Protests

Vancouver Poet Rita Wong Incarcerated For 4 Weeks For Peaceful Anti-Pipeline Protest

August 27, 2019 By Vera DeWaard, Pencanada.ca Resist! Pipelines, Protests, Repression, Vancouver

On August 16, 2019, Rita Wong, an award-winning Vancouver poet and an associate professor in Critical and Cultural Studies at Emily Carr University of Art and Design, was sentenced to 28 days of incarceration at the Alouette Correctional Centre for Women in Maple Ridge, BC. She had participated in a peaceful protest on behalf of missing and murdered Indigenous women on August 24, 2018 alongside three other women protestors at the Westridge Marine terminal, impeding access to the Trans Mountain facility in breach of a court-ordered injunction.

Zimbabwe Opposition Official Arrested Over Protests

August 27, 2019 Staff, News.yahoo.com Resist! Africa, Electoral Politics, Protests, Zimbabwe

Harare (AFP) - A senior official of Zimbabwe's main opposition party has been arrested for failing to stop an outlawed protest, the party said Friday. Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) organised several protests to highlight the collapsing economy in the southern African country, but the government has launched a crackdown on the rallies. The MDC's organising secretary Amos Chibaya was arrested on Thursday and appeared in court Friday. He will return to court on Monday for a bail application.

Protests Against G7 Summit Finish With Citizen Manifesto

August 27, 2019 Staff, Telesurenglish.net Resist! Capitalism, G7, Protests

Thousands of pacifists, defenders of nature and critics of capitalism and its consequences began these Monday mobilizations rejecting the group meeting made up by Germany, Canada, the United States, France, Italy, Japan and the United Kingdom. With a symbolic act and a citizen manifesto, protests against the G7 summit end here rejecting the group held responsible for wars, climate change and inequalities. The G7 EZ platforms and Alternatives to G7, which have coordinated actions of more than a hundred organizations...

Despite Massive Police Lockdown, Protesters Vow To Offer ‘Radical Solutions’ To Counter G7 Failures

August 26, 2019 By Andrea Germanos, Commondreams.org Resist! G7, Protests

As leaders of the world's biggest economies head to France for the annual G7 summit this weekend, social justice campaigners expressed concern over the ramped up police presence and said the gathering's focus on inequality will likely offer up nothing more than lip service from the nations fueling the crisis. The site of the summit is the southwestern French city of Biarritz, which, as Reuters reported this week, "will be transformed into more of a fortress than a surfers' paradise."

Freedom Rider: Protest And The Corporate Media

August 23, 2019 Margaret Kimberley, Blackagendareport.com Educate! China, Corporate Media, Hong Kong, Protests

Corporate media always let us know who is in with the in-crowd and who is on the outs with the United States government. They don’t do so with any transparency, but by promoting some stories and disappearing others. They give great attention to events that they believe are advancing U.S. interests. The invisibility treatment goes to those who tell inconvenient truths and defy American dictates. Protests in Hong Kong against the Chinese government and in Moscow against the Russian government are covered extensively.

Protests Break Out After DNC Committee Votes Against Holding 2020 #ClimateDebate

August 23, 2019 By Jessica Corbett, Commondreams.org Resist! Climate Change, DNC, Protests

Sparking immediate protests at the Democratic National Committee's summer meeting in San Francisco Thursday, the organization's Resolutions Committee voted down a resolution that called for a climate-focused debate among 2020 presidential primary candidates. The committee's 8-17 vote on the resolution outraged members of the youth-led Sunrise Movement in attendance, who stood on their seats and sang the union protest song "Which Side Are You On?" before walking out.

Women Protest Raping Spree By Burning Police Station In Mexico

August 22, 2019 Johnny Hazard, Counterpunch.org Resist! History, Mexico, Protests, Rape, Sexism, Women

About two thousand people, mostly young women (many of whom identify themselves as anarcofeministas), marched and rampaged through the Zona Rosa area of Mexico City on Friday, August 16. This was the second such action in less than a week. The first, on Monday, was in direct reaction to a young woman’s accusation against four police officers whom she says raped her and to the new López Obrador-linked city administration’s inaction. (The district attorney had announced that she would close the case because the accuser did not identify the suspects on time.)

Behind A Made-For-TV Hong Kong Protest Narrative, Washington Is Backing Nativism And Mob Violence

August 21, 2019 Dan Cohen, Thegrayzone.com Educate! Hong Kong, Protests, US Imperialism

Trump’s befuddlement might be understandable considering the carefully managed narrative of the US government and its unofficial media apparatus, which have portrayed the protests as an organic “pro-democracy” expression of grassroots youth. However, a look beneath the surface of this oversimplified, made-for-television script reveals that the ferociously anti-Chinese network behind the demonstrations has been cultivated with the help of millions of dollars from the US government, as well as a Washington-linked local media tycoon.

