Protest

Merger Protests Greet Comcast’s Annual Shareholder Meeting

May 22, 2014 Hadas Kuznits, www.philadelphia.cbslocal.com Resist! Corporatism, Internet Freedom, Net Neutrality, Protest, Shareholder activism

Demonstrators gathered this morning outside Comcast Corporation’s annual shareholders’ meeting to show opposition to the company’s proposed merger with Time Warner Cable. Outside the Kimmel Center, Delara Derakhshani, policy counsel for Consumers Union, the advocacy arm of Consumer Reports, says a merger between the two media giants would result in worse customer service, higher prices, and fewer choices. “I would say that they’re sort of notorious for lousy customer service, and they’re just going to have less of an incentive, I think, to address customer needs,” she told KYW Newsradio. Meanwhile, Comcast spokesperson John Demming was on hand to read a written statement from Comcast: “The combination of Comcast and Time Warner Cable will bring significant benefits to consumers, including faster Internet speeds, net neutrality protection, a more reliable and more secure network, low-cost Internet access, and more diverse and independent programming to millions of Americans across the nation,” he read. But Steven Renderos, with the Center for Media Justice, doesn’t think the merger will help consumers at all. “All it really does is it puts Comcast in a position to have more power,” he said.

On The Road To Ground The Drones

May 22, 2014 Voices For Creative Nonviolence, www.vcnv.org Resist! Drones, Protest

Come on and join the walk to protest drone warfare. We’ll be walking about 165 miles from the Boeing corporate headquarters in Chicago (where the manufacture of drones and conventional war planes are managed and designed) to the Michigan Air National Guard Facility at the Battle Creek Airport, planned site of a new drone command center. Can I join one day? Please do. There are many ways to access the walk by public transit (or drive to us and take it back to your car). See below for a list of stations we pass. We’ll also have a van to shuttle people short distances. Are we carrying all of our gear on the walk? No, we will have vans to transport personal baggage and tents. Tired walkers can also ride in a vehicle.

Enbridge Pipeline Road Blocked By Protesters In Burlington

May 21, 2014 CBC News, www.cbc.ca Resist! Enbridge, Pipeline, Protest

A group of protesters has blockaded the road to an exposed section of Enbridge’s Line 9 pipeline early this morning in Burlington, Ont. The protesters say they plan to continue the blockade for at least 12 hours. A news release says the 12-hour stay represents 12,000 "anomalies Enbridge has reported to exist on the line." “Enbridge calls these developments integrity digs,” said Danielle Boissineau, one of the protesters, “but to anyone watching the Line 9 issue, it’s clear Enbridge has no integrity. This work on the line is just a Band-Aid, a flimsy patch over the most outrageous flaws in the Line 9 plan. “Line 9 has a lot of similarities to Line 6B that erupted in the Kalamazoo River. The risk is just not worth it,” she said. Enbridge spokesman Graham White says the company plans "to continue the integrity digs elsewhere where there are no protesters." White says the protesters are "interfering with important safety maintenance for the line. If they're interested in this being a safe line, and for us to maintain that safety for the future, this is exactly counter to those efforts."

First Nations Vow To Fight Copper-Gold Mine

May 21, 2014 Andrea Klassen, www.theprovince.com Resist! Indigenous Rights, Mining, Protest

The chiefs of two First Nations say they’re prepared to take legal action to block the City of Kamloops from annexing a copper-gold mine that would encroach on their traditional territory. Chiefs Shane Gottfriedson of the Tk’emlups Indian Band and Ron Ignace, who heads the Skeetchestn Indian Band, said in a letter to the Ministry of Community, Sport and Cultural Development that they’re opposed to the boundary expansion to accommodate New Gold’s (TSX:NGD) New Afton Mine. “We told them in no uncertain terms that we would oppose it, that we would ask them to respect our aboriginal title and rights and not expand the boundaries of the city,” Ignace said. “We also told the city, ‘If you’re going to do that, then you’d better get into revenue-sharing with us.’ And the city said, ‘We will not share one cent with you.’ So what benefit is it to us?” Kamloops wants to annex the mine to the west in order to lower its heavy-industrial tax rate, which Domtar (TSX:DTC) and other industrial companies have complained is about double what they would pay in other parts of the province. However, Ignace said the city’s solution to its taxation issues threatens the bands’ revenue-sharing agreements with the mine.

