The Occupy Wall Street movement that began in Zuccotti Park in New York’s financial district on September 17 has grown to a degree that seems to have stunned even its organizers and most ardent supporters. From the first days,…
In Zuccotti Park
Stikkord: Demonstration
Mana threatens ‘civil disobedience’ over pokies
A Mana Party election candidate is vowing to get rid of pokie machines in the Manukau East electorate if he wins the seat. John Minto says he’s spoken at many meetings and so far only two people have said…
Belarus parliament voted to stop foreign aid to NGOs
On October 3 the lower house of the Belarus parliament adopted in the two readings the bill ‘On Making Addenda and Amendments to Some Laws of the Republic of Belarus’. This bill, among other things, makes foreign financial support and…
Walk to work: Teargas, gunshots rock downtown Kampala
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…
Flogging for Blogging
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…
Madrid’s Sol square lights up the global stage for world protests
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…
From Occupy Wall Street to Occupy America: A mass movement emerges
(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…
U.S.-based Indian-Americans demonstrate to support Telangana state stir
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…
Non-violence is critical to the success of all Occupy movements
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…
Chile’s ‘Zombies,’ Catholics & ‘Indignants’ strut their stuff
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…