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The article reports on an analysis by "The New York Times" on the impact of the sexual assault cases against American film producer Harvey Weinstein on the power structure of #MeToo movement against sexual harassment. Topics include a list of other prominent men who have lost their jobs following public allegations of sexual harassment and the significance of Weinstein's fall to women's underrepresentation in U.S. institutions.

Reports on the emergence of a sex-worker movement in the United States. Formation of a chapter of the California-based Sex Workers Outreach Project in Huntsville, Alabama; Goals of sex-worker activists; Claim by prostitutes and their advocates that the illegal nature of their business makes them a target of violence; Gains to be had if the movement perseveres.

Focuses on the death of Richard G. Butler who founded the Aryan Nations in the 1970s and its significance for the white supremacy movement in the United States. Loss of dominance of Christian identity within the white supremacy movement; Signs that white supremacy is thriving; Rise of a white supremacy movement based on Odinism; Problems in the white supremacy movement that led to a decline in number of group members.

Reports on the American Civil Liberties Union's withdrawal from the federal charity drive Combined Federal Campaign, which requires it to employ people whose names appeared on several government terrorism watch lists. Reason for the move; Background on the charity campaign.

Reports on the protest movement during the Democratic National Convention held July 26, 2004 in Boston, Massachusetts. Designated protest area; Free speech zone allotted for protesters; Protest movement by the opponents of the Israeli occupation of the West Bank.

Reports on the meeting between police officials and protest organizers in New York to discuss whether to let demonstrators march past Madison Square Garden the day before the Republican National Convention begins on August 30, 2004. Concession won by the protesters; Security measures restricting the demonstrators' movements; Second meeting arranged between the police and representatives of United for Peace and Justice.

The article reports that African American sophomore college basketball player Devontae Shuler of the University of Mississippi, also referred to as Ole Miss, took a knee during the playing of the national anthem prior to the team's game against Georgia, as a way to protest a planned march on campus by pro-Confederate and white supremacists on campus.

The author explains why the Oscars or the Academy Awards remain significant for the U.S. motion picture industry and for the U.S. cultural sector in general. Topics covered include the social impact of the Oscars in line with the #MeToo and Time's Up movements, possibility of having more than one African American-directed film to be nominated in the 2019 Oscars, effect of streaming-service Netflix on the Oscars and the popularity and box-office results of the top contenders for Best Picture.

The article offers information on the 2017 Golden Globes Awards and the use the award ceremony by actresses for the Time's Up campaign against sexual harassment, discussing the potential of a similar campaign at the Oscar awards which will be hosted by television host Jimmy Kimmel.

The article focuses on the Golden Globe Awards, the first major awards ceremony of the #MeToo era, and why Hollywood women declare the event as a success like Eva Longoria and Geena Davis. Topics include the commitment of women celebrities to fight against sexual harassment and bring gender balance to Hollywood, the creation of the Time's Up initiative to end sexual harassment across the country, and why men celebrities did not speak about the issues despite their support to the initiative.

The article reports on the emergence of the anti-fascist movement called antifa in the U.S., a group focused on fighting white supremacists in the country. Topics discussed include some members of antifa asserting that violence is the only way to deal with white supremacists, the criticisms made by some groups, who are also against white supremacy, towards antifa's way of doing things and the antifa's efforts at monitoring white supremacist websites to expose the activities of white extremists.

The article reports on a nascent movement in the U.S. to change the voting age to 16 in 2019. Topics discussed include a movement in 1969 which aimed to persuade lawmakers to allow 18-year-olds to vote, concerns of high school students with social turbulence that affects them such as gun violence and the passage of the 26th Amendment in March 1971.

The article discusses what the author refers to as a positive death movement in America in which a group of mostly women try to break the social taboos that are associated with death, and it mentions discussions about death, as well as the Conversation Project which provides a guide for discussing end of life plans. Retired newspaper columnist Ellen Goodman's establishment of the Conversation Project is examined, along with ex-nurse Shatzi Weisberger's thoughts about dying.

An editorial is presented on the rise of decency in the U.S. given the #MeToo movement, refusal to disregard the school shooting in Parkland, Florida, and the political activism of citizens.

The author reflects on the #MeToo movement against sexual abuse and the sexual harassment law in the U.S.

The article focuses on the growing presence of white supremacist groups on the internet. The authors discuss the shooting deaths of nine African Americans in a Charleston, South Carolina, church in June 2015, explore the white supremacist views of the alleged shooter Dylan Roof, and examine several white supremacist websites, including Stromfront.org and Dailystormer.com.

