Collective Behavior and Social Movements

'The Communist Manifesto' Turns 160

2008-10-06T20:01:00.000-07:00

'The Communist Manifesto' Turns 160: "This year marks the 160th anniversary of The Communist Manifesto and capitalism--a k a 'free enterprise'--seems willing to observe the occasion by dropping dead. On Monday night, some pundits were warning that the ATMs might run dry and hinting that the only safe investment left is canned beans. Apocalypse or extortion? No one seems to know, though the populist part of the populace has been leaning toward the latter."

Dallas' Premiere Retirement Community: C.C. Young

2008-10-06T07:58:00.000-07:00

Dallas' Premiere Retirement Community: C.C. Young

Bailout Protesters Send a Strong Message from Wall Street | Rights and Liberties | AlterNet

2008-09-30T08:22:00.000-07:00

Bailout Protesters Send a Strong Message from Wall Street | Rights and Liberties | AlterNet: "Bailout Protesters Send a Strong Message from Wall Street

Posted by Jeremy Scahill, AlterNet at 2:37 PM on September 25, 2008.

Photos from today's NYC protests against Bush's bailout."

168 killed in Indian temple stampede - Yahoo! News

2008-09-30T08:18:00.000-07:00

168 killed in Indian temple stampede - Yahoo! News: "ODHPUR, India - Thousands of pilgrims panicked by false rumors of a bomb stampeded at a Hindu temple in western India on Tuesday, killing at least 168 people in the crush to escape, officials said.
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More than 12,000 people gathered at the temple at dawn to celebrate a Hindu festival in the historic city of Jodhpur when the stampede occurred early Tuesday morning."

Take Action: TrueMajority.org

2008-09-26T11:30:00.000-07:00

Take Action: TrueMajority.org: "Yesterday, TrueMajority members took to the streets with 251 emergency rallies in 41 states. From a honk and wave in Carbondale, IL to thousands marching on Wall Street in New York City, your voice was heard. Now the Bush Bailout is on hold and Congress is expected to vote on an economic recovery package for Main Street instead."

Russia sect holes up in cave to await end of world - Yahoo! News

2007-11-15T08:44:00.000-08:00

Russia sect holes up in cave to await end of world - Yahoo! News

ABC News: Bernard Kerik: America's Cop Indicted

2007-11-09T06:34:00.000-08:00

ABC News: Bernard Kerik: America's Cop Indicted: "A federal grand jury has voted to indict former New York City Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik on charges stemming from the acceptance of free rent and apartment renovations, tax evasion and lying on his application for the job as head of the Department of Homeland Security, two federal sources and a source involved in the defense told ABC News."

Bhutto in standoff as blast hits minister's home - CNN.com

2007-11-09T06:32:00.000-08:00

Bhutto in standoff as blast hits minister's home - CNN.com: "Meanwhile opposition leader and former prime minister Benazir Bhutto faced off against security forces, who placed barbed wire and barricades around her Islamabad home, preventing her attending a rally banned by the government, she told CNN. "

Commentary: Stop complaining, start doing something - CNN.com

2007-11-01T10:31:00.000-07:00

Commentary: Stop complaining, start doing something - CNN.com: "(CNN) -- Over the last couple of days I've gotten a few e-mails regarding a call for a 'National Blackout Day' on Friday, which calls for African-Americans to refrain from spending any money to send a signal to the federal government."

Myanmar imposes curfew, bans assembly - Yahoo! News

2007-09-25T21:24:00.000-07:00

Myanmar imposes curfew, bans assembly - Yahoo! News: "YANGON, Myanmar - Myanmar's military leaders imposed a nighttime curfew and banned gatherings of more than five people Tuesday after 35,000 Buddhist monks and their supporters defied the junta's warnings and staged another day of anti-government protests."

La. Protests Hark Back to '50s, '60s - eSearchNet News

2007-09-21T07:48:00.000-07:00

La. Protests Hark Back to '50s, '60s - eSearchNet News: "It had many of the signs of the early civil rights protests _ militant slogans, upraised clenched fists and multitudes of police _ but none of the hate and fear-drenched campaigns in Selma, Little Rock and Montgomery."