East Bay Oil Refinery Protest Draws About 100 Demonstrators

May 21, 2014 Jean Tepperman, www.eastbayexpress.com Resist! California, Chevron, Oil, Protest

Accompanied by a four-kayak flotilla and a fifth-generation Martinez resident on horseback, about one hundred environmental activists marched seven miles from Martinez to Benicia on Saturday to protest the local toxic pollution and global climate impact of Bay Area oil refineries. The march was spearheaded by a Bay Area group affiliated with Idle No More, an organization of Canadian First Nations people fighting development of the tar sands oil fields in Alberta and other environmentally destructive projects on their traditional lands. Specific targets of the protest were proposed expansion projects at the Chevron (Richmond), Valero (Benicia), and Phillips 66 (Rodeo) refineries, a crude oil transportation terminal in Pittsburg planned by energy infrastructure company WesPac, and the major investment of Shell (Martinez) in the Canadian tar sands mines. The Saturday march was the second of four planned Refinery Corridor Healing Walks — the first, from Pittsburg to Martinez, was held in April, and future walks are planned for June and July, ending up at Chevron in Richmond. The series of walks aims to “connect the dots” to “bring awareness to the refinery communities, invite community members to get to know one another, and to show support for a just transition beyond fossil fuels,” according to the group’s website. At a gathering at the Martinez Regional Shoreline before the march, a winner of this year’s Goldman environmental prize, South African Desmond D’Sa, described the high rates of leukemia, cancer, and asthma in his home town of Durban and the community’s struggles against Shell Oil there, urging the crowd to “fight them (refineries) wherever they are.” Penny Opal Plant, of the East Bay Idle No More group, said she only recently began to conceive of the refinery corridor as a total area suffering from the “immense devastation” caused by oil refineries.

March In May Protesters Gather In Capital Cities

May 20, 2014 Melanie Kembrey, Peta Doherty, www.smh.com Resist! Australia, Protest

Thousands of protesters across the country have rallied against the Abbott government's budget in a vocal display of discontent at cuts to health and education. As state and territory leaders attend an emergency meeting to discuss measures designed to cut $80 billion from health and education spending over the next four years, voters have voiced their anger under "March in May" banners in capital cities including Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane. The gatherings, a sequel to the "March in March" rally held earlier this year, were not limited to budget discontent. Protesters also showed their objection to Prime Minister Tony Abbott's stance on human rights, environment and industrial relations. Social media was awash with #marchinmay and #bustthebudget posts. Sydney protest organisers said they turned down offers by the Greens, the Labor Party and the Socialist Party to speak at the rallies. Protesters started meeting at Sydney's Belmore Park from 1pm, with police estimating 8000 people were present by 2.45pm. The protesters marched to Victoria Park, arriving about 4.30pm.

Jane Kleeb Vs. The Keystone Pipeline

May 20, 2014 Saul Elbein, www.nytimes.com Resist! Keystone XL, Nebraska, Organizing, Protest

Terry Van Housen had a question. What he wanted to know from the 30 or so other Nebraska farmers and ranchers gathered in February at the York Community Center was this: What do you do with 10,000 dead cows? That was the number of cattle Van Housen figured could be at risk if the Obama administration permitted the proposed 1,700-mile XL leg of the Keystone pipeline to cut across their state. Bulldozers would dig a trench not far from Van Housen’s feedlot, completing the final phase of the Keystone project and streamlining the current flow of oil from the bitumen mines of Northern Alberta toward refineries on the Gulf Coast of Texas. If the pipe were to leak, Van Housen said, his cattle could die. “Can we put [those cows] on trucks and send them to Canada?” suggested Max Nelson, a stooped retired rancher who raised his hand every 10 minutes to pose other hypothetical disasters: a spill polluting the water supply of West Omaha, say, or compromising the hydroelectric dams on the Platte River. TransCanada, the $48 billion Canadian company that owns the Keystone, has repeatedly said the XL will be “the safest pipeline ever built on U.S. soil,” a technological marvel with automatic shut-off valves and satellite monitoring.

