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More Than 900 ‘Democracy Spring’ Protesters Arrested In D.C. – So Far

April 18, 2016 Jayne O'Donnell, www.usatoday.com , ,
By Jayne O'Donnell for USA Today - Police have calmly arrested hundreds of people in Washington, D,.C. protesting the influence of money in politics during the last week, in what several participants described as a striking display of restrained law enforcement. More arrests are expected Monday, the final day of protests when the focus of the non-violent protests turn to voting rights and timely consideration of the Merrick Garland's nomination to the Supreme Court. U.S. Capitol Police have arrested more than 900 protesters through Saturday.

Angola Jails 17 Activists After Public Reading Of Political Book

April 15, 2016 Staff, www.theguardian.com ,
By Staff of The Guardian - A court in Angola has jailed 17 young activists, some for more than eight years, for rebelling against the government of José Eduardo dos Santos, after they organised a reading of a US academic’s book. The activists were arrested in the capital, Luanda, last June after organising the reading of From Dictatorship to Democracy: A Conceptual Framework for Liberation, by Gene Sharp. The book’s blurb describes it as “a blueprint for non-violent resistance to repressive regimes”.

Cable News Devotes 30 Seconds To Mass Arrests Protesting Political Corruption

April 13, 2016 Lee Fang and Zaid Jilani, www.theintercept.com , , ,
By Lee Fang and Zaid Jilani for The Intercept - THE DEMOCRACY SPRING, a protest movement calling on Congress to “end the corruption of big money in our politics” and “ensure free and fair elections,” converged on Capitol Hill on Monday, staging a nonviolent sit-in that resulted in over 400 arrests — a massive number by Washington sit-in standards. While the action, dubbed #DemocracySpring, garnered wide coverage on social media and over 136,000 tweets, cable news programs found little time to cover the political protests, instead focusing largely on horse-race coverage of the presidential candidates for most of the day.

Over 400 Arrested At Capitol On First Day Of Democracy Spring

April 12, 2016 John Zangas, www.tdcmediagroup.us , ,
By John Zangas for DC Media Group - Washington, DC – Over 400 Democracy Spring protesters were arrested Monday at the U.S. Capitol on the first day of eight days of planned protests. It was a record number of arrests in one day for a protest there, according to U.S. Capitol police. At one point, police had to stop processing arrests because the jail was full. Cenk Uygur, host of the TV show Young Turks was among the last few people that police removed from the Capitol steps.

Civil Disobedience And Free Speech Tested By Prayer In Ferguson

February 13, 2016 Sharmini Peries, www.therealnews.com , , ,
By Sharmini Peries for The Real News - On February 9 of 2016, after 20 minutes of a jury deliberation, Ferguson civil liberties protester Rev. Sekou was found not guilty on charges stemming from an arrest back in September of 2014, during the Ferguson uprisings. Rev. Sekou was detained when he knelt in prayer outside a local police department where police officers claimed that he was resisting orders. On to talk about his ordeal and what it means for the democratic right of civil disobedience and the right to protest is the man himself, Rev. Sekou. Rev. Sekou is an author, documentary filmmaker, pastor, theologian, and of course a political activist. Rev. Sekou, good to have you back on the Real News.

7 Policemen Injured 17 People Arrested At Pro-Kurdish Rally In Paris

February 10, 2016 Staff, www.rt.com , ,
By Staff of Routers - A protest in Paris against Turkey's deadly military operation in the town of Cizre turned violent leaving seven police officers wounded and 17 pro-Kurdish activists detained. Similar rallies took place in some other European cities. The demonstrations followed media reports that Turkish forces killed about 60 people in the basement of a building in the southeastern Kurdish town of Cizre. Around 150 pro-Kurdish activists initially gathered at the Turkish embassy on Avenue de Lamballe, on Monday, Le Parisien reports.

Five Climate Angels Arrested For ‘Watching Over’ Santos CSG

February 10, 2016 Thom Mitchell, www.newmatilda.com , , ,
By Thom Mitchell for New Matilda - Five women aged between 50- and 75-years-old have been forcibly dragged from the road and arrested by police this morning at a Santos coal seam gas development near Narrabri, in north west New South Wales. The protestors are part of the ‘Climate Guardians’, a group of theatrical activists who assume the guise of angles to create awareness of the need to keep fossil fuels in the ground.

#BLM Activists In LA Were Shackled In Jail Over Christmas

February 1, 2016 Hillel Aron, www.laweekly.com , , ,
By Hillel Aron for LA Weekly - In the two days before Christmas, Black Lives Matter activists staged protests nationwide. Hundreds swarmed the Mall of America in Minneapolis. Protestors in Chicago hit the area's so-called "Magnificent Mile" shopping district. And in Los Angeles, a dozen or so activists shut down our most sacred of cows: the 405 freeway. Activists were arrested in Chicago, Minneapolis and elsewhere, but according to Melina Abdullah, L.A.'s protestors were dealt with particularly harshly.

