Protest

In France 21 Year Old Dam Protester Killed

October 27, 2014 Revolution News!, www.revolution-news.com Resist! Dam, Energy, Environment, France, police brutality, Protest

17 hours after police attacked again the ZAD resistance in Testet, south of France, a 21 year old ZADist was found dead. During the clashes, witnesses say they saw a man collapse and noticed the police taking him away. On Saturday, October 25th, 5,000 people from all over France gathered at Testet in opposition to the dam project and the violent repression of the ZAD resistance, which is ongoing for years, and has increased in the past months. Police attacked the protestors to remove them, and some militants battled the cops until late in the night. Police fired rubber bullets, tear gas grenades; several protestors were badly injured. Later in the night, firefighters and police claimed they have found the body of a man in the woods, while eye witnesses who were there say the body was found at police roadblocks.

Cross-Canada Anti-War Demonstrations Against Third Iraq War

October 24, 2014 Global Research News, www.globalresearch.ca Resist! Canada, Peace, Protest, Wars and Militarism

We invite the people of Quebec and Canada to protest: Against a new illegal war that contributes to dismantling the existing world order and that threatens “world peace and security” while pretending to defend them; Against the security and humanitarian pretexts invoked by the new coalition: the protection of Iraq’s population has nothing to do with the real motives of this war, which will cause them more suffering and further deteriorate their living conditions; Against a Canadian foreign policy centered on intensifying conflicts and war; Against the hijacking of huge amounts of public resources to make war, promote the military industry, glorify the army and Canada’s military past, while for many years « austerity measures » have cut education, healthcare, public services, the promotion of women’s rights, the protection of the environment, international cooperation, etc.

3 Arrested Protesting World Food Prize

October 18, 2014 Sharyn Jackson, www.desmoinesregister.com Resist! Food and Agriculture, Food Not Bombs, GMOs, Protest

Three activists protesting the World Food Prize were arrested Thursday night in front of the Iowa Capitol building, just as attendees to the 2014 Laureate Award Ceremony gathered inside. The three protesters, part of the Occupy World Food Prize movement, were arrested after a march up the Capitols' west steps, during which a crowd of about 40 people chanted "No, no, GMO." The arrest came after an hourlong rally with speakers from Iowa and around the country, who criticized the World Food Prize's recognition of genetically modified organisms as the solution to feed a growing world population. The prize, they say, honors corporate and large-scale industrial agriculture, rather than farmers who grow their own food. "Even though a lot of people in that building over there are very powerful and rich, we represent a lot of people who can't get here — the majority of the human race," said Frank Cordaro, founder of the Iowa Catholic Worker and one of the protesters who was arrested, in his opening remarks.

Legal Challenge Filed Against Fracked Gas Terminal

October 17, 2014 Earth Justice, www.earthjustice.org Resist! Cove Point, Energy, Environment, Protest

Washington, D.C. — Environmental and community groups took the first step late yesterday in a likely legal battle against a controversial liquefied natural gas (LNG) export facility. On behalf of Chesapeake Climate Action Network, Sierra Club, Lower Susquehanna Riverkeeper, Patuxent Riverkeeper, and Potomac Riverkeeper the environmental law organization Earthjustice filed a motion for rehearing with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), demanding the agency withdraw its approval of an LNG export facility proposed at Cove Point in southern Maryland. The filing positions the groups to sue the agency to challenge FERC’s inadequate environmental review of the project. Groups also filed a motion for a stay, urging FERC to halt further construction on the $3.8 billion project.

How The Hong Kong Protesters Can Win

October 17, 2014 Maria J. Stephan, www.foreignpolicy.com Strategize! China, Democracy, Hong Kong, Protest

Don't think that this will be over soon. This is fundamentally a war of patience and a test of our endurance," 17-year-old Joshua Wong, student leader of pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong, tweeted on Thursday. For the past several weeks, the protesters have been putting on a clinic in organized, disciplined civil resistance: Tens of thousands of activists continue to throng the downtown streets and thoroughfares, demanding the resignation of Hong Kong chief executive Leung Chun-ying and threatening to occupy government buildings. Occupy Central, student coalitions, and other opposition groups have called for mass strikes while insisting that they will not back down until their ultimate goal of universal suffrage is achieved. Still, as momentum has slowed, the lingering question is, what next?

