Protest

Students Demand Response From China On ‘Fake Democracy’

September 23, 2014 DW, www.dw.de Resist! China, Democracy, Hong Kong, Protest, Student Activism

"How can a few people decide Hong Kong's future? Why not seven million of Hong Kong's people?" Alex Chow, the general secretary of the Hong Kong Federation of Students, cried out before several thousands protesters in Hong Kong on Monday. Last month, China's top legislative body, the National People's Congress, announced that a new "broadly representative committee" would nominate candidates for Hong Kong's next chief executive in the 2017 election. The move was seen as a reversal of China's promise that the elections in three years would be the first since the handover to be decided by universal suffrage. In response to the policy change by Beijing, students from a number of universities in Hong Kong are staging a series of mass protests throughout the week in what has been billed by pro-democracy activists as a "new era of civil disobedience."

Stop Giving Schools Military Hardware

September 20, 2014 Susan Ferriss, www.publicintegrity.org Organize! Education, militarism, Protest

More than 20 national education and civil rights advocates sent a letter Monday to Department of Defense officials, urging them to stop giving U.S. school police departments anti-mine vehicles, military-grade firearms like M16s, and even grenade launchers. News reports and lists of recipients of surplus hardware reveal that assault-style rifles, armored vehicles and other military supplies have been handed over to school districts large and small, from California, Texas, Nevada and Utah to Florida, Georgia, Kansas and Michigan. In California, the San Diego Unified School District acquired an 18-ton Mine-Resistant Ambush Protected vehicle, called a MRAP, through the DOD’s 1033 program to transfer surplus supplies to civilian law enforcement.

Call For Days Of Climate Direct Action In D.C. And Elsewhere

September 19, 2014 Beyond Extreme Energy, www.sites.google.com Organize! Energy, Environment, Protest

In recent months many voices have called for larger, escalated action on climate change. We agree. At the beginning of November, as the election campaigns conclude, we call for multiple, consecutive days of climate direct action in Washington, D.C., and elsewhere. Vote we must, but we must do much more. We hurtle toward a climate precipice with one foot occasionally, tentatively tapping the brake but the other simultaneously flooring the accelerator on our fossil-fueled economy.

Citizens Intervene At FERC Meeting On Cove Point Gas Facility

September 19, 2014 Anastasia Pantsios, www.ecowatch.com Resist! Climate Change, Energy, Environment, Protest

Today, citizens from Calvert County, Maryland, angry that the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) commissioners sent stand-ins to a meeting in their area on the controversial proposal to allow the Dominion Cove Point facility to convert from an import to an export terminal for liquified natural gas (LNG), took their case to FERC’s monthly meeting in Washington D.C. A group of 20 people, including members and allies of the Calvert Citizens for a Healthy Community, delivered what they described as “an unannounced intervention” in response to their feeling that the commission intends to rubber stamp the proposal without adequate assessment of the dangers to the surrounding community.

The Global Convergence For Climate Justice In NYC

September 19, 2014 Eleanor Goldfield, www.occupy.com Organize! Climate Change, Energy, Environment, Protest

3.5% is all it takes. “The history of resistance movements shows that when 3.5% of a population gets mobilized on an issue, no government can withstand it,” explains Kevin Zeese, co-director of Popular Resistance, an organization working with System Change not Climate Change and Global Climate Convergence to put on the New York City Climate Convergence Sept. 19-21. The Global Climate Convergence represents a coming together of activists and organizers from across the country and the globe. The GCC seeks to mobilize some of that 3.5% – or, in fact, even 1% – as numbers as small have proven enough to facilitate real change in the past.

People’s Climate: A Canastoria

September 19, 2014 Creative Resistance, www.creativeresistance.org Create! Climate Change, Environment, Protest

The People’s Climate Canastoria is a traveling, downloadable, power-point-meets-puppet-show, performable by anyone (including you!) It is currently in rotation in 9 cities across the USA and Canada (and online)! See it on Peoples Climate Arts. BUS PASSENGERS/CAPTAINS, CARPOOLS & TRAIN RIDERS: This is perfect to engage and inspire your fellow passengers or the public on your trip to NYC. Simply print out the cantastoria art and one of the the scripts to read aloud while showing the art: perfect for bus or car rides to the mobilization.

