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Protests Are Going Viral

Protests Are Going Viral
Thu, 4/26/2012

Photo: Project on Middle East Democracy (POMED). Protesters in Bahrain.

Last week saw demonstrations and resistance in many forms across the world, from students protesting tuition hikes to citizens demanding accountable government, a clean environment, workers' rights to organize and more. Read about a few of the communities that are taking their futures into their own hands:

• April 14 – CANADA : The student movement in Montreal continues to draw thousands of students and activists to protest against tuition hikes that would impose an additional $325 in costs per student per year for the next five years.

• April 14 – OREGON: 150 Occupy Portland protesters went to Richland, Washington, to the Hanford headquarters to protest nuclear waste, nuclear war and nuclear energy of the Hanford nuclear reservation.

• April 14 – MALAYSIA: More than 500 people protested against the education loan scheme PTPTN (the National Higher Education Fund Corporation) as well as for free education in the streets of Kuala Lumpur. The student movement in the country has grown as universities have become more commercialized and privatized.

• April 15 – ISRAEL: Israel denied the entry of more than 1,500 pro-Palestinian activists trying to come into the West Bank and Gaza to build a school and to protest Israel’s control of access points in the occupied territories.

• April 16 – PHILIPPINES: 70 student activists threw paint and chipped away letters on a sign outside the U.S. embassy to protest American imperialism in the Philippines. They also protested “U.S. troops out now” on the embassy’s main gate.

• April 17 – ISRAEL: 1,600 Palestinian prisoners launched a hunger strike to protest Israeli forces imprisoning innocent Palestinians without charge and other forms of repression in the occupied territories.

• April 17 – CANADA: 800 protesters gathered in Greater Victoria to protest the environmental destruction of the proposed $5.5 billion Enbridge Inc. Northern Gateway Pipeline. A recent survey showed more than 52 percent of people in British Columbia oppose the pipeline despite Enbridge’s claims that it would create hundreds of jobs.

• April 17 - WISCONSIN: About 4,000 union workers turned out to protest Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker for a bill he signed limiting public-sector union bargaining rights, a further attack on organized labor.

• April 18 – TEXAS: About 19 students were arrested in Austin, Texas for occupying the president’s office at the University of Texas at Austin, demanding that UT’s apparel become sweatshop-free.

• April 18 – ITALY: Casoria Contemporary Art Museum in Naples has begun to set artworks ablaze to protest the government’s austerity measures and indifference to funding cultural institutions. The museum plans to burn three paintings each week in a protest they have coined the “Art War.”

• April 18 – BRAZIL: Dozens in Rio De Janiero, Brazil, set a bus on fire and blocked roadways to speak out against the shooting of an unarmed 10-year-old girl during a recent police action. The protesters also shut down a highway tunnel for more than 90 minutes.

• April 19 - BAHRAIN: Unrest in Bahrain continues as more than 5,000 people protested human rights violations by the government in an attempt to shut down the controversial Grand Prix race in the Gulf Kingdom.

• April 20 – EGYPT: Tahrir Square in Egypt continues to be a focal point of revolution as tens of thousands returned to the public square in the biggest turnout in months to oppose military rule and repression throughout the country.

 

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Journalists have a responsibility to plainly tell the truth about how truly different the Democrats and the Republicans are today, especially with both democracy and the rule of law at stake this November.

From Hungary and Poland to Italy and Spain, today's anti-abortionist movements are feeding one another—while also driving a growing counter-movement.

Agriculture, the service economy, sexual exploitation, manufacturing, construction and domestic work drive today's enslavement around the world.

Thanks to the Electoral College, leftists have perhaps the final say this November over whether democracy can hold on for at least another four years, or if fascism will take root and infect all facets of the federal government for decades to come.

History shows there are no “one-day” dictatorships. When democracies fall, they typically fall completely.

Thanks to the Electoral College, leftists have perhaps the final say this November over whether democracy can hold on for at least another four years, or if fascism will take root and infect all facets of the federal government for decades to come.

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What remains unknown is whether post-truth Republicans will succeed in 2024 as the Nazis did in 1933.

Posted 1 month 2 weeks ago

Agriculture, the service economy, sexual exploitation, manufacturing, construction and domestic work drive today's enslavement around the world.

Posted 2 weeks 1 day ago

History shows there are no “one-day” dictatorships. When democracies fall, they typically fall completely.

Posted 3 weeks 3 days ago

Journalists have a responsibility to plainly tell the truth about how truly different the Democrats and the Republicans are today, especially with both democracy and the rule of law at stake this November.

Posted 1 day 15 hours ago

Agriculture, the service economy, sexual exploitation, manufacturing, construction and domestic work drive today's enslavement around the world.

History shows there are no “one-day” dictatorships. When democracies fall, they typically fall completely.

Thanks to the Electoral College, leftists have perhaps the final say this November over whether democracy can hold on for at least another four years, or if fascism will take root and infect all facets of the federal government for decades to come.