Northrup Grumman Protest: Three Charges Dropped

January 30, 2016 Lauren Scott, www.ketv.com ,
By Lauren Scott for KE TV - BELLEVUE, Neb. —New details have been released in the trial against four people accused of damaging the Northrop Grumman Building in Bellevue. The charges against all three co-defendants were dismissed in court Tuesday. However, the self-proclaimed hammer of justice, Jessica Rezniceck, remains behind bars and loyal to her cause. Before the hearing, several supporters of Reznicek stood outside of the Sarpy County Courthouse, demanding peace and justice.

More Than 1,000 Arrested During Tunisia Unrest

January 27, 2016 Staff, www.middleeasteye.net , ,
By Staff of Middle East Eye - Over 1,000 people have been arrested during nine days of fierce anti-government protest in Tunisia, authorities said on Monday as the security forces union launched a mass demonstration. Three hundred of those detained were arrested for breaking a strict curfew put in place nationwide on Friday after widespread looting and rioting broke out, according to a statement from the Interior Ministry on Monday. A total of 1,105 people have been arrested, said ministry spokesperson Walid Louguini, with 538 people detained over the weekend for looting.

Three Arrested Protesting Controversial BC Pipeline

January 25, 2016 Hilary Beaumont, www.news.vice.com , ,
By Hilary Beaumont for Vice News - Canadian police arrested three protesters who staged a sit-in on Saturday that drew attention to restricted public access to hearings for a controversial oil pipeline in British Columbia. "Let us in! Let us in!" the women chanted as they were pinned against the wall and handcuffed outside the ballroom of a Burnaby, BC hotel, where Canada's National Energy Board (NEB) is considering Kinder Morgan's Trans Mountain pipeline proposal. The hearings began on Tuesday, sparking protests throughout the week in the lead up to the largest rally on Saturday, which drew 200 people outside the hotel.

Bogus Charges Dropped In Ferguson

January 23, 2016 Mariah Stewart, www.huffingtonpost.com , , , ,
By Mariah Stewart for The Huffington Post - ST. LOUIS -- Charges against six people arrested at a vigil remembering the 2014 police killing of teenager Michael Brown were dropped Thursday by a prosecutor without explanation. Ferguson prosecutor Stephanie Karr, who isn’t known for leniency in dealing with Ferguson demonstrators and is facing at least one ethics complaint, withdrew the charges in a handwritten letter as trial was about to begin. The six defendants, who had been held for trial in earlier preliminary hearings, exchanged hugs and smiles.

Two OWSers Awarded $52,000 For Arrest

January 22, 2016 John Marzulli, www.nydailynews.com , ,
By John Marzulli for Daily News - A pair of Occupy Wall Street jerks who sued the city after getting arrested for flipping off NYPD cops are a little closer to joining the one-percenters. The city has agreed to pay $52,500 to Nicholas Thommen and Channing Creager who put the First Amendment to the test so they could exercise their Constitutional right to be obnoxious. Thommen, 21, and Creager, 26, will split the payout evenly, according to court papers. They were arrested June 27, 2013 for gesturing with their middle finger at Officers Diane Bowman and John Harrigan on a Queens subway train.

Anti-Nuclear Climbers Defy Paris Protest Ban, Four Arrested

December 16, 2015 Staff, www.nukeresister.org , , ,
By Staff of The Nuclear Resister - Four anti-nuclear activists defied the state of emergency ban on public protest in Paris on Wednesday, December 2, climbing up the steel cables beneath the modern Arche de la Defense to hang banners. French environmentalists joined German climbers from the action group Robin Wood in the ascent as the COP 21 climate talks were underway. They first deployed small banners reading “Don’t Nuke the Climate – Stop EPR” (referring to the latest French reactor design). Police were quickly on the scene, including 20 from a specially equipped mountain brigade in town for the event.

Teacher Writes Open Letter To Students After Arrest

August 9, 2014 Kim Redigan, www.ncronline.org , , ,
Dear students: Some of you have contacted me after seeing news of my arrest for a nonviolent action around the water shutoffs here in Detroit. While I am touched by your concern, I implore you to reserve your support for those being affected by the shutoffs and your own generation, which, unless things change, is on track to inherit a commodified world in which beauty, nature, life itself will be sold off to the lowest corporate bidder, an affront to all that is good, decent and human. The action in which I and several others engaged was only a small gesture of loving resistance, a humble offering of our own bodies against the dehumanizing and democracy-crushing effects of life under Detroit's state-appointed emergency manager. Pope Paul VI once said the world needs witnesses more than it needs teachers, and in times like these, to be a teacher may mean to move the classroom to the street in order to bear witness to the grave injustices that are harming our neighbors. The glaring disparity between the rich and the poor in Detroit and the breathtaking rapidity with which that gap is widening is downright biblical.
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