Protest

People Of Flint Call For Pro-Democracy Revolt To Save Poisoned City

January 28, 2016 Lauren McCauley, www.counterpunch.org Resist! Flint, Government, Michigan, Protest, Water

By Lauren McCauley for Common Dreams - Fed up with an administration whose policies caused the devastating water crisis and subsequent health epidemic, advocacy organizations and community members are calling for nothing less than a complete overhaul of the way government works in Michigan. On Tuesday, Flint residents met with leaders of the national NAACP to draw up a "15-point priority plan" for addressing the lead-tainted water crisis. Chief among their demands is the repeal of Michigan's contentious emergency manager law, which was enacted in 2011 under Gov. Rick Snyder.

Protesters Disrupt Black Friday Demanding Justice For Laquan McDonald

November 28, 2015 Nadia Prupis, www.commondreams.org Resist! #BlackLivesMatter, Black Lives Matter (BLM), Chicago, police brutality, Protest

By Nadia Prupis for Common Dreams - Activists are marching throughout Chicago on Friday to protest the police shooting of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald last year and the subsequent attempted cover-up of his death by city officials. The protests, which began at 11:00am and are set to disrupt the retail bonanza of Black Friday in one of Chicago's biggest shopping districts, were organized after the release this week of a police dashcam video showing Officer Jason Van Dyke, who is white, firing 16 shots at the black teenager as he tried to walk away.

Dozens Of CUNY Faculty And Students Arrested In Labor Protest

November 6, 2015 Noah Hurowitz, www.dnainfo.com Resist! Labor, Protest, Students, Workers Rights and Jobs

By Noah Hurowitz for DNA Info - MURRAY HILL — About 50 CUNY faculty and staff members were arrested Wednesday after blockading the entrance to a CUNY administrative building in protest of going five years without a contract, according to organizers and police. Protesters wearing black T-shirts with the words “Five Years without a Contract Hurts CUNY Students,” were seen being handcuffed and led from the front of 205 E. 42nd St. Wednesday evening, video showed. “Tax the rich, not the poor, stop the war on CUNY,” protesters were heard chanting while blocking the entrance to the building, which houses the system’s human resources and administrative offices.

NYPD Arrests Protestors For Obstructing Traffic On Closed Street

October 21, 2015 Keegan Stephen, www.photographyisnotacrime.com Resist! New York (NY), Protest

By Keegan Stephen for PINAC - New York City Black Lives Matter activists took to the streets Monday night for Jeremy McDole, a 28-year-old disabled man who was shot & killed by four Wilmington Delaware police officers as he sat injured in his wheelchair last month. New York City police officers took to the streets as well to violate the protesters’ Constitutional rights to petition the government for redress of grievances. NYPD danced on the grave of the 4th Amendment too, arresting people for “Obstructing Vehicular Traffic” on a street they had closed to vehicular traffic.

Protestors In Baltimore After Commissioner Davis’ Confirmation

October 20, 2015 Kevin Rector, www.baltimoresun.com Resist! Baltimore, Protest

By Kevin Rector for The Baltimore Sun - After the Baltimore City Council voted to confirm Kevin Davis as commissioner of the Baltimore Police Department on Monday night, protesters briefly disrupted the proceedings before converging with other protesters in a waiting area outside the council chambers, chanting, "Back up, back up, we want freedom, freedom! All these racist [expletive] cops, we don't need 'em, need 'em." Police quickly issued warnings that there would be arrests, and the protesters — about 75 of them — moved outside, into the streets. They moved south on Commerce Street, then west on Lombard, with groups of police following them and issuing warnings for them to get onto the sidewalk.

