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‘The Time For Excuses Is Over’: Extinction Rebellion Protests Shut Down European Cities

April 16, 2019 By Eoin Higgins, Commondreams.org , ,
"One day I want to have kids. But I don't think I can. I don't see a future that's livable at the moment." Activists across Europe blocked off major streets and public areas Monday as they called for immediate action from world leaders to deal with the climate crisis. The movement, Extinction Rebellion (XR), is holding protests across the world from April 15 to 22 for an "International Rebellion" against a climate crisis that is escalating rapidly. 

Protesters Call On UK To #FreeAssange Outside British Embassy In DC

April 13, 2019 By Alexander Rubinstein, Mintpressnews.com , ,
“It’s totally backwards and we’re calling for him to be freed. And I would like the people who got us into the wars to be the ones behind bars.” – Codepink co-founder Medea Benjamin Demonstrators gathered on Thursday – just hours after the arrest of Wikileaks publisher Julian Assange by UK authorities – outside of the British Embassy in Washington D.C. to denounce the unprecedented affront to freedom of the press. Protesters also took the opportunity to highlight the injustice of the jailing of Chelsea Manning over her refusal to testify against Assange.

Israelis Protest In Tel Aviv For The Right Of Return And In Solidarity With The Great March Of Return

April 11, 2019 Staff, Mondoweiss.net , , ,
In a historic first, around 300 Israelis protested in Tel Aviv for the right of return and in solidarity with the Great March of Return against the siege of Gaza. In response to a request from the committee of the Great March of Return in Gaza protesters from around the country gathered to demonstrate in front of Hakirya military base and Ministry of Defense in Tel Aviv, in solidarity with the Great March of Return in Gaza.

Protesters ‘Shed Light’ On Florida Detention Center For Migrant Children

April 11, 2019 Monique O. Madan, Theledger.com , , , ,
Binoculars in hand, Joshua Rubin stood atop a concrete barricade just a few feet away from the Homestead migrant shelter’s property line. It’s the only vantage point that could give the protester any glimpse into the life of the thousands of unaccompanied minors detained there after crossing the Southern border without their biological parents. For weeks, Rubin, along with dozens of other immigration advocates, put together large signs and wedged them between tree branches in a nearby wooded area—signs big enough for the children to see.

Protests Prompt Beloit College To Cancel Erik Prince Lecture

April 10, 2019 Staff, Madison.com , ,
BELOIT — Beloit College canceled a lecture by former Blackwater head Erik Prince Wednesday after protesters disrupted the planned talk. Students piled chairs onto the stage where Prince was to speak at the small liberal arts college and pounded on drums ahead of the planned address, which was to be hosted by Young Americans for Freedom, a conservative student organization. The school announced the event was canceled at about 8:15 p.m. Prince, a former Navy SEAL, rose to prominence during the Iraq War when his private security company received lucrative government contracts and came under scrutiny when several Blackwater employees were involved in the shooting deaths of 14 civilians in Baghdad in 2007.

Berlin Activists March To Demand City Seize Housing From Landlords

April 8, 2019 Caroline Copley, Reuters.com , , ,
BERLIN (Reuters) - Thousands of Berlin residents took to the streets on Saturday to vent anger over surging rents and demand the expropriation of more than 200,000 apartments sold off to big private landlords, which they blame for changing the character of the city. Activists have started collecting signatures for a ballot proposal that would require the city to take back properties from any landlord that owns more than 3,000 apartments. Polls suggest such a measure could pass, forcing the city to consider spending billions of euros buying privatized housing back.

New Mexicans Strike And Sit-In At BLM State Headquarters To Protest New Fracking

April 8, 2019 Staff, Krwg.org , ,
Commentary: Crowds gathered today for a climate strike in front of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) state office in Santa Fe to protest the lease sale of 11,000 acres of public and ancestral tribal lands in Greater Chaco and Greater Carlsbad regions. The BLM is moving forward with this controversial lease sale despite having received over 33,000 protest comments from tribal leaders, environmental groups, and members of the public expressing concerns that the sale would have negative impacts on cultural resources, public health, and the climate.

Haiti At The Crossroads

April 4, 2019 Greg Beckett, Nacla.org , , ,
Today’s protests represent a larger crisis of faith, not just with the current government, but also with the neoliberal state and perhaps even democracy itself. In recent weeks, anti-government and anti-corruption protesters have taken to the streets in Haiti. Since February 7, they have held daily marches and erected roadblocks and barricades throughout the country, all part of what some have called “Operation Lockdown.” This is not the first time Haiti has undergone debilitating protests in response to government corruption allegations and economic crisis...