Who Is Behind Hong Kong Protests?

August 21, 2019 Wei Xinyan and Zhong Weiping, Chinadaily.com.cn Educate! Hong Kong, Protests

It's not hard to imagine the United States' reaction if Chinese diplomats met leaders of Occupy Wall Street, Black Lives Matter or Never Trump protesters. On Aug 6, Hong Kong media reported two meetings between a US political counselor and separatist leaders. Julie Eadeh, who works at the US Consulate General in Hong Kong, was caught on camera meeting with opposition figures Martin Lee and Anson Chan.

The Hong Kong Protests Are An Attack On Socialism

August 21, 2019 Staff, Fightbacknews.org Educate! Hong Kong, Protests

There’s a tendency among progressives in the United States to support big crowds of people protesting in other countries. No doubt, the corporate media assists in this process by labelling certain movements ‘pro-democracy’ or ‘freedom fighters.’ But not all protests or marches are progressive, even if they attract large crowds. The Tea Party movement in the U.S., for instance, brought out hundreds of thousands of angry small business owners and shrill middle-class professionals. They were far from spontaneous demonstrations, however; big business orchestrated this giant spectacle to advance its own class interests.

Israel Police Limit Right To Protest

August 21, 2019 Staff, Middleeastmonitor.com Resist! Israel, Police, Protests, Repression

Israel’s police has drawn up new regulations restricting the rights to civil protests, with those who break them committing “criminal offences”. Despite the Israeli High Court of Justice having permitted the holding of demonstrations of any size without the necessity for a permit two years ago, police are exploiting a loophole in which the term “protest event” will be used. This concept, which has not been mentioned in Israeli law until this day, consists of a demonstration of more than 50 people “aimed at expressing an idea, protest or message,” a vague and general description which can apply to any prominent rally.

Media Blackout On Brazil’s Anti-Bolsonaro Protests

August 20, 2019 Brian Mier, Resumen-english.org Resist! Brazil, Electoral Politics, Protests

Hundreds of thousands of Brazilians took to the streets of 211 cities on August 13 to protest far-right Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro’s austerity cuts and privatization plans for the public university system. It was the third in series of national education strikes, dubbed “the Education Tsunamis,” organized by national students unions together with teachers unions affiliated with the Central Ùnica de Trabalhadores (Unified Workers Central/CUT)—the second-largest labor union confederation in the Americas.

People Protest In Support Of China In Response To Anti-China Hong Kong Protests

August 19, 2019 Staff, Bbc.com Resist! China, Hong Kong, Protests

In Canada, demonstrators from both camps square off in front of a metro station in the western city of Vancouver, home to a large Chinese community, with the crowds separated by police. The Vancouver Sun reports that hundreds of people, some in black and others in red, lined up on either side of the entrance to the Broadway-City Hall Canada Line station, chanting slogans and waving flags and signs. There were competing rallies between pro-Hong Kong and pro-China demonstrators took over the entrance to a Vancouver SkyTrain station Saturday afternoon as police tried to keep a path clear for pedestrians.

Wyatt Detention Facility Correctional Officer Put On Leave After Truck Drives Into Protesters

August 16, 2019 Kevin G. Andrade, Providencejournal.com Resist! Detention Centers, Police, Protests, Repression

Officials at the Donald W. Wyatt Detention Facility have placed a correctional officer on administrative leave after a pickup truck drove into protesters who were blocking the entrance to the facility’s employee parking lot Wednesday night. Protest organizers said a 64-year-old man suffered a broken leg, internal bleeding and possibly a back injury. Amy Anthony, spokeswoman for Never Again Action, identified the man as Jerry Belair, of Warren. She said another person, whom she could not identify, was also injured by the truck.

Activists And Protesters Rally At Private Prison Company Geo Group’s New Boca Raton Headquarters

August 16, 2019 Austen Erblat, Sun-sentinel.com Resist! Private Prisons, Protests

As storm clouds gathered over Boca Raton Monday afternoon, so too did two dozen activists, protesters and organizers at the newly opened headquarters of private prison company Geo Group. Representing organizations including Fort Lauderdale Food Not Bombs and Never Again Action, an organization that rallies mostly Jewish activists around immigrants’ rights at detention centers and other locations around the country. They gathered at the location almost exactly one year ago, when construction of the company’s new building was in its early stages. This year, they returned on the anniversary of the deadly Charlottesville, Virginia protests, where a white supremacist plowed his car into a crowd, killing Heather Heyer and injuring dozens, and one day after Tisha B’Av, a holiday that memorializes temple destructions and mass killings of Jews throughout history.

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