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#NotAgainSU Protest Shuts Down 2 Blocks Of City Streets Near Syracuse University

February 29, 2020 Julie McMahon and Chris Libonati, Syracuse.com  , ,
SYRACUSE, N.Y. -- A #NotAgainSU protest shut down two city blocks near Syracuse University for about two hours Wednesday night. Around 100 students, faculty and supporters gathered in the intersection of South Crouse and Waverly avenues. Syracuse police blocked off Waverly Avenue, from Irving Avenue to Walnut Avenue. The protest also effectively blocked Marshall Street to incoming car traffic.

Johns Hopkins students protest speeches by Joshua Wong, Nathan Law

February 25, 2020 Wang Wenwen, Globaltimes.cn , ,
More than 100 Chinese students at Johns Hopkins University in the US on Thursday night (US time) protested against speeches made by Hong Kong secessionists Joshua Wong Chi-fung and Nathan Law Kwun-chung. Inside and outside the speech hall, the Chinese students held banners that read "Hong Kong is part of China" and "Condemn violence" and also chanted patriotic slogans. 

French Workers Continue Their Epic Struggle Against Macron’s Economic Reforms

February 25, 2020 John McEvoy, Thecanary.co , , , , ,
On 20 February, nearly 100,000 people across France protested against proposed reforms to the country’s pension system. According to those striking, the new system would force them to work for longer, for less. While France’s pension system is currently running a deficit, it remains one of the best in the EU. Figures from 2018 show that only 7.3% of French pensioners are at risk of poverty, as opposed to 21.6% in the UK [provisional figure] and 18.7% in Germany.

Protests Continue In Dominican Republic

February 25, 2020 Staff, Telesurenglish.net , ,
From their homes, people took out their pots so that the municipal elections could be carried out with all the guarantees and called for the resignation of the entire board of the electoral body. Citizens of the Dominican Republic, participated Saturday in a national 'cacerolazo' to demand transparent elections after the municipal elections on Feb., 16 were suspended due to problems in electronic voting, four hours after the elections began.

Haitian Police Clashes With Armed Forces Near National Palace

February 24, 2020 Staff, Telesurenglish.net , , ,
Police demonstrations are not linked to the anti-corruption protests that shook Haiti for most of 2019, in which police violently repressed civilian protesters. Haitian police and members of the army shot at each other for hours Sunday near the presidential palace in the capital Port-au-Prince, during a protest organized by police for better pay and conditions.

Protesters Shut Down North Brooklyn Pipeline

February 21, 2020 By Kevin Duggan, Brooklynpaper.com , ,
Environmentalists rallied against National Grid’s ongoing construction of a seven-mile natural gas pipeline under the streets of Williamsburg and Bushwick Saturday, with one local activist saying that the community will step up to battle the project if elected officials fail to do so. “If Mayor de Blasio and Governor Cuomo won’t be real climate leaders and stop this pipeline, the community will,” said Bushwick resident and director of the environmentalist advocacy group Sane Energy Project Kim Fraczek.

Siemens Annual Meeting Protested Over Support For Coal Mines

February 20, 2020 Staff, Marketforces.org.au ,
With hundreds of protestors chanting outside and an over-the-top security presence inside, Siemens annual general meeting (AGM) in Munich yesterday was dominated by stern criticism, by both institutional investors and ordinary Germans, of Siemens’ decision to stick with a contract to supply signalling technology for the Carmichael coal rail line.

Anti-Pipeline Protests Shut Down Canadian Rail Networks

February 19, 2020 Olivia Rosane, Nationofchange.org , , ,
The Canadian government said Sunday it hoped to resolve the tension through dialogue. Anti-pipeline protests have shut down major rail networks across Canada as indigenous rights and environmental activists act in solidarity with the Wet’suwet’en people of British Columbia, who are fighting to keep a natural gas pipeline off their land.