The South Dakota Legislature Has Invented A New Legal Term To Target Pipeline Protesters

April 3, 2019 Staff, Aclu.org , , ,
The government of South Dakota has made it very clear that it does not like people who protest the Keystone XL pipeline. The state’s governor has dismissed them as “out-of-staters who come in to disrupt.” And other officials have similarly leveraged long-debunked and harmful tropes, mischaracterizing those speaking out as “paid protesters.” In this atmosphere, South Dakota enacted a new law last week, the Riot Boosting Act. The law seeks to suppress protests before they even start and prohibits people from engaging in full-throated advocacy. It does so by creating a new, ambiguous term: “riot boosting.”

Water Protectors Protest At Enbridge Drill Site On Mississippi River

April 3, 2019 Anonymous Contributor, Itsgoingdown.org , , , ,
(Ball Bluff, MN) On March 22nd, members of the Ginew Collective supported by Northfield Against Line 3 exposed an Enbridge drilling worksite on the eastern shore of the Mississippi River on the proposed Line 3 route. Construction workers in Enbridge vests were engaged in what appeared to be core sampling for a Horizontal Directional Drill (HDD) to bore Line 3 under the Mississippi River. No work permits were posted or produced upon repeated inquiry of onsite workers.

Extinction Rebellion Protesters Strip Off For ‘Cheeky Intervention’ In House Of Commons

April 2, 2019 By Patrick Grafton-Green, Standard.co.uk , , ,
MPs were seen taking a glance up at the protest and Speaker John Bercow maintained that the debate on the second stage of the Brexit alternatives would proceed despite the distraction. Tory Nick Boles, also speaking during the nude protest, made a joke that his Brexiteer colleagues were "noted naturists". "It has long been a thoroughly British trait to be able to ignore pointless nakedness, and I trust the House will be able to return to the issue that we are discussing," he added.

When Cities Shut The Water Off

April 2, 2019 By Maureen Taylor, Inequality.org , , ,
In 2014, the Detroit Water and Sewerage Department started its most recent egregious campaign of mass water shutoffs that targeted low-income, residential customers who were behind in payments. In June of that year, rumors started to surface about poisoned public water in Flint, Michigan. Both issues marked the start of long nights of terror for blue-collar workers, a terror that has not yet ended. Concerns over water were not new to those in the American Rust Belt, but never before had their ferocity and scale reached such depths.

Rights Groups Urge UN To Protect Palestinians On ‘Great March’ Protest Anniversary

March 29, 2019 Staff, Middleeasteye.net , , ,
Almost 20 Palestinian rights groups – both regional and international – urged the United Nations to protect Gazans who participate in the anniversary of the “Great March of Return” protests this coming Saturday. In a letter sent to UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Wednesday, the groups warned that Israel “will once again resort to lethal and other excessive force, including live ammunition, to suppress the protests”. “We urge the UN to take meaningful action to prevent further unnecessary loss of life and injury by the Israeli occupying forces, which entails individual criminal responsibility and may amount to international crimes,” the letter read.

“The Whole Internet Is Watching.” Internet Protest Planned Ahead Of Key Net Neutrality Vote Next Week

March 22, 2019 Staff, Fightforthefuture.org , ,
The House Energy and Commerce Committee’s subcommittee on Communications and Technology is expected to hold a markup and vote on the Save the Internet Act (HR 1644) as soon as next week. Internet activists are planning an online protest, starting Monday, with the intention of making the livestream of what would otherwise be a relatively obscure procedural vote go viral, to show lawmakers on the committee that “The Whole Internet is Watching.”

Extinction Rebellion Paint George Square Blue

March 22, 2019 By Jody Harrison, Heraldscotland.com , ,
ENVIRONMENTAL activists have stepped up their campaign to draw attention to the dangers of climate change by marching blue paint footsteps across Glasgow's famous George Square. Campaigners Extinction Rebellion Glasgow carried out the paint-daubing protest after weeks of peaceful lunchtime sit-ins outside the adjacent Glasgow Council City Chambers. The protest is part of a strategy of civil disobedience that aims to pressure the local authority into declaring a climate emergency.
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