Thousands rally to support 'Jena 6' - CNN.com

2007-09-20T07:25:00.000-07:00

Thousands rally to support 'Jena 6' - CNN.com: "JENA, Louisiana (CNN) -- Thousands of protesters gathered in Jena, Louisiana, Thursday to show support for the 'Jena 6,' six black teens charged in the beating of a white classmate."

Hundreds of thousands rally for immigrant rights

2006-05-02T05:14:00.000-07:00

Hundreds of thousands rally for immigrant rights: "The police say more than 400,000 people turned out, but the organizers insist it’s many more.

Nearly 700,000 people showed up, with buses from Joliet and Elgin arriving late and kids showing up after school, said Marissa Graciosa, spokeswoman for the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights.

“We’re always going to say more than the police,” she said with a laugh.

Omar Lopez, one of the organizers of this rally and the earlier March 10 demonstration, said he hadn’t seen their final figures, but he said “I know for sure it went over a half a million” when compared to the earlier rally."

Giving the President a Pink Slip in New York City

2006-05-01T08:04:00.000-07:00

TomDispatch - Tomgram: Giving the President a Pink Slip in New York City:

Interesting article on huge antiwar demonstration in NYC last weekend -- and the mainstream media (MSM) "slighting" of coverage of protest marches these days.

"Who would have guessed that several hours later I would be standing on Broadway and Leonard Street looking back at perhaps 20 packed blocks of demonstrators -- bands, puppets, signs by the thousands, vets by the hundreds (if not the thousands), huge contingents of military families, congeries of the young, labor, women, the clergy, university and high school students, raging grannies, radical cheerleaders, and who knows who else -- an enormous mass of humanity as far as the eye can see and probably another 10 to 15 blocks beyond that. It was enough to make the heart leap. I had no way of counting, no way of knowing whether what I saw was the 300,000 the organizers claimed or merely the vague 'tens of thousands' mentioned in most media reports. It was, to say the least though, a lot of people, mobilized on limited notice"

Congressman Ron Paul Speaks Out AGAINST War With IRAN - April 2006 - Google Video

2006-04-28T16:53:00.000-07:00

Congressman Ron Paul Speaks Out AGAINST War With IRAN - April 2006 - Google Video: "Ron Paul addresses the House of Representitives against the bi-partisan tide of war-mongerers. He gives an excellent ... all � historical case on why and how this deception of an 'Iran Threat' is being laid on the public.

He addresses U.S. involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan, the recent elections in Pakistan, the nuclear capabilities of India, Pakistan, North Korea and Israel.

He also goes in depth at the economic consequences to the Average American, and how Congress has forfeighted its 'powers to declare war' to the administrative branch. "

Congressman Ron Paul Speaks Out AGAINST War With IRAN - April 2006 - Google Video

2006-04-28T16:52:00.000-07:00

Congressman Ron Paul Speaks Out AGAINST War With IRAN - April 2006 - Google Video:

Go to the link above for a good video from Google that actually makes a bit of sense!!!!

"Ron Paul addresses the House of Representitives against the bi-partisan tide of war-mongerers. He gives an excellent ... all � historical case on why and how this deception of an 'Iran Threat' is being laid on the public.

He addresses U.S. involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan, the recent elections in Pakistan, the nuclear capabilities of India, Pakistan, North Korea and Israel.

He also goes in depth at the economic consequences to the Average American, and how Congress has forfeighted its 'powers to declare war' to the administrative branch. "

Jose Angel Gutierrez - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

2006-04-24T11:43:00.000-07:00

Jose Angel Gutierrez - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "Jose Angel Gutierrez, is an attorney and professor at the University of Texas at Arlington. He was a founding member of the Mexican American Youth Organization (MAYO) in San Antonio in 1967, and a founding member and past president of the Raza Unida Party a Mexican-American third party movement that supported candidates for elective office in Texas, California, and other areas of the Southwestern and Midwestern United States."

Jelly Pizza: Hey, George, Meet Another New Boss Of You....