Walmart Workers Demand Fair Pay And Hours At Protest Outside Alice Walton’s Penthouse As Retail Giant Cuts Jobs

February 19, 2020 By Julia Conley, Commondreams.org , , ,
Walmart workers issued a "wake up call" to Alice Walton, an heir to the retailer's $500 billion fortune, in New York on Tuesday by marching to Walton's New York penthouse and demanding her company pay its 1.5 million workers a living wage and give them reliable, stable work schedules. The protest was partially a response to the company's so-called "Great Workplace" restructuring initiative which Walmart began testing last year and plans to roll out in at least 1,100 of its 5,300 U.S. stores by the end of 2020.

‘We Will Continue to Fight,’ Protesters Vow After Canadian Court Dismisses Indigenous Challenge to Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion

February 7, 2020 Jessica Corbett, Commondreams.org , , , ,
"It is alarming that Canada is so dead-set on pursuing the TMX when oil prices are declining, forests are burning, and more and more animal species are on the edge of extinction." Climate and Indigenous activists reiterated their dedication to blocking the planned expansion of the Trans Mountain tar sands pipeline after Canada's Federal Court of Appeal on Tuesday unanimously rejected four challenges from First Nations in British Columbia to the government's approval of the project.

Police Suspect Hospital Bomb Linked To Hong Kong Protests, As Telegram Message Warns Of ‘More To Come’ And Demands Border Closure Amid Wuhan Virus Crisis

January 30, 2020 By Tony Cheung and Christy Leung, Scmp.com , ,
Hong Kong police are investigating whether a bomb explosion at a public hospital on Monday is linked to anti-government protest violence, according to sources, suspecting the home-made device may have been detonated to pressure the government into closing the city’s borders with mainland China in response to the deadly new coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan.

French “Yellow Vests” Protest For Assange Outside Belmarsh Prison In London

January 28, 2020 Alex Lantier, Wsws.org , , ,
Today, hundreds of “yellow vests” from France and protesters from other countries across Europe, including Belgium and Britain, are protesting outside Belmarsh maximum security prison in London to demand the freeing of WikiLeaks founder and journalist Julian Assange. A principled and courageous journalist whose revelations exposed imperialist crimes against humanity and encouraged working class protests around the world, Assange is the target of a relentless state campaign to destroy him.

How We #ShutDownDC In September, And How We Can Do Something Even Bigger This Spring

January 22, 2020 Patrick Young, Medium.com , ,
Last September, when young people called for global climate strikes, organizers in DC answered that call in a big way. On September 23rd, 2019 hundreds of people organized into 22 different affinity groups to blockade 17 intersections across Washington, DC, effectively shutting down business as usual in the nation’s capital. The mobilization brought together a wide range of people spanning from healthcare workers to union activists to college students to Black Lives Matter to, of course, traditional climate activists.

Arrests Made During Protests Against Las Vegas Homeless Ordinances

January 22, 2020 Staff, Tasnimnews.com , ,
A new law allowing Las Vegas to designate sidewalk cleaning periods and criminalizing camping in those areas during cleaning time takes effect Sunday, allowing police to arrest anyone sitting, sleeping, or camping in those public spaces. Anyone caught doing so could face a $1,000 fine, six months in jail or some combination of the two, according to reports. The legislation, Bill No. 2019-44 sponsored by Mayor Carolyn G. Goodman, says in part: During such designated and noticed hours of cleanin...

CLDC Seeks To Assert Climate Necessity Defense In Response To Extinction Rebellion Portland Protest Charges

January 20, 2020 By Lauren Regan, Cldc.org , , ,
Portland, OR — Yesterday CLDC attorneys, joined by co-counsel and Portland attorney Kenneth Kreuscher, filed a brief in the Multnomah County Circuit Court on behalf of our clients, a group of Extinction Rebellion (XR) Portland activists, to put the State of Oregon on notice that we intend to present an affirmative defense known as the “necessity” or “choice of evils” defense.
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