Protest

Protest Is The New Terror: Law Enforcement Criminalizing Dissent

July 1, 2015 Derek Royden, www.occupy.com Resist! Freedom of Expression, police brutality, Protest, Social Change, Surveillance

By Derek Royden in Occupy - The unique moment created by anti-police brutality protests throughout the U.S. last year – and coming on the heels of a federally coordinated effort to dismantle Occupy encampments in 2011 – revealed that federal police agencies, especially the FBI, working with local police have directed their resources as much against protesters, dissenters and those practicing and civil disobedience as they have against the threat represented by terrorists, whether homegrown “lone wolves" or organized outside groups. While the recent NSA reform bill passed in Congress represents a victory for civil liberties and privacy advocates, there's still a ways to go. Because while the right to dissent remains a fundamental American freedom, the fear of terrorism being openly exploited by law enforcement has allowed police to resurrect COINTELPRO in all but name.

Workers Turn Around Due To Protesters On Mauna Kea

June 25, 2015 Mileka Lincoln, www.hawaiinewsnow.com Resist! Hawaii, Indigenous People, Land Rights, Protest

By Mileka Lincoln in Hawaii News Now - After a seven-hour demonstration, Hawaii DLNR (Department of Land and Natural Resources) agents just informed the hundreds of protesters on Mauna Kea that officers and TMT workers will turn around and no longer ask anyone to leave. No further arrests will be made today, they say. Protesters began lining up early Wednesday morning to prevent construction of the Thirty Meter Telescope on the on the summit of Mauna Kea. A total of eleven people were arrested, and the TMT crew made it about 1.5 miles up the seven-mile road. In all, more than 700 people gathered to stand in what they say is protection of a sacred Native Hawaiian space.

How U.S. Law Enforcement Is Working To Criminalize Dissent

June 20, 2015 Derek Royden, www.occupy.com Educate! Freedom of Expression, police brutality, Protest, Protests

By Derek Royden in Occupy - It’s well established that the FBI surveilled civil rights and other activists from Martin Luther King Jr. to leaders of the National Lawyers Guild as part of its wide ranging COINTELPRO (counter intelligence program) during the 1960s and early 70s. The use of planted news stories, faked communications to create dissension within activist groups, informants to make dubious cases and even assassinations was revealed by a group of activists called the Citizens’ Commission to Investigate the FBI, who broke into a bureau office in Media, Pennsylvania, in 1971 and found ample evidence of the agency’s misdeeds. This is generally seen as an era of terrible government overreach in the name of fighting “communism.”

Wave Of Protests Spread To Scandal-Weary Honduras & Guatemala

June 16, 2015 Elisabeth Malkin, www.nytimes.com Resist! Corruption, Guatemala, Honduras, Protest, Social Change

By Elisabeth Malkin in The New York Times - In Guatemala, angry citizens marched under pelting rain, undeterred. In Honduras, they carried torches at dusk. A wave of protests against corruption scandals that is sweeping across Latin America has reached Central America. The presidents of Guatemala and Honduras face allegations that people close to them have conspired to siphon money from threadbare public health systems or maneuvered to cheat the state out of tax revenue. Although neither President Otto Pérez Molina of Guatemala nor President Juan Orlando Hernández of Honduras has been directly accused, growing numbers of protesters are demanding their resignations. Central Americans are no strangers to such malfeasance, of course. Former presidents and their associates in Costa Rica, Nicaragua and Guatemala have been tried for corruption by their successors.

DC Protesters Demand To See TPP Text, Rebuffed By Obama & Police

June 4, 2015 Cole Strangler, www.ibtimes.com Resist! Labor Unions, Obama, Police, Protest, TPP

By Cole Strangler in IB Times - In the latest escalation of its campaign against the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), the nation's largest labor federation is calling on the Obama administration to declassify the full text of the proposed trade agreement. And on a rainy Tuesday morning in Washington, the AFL-CIO and its allies engaged in some old-fashioned political theater to make their point. As it stands, access to the deal is limited to negotiators and, upon special request, members of Congress, all of whom are legally barred from disclosing the details. Those strict rules remain in place even as the White House lobbies the House of Representatives on so-called fast-track legislation

Constant Pressure Forces PA Governor To Meet Frackactivists

May 24, 2015 Pennsylvanians Against Fracking, www.PopularResistance.org Resist! Fracking, Pennsylvania, Protest

Frontline community members, scientists, and environmental advocates met with Governor Tom Wolf and members of his cabinet to urge him to halt shale gas extraction statewide to allow for a comprehensive assessment of its short- and long-term impacts on the Commonwealth. “It was encouraging to know that he’s willing to listen to citizens’ concerns. Now if only he would act now and soon before more Pennsylvanians are harmed. His policies shouldn’t be at the expense of healthy communities and healthy families. Pennsylvania families should be safeguarded, not sacrificed,” said Jenny Lisak, Co-Director of Pennsylvania Alliance for Clean Water and Air, a Pennsylvanians Against Fracking steering committee member. “I was thankful for the welcoming reception we received from the Governor for this introductory meeting and am motivated by his offer to follow up with a more substantive, comprehensive engagement. As this process moves forward, I strongly urge that the Governor focus on and address the human health impacts currently being suffered by his citizens and take immediate action to protect them,” said Yuri Gorby, Ph.D., a Rensselaer Polytechnic microbiologist.