2006-04-20T19:27:00.000-07:00

Jelly Pizza: Hey, George, Meet Another New Boss Of You....: "China recently surpassed Japan to become the largest holder of $833 billion of dollar reserves, most of which is thought to be invested in US Treasuries."

CNN.com - France hit by new mass�protests - Apr 4, 2006

2006-04-04T11:10:00.000-07:00

CNN.com - France hit by new mass�protests - Apr 4, 2006: "PARIS, France (CNN) -- Protesters took to the streets of France Tuesday for a fifth 'day of action,' hoping to kill a new labor law that will allow employers to more easily hire and fire first-time workers 26 years old and younger.

Protesters were on the streets of 150 French cities. An estimate by the leaders of the union CGT put the turnout at more than three million, but the French Interior Ministry put its crowd estimate at 935,000.

Between one million and three million protesters turned out for a previous day of action on March 28, but the situation has changed. French President Jacques Chirac has signed the proposal into law, but has asked the French parliament to amend it to soften its effects."

TIME Europe Magazine: A Strange Kind of Revolution -- Apr. 03, 2006

2006-04-03T19:21:00.000-07:00

TIME Europe Magazine: A Strange Kind of Revolution -- Apr. 03, 2006: "It's all going to blow up.' this prophecy, which often comes up in French conversations, suggests that we understand our own history. Indeed, in France — where the word consensus is not exactly common usage, and the word reformist is considered an insult — confrontation always seems inevitable. Whether the First Employment Contract (cpe), the measure intended to encourage job creation by allowing employers to more easily dismiss the young staffers they take on, is good or bad is beside the point. It took an unusual degree of blindness for Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin to think that the French, who said non to the European constitution, would approve of this 'reform.' After all, it has revealed to young people the extent to which they have been victims of their elders, who have hoarded generous social benefits for the last 20 years. Financing those benefits has created a debt whose annual interest approaches France's total annual income-tax revenues. Against this backdrop, Villepin has managed to drive onto the streets not just youth who are locked out of the labor market, but also civil-servant trade unions, which habitually block reform on the pretext of resistance against what they sloppily label 'ultraliberalism.' "

Angered by Fatal Raid, Shiites Exit Unity Talks :: from www.uruknet.info :: news from occupied Iraq - ch

2006-03-28T17:02:00.000-08:00

Angered by Fatal Raid, Shiites Exit Unity Talks :: from www.uruknet.info :: news from occupied Iraq - ch: "BAGHDAD — As coffins of shooting victims rolled past wailing mourners, Iraq's dominant Shiite Muslim political alliance Monday condemned the United States for a weekend raid that left at least 16 people dead in a Shiite neighborhood and said it was for now dropping out of U.S.-guided talks aimed at forming a unity government.

Shiite political leaders and U.S. military commanders gave wildly contradictory accounts of the Sunday evening raid in northeast Baghdad, evidence of a growing rift between the United States and the Shiite-led government that came to power after the 2003 ouster of Saddam Hussein.

The raid also widened a split between the Sunni Arab-led Defense Ministry, which oversees the Iraqi troops who took part in the operation, and the Shiite-dominated police force. Rivalry between the two security forces has fueled apprehension that the sectarian violence could drag them into a civil war."

The Australian: US asked to cede Iraq control [March 28, 2006]

2006-03-28T14:17:00.000-08:00

The Australian: US asked to cede Iraq control [March 28, 2006]: "IRAQ'S ruling parties have demanded US forces cede control of security as the government investigated a raid on a Shiite mosque complex that ministers said involved 'cold blooded' killings by US-led troops"

Reuters AlertNet - U.S. troops defend raid, say Iraqis faked "massacre"

2006-03-28T14:12:00.000-08:00

Reuters AlertNet - U.S. troops defend raid, say Iraqis faked "massacre": "BAGHDAD, March 27 (Reuters) - U.S. commanders in Iraq on Monday accused powerful Shi'ite groups of moving the corpses of gunmen killed in battle to encourage accusations that U.S.-led troops massacred unarmed worshippers in a mosque."

CNN.com - Strike hits UK schools, transport� - Mar 28, 2006

2006-03-28T05:53:00.000-08:00

CNN.com - Strike hits UK schools, transport� - Mar 28, 2006: "LONDON, England (Reuters) -- Up to 1.5 million local government workers went on strike across Britain on Tuesday, closing thousands of schools and disrupting travel in a growing row over pensions."

