Protest

Protesters Rally Outside Forks Township Compressor Station

January 27, 2015 Edward Sieger, www.lehighvalleylive.com Resist! Fracking, Oil & Gas, Protest

About 20 Forks Township residents and activists gathered outside the Columbia Gas compressor station Saturday afternoon in the township's northern tier to protest a proposed expansion that will more than quadruple the facility's horsepower. Lining the road outside the Klein Road facility that moves natural gas to market, protesters held signs declaring "How Long Can You Hold Your Breath" and "Folks Who Favor Fracking Must be Sent Packing." Some protesters sported gas masks and an armed security guard stood near a car parked in the property's driveway before moving back behind locked gates. Pacing the road with a megaphone in hand, Sam Koplinka-Loehr with the Clean Air Council led the group in chants that could be heard echoing over the predominantly rural landscape.

Tens Of Thousands Protest As US Ally Resigns In Yemen

January 26, 2015 AP, www.mashable.com Resist! Politics, Protest, Yemen

Tens of thousands of Yemenis marched in protest on Saturday against Shiite rebels who hold the capital, amid a power vacuum in a country that is home to what Washington describes as al-Qaeda's most dangerous offshoot. Some 20,000 hit the streets of capital Sanaa, where demonstrators converged on the house of President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi, who resigned Thursday along with his cabinet. It was the largest protest since the rebels, known as Houthis, swept into Sanaa in September. Protesters carried banners, and chanted slogans denouncing the rebels and demanding the restoration of the president. Scuffles involving knives and batons broke out in one instance in Sanaa when rebels tried to block one procession, leaving two demonstrators and one Houthi injured.

50,000 In Berlin Say No To TTIP

January 22, 2015 Resist! Germany, Protest, TTP

We are hearing more and more news from Europe that the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) is running into stiff head winds, and I had the pleasure of seeing this growing storm of opposition first-hand in Berlin last week. I attended a series of events culminating in the WIR HABEN ES SATT! “We’re Fed Up” march, a massive mobilization of people saying no to industrial agriculture. This year, a special focus was on TTIP and GMOs and demanding new protections for animal welfare. This was the fifth year of the march, and at 50,000 people, the biggest so far. One of the organizers of the march, ARC2020, described the event: “Farmers and beekeepers, tractors and stiltwalkers, samba bands and chanting citizens of all ages made their colourful way from Potsdamer Platz to the Angela Merkel’s chancellery. Their aim? To say no to a broken industrialised globalised food system and yes to an alternative.”

The New Hampshire Rebellion To Get Money Out Of Politics

January 10, 2015 Eleanor Goldfield, www.occupy.com Resist! Campaign Finance, Protest

This Sunday, Jan. 11, the Rebellion sets out on another march, leaving from all four corners of the Granite State, to raise further awareness and recruit growing numbers of people to demand that all presidential candidates campaigning in the state answer the question: “How are you going to end the system of corruption in Washington DC?” “This is the issue that leads to all other issues,” says Jeff McLean, director of the New Hampshire Rebellion. “There's recognition across the spectrum that sensible reforms are not being implemented because of this issue.” Indeed, the Rebellion is a full-spectrum revolt against money in politics. As Lawrence Lessig, the Harvard Law professor, campaign finance reformer and founder of the group, says: “It's not left vs. right, it's insiders vs. outsiders.”

Drone Activists Cut Their Way Onto Base

January 7, 2015 John Queally, www.mintpressnews.com Resist! Drones, Law, Protest, United Kingdom (UK)

Four demonstrators opposed to Britain’s prolonged participation in foreign wars and use of armed drones were arrested on Monday after cutting through a fence at the Waddington Royal Air Force base near Lincolnshire, UK. According to the Guardian, RAF Waddington has been the growing focus of recent protests over Britain’s operation of unmanned aerial vehicles, which are controlled from the base. “Behind the rebranding, war is as brutal and deadly as it has always been with civilians killed, communities destroyed, and the next generation traumatized. And so we have come to RAF Waddington, the home of drone warfare here in the UK to say clearly and simply ‘End the Drone War’.”

