Protests

Protests Target A ‘Carbon Bomb’ Linking Two Major Pipelines Outside Boston

January 20, 2020 Phil McKenna, Insideclimatenews.org Resist! Boston, Pipelines, Protests

WEYMOUTH, Massachusetts — After endless public hearings, drawn-out government appeals and fruitless legal proceedings, a band of community and climate activists was left to this: Sitting in the path of a concrete truck at the site where a large natural gas compressor is being built outside Boston. They were five years on in their bid to block a facility that would play a crucial role in completing a pipeline project that seeks to ship hydraulically fractured gas from New Jersey to Canada.

Scores Wounded As Security Forces, Protesters Clash In Beirut

January 20, 2020 Staff, Reuters.com Resist! Class Struggle, Lebanon, Protests, Repression

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Cat-and-mouse clashes between Lebanon’s security forces and protesters wounded scores of people on a night of violence that rocked central Beirut on Saturday. Riot police fired tear gas and water cannon, chasing protesters armed with tree branches and sign posts in a commercial district near Lebanon’s parliament. Crowds spilled on to the streets this week after a lull in largely peaceful protests which broke out in October. They are furious at a ruling elite that has steered the country towards its worst economic crisis in decades.

Video: Calling For The Closure Of Guantánamo Outside The White House On The 18th Anniversary Of The Opening Of The Prison

January 14, 2020 Andy Worthington, Andyworthington.co.uk Resist! Guantanamo Bay, Protests, White House

Yesterday was the 18th anniversary of the opening of the prison at Guantánamo Bay, and, for the tenth year running, I was in Washington, D.C., calling for its closure. I was there as a representative of Close Guantánamo, an organization I established eight years ago — on the tenth anniversary of the opening of Guantánamo — with the attorney Tom Wilner, and I was delighted to be part of a line-up of speakers that included representatives of numerous other campaigning groups and lawyers’ organizations...

French Unions Battle Macron In Make-Or-Break Pension Protest

January 10, 2020 Tangi Salaün and Caroline Pailliez, Uk.reuters.com Resist! Class Struggle, France, Labor Unions, Pensions, Protests

Teargas swirled in Paris where riot police charged at demonstrators who hurled projectiles and lobbed insults in cat-and-mouse skirmishes as darkness fell. Some protesters dressed in black and hiding their faces daubed anarchist slogans on buildings and the windows of several properties, including a Starbucks cafe, were smashed. The country’s hard-left unions rallied supporters hoping to regain momentum at a time when participation in a 36-day long public sector strike has waned and opinion polls show public backing for the industrial action has dropped.

Protest Has Helped Define The First Two Decades Of The 21st Century – Here’s What’s Next

January 8, 2020 Feyzi Ismail, Theconversation.com Resist! Class Struggle, Mass Movement, Protests

The first two decades of the 21st century saw the return of mass movements to streets around the world. Partly a product of sinking confidence in mainstream politics, mass mobilisation has had a huge impact on both official politics and wider society, and protest has become the form of political expression to which millions of people turn. 2019 has ended with protests on a global scale, most notably in Latin America, the Middle East and North Africa, Hong Kong and across India, which has recently flared up against Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Citizenship Amendment Act.

Coal Train Protesters Target One Of New England’s Last Big Coal Power Plants

January 7, 2020 By Phil McKenna, Insideclimatenews.org Resist! Coal, Power Plants, Protests

Climate activists halted a coal train bound for one of New England's last large coal-fired power plants by building a barricade on the tracks and sitting on it for about eight hours this week. The delay was temporary, but it was the fifth time activists had stopped a coal train in the region in less than a month. The protest is part of an ongoing effort to eliminate coal-fired power production in New England. It also draws attention to what activists say is a costly and unnecessary subsidy for coal-burning power plants that consumers ultimately pay.

