Protest

New Tea Party Tactic: Hire Actors To Play Protesters

April 9, 2015 Ben Adler, www.grist.org Educate! Protest, Republican, Tea Party

Here’s what happened: On Thursday, during a meeting of the South Florida Water Management District, “Tea Partiers” gathered outside to protest a state plan to purchase a big swath of the Everglades and protect it. But as the Palm Beach Postreports, they were mostly actors hired by the Tea Party of Miami and the company U.S. Sugar. The Tea Party chapter put the casting call out on Facebook, capturedby a reporter for Creative Loafing Tampa. They offered $75 cash to show up for two hours and hold banners and signs, which would be provided. It’s easy to see why they had such trouble filling out a crowd without paying for it. Everglades restoration is enormously popular in Florida.

Myersville Protesters Reject Dominion Transmission Expansion

April 2, 2015 Nancy Lavin, www.fredericknewspost.com Resist! Environment, Oil & Gas, Protest

An open house Tuesday night on Dominion Transmission’s expansion plans — including the addition of a second compressor at its Myersville station — drew a small but vocal group of protesters to Town Hall. The event was the fourth and final in a series of open houses throughout the region on Dominion’s Leidy South Project, which includes expanded compression along its interstate natural gas pipeline in Pennsylvania, Virginia and Maryland. If approved, the project would add a second, 15,900-horsepower compressor at the Myersville compressor station, which went into service late last fall. Protesters, including members of the Myersville Citizens for a Rural Community group, voiced an array of concerns with the project and the company, ranging from its environmental impact and noise pollution levels to claims about the legality of the station’s present operations.

Honduras: Assassination Of Student Leaders Prompts Protests

March 31, 2015 TeleSur, www.telesurtv.net Resist! Honduras, Protest, Student Activism

Soad Ham, a 13-year-old student leader of the Central Institute of Tegucigalpa who participated in the student protests against the Honduran government in the last two weeks, was found tortured and killed inside a plastic bag Wednesday. On Thursday, the opposition Libre Party called for protests against the assassination Ham and 3 other student leaders this week. The largest public high schools in the country have been protesting against the decision to change the class schedule, which will mean that the students in the afternoon will leave their schools at 7 p.m. – a very dangerous hour for students to be on the streets of Latin America’s most dangerous city. Public high schools are generally located in areas riddled with crime, and there is no public transportation services at those hours.

10,000 Blockupy European Bank, 350 Arrested

March 19, 2015 DW, www.dw.de Resist! Banking, Europe, European Central Bank, Protest

Several police cars have been set on fire, with windows being smashed and demonstrators throwing stones at police ahead of the massive demonstration on Wednesday. Authorities say at least one officer has been injured by a stone hurled by an activist, near the city's opera house. Up to 350 people were detained by police. Organizers have accused the police of sparking the violence, saying they set up a "civil war type scenario" to provoke demonstrators. "This is not what Blockupy planned," spokesman Hendrik Wester said. Video footage has shown riot police running through the city, with at least one protester being dragged away.

Nurses Sound A Code Blue In D.C. On Fast Track & TPP

February 28, 2015 National Nurses United, www.nationalnursesunited.org Resist! Free Trade, NAFTA, Protest, TPP

With the White House and some of the biggest multinational corporations lobbying Congress to “fast track" the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a massive trade deal between the United States and 11 other countries, National Nurses United today converged on the nation’s capital to explain that what’s good for investors’ balance sheets is not necessarily good for patients. “Nurses are patient advocates—and by extension advocates of our patients’ families and our communities—and we are here to sound a Code Blue on fast track,” said RN Deborah Burger, a member of the NNU’s Council of Presidents. “While there are many good reasons to reject fast track, the nation’s registered nurses are particularly concerned about these trade agreements’ threats to public health and safety.”

3 Held In Protest Against Marine Airfield On Okinawa

February 24, 2015 New York Times, www.sfgate.com Resist! Japan, Protest, Wars and Militarism

Three protesters were detained at the gate of a United States Marine base on Okinawa on Sunday during the largest demonstration yet against the start of construction of a new airfield there, protesters and local media said. The Ryukyu Shimpo newspaper said that at least 2,000 demonstrators gathered outside Camp Schwab, near the village of Henoko, where Japanese and U.S. officials have agreed to relocate the busy Futenma air base from a more densely populated part of the southern Japanese island. The relocation, first proposed in the 1990s, has been delayed for years because of local opposition, much to the frustration of Washington. But construction of the replacement airfield appears to have finally begun under Shinzo Abe, the conservative Japanese prime minister who has vowed closer ties between his nation and the U.S., its postwar protector.

