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Chattanooga Times Free Press
April 13, 2018
Arizona PTA president Beth Simek, who supported the statewide activist movement and was involved with the discussions for the governor's proposal, called it "a huge step forward." She said the governor is meeting the grassroots activists halfway. "The governor saw that this was a huge priority," she said.
Chattanooga Times Free Press
April 13, 2018
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — A team of inspectors from the international chemical weapons watchdog was on its way to Syria on Thursday to begin an investigation into a suspected chemical weapons attack near the capital that has brought the war-torn country to the brink of a wider conflict, amid WesternÃâà...
AllAfrica.com
April 13, 2018
Observers and activists argued that some of the law's definitions and wording were ambiguous, violated individual privacy, curtailed citizen's right to free speech and expression, and went against the spirit of an open Internet. The passing of this law is a culmination of the clampdown by the government ofÃâà...
Free Press Series
April 13, 2018
Thousands of pro-European campaigners will take part in demonstrations across the country this weekend in what has been dubbed the groups' largest ever joint grassroots national day of action. Activists and supporters from Open Britain, the European Movement and Britain for Europe will take to theÃâà...
BurlingtonFreePress.com
April 13, 2018
MONTPELIER - Gov. Phil Scott spoke over protesters' jeers and angry shouts as he signed a package of gun-related bills in a public ceremony at the Statehouse. The new laws mark a historic shift for Vermont, where both Democratic and Republican leaders have traditionally resisted any firearmsÃâà...
Verdict
April 12, 2018
The attacks have been conducted from 2012 until the present, against Emirati journalists, activists, and dissidents. We discovered this campaign when an individual purporting to be from an apparently fictitious organisation called The Right to Fight contacted Rori Donaghy, a UK-based journalist and humanÃâà...
Detroit Free Press
April 12, 2018
According to the Free Press archives, Del Rio said the charges were “garbage” and that he was a victim of a “Northern-style lynching” by the media, judges, attorneys and more, conducted to stop a grand jury investigation he was preparing to request into wrongdoing at the Recorder's Office. Del Rio movedÃâà...
Fernie Free Press
April 10, 2018
But activists know their work isn't over yet. Kinder Morgan has said the company will consult with “various stakeholders” to try and reach an agreement by May 31 that might allow Trans Mountain to proceed. Mahon, Hudema and Fenton all expect to see more protests in the coming weeks, targeting not onlyÃâà...
BurlingtonFreePress.com
April 10, 2018
SOUTH BURLINGTON - About 150 gun-rights activists, many of them bearing arms, rallied Saturday afternoon along Shelburne Road near Kmart Plaza. ... A holstered revolver hangs on the belt of a pro gun-rights activist at a rally on Shelburne Road in South Burlington on Saturday, April 7, 2018. (Photo:Ãâà...
Free Press Journal
March 30, 2018
Indore: Irked by arrest of seven of their outfit members from university campus, the National Student Union of India (NSUI) activists ransacked office of Devi Ahilya Vishwavidyalaya (DAVV) vice-chancellor Dr Narendra Dhakad on Thursday. They damaged furniture and caused loss to public property.
Richmond Free Press
March 30, 2018
Stephanie Younger, an activist with the Richmond Youth Peace Project, asked the crowd. “How many more times do my parents have to give me that talk explaining to me that I'm 10 times more likely to become a victim of gun violence because I am black?” Maxwell echoed her sentiments, saying, “We haveÃâà...
Greenwich Free Press
March 30, 2018
Volunteers manning a table outside the US Post Office in Cos Cob were hard to miss this week. With a giant poster featuring Donald Trump, Pat Servidio and his colleague Donald Clark in his red Make American Great Again hat caught many eyes. For several days, the duo were stationed firmly on theÃâà...
Richmond Free Press
March 30, 2018
“I have always been involved in advocacy for children, families and the elderly in East End Richmond,” Mrs. Giles stated in a Free Press Personality feature published before the May recognition event. Mrs. Giles credited her parents' influence for the role she sought to play in the community. “They served asÃâà...
Daily Free Press (blog)
March 29, 2018
While public workers were building a gas pipeline in West Roxbury in 2016, several environmental activists stood in the way of its construction, burrowing themselves in the hollowed spaces of where the pipeline would be placed. All 13 protesters, who felt compelled to take action against a measure thatÃâà...
San Diego Free Press
March 28, 2018
Over a montage of excerpts from the documentary Dolores, we hear from Dolores Huerta and one of her long-time supporters and the producer of the documentary, Carlos Santana, for whom she is the “Queen of Light”. Since our platform is about expressing ideas and ideals instead of cash flow, clicks,Ãâà...
Chattanooga Times Free Press
March 27, 2018
DOTHAN, Ala. (AP) — A minister known as a community activist has been charged with capital murder in connection with a shooting in Alabama. The Dothan Eagle reports the Rev. Kenneth Glasgow was jailed Monday in the slaying of 23-year-old Breunia Jennings on Sunday. Dothan Police Chief SteveÃâà...
The London Free Press
March 24, 2018
Derek Ruttan/The London Free Press ... But this wave — more than 70 complaints by city workers, especially firefighters, of workplace harassment and bullying, according to one local activist — comes amid a larger social movement ... Kobarda did not respond to Free Press requests for comment this week.
Free Press Kashmir
March 24, 2018
Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) on Friday held funeral prayers in absentia for the party activist killed in police firing in Pakistan-administered Kashmir. JKLF chairman Yasin Malik and scores of the party activists took part in the prayers held after weekly congregational prayers at AbiÃâà...