Millions Pack Tehran Streets To Pay Homage To Gen. Soleimani

January 7, 2020 Staff, Presstv.com Educate! Iran, Middle East, Protests

A huge sea of mourners, streaming from all the adjoining streets in freezing temperatures, descended on the iconic Engelab Square in central Tehran Monday morning before rallying to Azadi Tower in the capital's west. Chanting "Death to America" and "Death to Israel," they carried portraits of their national hero whose assassination in a US airstrike at Baghdad airport has generated an outpouring of anger and patriotism across Iran and elsewhere, with vociferous calls for revenge.

Eight Days Of Protest Force Reversal Of Cyanide Law In Argentina

January 6, 2020 Mercedes Araujo, Latfem.org. Translated Liz Mason-Deese. Resist! Argentina, Mining, Protests, Reform

For over a week, residents of the Argentine province of Mendoza mobilized, in marches, candlelight vigils, and enormous protests against the provincial government’s decision to overturn Law 7722, which prohibited the use of hazardous chemicals in mining activities. The law, originally passed in 2007, was the result of years of organizing by neighborhood assemblies, community organizations, and groups of agricultural producers in defense of water as a key element of life, and attempting to establish an alternative to the extractivist economic model.

Thousands Of Chileans Receive The New Year With Protests

January 2, 2020 Staff, Wp.telesurtv.net Resist! Chile, Class Struggle, Latin America, Protests

On the day, protesters made an altar to honor Mauricio Fredes, who died Friday after falling into a water pit when he escaped the repression unleashed by police. Thousands of Chileans returned to fill Plaza Dignidad, in Santiago, Chile, to receive the New Year with a massive dinner and facing the repression of the militarized police of Carabineros, in the framework of the anti- government protests that last for more than two months.

Why We Persist: Activists Have Protested US Drone Base For Over A Decade

December 31, 2019 Ed Kinane, Vcnv.org Resist! Drones, Protests, US Imperialism

“All human beings possess the basic right under international law to engage in non-violent civil resistance activities for the purpose of preventing, impeding, or terminating the ongoing commission of [international crime].” — International law expert Francis Boyle. Nonviolent civil resistance against international crime is about effectiveness and persistence. Or as Dorothy Day might say, faithfulness. We sow seeds — awakening the cogs in the machine of imperial crime and informing those who, with their federal taxes, help finance that crime.

Citizenship Law Protests Shut Down India’s Capital

December 20, 2019 By Saikat Datta, Asiatimes.com Resist! Citizenship, India, Nationalism, Protests, Racism

India’s national capital, New Delhi, faced a lockdown unprecedented in history on Thursday as protests over the religion-based Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) broke out across the country. The Act allows refugees from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan to become Indian citizens but bars Muslims. This, many have complained, violates the constitution of India – a country whose population includes 200 million Indian Muslims. Anger against the amended law had spread across India after students were beaten up in Delhi on Sunday and more protests were planned.

Hong Kong Protests Evolve From Violent To Terrorist

December 15, 2019 Yonden Lhatoo, South China Morning Post. Educate! Hong Kong, Protests, Violence

While this great revolution of our times has removed Hong Kong’s bragging rights as one of the safest cities in the world, the security situation has not been deemed alarming enough for people to have to be dragged through metal detectors and frisked by security guards when entering shopping centres, cinema halls, train stations, and other vulnerable public venues. In the past, I have often contemplated how easy it would be for the terroristically inclined to set off bombs pretty much anywhere, in such a trusting and open society, but always perished the thought. Not in Hong Kong. Not by Hongkongers. I hate to report I’m not so sure any more these days, now that the revolutionaries have taken to building homemade bombs packed with high explosives and shrapnel.

‘We Are Unstoppable, Another World Is Possible!’: Young Climate Activists Storm COP 25 Stage

December 12, 2019 By Andrea Germanos, Commondreams.org Resist! Climate Change, Protests, Youth

Protesters with Fridays for Future demand world leaders at the global climate summit urgent address the planetary emergency. Young activists took over and occupied the main stage at the COP 25 climate conference in Madrid, Spain Wednesday and demanded world leaders commit to far more ambitious action to address the ecological emergency. "Nobody has ever done an action like this before," said youth climate striker Dylan Hamilton of Scotland, "the times are changing."

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