Massive Protest In China In City That Lacks Train Service

May 18, 2015 Jennifer Baker, www.revolution-news.com Resist! China, Protest, Social Change, Transportation, Wars and Militarism

Tens of Thousands of residents of the southwestern county of Linshui gathered in the morning and marched about 3km. Photos posted by the protesters on social media also showed violent attacks by a police tactical team(SWAT)and the resistance that followed lasted all day and well into the night. The residents want (need) to have a proposed railway linking Dazhou to Chongqing pass through their county in the centre of Sichuan. The county currently has no railway, waterway, or airport. Rage built up last week after residents found out that the authorities favor another plan – that the railway stretching more than 200km will instead by-pass Linshui and be routed through the late paramount leader Deng Xiaoping’s hometown Guangan , to the west of Linshui.

Obama Protested As He Pushes TPP At Nike

May 11, 2015 Luke Hammill, www.oregonlive.com Resist! Free Trade, Obama, Portland, Protest, TPP

Chants of "TPP – just don't do it" and "Corporate greed has got to go" rang through the air outside Nike headquarters in Beaverton on Friday morning, as President Obama prepared to push the controversial Trans-Pacific Partnership inside. More than 50 protesters from groups such as the Oregon Fair Trade Campaign and unions such as Amalgamated Transit Union Local 757lined Murray Boulevard with signs and loudspeakers, urging Congress not to give Obama "fast-track" authority to submit the trade pact to lawmakers for an up-or-down vote, with no amendments allowed. The TPP has divided Oregon's Democratic congressional delegation. Sen. Ron Wyden and Reps. Earl Blumenauer, Suzanne Bonamici and Kurt Schrader support the deal. But Sen. Jeff Merkley and Rep. Peter Defazio oppose it.

Wars & Protest: Opposition Matters

May 6, 2015 Debra Sweet, , www.worldcantwait.net Resist! Imperialism, Protest, Student Protests, Vietnam, Wars and Militarism

It's worth thinking about how imperialist wars start; how they can end up; how opposition develops externally and domestically. Sometimes waging wars make the aggressor less stable. Sometimes they lose legitimacy. A lot depends on what the opposition does. Nick Turse got an opinion into The New York Times last Friday, In Vietnam, Callous Use of Power Led to Years of Civilian Misery: “While to Henry Kissinger and many others, the war's lessons lay primarily in the painful realization of the limits to American power, the pain endured by millions of survivors in Vietnam who lost family, the pain of millions who were wounded, of millions who were killed, of millions driven from their homes into slums and camps reeking of squalor, seem to me to be so much greater.” How many more immoral, unjust, illegitimate wars in our name before we stop the crimes of our government?

Guatemala: 1000s Protest Gov’t Corruption & Impunity

April 27, 2015 Erin Gallagher, www.revolution-news.com Resist! Corruption, Freedom of Expression, Guatemala, Protest, Surveillance

Thousands participated in a peaceful demonstration in Guatemala on Saturday April 25 at 3pm in the capital city to demand the resignation of President Otto Pérez Molina and Vice President Roxana Baldetti, and the return of millions stolen from the national treasury. The Secretaries-General Winaq Movement and URNG-Maiz, Amilcar Pop and Angel Sanchez filed a criminal complaint against President Otto Pérez Molina and Vice President Roxana Baldetti, after the International Commission against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG) and the Public Ministry dismantled a network of customs fraud and smuggling operating in the Superintendency of Tax Administration (SAT)

Baltimore Protests: 2 Arrested As Gov. Sends State Troopers

April 24, 2015 RT, www.rt.com Resist! Baltimore, police brutality, Police the Police, Protest, Racial Justice

Baltimore residents and police clashed as people marched downtown to protest the mysterious death of Freddie Gray in police custody. Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R) said he will send 32 state troopers to the city in order to oversee demonstrations. No concrete numbers are in, but hundreds of protesters took to the streets of downtown Baltimore, rallying in front of City Hall and the US Courthouse while calling for justice in Gray’s death. The 25-year-old African-American man died as a result of a severe spinal cord injury, though it’s unclear exactly how or when he was hurt. His funeral is set for Monday. As demonstrators marched through the streets, they chanted phrases such as, "All night, all day – we’re going to fight for Freddie Gray” and “Hands up, don’t shoot!”

6 Arrested At BP HQ In Week Of Action For Gulf Oil Spill Anniversary

April 17, 2015 Anastasia Pantsios, www.ecowatch.com Resist! Environment, Oil & Gas, Oil Spill, Protest

On April 20, 2010 BP’s offshore oil drilling rig Deepwater Horizon in the Gulf of Mexico exploded, killing 11 workers, causing the largest oil spill ever in U.S. waters and the worst environmental disaster in U.S. history. It impacted wildlife and people, caused health problems from exposure to oil and dispersants, and decimated oyster, shellfish and finfish populations and damaged livelihoods and economies in towns dependent on fisheries. Five years later, much oil remains in the Gulf, but no one is sure how much. BP has fought in court to minimize its responsibility. Kicking off a week of events marking the fifth anniversary of that event—with the damage to the environment and the ecosystem of the Gulf region still being added up—activists occupied BP headquarters in Houston.

The History Of Oil, Protest And The Economy

April 12, 2015 Patrick Robbins, www.thischangeseverything.org Educate! Finance and Economy, Oil, Protest

In 2011, political theorist Timothy Mitchell published Carbon Democracy: Political Power in the Age of Oil, which argues that the fossil fuel industry “helped create both the possibility of modern democracy and its limits.” The book begins with the rise of coal: the rigid, concentrated structure of its production and distribution networks made them highly vulnerable to disruption by militant workers, who were able to achieve new and unprecedented forms of political power as a result. All that changed with the global shift from coal to oil, with its comparatively flexible networks and less reliance on workers—a shift that consolidated the power of the fossil fuel giants, and was also closely linked to the creation of the idea of an “economy” based on endless GDP growth. I recently spoke with Mitchell at his Columbia University office about Carbon Democracy, and how the book resonates with the climate fight.

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