Chattanooga Times Free Press
March 24, 2018
Activist groups had worried the administration could enact such strict enlistment and health care restrictions that it would become all but impossible for transgender troops to join or continue serving. Under guidelines presented in December, the Pentagon could disqualify potential recruits with genderÃâà...
Chattanooga Times Free Press
March 24, 2018
This photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, shows Syrian government soldiers, helping civilians who fled from fighting between the Syrian government forces and insurgents, through the Wafideen crossing in eastern Ghouta, a suburb of Damascus, Syria, Thursday, March 22, 2018.
Richmond Free Press
March 24, 2018
Ms. Carter is one of the nation's leading African-American lesbian activists. She was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2005 as part of the “1000 Women for the Nobel Peace Prize” to recognize, make visible and celebrate the valuable and often invisible peace work of women around the globe.
BurlingtonFreePress.com
March 22, 2018
NICOLE HIGGINS DeSMET/FREE PRESS ... ALBANS - Teens in a rural Vermont county where hunting is a popular pastime have built a diverse coalition of activists by adapting the national student-led walkout movement to focus on gun safety rather than federal gun reform. “We wanted to serve as aÃâà...
Augusta Free Press
March 22, 2018
Angela Davis The Paramount Theater welcomes the University of Virginia for the continuation of the Excellence Through Diversity Distinguished Learning Series with social activist Angela Davis on Tuesday, March 27 at 6:00PM. This event is free and open to the public. Two tickets max. per person may beÃâà...
Jackson Free Press
March 14, 2018
Ellie Dahmer, widow of slain civil rights leader Vernon Dahmer, being assisted to her car by family members after Dahmer's funeral on Jan. 15, 1966. Photo courtesy Wikicommons/Mississippi Department of Archives and History. By The Associated Press Wednesday, March 14, 2018 6 a.m. CDT. Upvote 0. #HATTIESBURGÃâà...
BurlingtonFreePress.com
March 12, 2018
That's because a federal law may complicate removal of the mural, which activists have called racist for excluding people of color from a visual ... Church Street Marketplace Executive Director Ron Redmond told the Burlington Free Press in January Hardy wants nothing to do with reworking the piece.
London Free Press
March 12, 2018
Megan Walker, executive director of the London Abused Women's Centre, told The Free Press she's supporting 29 city employees who she says have faced harassment and retribution on the job, describing it as a widespread and systemic issue. City work sites extend beyond city hall, to locations such asÃâà...
Winnipeg Free Press
March 12, 2018
Josh Brandon, community animator at the Social Planning Council and chair of Make Poverty History Manitoba, has announced his intention to run for city councillor in Daniel McIntyre. One of the West End's most outspoken advocates has announced his intention to run for city councillor this election year.
BurlingtonFreePress.com
March 12, 2018
(Photo: GLENN RUSSELL/FREE PRESS)Buy Photo. CONNECTTWEETLINKEDINCOMMENTEMAILMORE. Vermont ... Student activists and Gun Sense Vermont will organize a competing event — a vigil for victims of gun violence on the Statehouse lawn. The Vermont Federation of Sportsmen's Clubs isÃâà...
Chattanooga Times Free Press
March 11, 2018
"People have paid into these programs over the course of a lifetime," Lamb told more than 300 retired coal miners and Democratic activists in Waynesburg, 40 miles south of Pittsburgh. "I do not believe, as (House Speaker) Paul Ryan does, that these are entitlements or another form of welfare." Trump hasÃâà...
Jackson Free Press
February 23, 2018
#One of the other people being honored Friday for civil rights work is Rita Schwerner Bender, who demanded answers from Mississippi officials after her first husband, Michael Schwerner, and two other activists, James Chaney and Andrew Goodman, were killed outside Philadelphia, Mississippi, in 1964Ãâà...
Detroit Free Press
February 21, 2018
Activists protest R. Kelly at Detroit's Little Caesars Arena: 'Black girls do matter'. Kristen Jordan Shamus, Detroit Free Press Published 4:12 p.m. ET Feb. 21, 2018 | Updated 8:09 p.m. ET Feb. 21, 2018. play. CLOSE. BuzzFeed News has reported that a handful of parents are accusing R. Kelly of keeping their daughtersÃâà...
Detroit Free Press
February 20, 2018
When Kelly comes to Detroit on Wednesday to perform at Little Caesars Arena with Charlie Wilson as part of their "Tale of Two Kings" tour, he'll meet opposition from activists who plan to protest the show. The protesters say that Kelly's slippery history with sexual misconduct allegations should disqualify himÃâà...
Chattanooga Times Free Press
December 31, 1999
National Express Group, the parent company of Durham School Services, which is at the center of ongoing litigation since the deadly 2016 Woodmore Elementary School bus crash that left six children dead, has higher numbers of crashes and safety violations than its competitors, according to a nationalÃâà...
Chattanooga Times Free Press
December 31, 1999
Demonstrators raise their fists during a moment of silence on the steps of the Hamilton County Courthouse during the March for Our Lives on Saturday, March 24, 2018, in Chattanooga, Tenn. Thousands of demonstrators marched locally in solidarity with national protests against gun violence spurred byÃâà...
San Diego Free Press
December 31, 1999
From African American activists critical to the 1963 March on Washington to the Japanese American women among the 120,000 wrongly imprisoned by a panic-stricken and—let's be honest—racist United State government after Pearl Harbor, history has a nasty tendency of suppressing the role womenÃâà...
