Dozens of U.S.-based Indians from the Telangana region of the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh gathered in Washington, DC, on Saturday, staging a solidarity demonstration with the “Sakala Janula Samme” – a civil disobedience movement that has swept all…
I called the NYC FBI office yesterday to ascertain their position on the protests and the status of their involvement. I was told by an agent there that intervention is under discussion, but that they have not yet…
Chai Ling, former commander-in-chief of the 1989 Tiananmen Square student movement, on Wednesday visited “Occupy Boston” protesters to provide them with encouragement. “Without pressure to provide a public space for these protests to continue, the movement will not be…
Much of the criticism of «Occupy Wall Street» and the similar movements taking place — including in Hartford and New Haven — is a lack of leadership and clear goals. Those are actually reasons why this movement will continue…
The lower house of Belarus’s parliament has passed amendments to the Law on Mass Activities in the Republic of Belarus that specifically ban demonstrations organized through the Internet. «An amendment has been added about the organization of unsanctioned gatherings…
More than 100,000 thousand Syrians rallied against the regime of President Bashar al-Assad on Saturday during the funeral of Mishaal Tammo, a Kurdish opposition figure slain the previous day, Abdessalam Othman, of the Kurdish Future Movement in Syria,…
Syria’s nascent opposition appears divided on a fundamental question: whether to take up arms or remain peaceful in its efforts to overthrow President Bashar al-Assad. Despite reports that an army of Syrian defectors will soon begin a military campaign…
If you’ve started seeing Occupy Together in your daily email box as we have, you probably know the word is spreading like a wildfire. The site has recently been linked on occupywallst.org, Adbusters, tweeted by Michael Moore and sent…
Why did the FBI detain and question a 62-year-old British environmentalist upon his arrival at New York City’s John F. Kennedy Airport? The bureau won’t say, and the activist, who was subsequently shipped back to London, never got a…
It was the day after my last exam for the quarter. I was sat having coffee with a friend, telling her how excited I was to take a much needed break from all the stress I was under at…