3 Surprising Ways Argentina’s Umbrella March Dared To Be Different

February 21, 2015 Global Post, www.voxxi.com Resist! Argentina, Corruption, Protest

As far as Latin American protests go, Wednesday’s big march in Argentina was … different. As many as 400,000 people packed into downtown Buenos Aires and marched silently in the pouring rain. They were paying homage to prosecutor Alberto Nisman, one month after he was found dead. He was due to present findings that he said implicated the Argentine government in a cover-up of the country’s worst terrorist attack. Initially billed as a testament to Nisman, the march morphed into a much broader vent about Argentina’s insecurity and perceived lack of a transparent and fair judicial system. Last Friday, a prosecutor filed charges against President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner and her foreign minister, formally accusing them of plotting with Iran to cover up the investigation of the 1994 Jewish center bombing.

Met Police ‘Pay To Protest’ Proposal Rejected

February 20, 2015 Rob Evans, www.theguardian.com Resist! Freedom of Expression, Human Rights, Protest

Twelve campaigning groups have said they will refuse to pay for what they view as their right to protest. Their declaration comes after the Metropolitan police told protest groups they would have to pay what could amount to thousands of pounds for private firms to oversee their protests. The Met said they would have to fund traffic management - including measures such as road closures, barriers and stewards - for demonstrations they are planning to hold. Scotland Yard has previously carried out the role. In a statement on Thursday, the coalition of groups declared: “We believe any demand to pay to be able to demonstrate constitutes an unacceptable restriction on the right to protest.”

Week Of Action Anticipates NC’s Moral Movement March

February 16, 2015 Sue Sturgis, www.southernstudies.org Resist! Faith, Moral Mondays, North Carolina, Protest

The grassroots movement that's led to the arrest of about 1,000 people since 2013 for engaging in nonviolent protests against the policies of North Carolina's Republican-controlled government is getting ready to kick off another year of action. Led by the N.C. NAACP, the movement behind the high-profile Moral Monday protests will hold a Moral Week of Action next week with daily gatherings at the legislature followed by the Moral March for Love and Justice through Raleigh on Saturday, Feb. 14 -- the eighth such annual event known asHistoric Thousands on Jones Street for the thoroughfare where the legislature is located. "HKonJ" promotes a 14-point people's agenda for North Carolina that includes well-funded public schools, livable wages, and health care for all.

Mountain Valley Pipeline Opponents Want Local Say

February 14, 2015 Duncan Adams, www.roanoke.com Organize! Environment, Localism, Pipeline, Protest

The dominant message was that local governments and citizens should have the power to embrace or reject an energy infrastructure project planned by corporations for private gain. As proposed by Mountain Valley Pipeline LLC, a joint venture of EQT Corp. and NextEra Energy, the 42-inch diameter, 300-mile buried pipeline would transport natural gas at high pressure from West Virginia to a delivery point in Pittsylvania County, Virginia. Mountain Valley has consistently emphasized that the pipeline could yield economic benefits for communities along its route, as well as the state and nation.

18 Of The Most Amazingly-Creative Protests Ever!

February 9, 2015 John Vibes, www.trueactivist.com Resist! Creative Resistance, Protest

What does create long-lasting change, is changing the hearts and minds of the people, and changing the consciousness of society. This is done by connecting to them on both an emotional and a logical level, not by just expressing how angry you there. There is certainly plenty of value in large gatherings where people loudly express their views, but it will require a bit more creativity than that to really connect with people on a deeper level. Most people think protests are aimless especially when they are mismanaged and get violent. Such protests instead lead to many socio-economic challenges, which create more problems than before.

App Promises Mobile Justice When Law Enforcement Violates Law

February 7, 2015 Matt Carter, www.occupy.com Educate! Police, Protest, Technology

This time, however, those protesters in some regions are equipped with a tool designed to hold police accountable – and it's one that can be traced back to the early days of the Occupy movement. The Mobile Justice app was designed by visual artist Jason Van Anden and was first called “I’m Getting Arrested.” It let Occupy protesters alert each other when they were being physically detained by the police; by allowing users of the app to gather at the first sign of wrongful arrest or abuse of liberties, more eyes would be present to expose police brutality with video evidence. It’s no surprise, now that protest culture has made social media and smartphones vehicles for political change, that the federal government is attempting to regulate those forms of communication.

Activists Tell Citigroup To Give Up Their License To Steal

January 29, 2015 Other 98, www.other98.com Resist! Citigroup, Finance and the Economy, Protest

Today, Jan. 28, an activist marching band and NYC street performers delivered a petition signed by more than 100,000 consumers to Citigroup’s New York headquarters, calling on the firm to remove terms in their contracts that deny customers their right to a day in court. (Here’s the complete press release). The petition to the five biggest banks that use forced arbitration clauses – PNC, Wells Fargo, JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup and US Bancorp – came from a broad coalition of national consumer and citizen groups including Public Citizen,Consumer Action, The Other 98%, National Association of Consumer Advocates, and National Consumer Law Center.

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