberties, Middle Class, Afl-Cio, Jobs, Protest Sign, Liberal, The Left, Democrats, Peace, Troops Home, Lincoln Memorial, Civil Rights, Politics, Progressive, Labor, Human Rights, Protest, Tax Cuts, Rally, Slidepollajax, Teachers, Medicare, Health Care, Union, Politics News
Jeff Malet

2010-10-06-pullquote.jpg On October 2, 2010, tens of thousands of activists gathered, hoping to counter the conservative tea party movement and energize the electorate.

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