How President Bush has unified Latin America

2006-03-27T08:05:00.000-08:00

How President Bush has unified Latin America: "Has Latin America ever had such a unifying figure?

At political rallies, his visage is held aloft as a beacon to regional independence and self-determination. He's helped forge new trade partnerships to spur economic growth and alleviate poverty. And his leadership has fanned a gale-force electoral trend that's sweeping the hemisphere to topple one pro-Washington government after the next."

CNN.com - Half-million protesters peacefully clog L.A. streets - Mar 26, 2006

2006-03-26T14:37:00.000-08:00

CNN.com - Half-million protesters peacefully clog L.A. streets - Mar 26, 2006: "LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- They surprised the police, and maybe themselves, their T-shirts turning block after block of downtown Los Angeles streets white in a demonstration so massive that few causes in recent U.S. history have matched it.

Police said more than 500,000 people marched Saturday to protest a proposed federal crackdown on illegal immigration."

CNN.com - Immigration legislation sends protesters to city streets - Mar 24, 2006

2006-03-24T15:30:00.000-08:00

CNN.com - Immigration legislation sends protesters to city streets - Mar 24, 2006: "Thousands of people across the country protested Friday against legislation cracking down on illegal immigrants, with demonstrators in Phoenix, Los Angeles, California, and Atlanta, Georgia, staging school walkouts, marches and work stoppages.

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Maureen Farrell: Apocalyptic Times

2006-03-23T09:23:00.000-08:00

Maureen Farrell: Apocalyptic Times: "A few years ago, a Time/CNN poll found that that more than a third of Americans search the news for signs of the Apocalypse. Since Sept. 11, they've not had to look very hard. In the immediate aftermath of World Trade Center attacks, for example, the Associated Press reported on Satan's visage in the smoke clouds, an incident Peggy Noonan wrote about in the Wall Street Journal. 'If you are of a certain cast of mind, it is of course meaningful that the face of the Evil One seemed to emerge with a roar from the furnace that was Tower One,' she wrote, before reminding readers that a cross emerged unharmed amid the falling concrete and wreckage."

CNN.com - Family beheaded over 'witchcraft' - Mar 19, 2006

2006-03-20T06:07:00.000-08:00

CNN.com - Family beheaded over 'witchcraft' - Mar 19, 2006: "GUWAHATI, India (Reuters) -- A tea plantation worker and his four children were beheaded in India's remote northeast by a mob which accused them of practising black magic, police said on Sunday.

Sixty-year-old Amir Munda, who was also a traditional healer, his two sons and two daughters were killed by angry villagers after a kangaroo court held them guilty of spreading a mysterious disease which killed two people and left many others ill over the last two weeks."

CNN.com - French�PM in bid to deflect strike - Mar 20, 2006

2006-03-20T06:05:00.000-08:00

CNN.com - French�PM in bid to deflect strike - Mar 20, 2006: "PARIS, France -- French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin is meeting employers and students to defend new youth job laws amid massive protests and the threat of a general strike.

After weekend protests that organizers said saw 1.5 million people take to the streets around the country, union leaders set a deadline of Monday evening for the government to withdraw or suspend the First Job Contract (CPE) law.

De Villepin has refused to back down over the law, which allows employers to dismiss workers under the age of 26 without a reason during a two-year trial period. He says it will help cut youth unemployment of 23 percent, more than twice the national rate."

Y! News

2006-03-19T08:10:00.000-08:00

Y! News: "PARIS (AFP) - French authorities announced 300 arrests after street protests over youth job reforms turned violent overnight, with the threat of more unrest hanging over marches planned for the weekend.

French President Jacques Chirac said the government was 'open to dialogue' and called for negotiations to 'begin as soon as possible', after the scenes of violence, the worst since the protests began."

Telegraph | News | Students march in Paris as the unrest spreads

2006-03-16T10:42:00.000-08:00

Telegraph | News | Students march in Paris as the unrest spreads: "Thousands of students marched through Paris and blockaded universities across France yesterday as their revolt against the government over a controversial new youth employment law intensified.