Egyptian Students Get 4 Years In Jail For Protests

September 18, 2014 Ahram Online, english.ahram.org.eg Resist! Criminal Justice and Prisons, Egypt, Protest, Students

Cairo's misdemeanor court has sentenced 17 Al-Azhar students to four years in jail on charges of organising an illegal protest. The defendants were accused of illegally protesting and inciting violence at Al-Azhar University on 12 January of this year. Among the 17 students sentenced, five are females. The defence team plans to appeal the verdict. Meanwhile, Egypt's prosecutor-general on Wednesday ordered the release of 116 students from different universities ahead of the start of the new academic year on 11 October. Hundreds of students were arrested during the last academic year over protests against the ouster of president Mohamed Morsi and also over the detention of their colleagues by security forces. Al-Azhar University – the oldest Islamic university in the world – saw some of the worst unrest among universities, with near daily protests often spiralling into violent confrontations with police.

Canadians Get Ready For Historic Environmental Mobilization

September 18, 2014 Carlos Tello, www.vancouverobserver.com Organize! Canada, Climate Change, Environment, Protest, Tar Sands

Hundreds of Canadians will join tens of thousands of people in the streets of New York City next weekend for one of the largest climate change mobilizations in history. Renewable energy advocates of all ages will be gathering as a part of the Tar Sands Free bloc at the march, which will coincide with the UN climate summit in New York. "While this will be one of the largest climate marches in history, it also isn't just about size. It's about showing that people are standing alongside those impacted most by climate change and extreme extraction," said Eriel Deranger, communications coordinator for the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation, who will be marching in New York. "People are impacted from the extraction of carbon polluting industries such as the Tar Sands and fracking, as well as the way to the extreme impacts of climate change." Travelling from Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto, Kingston and Halifax, among other cities, the Canadian marchers will join communities impacted by climate disasters like Hurricane Sandy, and Indigenous peoples resisting tar sands and other extreme extraction both in Canada and abroad.

Lawmakers Want To Limit Police Drones, Activists Seek Ban

September 18, 2014 Charles Davis, www.vice.com Resist! California, Drones, Protest, Surveillance

The police hate a bill just passed by California lawmakers, saying it unjustly limits their ability to use unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to fight crime. The Los Angeles District Attorney hates it too, complaining that requiring police to obtain a warrant before deploying a drone to conduct surveillance goes “beyond what is required by Fourth Amendment of the United States Constitution," which the seasoned political observer knows police and politicians are supposed to gut, not exceed. But there’s another, somewhat unexpected source of opposition to AB 1327, passed last month by the California State Senate: anti-drone activists. “We are gathered here today to reject the use of drones by law enforcement under any circumstances,” said Hamid Khan, an organizer with the Stop LAPD Spying Coalition, at a September 15 press conference in front of City Hall in downtown LA. Activists here are particularly anxious about drones since the Los Angeles Police Department obtained two small surveillance UAVs from police in Seattle, who had to give them away in the face of overwhelming public opposition to their use. The drones have not yet been deployed, with Mayor Eric Garcetti promising to seek public input before ever letting them fly.

CODE PINK Hijacks Kerry’s ‘Defeat ISIS’ Speech

September 18, 2014 RT, www.rt.com Resist! ISIS, John Kerry, Peace, Protest, Wars and Militarism

US Secretary of State John Kerry’s testimony on the need to destroy the Islamic State could have been most convincing, if it wasn't for signs reading “Congress Stop Obama’s War” and “More War More Extremists” held by CodePink activists behind his back. Activists of the pro-peace, anti-militarist movement surrounded Kerry with shocking pink signs as he gave testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Wednesday, making a case for the Obama administration’s Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) strategy. The testimony was being broadcast into the homes of millions of Americans by national TV channels. “ISIL (IS) must be defeated. Period. End of story,” Kerry said, stressing that despite a long history of debates on overseas military campaigns, he thinks that “all” will be able to agree with this statement.

