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NYC braced for more protests over police violence after West Coast clashes | Reuters
NYC braced for more protests over police violence after West Coast clashes | Reuters. (Reuters) – A fifth day of nationwide protests against police violence was set to begin on Sunday after overnight clashes in two West Coast cities as New York’s police commissioner said an internal investigation into a chokehold death could last four […]
Athens on fire as rioters mark anniversary of police killing of teen — RT News
Athens on fire as rioters mark anniversary of police killing of teen — RT News. Greek police used tear gas and water cannons to disperse crowds during clashes in the capital. Athens was gripped with protests marking six years since police shot dead an unarmed teenager during an anti-austerity rally. At least 8,000 demonstrators marched […]
Greek protesters smash cars, clash with police in Athens (PHOTOS, VIDEO) — RT News
Greek protesters smash cars, clash with police in Athens (PHOTOS, VIDEO) — RT News. At least 15 people have been arrested after a peaceful support rally for jailed hunger strike anarchist turned into violent confrontation with police. Authorities used tear gas and stun grenades to quell rioters carrying Molotov cocktails. As an estimated between 8,000 […]
Hong Kong police pepper spray protesters as hundreds try to surround govt office — RT News
Hong Kong police pepper spray protesters as hundreds try to surround govt office — RT News. Hong Kong police have used pepper spray to prevent hundreds of protesters from encircling the government headquarters, as China’s special administrative region continues to be gripped by demonstrations which began two months ago. Demonstrators chanting “Surround government headquarters” and “Open the […]
How to increase public approval for the police state « The Burning Platform
How to increase public approval for the police state « The Burning Platform. If someone were to design an event to bolster public support for a militarized police state, what would that event look like? Let us imagine: The event involves a controversial use of force by police. The event generates a national controversy and debate — […]
The Great Change: Revolucíon
The Great Change: Revolucíon. We arrived to rural México in time for the 104th anniversary of Dia de la Revolucíon.The dirt streets of this small village whose central plaza we sit in to write this were lined with people waving flags and singing Cielito Lindo to their children, dressed as revolutionaries, on parade. Ay, ay, ay, ay, Canta […]
Hong Kong police arrest more than 100 people as scuffles break out; Mong Kok protest camp cleared – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
Hong Kong police arrest more than 100 people as scuffles break out; Mong Kok protest camp cleared – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation). Police in Hong Kong have arrested more than 100 people, including two prominent student leaders, while breaking up a protest camp in the city’s Mong Kok district. Fresh scuffles broke out as […]
BBC News – Ferguson shooting: Protests spread across US
BBC News – Ferguson shooting: Protests spread across US. Continue reading the main story Ferguson shooting More Fergusons? Testimonies What happened? Raw fury follows rulingWatch A dozen US cities have seen new protests over the decision not to charge a white policeman who shot a black teenager in Ferguson, Missouri. Demonstrations from New York […]
Scuffles break out as Hong Kong clears part of protest site | Reuters
Scuffles break out as Hong Kong clears part of protest site | Reuters. (Reuters) – Scuffles erupted after Hong Kong authorities cleared part of a pro-democracy protest camp in the bustling district of Mong Kok on Tuesday following a court order to reopen a road, with several demonstrators taken away in police vans. The gritty, […]
Kinder Morgan Pipeline Protest Sees More People Arrested After Crossing Police Line
Kinder Morgan Pipeline Protest Sees More People Arrested After Crossing Police Line. VANCOUVER – About a dozen more people have been arrested at a pipeline protest in a conservation area in Vancouver. The protesters were taken away Saturday after crossing a police line on Burnaby Mountain, where crews have been conducting survey work for the […]
Mass Abductions in Mexico Reveal a Decaying State – SPIEGEL ONLINE
Mass Abductions in Mexico Reveal a Decaying State – SPIEGEL ONLINE. The close-up images show a handful of black teeth sifted out of leftover ash, and bits of charred bone picked from a landfill not far from Iguala. There are also shots of plastic bag scraps that washed up on the banks of Río San […]
Kinder Morgan Begins Survey Work On Burnaby Mountain As Protests Continue
Kinder Morgan Begins Survey Work On Burnaby Mountain As Protests Continue. BURNABY, B.C. – First Nations vowed to stand in unity with protesters as police kept up arrests Friday in a Metro Vancouver conservation area where crews resumed survey work for the proposed Trans Mountain pipeline expansion. Shortly after activists announced they would do whatever […]
Thousands march in Mexico over students – Americas – Al Jazeera English
Thousands march in Mexico over students – Americas – Al Jazeera English. Tens of thousands of people angered by the presumed massacre of 43 students are marching in Mexico City as part of another day of nationwide protests. Protesters on Thursday waved blackened flags of Mexico and many chanted for the resignation of President Enrique […]
Hong Kong Umbrella Movement Day 52 Live Stream and Blog Updates
Hong Kong Umbrella Movement Day 52 Live Stream and Blog Updates. HONG KONG—Police began moving in Tuesday morning to clear out metal barricades, tents, and protesters from a section of road outside a shopping mall and office building near Hong Kong’s government complex, executing orders the High Court handed down recently. But they were quickly […]
Grassroots Activists Say Climate Change Demands System Change
Grassroots Activists Say Climate Change Demands System Change. It’s remembered as the global march for climate justice, but how did that word “justice” get into the title of the huge rallies that took place in New York and other cities this September? Money media typically do such a bad job of covering social movements that […]
