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Tag Archives: protest

Taking a Stand

By Dave | Published: April 18, 2008
It’s good to see that some people are still pre­pared to take polit­ical action without look­ing to their government: Mean­while, South African dock work­ers are refus­ing to unload a ship­ment of arms from China destined for Zim­b­abwe. The South African Trans­port and Allied Work­ers Union said it did “not agree with the pos­i­tion of the [...]
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Let’s be censor-ble

By Dave | Published: November 29, 2007
Charlie and I just had our second meet­ing with the war­dens, which was exactly how the first one should have gone. They invited us to take a seat and have a reas­on­able, adult con­ver­sa­tion about the art­icle, and the second warden (not the one we encountered before) gave a very polite and well argued reas­on­ing [...]
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Censorship or Patronage

By Dave | Published: November 29, 2007
Today I was informed that the War­dens at my hall wanted to see me and a friend Charlie about some­thing that we had pro­posed to pub­lish in the Halls’ news-sheet. OK, I thought, we go to the meet­ing, have a reas­on­able dis­cus­sion about what was writ­ten. Full and frank. What Charlie wrote was, to be [...]
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