Protesters Rally After Michigan Man Dies In Jail

October 12, 2015 Ryan Fulton, www.theguardian.com Resist! Michigan, Protest

By Ryan Felton for The Guardian - Friends and family of a Michigan man who died naked in a jail cell of drug withdrawal while serving a sentence for a traffic ticket staged a rally on Saturday, as the FBI continued to investigate the incident. Local authorities said deputies had done nothing wrong in the case. David Stojcevski, 32, was undergoing drug addiction treatment when Macomb County sheriff’s deputies arrested him in June 2014, for failing to pay a $772 ticket for careless driving. Unable to pay, he was locked up at the county jail for a 30-day sentence. According to a federal lawsuit filed by his brother, Vladimir, problems arose almost immediately. Stojcevski was placed in a jail cell, the suit says, even though a nurse observed that he showed “obvious physical signs of drug abuse” and recommended placing him a drug detox unit.

Activists Promise Largest Climate Civil Disobedience Ever

October 10, 2015 Arthur Nelson, www.theguardian.com Resist! Climate Change, Protest

By Arthur Nelson for The Guardian, Thousands of climate change campaigners have promised to blockade a major UN climate summit in Paris with what they say will be non-violent direct action on a scale Europe has not seen before. Grassroots groups from 350.org to Attac France are throwing their weight behindthe “Climate Games” event for the landmark climate conference in December. The protests will involve 10 blockades, themed around “red lines” which they fear negotiators for the nearly 200 countries inside the summit may cross. Governments are meeting in the French capital in the hope of reaching an agreement for action on climate change after 2020.

Protests Continue In UK Over Refugee Crisis

October 8, 2015 Charlotte Dingle, www.occupy.com Resist! Protest, United Kingdom (UK)

Charlotte Dingle for Occupy - Last Friday, Glasgow Council became the first local council in the U.K. to offer guaranteed support and accommodation to refugees surging into Europe from Syria, Afghanistan and other war-torn countries. The deal that was struck: Glasgow Council agreed with Britain's Home Office to take in 63 individuals from camps in Lebanon and Iraq. Prime Minister David Cameron in September pledged to help 200,000 refugees over the next five years – a woefully small proportion of those in need – insisting that they are mainly “economic migrants.” Despite the brief public outpouring over the haunting image of a dead child washed up on a beach, which dominated the national press for a few days, many U.K. citizens are still reluctant to accept the idea of sharing “their” country.

Iraqis Demonstrate As Country’s Reforms Move Slowly

October 3, 2015 Staff, www.middleeasteye.net Resist! Corruption, Iraq, Protest

By Staff of Middle East Eye - Thousands of Iraqis demonstrated in Baghdad and several other cities on Friday, urging the government to deliver on its promised reform package aimed at tackling corruption and improving services. Iraqis have been staging weekly demonstrations since July. The protest movement that stemmed from exasperation over power cuts in the searing summer heat gradually led to broader demands for political reform. Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, with backing from the country's most revered Shiite religious cleric, announced a reform package but change has been slow to materialise and the protests have continued.

BAMN Hosts Tribunal, Talks Ongoing Trial Over Occupy Cal Protests

October 2, 2015 Harini Shyamsundar, www.dailycal.org/ Resist! Lawsuit, Occupy, Protest

By Harini Shyamsundar for The Daily Californian - On Monday, the UC Berkeley chapter of BAMN held a public tribunal in Wheeler Hall during which it discussed its ongoing lawsuit regarding the 2011 Occupy Cal movement and encouraged campus and community members to join its cause. The lawsuit — which names the campus and district police as well as the administration — accuses certain individuals of alleged “first amendment violations and use of excessive force.” It was first filed Nov. 29 of that year, a few weeks after the demonstrations. The two parties are waiting on a final decision from the court. According to Shanta Driver, BAMN national chair and one of the plaintiffs’ attorneys on the case, the case has been ongoing because such polarized court cases “tend to get dragged out.”

