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A suspect was arrested last night in the vicious beating of a cop at a protest Monday, a law-enforcement source said. Jamal Holiday of Manhattan, who turns 20 today, will likely be spending his birthday in jail for assaulting Detective William Sample Jr., according to the source. Sample, meanwhile, was on the mend at home. The 10-year veteran who usually investigates taxi-business crimes, was badly bruised and suffered internal injuries in the attack that Mayor Bloomberg called "outrageous."

In one of the most bizarre maneuvers in recent political history, John Kerry has decided that in order to be elected president he must present himself to the American people as a war hero. In doing so, he has poured fuel on the smoldering fire of concerns surrounding his abbreviated service in Vietnam, turning it into a raging controversy. Veterans opposed to Kerry as well as those that support him are finally getting wide exposure in the media, despite the initial reluctance of the mainstream media to touch the issue. What is missing is the perspective of Vietnam Era antiwar...

I need a history lesson. Although I just turned 42 years of age, my memory of Vietnam is - well - elementary - as in that is the school I was attending when it took place. I have heard over the years the well deserved scorn from my elders against Hanoi Jane. In fact, I was able to even see the film clip of her in the AA battery in North Vietnam - where she was jokingly aiming the AA in the sky - like she was preparing to shoot down an American plane. (The film clip was in documentary...

A hooded protester shoots a firework into the Defense Ministry during anti-war demonstrations in Rome, June 4, 2004. Pope John Paul (news - web sites) piled pressure on George W. Bush over Iraq (news - web sites) when they met while beyond the walls of the Vatican (news - web sites) City more rowdy anti-war protesters attempted to disrupt the U.S. president's visit to Rome. (Dylan Martinez/Reuters) Story

Harass the Republicans? Yes By DAVID A. LYNN As Web master of Shadow Protest I am urging people to volunteer for the Republican National Convention, attend all the volunteer orientation sessions but not show up for their assigned volunteer shift. Dishonest? Absolutely. Please consider, however: We are asked to believe that the war in Iraq was not preordained but was planned carefully by men and women whose true intent was the search for weapons of mass destruction. We are asked to believe the invasion was launched only after all other measures failed. The Iraqi invasion has netted no such weapons,...

John Kerry: Further Left Than He Lets On By John Perazzo FrontPageMagazine.com | February 17, 2004 When analysts look back on the moments that catapulted Sen. John Kerry to frontrunner status in his quest for the Democratic presidential nomination, they will acknowledge that one of the biggest turns of the campaign occurred on January 25. On that day, Kerry campaign strategists whisked Jim Rassmann from Florence, Oregon, straight to Iowa for an emotional, “surprise” public reunion with Kerry. As Rassmann’s fellow soldier in the Vietnam War, Kerry saved Rassmann’s life by dodging a hail of enemy gunfire to drag him...

Iraqis Riot in Basra; One Protester Dead Sun Aug 10,10:12 AM ET By Joseph Logan BASRA, Iraq (Reuters) - Iraqis enraged by fuel shortages rioted in Basra Sunday, forcing British troops to fire warning shots for a second day in an effort to quell some of the worst unrest seen since the fall of Saddam Hussein At least one Iraqi involved in protests was killed and two others were wounded, but it was not clear who had fired the shots which struck them, reporters in the city said. Hundreds of young men barricaded roads in the second city with blazing...

Anti-war protester Brett Bursey's contention the Secret Service denied his freedom of speech to protest President Bush's plan to attack Iraq will be tested in court this week. The case, which has drawn national attention, opens Tuesday in Columbia before federal Magistrate Bristow Marchant. The trial is expected to last no more than two days. Marchant rejected a jury trial, saying the case involves a minor offense. Bursey concedes the Secret Service has the right to determine protection zones for the president, said Bill Nettles, one of Bursey's lawyers. But during Bush's Oct. 24 trip to Columbia to stump for...

<p>A University of California-Berkeley student -- who spent nine days of anonymity in a San Jose jail as an act of civil disobedience -- was ordered Wednesday to pay restitution to a Sunnyvale company she had denounced as a war profiteer.</p>

Protester's signs, displays irk neighbors, CalTrans Graton man's anti-war banners, manure pile and casket turn heads along Highway 116 May 27, 2003 By MICHAEL COIT THE PRESS DEMOCRAT John Jenkel may find sympathy for anti-war messages he posts along a west Sonoma County highway, but his methods, including a manure pile and a casket, have antagonized neighbors and prompted CalTrans to intervene. . . . The war protest grew out of Jenkel's long-time obsession with San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown. Jenkel's office is piled high with fliers and files he has produced expressing his belief that Brown played a role...