First Nations Protesters Set Up At Manitoba Dam

October 17, 2014 Chinta Puxley, www.globalnews.ca Resist! Energy, Environment, Indigenous Rights, Land Rights, Protest

CROSS LAKE, Man. – Protesters from a northern Manitoba First Nation are occupying the grounds around a generating station and have issued an eviction notice to Manitoba Hydro for what they say is a violation of their treaty rights. More than 100 protesters from the Cross Lake First Nation north of Lake Winnipeg marched to the hydro dam Wednesday and some have refused to leave the grounds. In a letter to Hydro president Scott Thomson, Chief Catherine Merrick said the First Nation is taking control of its traditional territory and evicting the Crown corporation. “You do not respect our rights,” she wrote in the letter dated Oct. 6. “You do not even respect or acknowledge who we are as people. Money and profit — that which you make off our traditional territory and people — is apparently all you care about.”

Fracking Protest Camp Set Up To Protect Horse Hill Near Horley

October 17, 2014 Becca Taylor, www.getsurrey.co.uk Resist! Climate Change, Energy, Environment, Fracking, Protest

A protest group has set up camp near Horley to protect a site from possible fracking following news that oil 'shows' at Horse Hill after weeks of exploration. Horse Hill Developments has been drilling at the Horse Hill site since the beginning of September with a promise to campaigners that it would not be fracking there, butFrack Free Surrey fear the company is testing the ground for future projects in the Weald. The company does not currently have a license to frack, but stated on September 18 that "the information gained through these activities will provide valuable insights into the technical and economic viability of unconventional development elsewhere in the Weald Basin".

Why Did Germany End Tuition? Mass Student Protests

October 9, 2014 David Smith, www.economywatch.com Resist! Education, Germany, Human Rights, Protest, Student Activism

After experimenting with tuition fees, all the federal German states have been persuaded to reverse their decision. In the UK and US, there is no political will to change the policies which are blighting whole generations. The only way forward is to copy German protest movements. “What Germany has done is fabulous and it’s not surprising that people in the US don’t understand it. What I really liked was the reversal of their decision to impose them,” she said. “It’s a great shame that the UK has gone to a system like ours because it’s a disaster to be avoided at all costs. British students coming out with that much debt will be very unhappy in a generation or two, just as we are in the US. I’d love to see a 180 degree turnaround in the UK as well, but I can’t see it happening. The same neoliberal economic assumptions are driving policies in the UK as in the US, even though they are not justified by data.”

Popular Protests: Success Is Measured In The Long Term

October 7, 2014 Yang Su, www.scmp.com Strategize! China, Civil Rights, Democracy, Hong Kong, Protest

Had he lived to this day, I wonder, what Professor Fang Lizhi, a beloved sage of China’s pro-democracy movement, would say. Accused by the government of being a “black hand”, Fang was one of the intellectuals whose initial call for democracy helped trigger the 1989 student movement. Professor Fang’s was a call to resist the temptation for an immediate victory and to recognise potential success in the long run. This wisdom is consistent with research findings about the outcome of social protest. It is very rare for any protest to have its demand immediately met – an unjust law changed, or a targeted official removed. In most examples, even defeated protests would surely help bring about the social changes the protestors fought for.

Why Protesters Code Pink Stay Out Of Jail

October 1, 2014 Daniel Nasaw, www.bbc.com Strategize! Government, Law, Protest, Wars and Militarism

Benjamin says that the activists launch their actions knowing full well they face arrest - and that knowledge frees her psychologically, for example, to berate the president of the United States for authorising drone strikes in Yemen before an international television audience. "We don't like getting arrested - it takes time and it's expensive and takes lawyers," she said. "But we've been arrested dozens of times." Benjamin has also been denied entry into Canada and Egypt, where she says an Egyptian policeman fractured her shoulder attempting to force her onto a plane out of the country. But in Washington, the Capitol complex and committee hearings are by law and democratic tradition open to the public unless secret intelligence matters are being discussed.