#BlackBrunchNYC Disrupts Diners To Protest Police Brutality

January 6, 2015 Lilly Workneh, www.huffingtonpost.com Organize! Food and Agriculture, New York City (NYC), Protest, Racial Justice

In a seemingly new approach to demonstrating, protesters in New York interrupted patrons at various restaurants on Sunday to declare injustice in America and call attention to problematic policing tactics. The event was part of a movement dubbed #BlackBrunch in which protesters purposely selected eateries across the city, or places they referred to as "white spaces," to voice their outrage over police violence against Blacks. On Sunday, about three dozen demonstrators marched into restaurants and briefly interrupted mid-day meals as they read aloud the names of African Americans killed by police, Yahoo reports. “There is a war on Black people in America that cannot be ignored and the Black Brunch tactic is one that is committed to interrupting ‘business as usual’ until the war against us has ended,” reads a statement written by #BlackBrunch organizers.

Parliament Square Fence Crushes Protest Rights, Says Occupy Democracy

January 5, 2015 Mark Townsend, www.theguardian.com Resist! Democracy, Law, Occupy, Protest, United Kingdom (UK)

Boris Johnson has been accused of using Parliament Square as his “private back garden” in an attempt to crush the fledgling Occupy Democracy movement. Lawyers have written to London’s mayor threatening legal action after he sanctioned the construction of “unlawful” fences around the square, which campaigners claim are a deliberate attempt to stop them protesting peacefully. Parliament Square is considered to be one of the most important sites in the country for demonstrators and is maintained by Johnson’s Greater LondonAuthority (GLA). Protesters argue that the square was conceived as a place for public meetings, focusing particularly on issues that they believe are being ignored by MPs.

Police Issue Arrest Orders For Protest Organizers

December 29, 2014 Revolution News, www.revolution-news.com Resist! Milwaukee, police brutality, Protest, Racial Justice

Statement from Khalil Coleman Milwaukee WI resident and Organizer from Occupy The Hood Milwaukee: For three years now dating back to the in custody death of Derek Williams, I have been a vocal activist for the group Occupy the Hood Milwaukee. Within these three years we have faced four very influential cases of injustice; Darius Simmons, Derek Williams, Corey Stingley, and now a national case with Dontre Hamilton. Just recently, I have been arrested three times for civil disobedience, have been personally called out by our chief of police and now am wanted (without a warrant issued) for ‘interrogation and desire to charge’ by Milwaukee Police Department. They have searched for me for two days now using the Fugitive and Apprehension Division.

Resistance And Transformation

December 28, 2014 Malik Yakini, www.michigancitizen.com Resist! Free Speech and Assembly, Nonviolence, Protest

I applaud the young people who have reinvigorated our movement! I am not among those who will criticize others who are marching, dying-in, walking with their hands up, chanting “I can’t breathe” or setting fires and throwing rocks. It is unintelligent and unhealthy to have a foot on your neck, and not use all means available to remove the foot. All resistance to oppression is healthy for the oppressed. The writings of Frantz Fanon are instructive in this regard. In his classic book, “The Wretched of the Earth,” Fanon, speaking of the oppressed, says, “Once their rage explodes, they recover their lost coherence, they experience self-knowledge through reconstruction of themselves…” I am encouraged by this latest wave of resistance. But, while this activism is encouraging, and protesting is significant, it is clearly not enough. We need a long-term strategy guided by a clear vision of the society that we seek to bring into being. If we are to move this strategy forward, as our revered ancestor Kwame Ture (formerly Stokley Carmichael) advised, we must belong to an organization. “The only way you can help your people is by helping to organize them, and the only way you can do that is by joining an organization.”

