China’s long history of Internet censorship is what’s best for the public, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu told reporters yesterday. According to Reuters, which spoke with Yu in an interview published today, China believes that its «Internet management» is…
Teargas and gunshots have on Monday morning rocked parts of Kampala City as Police battled to disperse protestors attempting to take part in the Walk to walk demonstrations. Many shops have remained closed in the Central Business District following…
The last few weeks have witnessed a new wave of fear in Iran in the form of ‘lashing’. It can be said that it had a been a while since we last heard of lashing for freedom of speech…
On Saturday, the 15-M movement turned a new page in history. Not only did the social protest crusade see the highest number of supporters so far turn out for a gargantuan rally in Madrid, but the movement gained…
(Updated Oct. 18) A handful of young people started Occupy Wall Street in mid-September, as a protest against the banks and corporations that have grown rich while most have grown poorer. Within weeks they had attracted hundreds and then thousands…
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…
All three have been approved by the city’s regional governor, who is responsible for authorizing public gatherings, although she and everyone else are intent on keeping the marches separated. Organizers of all three events are predicting large turnouts. At…
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…