Blockupy: Thousands At Demo Against Capitalism in Europe

May 19, 2014 Revolution News, www.revolution-news.com Resist! Capitalism, Europe, Protest

Large demonstrations in Europe, today, in Germany, Italy, France and Spain: “You want Capitalism without democracy. We want democracy without capitalism”. @blockupy Police violence against demonstrators in Berlin (2 arrested) and Hamburg (8 arrested). In all, over 10,000 protested in Germany alone today. Thousands are on the streets of Rome too. See first part of the blog for the demonstrations up to this moment.

Still Falling: The Fight To Preserve Tasmania’s World Heritage Forests

May 19, 2014 The Sparrow Project, www.sparrowmedia.net Resist! Australia, Environment, Protest

Miranda Gibson has devoted years of her life to defending Tasmania’s old growth forests. Holding Australia’s record for longest tree sit, Miranda is no stranger to the long haul of tenacious grassroots campaigns for eco-defence. Miranda’s Observer Tree sit lasted 449 days and her six and a half years working on the Florentine Forest blockade has awarded World Heritage Protection status for the otherwise doomed Florentine eucalyptus stand. Miranda is apprehensive of the word “victory” as she sees her struggle as an ever-poised and vigilant stance against creeping, rapacious development. Despite Miranda’s laundry list of victories for the forests of Tasmania, the Australian government is attempting to delist several forests from World Heritage Protection status, Tasmanian trees are Still Falling, and these forests need your help.

New Restrictions On Moral Monday Protests

May 19, 2014 Jack Jenkins, www.thinkprogress.org Resist! Moral Mondays, Protest

North Carolina lawmakers announced strict new rules limiting where and how citizens can protest in the state Legislative Building on Thursday, a move many see as an attempt to stifle the progressive “Moral Monday” protests that continue to gain momentum in the Tar Heel state. During the second day of the state’s 2014 legislative session, the North Carolina Legislative Services Commission, which has not met since 1999, announced a new set of regulations that overhaul building rules unchanged since 1987. Although state Republicans claim the new rules are only meant to lesson “disturbances” so lawmakers can conduct business, the regulations are sure to impact the ongoing Moral Mondays protests, a progressive grassroots movement in North Carolina that sprung up last year in opposition to a series of conservative laws passed by the North Carolina state legislature. Thousands of North Carolinians have expressed their fierce disapproval of the Republican-dominated General Assembly by protesting in and around the state Legislative Building over the past year, with more than 900 people reportedly arrested inside the building’s central rotunda for civil disobedience since April 2013.

The Battle For Healthy Food Escalates

May 19, 2014 Ronnie Cummins, www.organicconsumers.org Resist! Food and Agriculture, GMO, Monsanto, Organize, Protest

Defying repeated threats of a lawsuit from Monsanto and the Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA), on May 8, Peter Shumlin, Governor of Vermont, signed a historic bill requiring food manufacturers to label genetically engineered (GE) foods, and to drop the practice of labeling GE foods as “natural” or “all natural.” On May 9, true to its word, the GMA confirmed that it will sue Vermont in federal court to overturn H. 112. Vermont is prepared to fight back. The state has already established a “food fight” legal defense fund. Legal analysts say Vermont will likely win. Vermont isn’t the only state up against the multi-billion dollar lobbying group. The GMA, whose 300-plus members include Monsanto and Dow, Coca-Cola and General Mills, is pushing a bill in Congress that would preempt all states from passing GMO labeling laws. It’s time for consumers in every state to band together to defeat the GMA’s full-on assault, not only on Vermont, not only on consumers’ right to know what’s in our food, but on states’ rights and on our basic freedoms to protect our health and our communities.

Net Neutrality: So … Now What?

