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share a common affinity for the music, and form a large, loose whole because of it. No, it doesn't look anything like an NGO, and so what? How does that make it less of an NGO than whatever group of protestors who have formed to sing songs every single day inside the state capital to disrupt all proceedings until the lawfully-elected person that
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singers/scholars/enthusiasts? They form a number of local or regional groups which intermix and form an international society of people who all bond over their common group in shape note music, regardless of other things like politics, age, gender, whatever. How is that not an "affinity group"? They
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The caption on the page says that the people pictured were convicted on Dec. 4, 2002 as a result of protesting the war in Iraq. But the war in Iraq didn't even begin until 2003. I don't know these people, but perhaps whoever does can correct the caption.
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