Protest

Call For Reoccupation Of The Hambach Forest On April 26

April 7, 2014 Hambach Forest, www.earthfirstjournal.org Resist! Environment, Protest

“After the eviction of the third occupation in the Hambach Forest near Köln, which took place on March 27th after nearly 7 months…We had to suffer massive Repression, especially the last time: the raid on the meadow occupation and two other projects, confiscation of all our electronic devices as well as private stuff and scripts. This proves one thing: Our direct protest against the exploitation and the destruction of nature by RWE is effective. We will show that we‘re not afraid and we will not give up!” An one hour Interview about the Hambach Forest and the protest in the Rheinland against brown coak arised in the United States on the last sunday. It deals with basically informations as well as with current stuff – as example the raid and the eviction of the forest occupation.

Blocking The Google Bus

April 7, 2014 Creative Resistance, www.creativeresistance.org Resist! California, Inequality, Protest

From CreativeResistance.org: San Francisco Bay Area protests tech giant “Google Buses” are given special treatment, while city services struggle. “The protesters said their action was a parody that would introduce a new “Google” product called “GMuni”–where San Franciscans can ride the Google Bus for free now that Muni is in financial crisis.” For more on the issue, a recent article on SF Gate.

Killer Drone Protestors Converge On Creech AFB Base Today

April 7, 2014 Staff, www.popularresistance.org Resist! Drones, Protest

Anti-drone activists from throughout the county, including some driving in cars decorated with “Unarmed Civilians” and “Stop Killer Drones” signs, will participate in five days of protest at Creech Air Force Base, where pilots direct killer Reaper and Predator drones around the world .The Creech AFB actions run Monday, April 7 – Friday, April 11. Protests begin Monday/April 7 at Creech AFB (one hour north of Las Vegas in Indian Springs), and will run all week from 6-8 a.m. and 3-5 p.m. Among the direct actions are a simulated “Drone Attack on a Wedding Party”; “A Funeral Procession,” with white masks, coffins and a giant Mourning Mother puppet; “ONE NATION UNDER SURVEILLANCE” (illegal spying, domestic & foreign); “Call Congress Day for Drone Transparency,” “Fly A Kite, Not a Drone” (colorful kite display); “Celebrate Whistleblowers”; and, on the last day, Friday, April 11, a large convergence of drone resisters will hang “1,000 Drones,” around the military base property (each with names of innocent drone victims).

Tens Of Thousands Demand End To EU Austerity

April 5, 2014 Andrea Germanos www.commondreams.org Resist! Austerity, Europe, Protest

We need investment, not austerity. It's time for a new path forward. That was the message brought by tens of thousands of people from across Europe who converged in Brussels on Friday in a European Trade Union Confederation-organized protest against EU-supported austerity policies. "Our message is simple, and one which EU leaders do not want to hear – that their policies for dealing with the financial crisis are not enough, and have caused a mounting social and economic crisis," stated Bernadette Ségol, General Secretary of the European Trade Union Confederation. "Our message is that austerity is not working. Demonstrators marched through the streets carrying placards reading, "We demand quality jobs and solidarity," "Another Europe is possible," "Down with austerity," and "Invest to get out of the crisis."

Newark, NJ Students Walk Out For Underserved Schools

April 4, 2014 The Stream Team, www.america.aljazeera.com Resist! Budget Cuts, Education, Protest

About 1,000 Newark, New Jersey public school students walked out of school for today in response to a number of issues, including what many say is insufficient funding and proposed plans to place charter schools in district buildings. #NPSWalkOut2014 coincided with a state senate budget hearing on education. Besides demanding changes to funding, students are hoping legislators give control of Newark's schools back to the city (managed by the state for 18 years). The walkout began at various Newark schools and ended at the steps of Newark City Hall. As the demonstration grew, administrators reportedly tried to stop more students from joining. However, many students still found their way to the rally. The picture below marked a point close to their final destination.