Native American Man Went To Police Brutality Rally, Killed By Police Next Day

December 26, 2014 Simon Moya-Smith, www.indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com Resist! indigenous, police brutality, Protest

A man who participated in an anti-police brutality march and rally in Rapid City, South Dakota, on Friday was shot and killed by police a day later, according to reports. Rapid City Police identified the victim as Allen Locke, 30, of Rapid City. At about 6 p.m. Saturday, police were dispatched to a subdivision known as Lakota Community Homes to remove a person from a residence there, theRapid City Journalreported. Pennington County Sheriff Kevin Thom, who was on site investigating the shooting, told the Rapid City Journal that Officer Anthony Meirose fired his weapon after Locke allegedly charged him with a knife. Police are saying Locke was shot up to five times by Officer Meirose. Locke was pronounced dead at the scene.

Protesters Mourn Antonio Martin, Shut Down Missouri Highway

December 25, 2014 Mariah Stewart and Carly Schwartz, www.huffingtonpost.com Resist! Antonio Martin, police brutality, Protest, Racial Justice

Minutes before Christmas Day officially started, a few dozen activists stood outside the Cathedral Basilica in Berkeley, Missouri, with lit candles and posters in memory of Antonio Martin, a black 18-year-old who was fatally shot by a police officer Tuesday night. "The intent is to gather people in honor of him and other people who have been slain by police," Lydia Marie, 23, an intern for Amnesty International who coordinated the demonstration, told The Huffington Post. "This is another Christmas Eve a family is spending without their child who was lost to police violence." "As a black man, I’m trying to consistently deal with this, waking up and seeing slayings on the news," said Michael Anthony, 29, a cinematographer from St. Louis.

City To File Charges Against Protest Organizers

December 24, 2014 CBS Minnesota, www.minnesota.cbslocal.com Resist! police brutality, Protest

In the next few days, the Bloomington City Attorney Sandra Johnson expects to file criminal charges against the organizers of Saturday’s protest at Mall of America. The mall went into a partial shutdown for about two hours as thousands of protesters filled the rotunda on one of the busiest shopping days of the year. The group, “Black Lives Matter” chose the mall for its high visibility, but was warned repeatedly that it was private property. Mall officials are reportedly gathering estimates of how much money the stores lost on Saturday. Combined with the amount of overtime put in by police, Johnson said the numbers will be “staggering,” and she wants the protest organizers to pay.

8-Year-Old’s Death Prompts Medical Marijuana Rally

December 20, 2014 Carly Schwartz, www.huffingtonpost.com Organize! Medical Marijuana, New York (NY), Protest

Patients, advocates and family members of sick children staged a rally outside New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo's Manhattan office Friday to demand that the Democrat establish an emergency-access medical marijuana program for the state, one week after an 8-year-old from Niagara Falls died from brain cancer. "More than five months after Governor Cuomo signed a bill into law that was meant to bring vital treatment to our family, my daughter Donella is dead," Nate Nocera, whose daughter died Dec. 12, said at the event. "Governor Cuomo, I know you cannot turn back time to get us the medical marijuana that could have slowed the aggressive growth of the tumor in her brain ... but you have the power to end the needless suffering of so many New York families."

Two Arrested Protesting Spectra’s Pipeline Expansion

December 16, 2014 Fighting Against Natural Gas, www.capitalismvsclimate.org Educate! Energy, Environment, Natural Gas, Protest

Police arrested two protesters this morning who chained themselves to a mock ‘bridge to nowhere’ and blocked the driveway to Spectra Energy’s methane gas compressor station in Cromwell. The demonstrators opposed Spectra’s proposed pipeline expansion, which would expand this compressor station, among others. The compressor station, located a quarter-mile from Cromwell Middle School and one-hundred feet away from recreational Watrous Park fields, is a “major source of hazardous air pollutants,” according the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). Health impacts from compressor station pollution include kidney and liver damage, lung damage, brain impacts, and leukemia. This action was part of a coordinated “Week of Respect and Resistance” with actions from December 13 – 19 against the pipeline expansion in Connecticut, Massachusetts, New York, and Rhode Island.

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