The article discusses U.S. congressional Democrats' support proposals introduced by U.S. senator Patty Murray and U.S. Representative Robert C. Scott to raise the U.S. federal minimum wage to $12 an hour by 2020. Topics addressed include the views of Democrats such as Hillary Rodham Clinton, Charles E. Schumer, and Bernard Sanders, as well as the growth of a movement started by fast food and retail workers aimed at raising the minimum wage.

The article discusses fast-food restaurant company McDonald's decision to raise minimum wages and offer increased benefits for employees of outlets owned and operated by the company, noting that the wage increases will not apply to McDonald's franchises. Topics addressed include a protest movement of fast-food workers aimed at raising the minimum wage, as well as McDonald's chief executive Steve Easterbrook's changes to the company.

The article discusses a broadening of the strategy used by a movement to advocate for a higher minimum wage for U.S. fast-food workers. Topics addressed include the spread of protests by fast-food workers from restaurants such as McDonald's and Burger King, efforts to broaden the movement to include low-wage workers from industries outside of fast-food, and the Service Employees International Union (S.E.I.U.'s) increase of pressure on McDonald's.

The article reports on a pledge by the group iVote to spend up to 10 million dollars on a push to make voter registration automatic for people who applied for a driver's license in the U.S. and mentions efforts by the Republican Party to tighten voting laws.

The article reports on the concerns of immigrant workers and the needs of their employers, as demonstrators around the country are pressing for immigrants legal status and citizenship. It describes some of the numerous cases of firing that resulted from the protest rallies, their consequences and their pertinence.

Reports on the efforts of the family and friends of Mychal F. Judge, the Fire Department chaplain who died in the rubble of September 11 terrorist attack, to promote Father Judge's campaign against the ban of gay priests in the U.S.

Examines the outlook for abortion rights, in light of the retirement of Justice Sandra Day O'Connor and the possible retirement of Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist from the U.S. Supreme Court. Speculation that President George W. Bush will replace Rehnquist with a similar conservative; Suggestion that a number of cases likely to reach the court in the next few years may give a new set of justices the opportunity to restrict abortion in significant ways; Overview of the abortion debate; How strategists anticipate that any new justices will be sympathetic to anti-abortion efforts; Role of O'Connor in developing the court's consensus on abortion over the past 15 years; Issue of the so-called partial birth ban; Warning by abortion rights groups that the basic right to abortion, Roe v. Wade, could be gradually overturned. INSET: Abortion Laws on Trial.

Discusses the emerging movement of bioart, or wetware, which blurs the line between art and science. Background on Steven Kurtz, an artists and professor at the State University of New York at Buffalo, who was indicted by a federal grand jury; Kurtz' involvement in an art group; How Kurtz and his wife had worked with biological and chemical agents, which they used at exhibitions worldwide; Why federal prosecutors have pursued the case; Emergence of Kurtz as an art world martyr-hero; Background on the art movement, which focuses on the science of genetics and biotechnology, and the lines between art and activism; Focus of bioartists on life itself; The rapid growth of the movement in the U.S. and Europe; How it is producing bizarre and sometimes disturbing work; Subversiveness of the art.

Reports that tens of thousands of Iraqis marked the second anniversary of the fall of Saddam Hussein by marching in Baghdad to demand the withdrawal of American forces. Warnings from a lethal insurgent group against Iraqis joining the army or police force; How most protesters were followers of rebel Shiite cleric Moktada al-Sadr; Details of the protest, which was peaceful; Sadr's ability to mobilize his followers peacefully and capitalize on resentment in Iraq caused by the presence of foreign troops; How other disaffected groups used the occasion to denounce U.S. military presence in Iraq.

The author focuses on the issue on gay marriage involving the African American community in the U.S. He makes a decision to create a documentary film "The New Black" to explore the complicated relationship between the African-American and gay civil rights movements. Meanwhile, he cites a bill passed by the State Legislature in Maryland in February 2012 that legalize same-sex marriage.