Why Enbridge Is Afraid Of Ta’Kaiya Blaney

April 4, 2014 Stephanie Goodwin, www.greenpeace.org Resist! Canada, Enbridge, Oil and Gas, Protest

In my work for Greenpeace I meet special people pretty regularly. And by special, I mean people who do the most unexpected things in the most wonderful ways. Meet Ta’Kaiya. She’s a ten-year old girl from North Vancouver who, while learning about sea otters in her home-school, became concerned about the devastation oil tankers would cause to B.C.’s coast. When she learned about Enbridge’s proposal to build an oil pipeline from the Alberta Tar Sands to the Great Bear Rainforest, bringing more than 200 oil tankers per year to this pristine coast, she got really worried. So, she wrote a song about her concerns. And it’s good…really good. Ta'Kaiya and her mom, Anne, went to Enbridge's office in Vancouver to hand deliver a copy of her music video and a letter that asks them to stop their plans. When she arrived security guards stopped her from going to Enbridge's office on the sixth floor and even entering the building, period. They also refused to send someone down to the street to accept her letter.

Peabody Coal Is The Eco-Terrorist, Not People Trying To Stop Them

April 3, 2014 Mark Karlin, www.truth-out.org Resist! Eco-Terrorism, Environment, Peabody Coal, Protest

It is profoundly accurate that the sign behind arrested protesters Daniel Goering, 20, and Alice Fine, 19, read, "Fossil Fuels Are Killing Our Future." Let us be clear about this; that is not speculation: It is a fact. The fossil fuel, logging and slaughter house industries have gotten laws passed that make protesters against their businesses prosecutable, in certain cases, as so-called "eco-terroists." But it is coal mining companies such as Peabody that are wantonly destroying the earth, making the fossil fuel corporations the eco-terrorists, not young people who are trying to save life as we know it, including their own. The coal mining companies do a superb job of exploiting rural areas that have few jobs by presenting a choice between jobs and earth destroying pollution or a healthy life with few employment opportunities.

Police Killing Inflames San Francisco Community

April 3, 2014 Joseph Mayton, www.occupy.com Resist! California, Gentrification, police brutality, Protest, Racism

Nieto is the latest in a string of police killings – in addition to beatings and other violent attacks against non-white males – that have inflamed passions in the Bay Area in recent years. The most famous incident, when police shot dead young African-American Oscar Grant at the Fruitvale BART station on New Year's Day in 2009 – an event that was made into a film which won top awards at Sundance last year– was referenced by some community members at the vigil. The absence of white people attending the vigil, however, was notable, reinforcing the divide in the community. Occupy.com asked a number of white people seated at local, nearby cafes what they thought about the shooting – and none expressed distrust or frustration over the lethal action taken by police. "I think this is a situation where a troubled person was up on a hill, threatening others, and had a taser," said Josie, a 28-year-old web designer. "Why did he pull out the taser? This is a safety issue and we want the police to make sure our safety is where it needs to be."

Venezuela: How To Combat The Right Wing Offensive

April 3, 2014 Valeria Ianni, www.venezuelanalysis.com Resist! Media, Protest, Venezuela

Venezuela is torn between the destabilising attempts of the right-wing, the limits of the Bolivarian process and the possibility the working class and the popular movements will advance the [revolutionary] project, [but] not without tensions and contradictions. As a starting point, we must recognise that we are in the midst of a tremendous global media war against the Bolivarian process. It's therefore essential to create spaces of counter-information. To start with, in front of so much misinformation, we must again emphasise that the Bolivarian process is a long term process of broad social gains (health, education, reducing inequality), democratisation (the new constitution), growing empowerment and inclusion of the popular classes, in a very tense relationship with the charismatic leader that [Hugo] Chavez had been.

Boycott Of Israel Moving To Next Level?

April 3, 2014 Shir Hever, www.therealnews.com Resist! Israel, Palestine, Protest

The campaign for economic boycotting of Israel is more in the news these days than ever. Some European firms that had been investing in businesses doing business in East Jerusalem and the West Bank have now said they will stop doing that. There are resolutions in front of the Human Rights Council to increase sanctions or create some kind of form of opposition to further business operations in the occupied territories by settlements. How effective is all of this? What's happening with the boycott campaign? Now joining us to discuss all this is Shir Hever. He's a researcher with the Alternative Information Center in Jerusalem. He's now in Germany doing his PhD. And he is a regular commentator on The Real News. Thanks for joining us, Shir.

