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Six people are arrested as fight breaks out between border security group and International Socialist Organization By Lisa Fernandez MEDIANEWS The national debate on illegal immigration has erupted into fisticuffs and legal trouble in an unlikely seat of political activism: a suburban street corner in Fremont. For three months, a group of seniors, war veterans, blue-collar workers and students has taken to the corner of Fremont Boulevard and Mowry Avenue every other Friday night to decry illegal immigration. But the rallies of the East Bay Coalition for Border Security, as the 30 or so people are called, have drawn ire...

People urged to shun unauthorized marches www.chinaview.cn 2005-04-21 20:17:49 BEIJING, April 21 (Xinhuanet) -- A spokesman for China's Ministry of Public Security Thursday asked the public not to attend unauthorized marches and protests or spread messages that instigate such events. The spokesman said the ministry fully understands the patriotic sentiments of the masses of people, including students, that participated in the recent spontaneous protest demonstrations in Beijing and Shanghai over Japan's offensive attitude toward its own aggressive history and behavior that has hurt the feelings of the Chinese people. "We hope Japan will seriously respond to the concern of the...

Environmental group given 48 hours to dismantle Forest Rescue Station GRANTS PASS — The Bureau of Land Management gave Greenpeace 48 hours to dismantle its summer encampment in Southern Oregon on Tuesday after the international environmental group tried to disrupt logging on a nearby timber sale. BLM had been reviewing a special recreation permit for Greenpeace to exceed the 14-day camping limit on federal land to conduct public education programs. But the agency revoked its preliminary authorization following a protest where a 20-foot steel shipping container was used to block loggers from the Soukow timber sale outside Glendale. "This...