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The protest spread via Twitter to another Catholic high school nearby, where students also staged a sit-in. More encouraging photos are at Buzzfeed.

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SUNDAY: Global Protests Planned In Support Of Indian LGBT Community

On Sunday there will be protests of the Indian Supreme Court ruling in major cities around the world. The list of cities so far: Sydney, Toronto, Cambridge, London, Delhi, Ann Arbor, Chennai.  More locations will be added at this link, at which you can find details for each city.

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Indian LGBT Community Protests Ruling

More photos of the protests are at Vocativ.  See my full report on today's shocking Supreme Court ruling.

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Eric Cantor's Staff Has Cops Threaten To Arrest Singing Immigrant Children

Raw Story reports:

A group of children calling for immigration reform were forced to leave House Majority Leader Eric Cantor’s (R-VA) office on Thursday after Capitol Police officers threatened to arrest them. In a video posted to YouTube by the group Keeping Families Together, the children are seen in Cantor’s personal office singing: “We want reform, we want it now. We are titanium. Keep our families together. We want reform right now.” At that point an officer interrupted the protest to ask if anyone there was planning on getting arrested.

The kids eventually did leave without being arrested.

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