Protesters

Baton Rouge Police Sued Over Violent Actions Against Protesters

July 18, 2016 Kevin Gosztola, www.shadowproof.com Resist! Baton Rouge, Lawsuit, Police, Protesters

By Kevin Gosztola for Shadow Proof - In the aftermath of the police killing of Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge, police officers clad in military gear attacked nonviolent protesters while brandishing automatic weapons. Armored vehicles, as well as chemical agents and a device designed to blast loud sound waves, were deployed. To bring these acts to a halt, the American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit against the Baton Rouge Police Department. As captured on video by store owner Abdullah Muflahi, on July 5, Sterling was selling CDs when officers tasered him and slammed him on the hood of a car.

Protesters To Wall Off Trump’s Hate At RNC In Cleveland

July 16, 2016 Staff, www.mijente.net Resist! Cleveland, Donald Trump, Protesters, Republican Party

By Staff of Mijente - In response to Trump’s insults, threats and his promises of mass deportation and building a border wall to separate neighbors, communities are traveling to Cleveland to give him a wall of their own. While Trump’s wall is an emblem of his xenophobic drive to Make America Hate Again, the protest wall to be built by organizers, artists, parents, children, and veterans gathered together by Mijente, the Ruckus Society, Iraq Veterans Against the War, Working Families Party, the Other 98%, First Seven Design Labs, and others will be a line of defense for the future of the country.

FBI Greenlights Crackdown On Black Lives Matter Protesters

July 13, 2016 Mara Verheyden-Hilliard, www.alternet.org Educate! Black Lives Matter (BLM), FBI, Protesters

By Mara Verheyden-Hilliard for AlterNet - The violent events of the past week have placed the country at a decisive moment. Words matter but deeds matter more. Leadership matters. President Obama spoke about the need for real change and new “practices” following the murders by police officers of Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and Philando Castile in Falcon Heights, Minnesota. He followed that by stating last weekend, "One of the great things about America is that individual citizens and groups of citizens can petition their government, can protest, can speak truth to power.

Philadelphia Lawyers Form Coalition To Defend Protesters At DNC

June 24, 2016 Christopher “Flood the Drummer” Norris, www.phillyinfocus.com Create! Defense, DNC, Philadelphia, Protesters

By Christopher “Flood the Drummer” Norris for Philly In Focus - for Philadelphia – (Politics): More than a dozen copies of the book, “Crashing the Party: Legacies and Lessons from the RNC 2000,” sat in a brown box on a sturdy wooden table just inches from where twenty or so private Philadelphia criminal defense and civil rights lawyers who will defend free speech at the Democratic National Convention convened to introduce their collaborative to the news media, answer journalists’ questions and, once the press exited the Law Offices of Krasner & Long, LLC, talk strategy among themselves.

9 Arrested In Seattle After May Day Protesters Clash With Police

May 3, 2016 Elizabeth Preza, www.alternet.org Resist! Police, Protesters, Seattle

By Elizabeth Preza for Alternet. Seattle, WA - Police in Seattle arrested nine people Sunday after a peaceful May Day march morphed into a riot, with “anti-capitalist” protestors throwing rocks, flares and Molotov cocktails at police. The Seattle Police Department said violence rose out of a peaceful march for workers' rights and immigration that took place earlier in the day. At least five officers were injured, including one who was hit with a Molotov cocktail, another who was struck in the face with a rock, and a third who was bitten by a protestor. May 1st protests have been increasingly co-opted by anarchists who use the demonstrations to rally against police violence and capitalism.

Court Dismisses Charges Against London Arms Fair Protesters

April 16, 2016 Damien Gayle, www.theguardian.com Resist! Abuse, London, Protesters

By Damien Gayle for The Guardian - A court has dismissed charges against protesters who blocked the road outside a major London arms fair, after they argued that they acted to stop greater crimes being committed using weapons bought in the UK. District judge Angus Hamilton, sitting at Stratford magistrates court, said the defence had presented clear and credible evidence that illegal activity had been conducted at the Defence Systems and Equipment International (DSEI) arms fair in previous years, and that police arresting the activists had failed to investigate to ensure it was not happening again.

Trump Protester Transfered To Immigration Authorities In Arizona

March 21, 2016 Staff, www.mijente.net Resist! Detention Centers, Donald Trump, Immigration, Protesters

By Staff of Mijente - Yesterday a multiracial coalition of immigrant rights, faith, labor and local activists peacefully rallied as well as shut down both of the main roads leading to Donald Trump’s event to stand #UnitedAgainstHate and protest the racist violence his campaign is causing. Among those arrested at the rally was Jacinta Gonzalez, field director for Mijente, who had locked her neck to a vehicle blocking the principal route to the rally.

Calvert County Stop Intimidating Activists

February 4, 2016 Staff, www.actionnetwork.org Resist! Environment, Fracking, Maryland, Protesters

By Staff of Action Network - Earlier this year, Carling Sothoron and Heather Doyle climbed and hung a banner from a crane at the construction site for Dominion Resources's fracked gas export facility near Cove Point, Maryland. During the extraction and arrest, both Carling and Heather, who are expert climbers, experienced an unsafe extraction by the Calvert County Sheriff's Office and Heather was assaulted during her arrest. After the court proceedings for their action Heather filed an official complaint about their treatment. Instead of holding its officers accountable, Calvert County is now prosecuting Heather for “making false statements to an officer”.