Dominique de Villepin, the prime minister, has staked his reputation, and possibly his job, on a measure that aims to cut rampant youth unemployment with two-year contracts that enable employers to sidestep rigid French labour laws and fire them without reason.
Students protest in Paris"

CNN.com - Officials: Internet makes it easier in Japan to commit suicide - Mar 10, 2006

2006-03-10T19:58:00.000-08:00

CNN.com - Officials: Internet makes it easier in Japan to commit suicide - Mar 10, 2006: "TOKYO, Japan (AP) -- Six young Japanese were found dead from asphyxiation in a minivan Friday, charcoal stoves still smoking beside them -- apparently the latest victims of a surge in suicide pacts arranged over the Internet."

CNN.com - Police battle punk fans at California concert - Mar 5, 2006

2006-03-05T07:44:00.000-08:00

CNN.com - Police battle punk fans at California concert - Mar 5, 2006: "SAN BERNARDINO, California (AP) -- Rioting broke out Saturday night at British punk band concert, injuring several people and destroying two police cars, officials said.

Some in the crowd of about 1,500 at the 'British Invasion 2K6' show pelted police with rocks and bottles, forcing the officers to withdraw, police spokesman Sgt. Rick Lindsey said."

CNN.com - At least 66 dead in Nigeria's religious violence - Feb 22, 2006

2006-02-22T14:41:00.000-08:00

CNN.com - At least 66 dead in Nigeria's religious violence - Feb 22, 2006: "ONITSHA, Nigeria (Reuters) -- Revenge attacks against Muslims killed at least 20 people in the southeastern Nigerian city of Onitsha on Wednesday after days of anti-Christian violence killed dozens in the mainly Muslim north."

Dallas Morning News | News for Dallas, Texas | Points

2006-02-22T11:28:00.000-08:00

Dallas Morning News | News for Dallas, Texas | Points: "James Kurth: America's Christian soldiers

click link above for full story -- may require registration

03:32 PM CST on Sunday, January 29, 2006

President Bush has often spoken of freedom as God's gift to America and to mankind, and of America's calling to bring freedom to all peoples. Moreover, his strongest electoral support has come from evangelical Protestants. These are the people the liberal media call 'the religious right' (although by that logic, the media themselves should be called the 'secular left')."

As it happens, Protestantism has indeed had a major impact on U.S. foreign policy, but this is not primarily due to evangelical Protestantism. It is due to the "Protestant Deformation."It is this peculiar pseudo religion upon which both President Bill Clinton and President George W. Bush have drawn in their foreign policies to spread American ideas of liberal democracy, free markets, individual freedom and human rights abroad.

Analysts have debated for decades the relative influence of different factors in the shaping of American foreign policy. Although numerous scholars have stressed the importance of realism, idealism, capitalism or liberalism, until recently almost no one has thought that Protestantism itself – the dominant religion in the United States – was worthy of consideration.

In fact, American foreign policy has been and continues to be shaped by the Protestant origins of the United States, but with a twist. That Protestantism has not been the original religion, but a series of successive departures from it down the scale of what might be called the "Protestant declension.

Cartoons as Culture War?

2006-02-21T05:36:00.000-08:00

Muslims and the West: A Culture War?

Guest Commentary by John L. Esposito, Gallup Senior Scientist

Opinion and analysis by John L. Esposito, University Professor at Georgetown University and author of What Everyone Needs to Know About Islam and Unholy
War: Terror in the Name of Islam. Esposito is a Gallup Senior Scientist and co-author of the forthcoming Can You Hear Me Now: What a Billion Muslims Are Trying to Tell Us.

Newspaper cartoons of the prophet Mohammad have set off an international row with dangerous consequences, both short and long term. The controversial caricatures first published in Denmark and then in other European newspapers, target Muhammad and Islam and equate them with extremism and terrorism. In response ! to outcries and demonstrations across the Muslim world, the media have justified these cartoons as freedom of _expression; France Soir and Germany's Die Welt asserted a 'right to caricature God' and a 'right to blasphemy,' respectively.

