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Protest, Pain and the Youth

March 16, 2012
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Everywhere, we are seeing individuals and groups stand up against authority and injustice. From the United Students Against Sweatshops to the revolutions in the Arab Spring, the youth are making sure their voices are being heard. But what is protest? How costly is it and how much are we willing to give for justice? In many cases, individuals are willing to give much more than would be expected: from their time, to their health, to their lives. A couple of weeks ago, Palestinian Khader Adnan’s hunger strike came to end, on its 66th day. Held by Israeli authorities in administrative detention without charge, he fasted from December 18th 2011 – the day he was taken from his village where he served as a baker — to February 21st 2012. His health had reached critical condition, and doctors prompted Israeli authorities...

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Family Research Council President Denounces Occupy Movement… With Flawed Arguments. Surprise?

December 11, 2011
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CNN’s Belief Blog rarely draws ire from me, but I couldn’t help but feel annoyed when the phrase “Family Research Council1 president Tony Perkins” popped up in an Op-Ed description on the front page. I made the mistake of clicking it and was shocked when, halfway through the article, Perkins describes Jesus’ “parable of the ten minas” as being in favor of free market capitalism. The parable, which involves two nobleman’s servants wisely investing their money, one mina2 each, and getting a large return on it, is used as evidence to suggest that Christians should be satisfied with the current free market system. Since the nobleman in the parable praised the servants for using their one mina to gain more wealth, Jesus must be demanding that we build our own wealth using the “same opportunity” granted to all Americans,...

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Katehi in Context: Demanding the UC Davis Chancellor’s Resignation

November 26, 2011
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In the aftermath of the Nov. 18 UC Davis pepper spray incident, in which about a dozen nonviolent protesters were sprayed by police, one of the first rallying cries was a call for the campus chancellor’s resignation.

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Mic Check! Ohio State Takes Occupy Protest Tactic

November 25, 2011
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Mic Check! Ohio State Takes Occupy Protest Tactic

Ohio State student activists took a page out of the Occupy playbook when they “mic checked” a panel discussion on shale drilling hosted by the the Subsurface Energy Research Center (SERC) at the Ohio Union on November 18th. The panel, which was made up of several industry experts, a state official and an environmental advocate, was intended to provide information on the oil and gas industry’s new, and extensive, horizontal hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) initiatives in Ohio. Approximately 10 minutes into the event, over thirty-five students from OSU and around the state interrupted state geologist Larry Wickstrom to deliver a message of their own to an audience of students, faculty, and industry professionals. Here is what they had to say (transcript below):   Around the nation, activists are hijacking public forums to spread their message.  The mic check tactic grew out...

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Occupy Movement: Exposing a Sophisticated Police State?

November 22, 2011
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While the media focus of the Occupy movement was initially on its message—to stop economic injustice, support direct democracy, and reclaim public space, confrontations with police departments around the country have attracted more occupiers while bringing questions of police brutality and excessive use of force to the fore of the movement’s consciousness.  Now the occupy movement’s identity is inextricable from its interactions with law enforcement. While the movement’s core values remain the same as when it began, police busting heads makes good news, and the media has shifted its focus to Occupy’s increasingly hostile relationship with police departments around the country. The nationwide police crackdown on the movement has not only demonstrated the willingness of police to use excessive force, but also the ways in which tactics for policing protests have changed over the years. The occupy movement has...

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The Pulse Online Video Channel

November 16, 2011
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