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Tens of thousands march against austerity in Brussels
Tens of thousands march against austerity in Brussels Rainy weather in Brussels did not stop tens of thousands of people from protesting against austerity measures introduced by the new Belgian government. Attendance estimates from police and organizers differed sixfold. The rally saw somewhere between 17,000 and 20,000 people on Sunday, RTFB broadcaster reported, citing police […]
Police Gas Student Protesters In Quebec
Police Gas Student Protesters In Quebec Earlier this week we reported that the Blockupy movement — supporters of which set fire to the streets of Frankfurt earlier this month in an anti-austerity protest timed to coincide with the grand opening of the ECB’s new headquarters — had apparently spread across the Atlantic to the streets ofMontreal where students […]
Montreal Students Clash With Riot Police In Austerity Protests
Montreal Students Clash With Riot Police In Austerity Protests Last week, anti-austerity protests in Germany turned the streets of Frankfurt into a veritable horror show as Blockupy supporters dressed as clowns clashed with riot police against a backdrop of flaming cars and utter chaos in what looked like a scene out of Pennywise The Clown Meets Black Hawk […]
What You’ll Have to Do to Stay Under the Radar if Bill C-51 Becomes Law
What You’ll Have to Do to Stay Under the Radar if Bill C-51 Becomes Law Bill C-51 is an omnibus anti-terrorism bill that grants CSIS new information sharing powers and converts CSIS from a covertintelligence gathering organization to acovert enforcement agency. No wonder Canadians don’t know what the heck is going on! Ms. Soapbox is here to […]
Violent Clashes Break Out Next To New ECB Headquarters In Frankfurt As Thousands Protest Austerity: Live Webcast
Violent Clashes Break Out Next To New ECB Headquarters In Frankfurt As Thousands Protest Austerity It’s not just Greece which is protesting the utter lack of reforms enabled by the ECB known as “austerity” – as of today so is Germany itself with the so-called #Blockupy movement. According tolocal media reports, the start of anti-austerity […]
In its Desperation, Scandal-Riddled Spanish Government Criminalizes Solidarity Among Citizens
In its Desperation, Scandal-Riddled Spanish Government Criminalizes Solidarity Among Citizens On Tuesday, March 10, 19 Spanish citizens were rounded up in dawn raids by the Madrid police. They are accused of committing a crime against the Spanish state. That crime? Trying to prevent, through passive, non-violent resistance, the forced eviction of a local resident. If […]
Bill C-51 ‘Day of Action’ protests denounce new policing powers
Bill C-51 ‘Day of Action’ protests denounce new policing powers NDP Leader Tom Mulcair, Green Party Leader Elizabeth May join protests in Montreal, Toronto Protests are underway across Canada against the government’s proposed anti-terrorism legislation, which would give police much broader powers and allow them to detain terror suspects and give new powers to Canada’s spy […]
Hard to Believe: Police are Treating Protest Movements Like They are Terrorists
Hard to Believe: Police are Treating Protest Movements Like They are Terrorists But that’s not stopping activists from pushing back. The New York Police Department has reportedly been giving young adults free tickets to screenings of “Selma,” and last month, on Martin Luther King Day, officers with the 81st Precinct in Brooklyn’s Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood even drove a group of […]
Students pepper-sprayed by police at Christopher Pyne protest in Sydney CBD
Students pepper-sprayed by police at Christopher Pyne protest in Sydney CBD A group of university students protesting at a speech by Education Minister Christopher Pyne have been pepper-sprayed by police in Sydney. Some demonstrators were pepper-sprayed when about 40 of them tried to enter the Sydney Masonic Centre on Friday morning. Police sprayed a number […]
Polish Farmers Blockade Motorways Across Country
Polish Farmers Blockade Motorways Across Country This week thousands of Polish family farmers from the Solidarity trade union turned out to protest in over 50 locations across the country. Over 150 tractors have been blockading the A2 motorway into Warsaw since the 3rd February and hundreds more have closed roads and are picketing governmental offices […]
Global Conflict Intensity Spikes To 7-Year High
Global Conflict Intensity Spikes To 7-Year High If it’s not one geopolitical concern these days it’s invariably another. If today’s story isn’t weak-handed Greece escalating the rhetoric in its hopeless game of chicken with eurozone creditors, it’s ISIS ratcheting up the shock factor in a campaign to scare U.S. coalition partners away from an increasingly ineffectual […]
Huge Madrid march in support of anti-austerity party Tens of thousands take to the streets of Spanish capital in support of Podemos. Tens of thousands of people have marched in Madrid in support for anti-austerity party Podemos, whose surging popularity and policies have drawn comparisons with Greece’s new Syriza rulers. On Saturday, protesters chanted “Yes […]
NYPD Launches Plan to Deal with Protests – Arm Police with Long Rifles, Machines Guns and Extra Protective Gear
NYPD Launches Plan to Deal with Protests – Arm Police with Long Rifles, Machines Guns and Extra Protective Gear Murders reached a historic low in NYC for 2014; overall crime was down across the board by nearly 5%; hell, even the holiday slowdown didn’t really lead to any additional crime. So clearly, now is the time when NYC really needs to […]
Video of the Day – John McCain Threatens Protesters with Arrest, Calls them “Low-Life Scum”
Video of the Day – John McCain Threatens Protesters with Arrest, Calls them “Low-Life Scum” He’s a thug, and a crook, and a liar, and a pseudo-intellectual and a murderer. Ok? Those things are factually verifiable. – From the late Christopher Hitchens’ outstanding interview: Christopher Hitchens’ Polemic Against Henry Kissinger Crazy John McCain is at it […]
Boiling point: Hundreds of anti-fascist protesters clash with police in Italy
Boiling point: Hundreds of anti-fascist protesters clash with police in Italy Clashes broke out at an anti-fascist rally in Cremona, Italy when around 2,000 protesters took to the streets to object to an attack by far-right group supporters. The fracas left a political activist in hospital. A couple of thousand anti-fascist protesters attended the rally […]