One of the first questions I have been asked about this conflict by media from Europe, the United States, and Latin America has been, 'Is Islam incompatible with Western values?' Are we seeing a culture war? Before jumping to that conclusion, we should ask, whose Western democratic and secular values are we talking about? Is it a Western secularism that privileges no religion in order to provide space for all religions and to protect belief and unbelief alike? Or is it a Western 'secular fundamentalism' that is anti-religious and increasingly, post 9/11, anti-Islam?"

For the full article, see:

http://www.global-college.com/cartoonwar.htm

Message from a former student

2006-02-21T05:16:00.000-08:00

Re Muslim anti-Cartoon Riots

From a former grad student. One very bright guy. And a Muslim.

Hi Dr. Eve,

Some scattered thoughts on the issue:

i) There are obvious grievances among the Muslim people around the world. Flushing Quran in toilet (Gitmo), Abu Ghuraib humiliations, attacks on Iraq and Afghanistan under wrong pretexts, American foreign policy of supporting dictatorial regimes (including the ones in the Middle East and Pakistan) - Muslim people, or for that matter, any person who is not under the influence of corporate media, can see the link of animosity toward Islam by the West. Here, I am taking about the the image or perception of America in the mind of people over there. This would be Grievances, Cultural Framing, and New Social Movements related argument. Especially related to the last one, the new social movements, which tend to be more about Identity. These series of actions including the mockery of Prophet are threatening the very ideals and identity of Muslims all over the world, compelling the even the moderate leaning Muslims to support the extremists (involved in violence, which I don't think is the only way to protest).

ii) Part of this global drive has to do with the advancement in technology, media, communication that has more than ever before facilitated the possibility of a global 'Ummah' (which means, a Muslim "community" in abstract sense; not a polity or state). This would be Resource Mobilization Argument (from "Imagined Communities").

iii) Understanding the issue itself can be helpful in understanding the reaction. So some people in the Western media seem to claim that the issue is about depicting Prophet in pictures. I do not think that is the main issue. Depiction of Prophet has been done in the Turkish and Iranian arts for centuries. a) The issue is about the intent behind the design and publication of those malicious cartoons, not the pictures themselves. b) Next, Muslims see it as ethnocentricism of the West to publish these cartoons but deny the publication of Jesus cartoon (presented to the same newspaper three years ago) or Holocaust related stuff. In other words, West is not free of sacred cows either. Now in the Islamic world, Muslims would be similarly outraged by any mockery of Prophet Jesus. So, the point is that many Muslims think that it is an abuse of the "freedom of speech" ideal to target particular communities or groups. This becomes especially important given the history of racism and exploitation of colonial people in the West. This critique could be seen in Said's "Orientalism". Now, supposedly the more civilized people in the West should be more aware of the misrepresentation of the Prophet in Orientalist literature and in the Western Imagery (like Dante's placement of Prophet Mohammad in the lowest level of Hell).

U.S. Church Alliance Denounces Iraq War - Yahoo! News

2006-02-19T13:25:00.000-08:00

U.S. Church Alliance Denounces Iraq War - Yahoo! News: "PORTO ALEGRE, Brazil - A coalition of American churches sharply denounced the U.S.-led war in
Iraq on Saturday, accusing Washington of 'raining down terror' and apologizing to other nations for 'the violence, degradation and poverty our nation has sown.'
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The statement, issued at the largest gathering of Christian churches in nearly a decade, also warned the United States was pushing the world toward environmental catastrophe with a 'culture of consumption' and its refusal to back international accords seeking to battle global warming."

Plugged in: Strange bedfellows - Feb. 8, 2006

2006-02-09T07:58:00.000-08:00

Plugged in: Strange bedfellows - Feb. 8, 2006: "NEW YORK (FORTUNE) - An unlikely coalition of evangelical Christians, FORTUNE 500 executives and environmentalists is coming together to press the U.S. government to take action to curb global warming.

The latest example: Evangelical leaders Wednesday announced a 'call to action' asking government and business leaders to agree to 'cost-effective, market-based' regulations to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide, which are mostly caused by burning fossil fuels."