May 18, 2014 Candace Clement, www.freepress.net Resist! FCC, Internet Freedom, Net Neutrality, Protest

On Thursday, the FCC released its proposal on how it intends to protect Net Neutrality in the wake of a January court case that tossed out the agency’s rules. And, just as we feared, the rules pay lip service to the idea of the open Internet while proposing solutions that would create a two-tiered Internet with fast lanes for those who can afford it — and dirt roads for the rest of us. But this doesn’t mark the end of the fight. In fact, Thursday was just the kickoff. So if you’re like most people I know and you care about this issue but don’t spend every waking moment following the intricate details, fear not. That’s what we’re here for. Is all hope for Net Neutrality lost? No. In fact, the momentum that’s built for real Net Neutrality over the last five months is unprecedented. Over the coming months, the public will have the opportunity to weigh in on FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler’s proposal. But we’ll also need to get the word out elsewhere — in town-hall meetings, with our elected officials, with the president, etc. The only reason Net Neutrality still has a fighting chance is because people are making a ton of noise about it. If we keep that up, we can win.

St. Louis: Taking On The World’s Largest Coal Company

May 18, 2014 Scott Parkin, www.commondreams.org Resist! Peabody Coal, Protest, Student Activism

There’s an insurrection afoot. And it’s in America’s heartlands no less. Bold and effective organizing against oil companies, natural gas companies and coal companies has started this insurrection that has openly challenged these powerful industries. This phenomenon has spread across the country and created unusual coalitions of Indigenous communities, environmental activists and rural landowners opposed to corporate seizures of their property. The most recent example occurred last week at Peabody Energy’s shareholder meeting in St. Louis. For the second time in less than a week, 11 people were arrested in defiance of the world’s largest coal company. Joining people from St. Louis, Arizona, southern Illinois and other parts of the world, the 11 were arrested while attempting to enter Peabody’s annual shareholder meeting seeking a redress of grievances with the company. From Arizona to the American heartland, Peabody has ravaged communities, the climate, forests and other wild places for over a century. Arizona: For five decades on Black Mesa, a 2.1-million-acre highland in Northeast Arizona, Peabody has mined coal and exploited the Navajo Aquifer to enrich the company’s executives and shareholders. The Navajo Aquifer is the main source of potable water for the Navajo and Hopi tribes.

Turkish PM Erdogan Punches Protester, His Adviser Kicks Another

May 17, 2014 Revolution News, www.revolution-news.com Resist! Corruption, Protest, Türkiye

On Tuesday, May 13, at 15.00 pm, Turkey witnessed one of the greatest tragedy’s of its history when an explosion killed over 300 and trapped more than 700 mine workers in Soma Coal, a private lignite mine in Soma. The whole country is in a state of mourning with the 1000′s of family members who are devastated from losing their loved ones. Just about 10 days before the accident in Soma, PM Erdogan’s party rejected a proposal made by the opposing party in parliament to discuss and take action about workers safety in coal mines throughout Turkey. Earlier Prime Minister Erdogan stated in a press conference that “explosions like this in these mines happen all the time.” Yesterday thousands of people, many grieving, marched in memorial of the Soma miners and to demand a change to routinely ignoring workers safety conditions, while money is allocated to other projects. On PM Erdogan’s visit to Soma yesterday he was greeted with kick’s to his vehicle and was booed by grieving protesters and called a “murderer” and “thief.” Agency LeJournal is reporting that Nazım Serhat Fırat one of their photographers is still detained over his photographs. Below is one of Nazım

FCC Moves To Kill Net Neutrality, Says Internet Advocacy Groups

May 17, 2014 The Real News, www.therealnews.com Resist! FCC, Internet Freedom, Net Neutrality, Occupy, Protest

In the 21st century, the internet is our free speech, but in this country, we're losing our right to free speech. The internet was created with our public dollars as part of the public commons. It should never have been reclassified. We need to put it back [incompr.] reclassify it. This is our First Amendment right. NOOR: What triggered public and congressional outcry ahead of the meeting is a provision in the proposed rule that will allow providers to charge more for faster content distribution, a so-called internet fast lane. FCC Chairman Wheeler, a former telecom lobbyist, says his proposal will balance the interest of the public and those of internet service providers. TOM WHEELER, CHAIRMAN, FCC: We start with a simple, obvious premise: protecting the open internet is important for both consumers and economic growth. We are dedicated to protecting and preserving an open internet. NOOR: Digital rights advocates argue that by going ahead with the plan as written, the FCC will actually create a two-tiered system which favors telecom giants and media conglomerates.

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