Likewise, the 40,000 LA-area students who clogged the streets of downtown Los Angeles in March 2006 couldn't ultimately force comprehensive immigration reform through a conservative Congress, even if they may have helped (at least temporarily) prevent a right-wing crackdown.
Yes, we can all remember how the episode proved once and for all that prom seating at the State of the Union could successfully prevent a right-wing psychotic break that led to a downgraded credit rating and a delay in economic recovery.
Fair use has always been considered a "safety valve" for free expression that prevents a rights holder from suppressing speech he or she doesn't like by asserting copyright.
Cleary also represented Google in a failed effort to prevent a new "right to be forgotten" being established in Europe, forcing the company to block some search results.
So now it is an "entitlement" to prevent a basic right from being taken away?! What about facts?
First, if these are the folks choosing federal judges for the Bush administration -- and they are -- Senate Democrats and moderate Republicans need to be vigilant about investigating nominees' backgrounds, and using the filibuster, to prevent a far-right takeover of the courts.
Police said Rosby, a bystander to the standoff unfolding in his neighborhood, had walked close to the crime scene with Max, his 80-pound Rottweiler, on a "long leash-line" that created "an increasingly dangerous situation". Rosby told The Times days later that he began filming the police standoff with his phone to prevent a civil rights violation.
It emerged recently that Verizon Wireless intended to prevent an abortion rights group from using its network to send text messages to its members.
The league is asking the city Employee Relations Board to prevent a Board of Rights hearing.
Renee is deeply concerned about the potential implications of Amendment 67, telling VICE News that it "could potentially criminalize my daughter for choosing to prevent pregnancy — a right I've enjoyed my entire life and exercised even while married".
I can't see how a man can try to take a woman's right to control her reproduction any more than a straight person can attempt to prevent a gay person's right to marry.