Students Walk Out On Dick Cheney During Speech

April 2, 2014 Travis Gettys, www.rawstory.com Educate! Protest, Student Activism, Wars and Militarism

More than two dozen students walked out on former Vice President Dick Cheney last week during a speech at American University. Some of the students called Cheney a “war criminal” Thursday as they filed out of the auditorium. “Walk out on war criminals,” one student can be heard yelling on video recorded during the event. The former vice president denied to The Eagle student newspaper that the Bush administration in which he served had used torture, although he conceded that three individuals were subjected to waterboarding. “Some people called it torture,” Cheney said. “It wasn’t torture.” Human rights groups say the practice was much more widespread, however.

Venezuela: When Corrections Are The Most Important News

April 2, 2014 Mark Weisbrot, www.cepr.net Educate! Mass Media, Protest, Venezuela

It says something about overall media coverage of a subject when some of the most important news appears in the form of corrections. On February 26, the New York Times corrected a false statement in a news report that had incorrectly referred to Globovision as “[t]he only television station that regularly broadcast voices critical of the government.” This was false, and it was easy to show that other major television stations regularly broadcast opposition views. Today the Times corrected an even more important false statement that appeared in an op-ed by jailed Venezuelan opposition leader Leopoldo López. López had written that “more than 30” protesters had been killed in Venezuela in the recent protests. In fact the “more than 30” number cited by López includes all protest-related deaths, a fraction of whom appear to be protesters. Although it has not been mentioned in major media coverage, a compilation of press reports indicates that the protesters themselves – not security forces – are responsible for about half of the deaths.

Hundreds Protest Albuquerque Police

April 2, 2014 Patrick Lohmann & Nicole Perez, www.abqjournal.com Resist! police brutality, Protest

What began as a peaceful protest on a sunny day in Albuquerque turned more and more unruly Sunday, as hundreds of people marched back and forth on Central Avenue until police threw more than two dozen canisters of tear gas and arrested at least half a dozen protesters. Marchers took over much of Downtown and the university area during a daylong demonstration, where they called for accountability for Albuquerque police and justice for James M. Boyd, a homeless, mentally ill man who was shot and killed by officers March 16 in the Sandia foothills. Protesters also decried past APD officer-involved shootings. The rally began at noon. After 9 p.m., police used around a dozen canisters of tear gas to disperse protesters near Central and Vassar, several people were seen being arrested, and Mayor Richard Berry said in a late-night news conference that an officer was injured.

Mi’kmaq Women Shut Down Maritimes Energy Association Briefing

April 1, 2014 Eliza Knockwood, www.idlenomore.ca Resist! Canada, Idle No More, Pipeline, Protest

Several Mi’kmaq women shut down a Maritimes Energy Association briefing held at the Westin Nova Scotian this morning around 8am, supported by a rally of over a hundred protesters. The NS Energy Minister intended to give a briefing on the Province’s plan to move forward on oil and gas projects to members of industry. Two banners were dropped from the hotel roof declaring Water Is Sacred and Stop the Energy East (pipeline), and an imitation frackwell was erected to show opposition to the controversial shalegas exploration process. Eliza Knockwood, a Mi’kmaq woman and mother, silenced the crowded room of government officials and industry representatives with her drum to send the message that water is sacred. “Although the language of the Treaties do not capture the true beauty and spirit of my ancestors, it does show us what is important to them and how they lived in harmony with the natural environment.”

Albany, NY Residents Protest Oil Trains

April 1, 2014 Chris Fry, www.workers.org Resist! Environment, Oil, Protest

At the urging of Albany, N.Y., neighborhood residents who were joined by several environmental organizations, on March 12 Albany County Executive Daniel McCoy placed a moratorium on oil company Global Partners’ plans to install seven boilers to heat tar sands oil here before loading it onto barges to ship down the Hudson River. At the same time, associates of the infamous billionaire Koch brothers announced plans for a 150-mile pipeline between the Albany train depot and the Bayway oil refinery in Linden, N.J., which is within the New York harbor area. This pipeline would run along the New York Thruway.

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