Cops Beat Mother & Daughter Participating In BLM Protest

December 31, 2015 Esther Yu-Hsi Lee, www.thinkprogress.org Resist! #BlackLivesMatter, Black Lives Matter (BLM), Minneapolis, Protesters

By Esther Yu-Hsi Lee for Think Progress - A mother and daughter are suing the city of Minneapolis, Minnesota, alleging that Minneapolis police officers beat them with nightsticks during ongoing protests in November over the fatal shooting of a black man, according to a lawsuit obtained by the Star Tribune. Jamar Clark’s death sparked tense “Black Lives Matter” protests that fit the shooting into a longstanding pattern of police abuse in the city. At least one of the officers implicated in Clark’s death was previously “sued for police brutality by a black man who alleged that Ringgenberg had choked him,” City Pages reported.

Eleven Arrested Stretching Yellow Caution Tape

December 16, 2015 Seth Harrison, www.nukeresister.org Resist! Anti-Nuclear, New York (NY), Protesters

By Seth Harrison for The Nuclear Resister - Eleven anti-nuclear activists were arrested on charges of disorderly conduct after stretching yellow caution tape across the main entrance of New York’s Indian Point nuclear power plant on December 12. The 50 people in attendance were there to protest the decision of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to allow one of the plant’s two reactors, Unit 3, to continue to operate after its license expires at midnight on Saturday, December 12. Arrested were Gary Shaw, Judy Allen, Sally Gellert, Ken Okin, CP Colfield, Dan Fullerton, Merle Mceldowney, JK Canepa, Bruce Rosen, Jacki Drechsler and Rick Ufford-Chase.

Donald Trump Rally Turns Ugly: ‘Light The Motherf**ker On Fire!’

December 16, 2015 Igor Bobic, www.whuffingtonpost.com Resist! Donald Trump, Protesters, Republican

By Igor Bobic for The Huffington Post - A Las Vegas rally for Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump turned ugly Monday night, the eve of a Republican presidential debate, after multiple protesters interrupted the candidate's speech. According to reporters at the event, held at the Westgate Las Vegas Resort and Casino, protesters clashed with security guards as they were escorted from the room. Some of the protesters appeared to be Black Lives Matter activists and gun control supporters. At one point, as security guards attempted to remove a black man from the rally, an attendee said, “Light the motherfucker on fire!”

Backslash: Anti-Surveillance Gadgets For Protesters

December 15, 2015 Joshua Kopstein, www.arstechnica.com Strategize! Protesters, Surveillance

By Joshua Kopstein for ARS Technica - When riot police descended on protesters in Ferguson, Missouri, last year sporting assault rifles and armored vehicles, the images sparked an awareness of the military technologies and tactics authorities have adopted over the past decade. Many of these tools have quietly become regular components of day-to-day policing. And just as with social networks and cell phone cameras during the Arab Spring and Occupy Wall Street, they've dramatically—and often invisibly—altered the dynamics of contemporary protest. Examples are everywhere, from the controversial Long-Range Acoustic Device (LRAD) sound weapons used to disperse crowds to secretive mass surveillance devices, commonly known as stingrays originally developed for the US Navy...

Protesters Say “Keep It In The Ground” At Colorado Oil & Gas Auction

November 13, 2015 Jason Disterhoft, www.ran.org Resist! Climate Change, Protesters

By Jason Disterhoft for Rainforest Action Network - DENVER— Dozens of protesters with giant puppets, polar bears, oil derricks, signs and banners staged a climate rally today outside of the Bureau of Land Management’s oil and gas lease sale in Lakewood, Colo., urging President Obama to “keep it in the ground.” The BLM’s “climate auction,” as protesters dubbed it, allowed industry to bid on more than 90,000 acres of publicly owned oil and gas in central and eastern Colorado -- which contain upwards of 1 million estimated tons of potential greenhouse gas pollution, and possibly much more.

Charges Dismissed Against Minnesota Black Lives Matter Organizers

November 12, 2015 Thandisizwe Chimurenga, www.dailykos.com Resist! Black Lives Matter (BLM), Protesters

By Thandisizwe Chimurenga for Daily Kos - Eleven Black Lives Matter protesters in Minnesota have had charges dropped in connection with a protest held at the Mall of America on December 20, 2014. The action, which drew 3,000 people and shut down the shopping center for three hours on one of the busiest shopping days of the year, was held in conjunction with numerous protests across the country in response to the non-indictments of police officers in New York and Ferguson, Missouri, for the deaths of Eric Garner and Mike Brown. A press release on the group’s Facebook page from July 2015 described the charges as outrageous and an overreaction on the part of the city attorney, the police, and the Mall of America.

1,200 Protest In MIlwaukee During Republican Debate

November 12, 2015 Beverly Taylor, Ashley Sears And Katie Delong, www.fox6now.com Resist! presidential elections, Protesters

By Beverly Taylor, Ashley Sears And Katie Delong for Fox 6 News - MILWAUKEE -- Protesters filled the streets of downtown Milwaukee, as GOP presidential candidates took center stage during the fourth GOP presidential debate, held at the Milwaukee Theatre on Tuesday evening, November 10th. Joining the masses was the family of Dontre Hamilton, and their supporters. Supporters of Dontre Hamilton's family have often used their voices and their feet to protest decisions they disagree with -- and that happened again on Tuesday evening, November 10th. This, as Republican presidential candidates were in Milwaukee for the fourth GOP presidential debate, and several other groups had organized demonstrations ahead of and during that debate.

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