SANTA CLARA (BCN) -- The protests outside United Defense Industries ended peacefully with two arrests this morning, but the protesters themselves admit disappointment. "The war criminals got away despite our earnest attempts," said two San Francisco women who asked not to be named because, "there are too many stalkers out there." "We were trying to make a citizens arrest and they let them get away." By "they" the women were referring to the Santa Clara Police Department, which kept the group corralled across the street from United Defense Industries, well away from the presidential motorcade as it headed to...

<p>This unidentified woman was arrested in a recent anti-war protest. She has been in jail for about 10 days because she refuses to give police her real name, and police cannot release her until they know who she really is.</p>

EDMONTON - It's hard to imagine feeling let down when Oscar-winning actress Susan Sarandon is playing your character in a movie. But that's how Ice Bound reacts to her portrayal in the new tele movie, Ice Bound."I'm disappointed," says the 51-year-old doctor famous for the diagnosis and treatment of her own breast cancer while at the South Pole in 1999. "I wish they would have met me. I think it would have been nice to have had a chance to have them know me before they wrote about me or tried to play me."Based on the book Nielsen wrote about...

Hollywood Learns Political Hardball ...A little chin music for Tim Robbins Tom Adkins 4/17/03 Little Timmy Robbins is crying foul. The forever-whining co-star of "Bull Durham" was un-invited to the movie reunion by Baseball Hall of Fame President Dale Petroskey, who noted, "this institution should never be used as a platform for public pro-war sentiments - nor public anti-war sentiments." Wary of the minor-league antics of Robbins, nag Susan Sarandon, and the rest of "Team Left", Petroskey did what every good coach does: he stole the signs. Robbins and Sarandon will turn breakfast into a noxious political tirade if there's...

As Saddam's Statue Topples in Iraq The Swedes Retreat by Michael Moynihan (April 12, 2003) Summary: For wide swaths of anti-war Sweden—the ones who think Marx and Engels are a German boy band—the reality of grateful Iraqis and the rapidity of American and British military success, this war dealt a crushing blow. A lifeless calm has descended over Sweden. The wide streets, parks and Scandinavian-style piazzas that, just a month before, were crammed with fair-weather socialists, 60's leftovers and dreadlocked Aryans, all uncomfortably festooned in Palestinian scarves and "Nej Mot Krig" pins, have fallen conspicuously silent. The Friday night parties...

So can anyone help me out, here? What I'd like is a list of the most common anti-war groups like ANSWER and NOIN, among others, a list of those who support them, and if possible, links to stories and articles which prove just who it is that makes up the foundation of the anti-war movement. I'd really appreciate some help in this. Thanks.

Hollywood anti-war set needs some new lines April 8, 2003 BY RICHARD ROEPER SUN-TIMES COLUMNIST TO: Jennifer Aniston, George Clooney, Sheryl Crow, David Duchovny, Janeane Garofalo, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Woody Harrelson, Jessica Lange, Michael Moore, Edward Norton, Sean Penn, Tim Robbins, Susan Sarandon, Martin Sheen, Eddie Vedder, et al. RE: Operation Iraqi Freedom Dear Celebrity Anti-War Activist: Over the last several weeks and months, you have used your status as a person of fame to tell the world you're against the war with Iraq, which you believe to be unwarranted, unethical, unconstitutional and un-American. Some of you have said you "hate"...

<p>Police open fired Monday morning with rubber bullets at an anti-war protest at the Port of Oakland, injuring several longshoremen standing nearby.</p> <p>Police were trying to clear protesters from an entrance to the docks when they opened fire and the longshoremen apparently were caught in the crossfire.</p>

Today Saturday was a great day for America and a very bad day for the pencil necked tofu eating gender challenged cowardly appeasenik terrorist lovers. At Veterans Park today the Pro America Rally was cancelled. It was a cold overcast ice-rainy slushy day, that had been preceeded by an even worse thunder and lightening ice storm night. So... the event was cancelled and it was annouced as cancelled on T.V. That my friends is the good news. Why? Because the park filled up ANYWAY!. Thats right! When I got there there were 3 former Marine vets. Thats all. I joined...

<p>SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - A man has been arrested in connection with the discovery of a Molotov cocktail device found outside an office building during one of the recent anti-war protests, The U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms and police announced Tuesday.</p>