Goa, India The world's two biggest democracies, India and the United States, are going through remarkably similar bouts of introspection. Both countries are witnessing grass-roots movements against corruption and excess. The difference is that Indians are protesting what is illegal -- a system requiring bribes at every level of governance to get anything done. And Americans are protesting what is legal -- a system of Supreme Court-sanctioned bribery in the form of campaign donations that have enabled the financial-services industry to effectively buy the U.S. Congress, and both political parties, and thereby resist curbs on risk-taking. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

WASHINGTON -- After six months of struggle inside the White House to reconcile American interests in the Arab uprisings with American values, President Obama on Thursday sought to portray the region's revolt in the historical tradition of the American Revolution and the civil rights movement. But even as Mr. Obama appealed for the people of the region to embrace self-determination as the route to peace and prosperity, he left open how far the United States could go in matching its enthusiasm with concrete financial support for a sustained transformation, in a region where repression has often been the handmaiden of poverty and seething frustration. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

One member of Congress broke down and cried. Another was so incensed that she waved a pocket-size copy of the Constitution and declared, ''This breathing document is in pain.'' And there were so many angry charges of McCarthyism and countercharges of ''political correctness'' that it sometimes seemed that the topic at hand on Thursday in Washington was the radicalization of the House Homeland Security Committee, not American Muslims. The televised hearing, led by Representative Peter T. King, Republican of New York, was jarring and not just because of the politically delicate subject matter, namely, terrorist sympathies within the Muslim American community. These kinds of proceedings tend to be prosecutorial, but lawmakers in this case mostly pointed fingers at one another. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

If you're interested in studying left-wing social movements like organized labor, civil rights or feminism, there are dozens of universities and colleges that have created special programs and research centers devoted to the subject. But hardly any similar institutions exist in academia for those looking for a place to study the right wing in America and abroad. Now, with backing from an anonymous donor, the University of California, Berkeley, where '60s-era students stood atop a police car and ignited free-speech protests, is creating a Center for the Comparative Study of Right-Wing Movements. According to experts in the field it is the first of its kind in higher education. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Back when I was a young media reporter fueled by indignation and suspicion, I often pictured the dark overlords of the newspaper industry gathering at a secret location to collude over cigars and Cognac, deciding how to set prices and the news agenda at the same time. It probably never happened, but now that I fear for the future of the world that they made, I'm hoping that meeting takes place. I'll even buy the cigars. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The push to reunify the nation's fractured labor movement has run into serious obstacles, labor leaders said, with several saying the effort has only a 50-50 chance of success. The presidents of 12 large unions have held talks since January, when they announced an effort to reunify organized labor, which split in 2005 when seven unions quit the A.F.L.-C.I.O. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

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The article focuses on the views of the author regarding the efforts made by media personality Tavis Smiley in order to serve the African-Americans. According to the author, Smiley has become one of the most effective black leaders in the U.S. The author opines that Smiley is trying to do nothing less than generate a movement among black Americans that will result in a better U.S.

The article reports that the proletariat has celebrated May Day by taking to the streets to demand lower wages in the U.S.

Comments on the growing movement of pharmacists who refuse to fill prescriptions to which they have moral or religious objections in the U.S.

Reports on the impact of the decision of an abortion rights advocacy group to withdraw an advertisement attacking Judge John G. Roberts Jr. on the conflict within the Democratic Party in the U.S.

Focuses on the Billetproof movement, which results from the enthusiasm to restore classic automobiles to their original condition in the U.S.

Reports on developments related to social movements in the U.S.

Reports on developments related to social movements in the U.S.

Reports that hundreds of thousands of Lebanese gathered in Beirut in a show of strength by militant Shiite Muslim party Hezbollah, which opposes a withdrawal of Syrian forces from Lebanon. Observation that the crowd was far larger than the anti-Syrian demonstrations which drew broad international support; Challenges to Lebanese opposition forces who insist on Syrian withdrawal; Pressure from U.S. President George W. Bush on Syria to withdraw troops before Lebanon's elections; Participants at the demonstration; Background on Hezbollah, Lebanon's best organized political party; Perception of Hezbollah and its followers that the foreign threat to Lebanon comes from Israel and the U.S.; Highlights of the demonstration; Fear that growing political tension will lead to a resurgence of violence.

Discusses how political and social shifts in the Middle East are evoking hope and fear. Implications of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's decision to open presidential elections to more than one candidate; Role of street demonstrators in toppling Lebanon's government; Mood of Mideast politicians; Outlook for the end of authoritarian Arab governments; How a mix of outside pressure and internal shifts has created this movement; Influence of new technology on young protestors; Suggestion that pressure from the U.S. President George W. Bush administration has emboldened demonstrators; Ways that Egypt's tiny opposition movement has drawn attention; Observation that the idea of challenging authoritarian rule more directly is new; Perception of young demonstrators in Lebanon as models for popular uprisings across the Arab world; Why Iraq serves more as a threat than a model; How new technology has driven the steps toward greater freedoms; Attitudes regarding the American campaign for democracy in the Middle East.