Artists To Occupy Edmonton Parking Stalls

September 18, 2014 David Staples, www.edmontonjournal.com Resist! Art, Protest

Park(ing) Day is a worldwide event where activists and artists try to make their cities a bit more difficult for cars to park, but a bit more interesting to live in. On Friday, about 30 people will take over parking stalls between 97th and 96th streets on 101A Avenue. One participant is going to set up an outdoor recording studio in his stall. One group plans to sit and knit all day. A croquet tournament is planned for another stall. Park(ing) Day is occupying the city in an unusual way, but it’s not to be a grandiose, aggressive and indefinite occupation. Participants plan to only be there from noon to 8 p.m. They also plan to plug the meters. Artist and activist Chelsea Boos is organizing Edmonton’s Park(ing) Day. Boos is fascinated by public art, especially art that isn’t meant to last, such as guerrilla knitting, where people put colourful knitted items on a tree or a statue to change the scene temporarily.

Disability-Rights Group Marches To Capitol For Medicaid Program

September 16, 2014 Lisa Burnett, www.arkansasonline.com Resist! Health Care, Human Rights, Protest

About 200 people marched Monday morning to the state Capitol to garner support of a program that would allow Arkansas to move about 2,900 people with developmental disabilities off a waiting list for home-based services. Members of ADAPT, a national grass-roots disability rights group, met around 9:30 a.m. along Broadway to begin their walk toward Gov. Mike Beebe’s office, where they asked him to consider the Community First Choice Option for the state. The option, established under the Affordable Care Act of 2010, provides a 6-percent increase in federal funding to state Medicaid programs for home- and community-based attendant services, according to medicaid.gov. It would also give Arkansans who qualify for institutional placement the choice of community support rather than institutionalization.

Occupy & The Climate March

September 15, 2014 Patrick Robbins, www.indypendent.org Strategize! Climate Change, Occupy Movement, Protest

Like Occupy Wall Street, the People’s Climate March has refused to issue a unified set of demands. It has, instead, favored “big tent” organizing. And like OWS, which took on the 1 percent’s power over the political process, this march is tackling an issue that many know is a serious problem but that still remains outside mainstream discourse Given this, it makes sense that similar tactics would be adopted in both messaging and structure. Like OWS, the march’s greatest success may ultimately be both its impact on the larger conversation and the continuing activities of its constituent parts — just as many Occupy-inspired groups did important work after the Zuccotti Park encampment was destroyed by the NYPD.

Response To Tahltan Mining Protest In Sacred Headwaters

September 15, 2014 Vancouver Observer, www.vancouverobserver.com Resist! Energy, Environment, Indigenous Rights, Land Rights, Mining, Police, Protest

A First Nations group protesting a copper and gold mining site in the heart of the Sacred Headwaters of northwest B.C. was responded to by RCMP officers with rifles on Friday afternoon, according to several eyewitness accounts. Members of the “Klabona Keepers” have occupied a drill site in Tahltan territory, near Iskut B.C. for several days. The drill is operated by Firesteel Resources of Vancouver. Tahltan band member Peter Jakesta helps run the protest camp, and said four RCMP members came in unannounced, took their radios, and told them to leave or risk being charged with theft.

Imprisoned Bahraini Human Rights Activist Begins Hunger Strike

September 15, 2014 Miriam Berger, www.tahriricn.wordpress.com Resist! Bahrain, Human Rights, Protest

Bahraini police arrested al-Khawaga on Aug. 30 at the airport in Manama, the capital of Bahrain, after she tried to enter the country. Police told her that she had been stripped of citizenship, without providing official proof. Al-Khawaja live-tweeted much of the incident to her popular following. Police then detained al-Khawaja and charged her with assaulting a police officer. Al-Khawaga denied the charges. A medical report from the incident obtained by Sa yed Yousif Almuhafda, vice president of al-Khawaja’s Bahrain Center for Human Rights, said al-Khawaja had minor bruises to her hand. Bahraini police have a documented history of beating and torturing activists, and then denying the incidents occurred. Authorities have since extended her detention twice, and at times denied access to her lawyer and family. Last week Al-Khawaja appeared in court with her arm in a sling, Al Jazeera reported.

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