Peru Declares State Of Emergency Over Mine Protests

October 2, 2015 Staff, www.dw.com Resist! China, Mine, Peru, Protest

By Staff of Deutsche Welle News - On Monday night local time, Peruvian police clashed with locals protesting the construction of a large copper mine, leaving three dead and 15 injured, including eight police. In response to the clashes, the Peruvian government on Tuesday issued a state of emergency in six provinces. The government order suspends the right to freedom of assembly, inviolability of the home and freedom of movement. The national police will be supported by the armed forces in maintaining the country's internal order and protecting public services, according to the state of emergency declaration.

Planned Parenthood Supporters Rally To Stop Funding Cuts

September 30, 2015 Miranda Katz, www.gothamist.com Resist! Planned Parenthood, Protest

By Miranda Katz in Gothamist - Following a summer of slanderous attacks against Planned Parenthood and repeated attemptsby Congressional Republicans to cut its funding, several hundred people turned out in Foley Square today for a #PinkOutNYC rally in support of the organization that serves nearly 50,000 patients in New York City alone. That number might well start going up, given the opening of a new Planned Parenthood center in Long Island City—that is, unless a cut in government funding keeps the organization from providing its essential services. The latest charge against Planned Parenthood was sparked by a series of highly edited and misleading videos put out by the so-called Center for Medical Progress, a dummy group of anti-choicers masquerading as medical professionals to con their way into conversations with Planned Parenthood executives and clinicians.

Take Action: Ayotzinapa One Year Later

September 22, 2015 SOA Watch, www.popularresistance.org Resist! Ayotzinapa, Galvanize, Mexico, Protest

By SOA Watch - September 26 will mark one year since the enforced disappearances of the 43 Ayotzinapa students. A few weeks ago, we sent an email asking our supporters to join in, create, or send information about actions across the U.S. and Canada to commemorate the first anniversary of the Ayotzinapa state crimes. From New York to L.A., Toronto to Topeka, and other cities in between, the responses have been inspiring and the list of actions next weekend continues to grow! NEW, IMPORTANT EVIDENCE - A long awaited report on the Ayotzinapa disappearances by the Interdisciplinary Group of Independent Experts (GIEI Report) was released on September 6. The experts’ findings are damning, and erase all doubt - the Mexican government has been lying and covering up for the crimes of its security forces for almost a year.

Decriminalize Dissent

September 18, 2015 Cecily McMillan, www.america.aljazeera.com Resist! Civil Disobedience, Freedom of Speech and Assembly, Protest

By Cecily McMillan in Al Jazeera - Yet, from Lower Manhattan to Ferguson, Missouri, and from Occupy Wall Street to Black Lives Matter, such nonviolent movements continue to be met with paramilitary tactics and military-grade weaponry meant to maintain “law and order” at any cost. Targeted for arrest, assault and detention, young activists have been equated with criminals, dissidents with domestic terrorists. This equation has not made us any safer. In fact, there is a growing body of evidence that such tactics lead to more violence, not less, in our streets. A forthcoming study of 192 Occupy protests by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley’s Institute for Data Science finds that protest violence tends to be provoked by aggressive police tactics — not the other way around. By contrast, when police stand down, protests tend to persist, but with lower rates of arrest and a lower incidence of violence.

Rikers Families Protest ‘No Touching’ Prison Visitation Rules

September 10, 2015 Victoria Law, www.gothamist.com Resist! Mass Incarceration, New York City (NYC), Protest, Torture

By Victoria Law in Gothamist - Trina Regis travels from Sunset Park three times a week to visit her husband, who has been jailed on Rikers Island since February. "Physical contact means so much to us," she told Gothamist. "It brings a sense of peace to me and it brings a sense of peace to him. It's a little thing he can hold on to 'til the next visit." Regis, who declined to give her husband's name or details of his case for fear of retaliation by staff, also knows firsthand how important touch can be. In early 2015, she spent five months at Rikers for shoplifting. Her husband visited twice a week. "The intimacy from a loved one means a lot," she explained. "They're showing me—I'm here for your support. I love you still, no matter how it is." But new rules proposed by the Board of Correction, which sets minimum standards and guidelines for the city's jail system, may soon limit the couple's ability to touch each other.

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