TomPaine.com - Decoding The Cartoon Crisis

2006-02-08T22:29:00.000-08:00

TomPaine.com - Decoding The Cartoon Crisis: "This is no mere clash of cultures. It is a new form of the colonial struggle that defined European-Arab/Asian relations in the 19th century. The difference this time is that the natives in the south are not helpless and quiescent in the face of the West's large guns, disdainful rhetoric or insulting cartoons. Muslims, Arabs, Asians and others today are much more aware of the policies of Western states, concerned about their goals, angry about Western double standards, able to resist through the use of mass media, political and other channels, and willing to stand up, fight back and assert their right to live in freedom and dignity. The message from the Arab-Islamic heartland is that the 19th century has officially ended."

Christianity and the workplace are increasingly intertwined - Feb. 1, 2006

2006-02-07T09:24:00.000-08:00

Christianity and the workplace are increasingly intertwined - Feb. 1, 2006: "NEW YORK (FORTUNE Small Business Magazine) - Entrepreneurs, it's been said, are born hungry and alone. And most are quick to seek not just bread but also fellowship. Nowhere is that impulse more evident than in the growing ranks of Christian business owners, who are banding together for mutual support while they seek to express their faith through their companies. They have created at least 30 networking organizations in the U.S., about half of them launched in the past five years."

Collective Behavior and Social Movements

'The Communist Manifesto' Turns 160

Dallas' Premiere Retirement Community: C.C. Young

Bailout Protesters Send a Strong Message from Wall Street | Rights and Liberties | AlterNet

168 killed in Indian temple stampede - Yahoo! News

Take Action: TrueMajority.org

Russia sect holes up in cave to await end of world - Yahoo! News

ABC News: Bernard Kerik: America's Cop Indicted

Bhutto in standoff as blast hits minister's home - CNN.com

Commentary: Stop complaining, start doing something - CNN.com

Myanmar imposes curfew, bans assembly - Yahoo! News

La. Protests Hark Back to '50s, '60s - eSearchNet News

Thousands rally to support 'Jena 6' - CNN.com

Hundreds of thousands rally for immigrant rights

Giving the President a Pink Slip in New York City

Congressman Ron Paul Speaks Out AGAINST War With IRAN - April 2006 - Google Video

Congressman Ron Paul Speaks Out AGAINST War With IRAN - April 2006 - Google Video

Jose Angel Gutierrez - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Jelly Pizza: Hey, George, Meet Another New Boss Of You....

CNN.com - France hit by new mass�protests - Apr 4, 2006

TIME Europe Magazine: A Strange Kind of Revolution -- Apr. 03, 2006

Angered by Fatal Raid, Shiites Exit Unity Talks :: from www.uruknet.info :: news from occupied Iraq - ch

The Australian: US asked to cede Iraq control [March 28, 2006]

Reuters AlertNet - U.S. troops defend raid, say Iraqis faked "massacre"

Top News Article | Reuters.co.uk

CNN.com - Strike hits UK schools, transport� - Mar 28, 2006

How President Bush has unified Latin America

CNN.com - Half-million protesters peacefully clog L.A. streets - Mar 26, 2006

CNN.com - Immigration legislation sends protesters to city streets - Mar 24, 2006

Maureen Farrell: Apocalyptic Times

CNN.com - Family beheaded over 'witchcraft' - Mar 19, 2006

CNN.com - French�PM in bid to deflect strike - Mar 20, 2006

Y! News

Telegraph | News | Students march in Paris as the unrest spreads

CNN.com - Officials: Internet makes it easier in Japan to commit suicide - Mar 10, 2006

CNN.com - Police battle punk fans at California concert - Mar 5, 2006

CNN.com - At least 66 dead in Nigeria's religious violence - Feb 22, 2006

Dallas Morning News | News for Dallas, Texas | Points

Cartoons as Culture War?

Message from a former student

Re Muslim anti-Cartoon Riots

U.S. Church Alliance Denounces Iraq War - Yahoo! News

Plugged in: Strange bedfellows - Feb. 8, 2006

TomPaine.com - Decoding The Cartoon Crisis

Christianity and the workplace are increasingly intertwined - Feb. 1, 2006