Climate Action — Who Is Stopping Us?

September 26, 2014 Kumi Naidoo, www.huffingtonpost.com Educate! Energy, Environment, Protest

Today, it is interests of the fossil fuel industries -- not technology nor economics -- which are the only obstacle to securing a safe future for us and our children on this planet. And they know it, too. When we talk to people at major energy firms these days, they admit in private that they understand the need to transition towards clean energy. But the coal investments that companies like Duke Energy in the US, and Eskom in South Africa have made are holding them back. Worse, because they fear that their massive investments could become stranded (i.e. wasted) assets they are actively lobbying politicians to slow down the clean, people-powered energy revolution that is under way. Business lobbies such as ALEC in the U.S. or Business Europe in the EU are fighting tooth and nail to prevent progressive climate policies from being adopted. They claim they do this to "protect jobs". But this is an utter lie.

#FloodWallStreet Dispatch Save the Climate or Save Capitalism?

September 24, 2014 Dennis Trainor Jr, www.PopularResistance.org Resistance Report Canada, Climate Change, Corporatism, Energy, Environment, Finance and the Economy, People's Climate March, Protest

An exclusive Acronym TV dispatch from the Flood Wall Street day of action, featuring exclusive footage, analysis, and interviews with Clayton Thomas Muller (Idle No More), Tim DeChristopher (Peaceful Uprising), Andy Bichlbaum (The Yes Men), Arun Gupta (Counterpunch), and Flood Wall Street organizer Goldi Guerra. *** The positive momentum generated by the People’s Climate Parade spilled over into a massive direct action on Monday. Flood Wall Street exceeded organizers expectations, with over 3000 people shutting down Broadway between Exchange place and the iconic Wall Street Bull for eight hours just one day ahead of the 2014 UN Climate meeting.

16,000 Demonstrators Rally Against Restarting Japan Nuke Plant

September 24, 2014 France24, www.france24.com Resist! Anti-Nuclear, Energy, Environment, Japan, Protest

Some 16,000 people rallied Tuesday in the Japanese capital against the government's plan to restart nuclear reactors, more than three years after the Fukushima disaster, Jiji Press said. It was one of the largest anti-nuclear demonstrations since the nuclear watchdog on September 10 approved plans to restart two reactors at the Sendai plant in southern Japan. "Three and a half years has passed since the nuclear accident, but self-examination has yet to be made," Nobel literature laureate Kenzaburo Oe told the Tokyo rally, according to public broadcaster NHK. "(The government) is going ahead with the plan to resume operation at the Sendai plant without compiling sufficient anti-disaster plans," Oe said. After the rally demonstrators marched through the capital, carrying banners reading: "We don't need nuclear plants".

Polar Bear Blocks Coal Train, Greenpeace Unloads It

September 24, 2014 BBC, www.bbc.com Resist! Direct Action, Energy, Environment, Protest

Greenpeace activists halted a freight train carrying 1,500 tonnes of coal to a power station. The freight train was heading to Cottam power station in north Nottinghamshire when 50 people flagged it down. A large polar bear model was later placed on tracks to block them, cutting off the main supply route to the power station, the group said. British Transport Police said it was talking to campaigners and "facilitating a peaceful protest". The activists said they had enough food and water to occupy the train for the one-day UN climate summit in New York.

What Is Hong Kong’s Occupy Central Movement?

September 23, 2014 BBC, www.bbc.com Resist! China, Democracy, Hong Kong, Occupy Central, Protest

Tensions are high in Hong Kong amid a row about how the city's leader should be elected. Elections are due in 2017 - but the Chinese government has issued a ruling limiting who can stand as a candidate. Democracy campaigners are planning to occupy the city's business district in protest - a move denounced by China. The BBC explains the movement. What does Occupy Central want? Occupy Central with Love and Peace, known as Occupy Central, is a civil disobedience movement proposed by democracy activists in Hong Kong. The campaigners want political reform and democratic elections that meet international standards. They are planning a non-violent occupation of the business district, Central, in response to the Chinese government's ruling against open elections in 2017.

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