Martinique strike turns violent, mayor urges calm
A general strike in the French Caribbean island of Martinique turned violent on Friday as protesters clashed with business owners who organized their own peaceful protest.
Hundreds of police launched tear gas as protesters threw rocks and bottles and set cars and garbage bins on fire.
Martinique’s prefect, Ange Mancini, said four police officers were slightly injured. He asked residents to remain indoors.
Employers were confronted as (…)
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Martinique strike turns violent
7 March 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
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Just following orders (Stanley Milgram Exprience 2008)
24 January 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
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By Adam Cohen
Monday, December 29, 2008
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In 1963, Stanley Milgram, an assistant professor of psychology at Yale, published his infamous experiment on obedience to authority. Its conclusion was that most ordinary people were willing to administer what they believed to be painful, even dangerous, electric shocks to innocent people if a man in a white lab coat told them to.
For the first time in four decades, a researcher has repeated the Milgram experiment (…) -
Icelandic police tear gas protesters
22 January 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
By VALUR GUNNARSSON and JILL LAWLESS
REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) — Police used tear gas to break up an angry protest outside Iceland’s parliament early Thursday, and two officers were hospitalized after being hit by rocks, the force said.
It was the first time the country’s police had used tear gas in more than half a century, and came as demonstrators mount increasingly violent protests against a government they blame for leading once-prosperous Iceland into economic ruin.
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Morocco: Communiqué on the death of the student Abderrazzak El Gadiri
10 January 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
Communiqué on the death of the student Abderrazak El Gadiri
During the march of solidarity held on Sunday 28 December 2008 by the Cadi Ayyad University students in Marrakech, the public forces have acted violently against the students and especially those who helped organize the march. During this harsh intervention, a good number of students has been the subject of a wide-ranging wave of arrests and injuries. Among victims the student Abderrazzak ELGadiri – born on 28 july 1987 and (…) -
No Victors in the War on Dissent
8 January 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
Among the wars currently being fought by the American government is one in which there can be no winners. Our prior law enforcement experiences warn us that the “war on terrorism” has spawned an internal “war on dissent” in which everyone loses.
Author William John Cox’s law enforcement career spanned 40 years, the early part of which was spent as a Los Angeles police officer and which included direct policing of both the riots and terrorist incidents in that city in the late 60’s to (…) -
Global protests end in riot on London streets
4 January 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
By Jeremy Watson
RIOT police had to be deployed last night as a protest outside the Israeli embassy in London over Israel’s invasion of the Gaza Strip erupted into violence.
In a day of global demonstrations over Israel’s military campaign against the Islamist Hamas movement, thousands of protestors gathered outside the embassy with some attempting to storm the Kensington compound.
As tensions mounted in the early evening, police officers came under fire from missiles. The barrage, (…) -
US Committee to support the Tarnac 9
2 December 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
U.S. Support Commitee for the Tarnac 9 Formed Sunday, November 30 2008 @ 04:53 PM CST Contributed by: Anonymous
On November 11th 2008, French Anti-Terrorism Police arrested around twenty people in connection with five incidents in the preceding weeks in which electric train lines were shut down, causing delays.
Nine of these were subsequently accused of “criminal association for the purposes of terrorist activity”, four of them were released on bail and five remain in custody. Because (…) -
Agamben’s tribute to Free the Tarnac 5
24 November 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
By Giorgio Agamben
TERRORISM OR TRAGICOMEDY?
On the morning of November 11, 150 police officers, most of which belonged to the anti-terrorist brigades, surrounded a village of 350 inhabitants on the Millevaches plateau, before raiding a farm in order to arrest nine young people (who ran the local grocery store and tried to revive the cultural life of the village). Four days later, these nine people were sent before an anti-terrorist judge and “accused of criminal conspiracy with (…) -
Head of Taser distributor in France arrested
16 October 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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French police arrested the head of a company that distributes stun guns in France for Scottsdale-based Taser International Inc. on Tuesday, according to foreign news reports.
Authorities detained Antoine Di Zazzo and nine other people, including police officers and private detectives, on suspicion that they spied on Olivier Besancenot, a former presidential candidate in France who publicly questioned the safety of Taser’s devices, reports stated.
Di Zazzo runs SMP (…) -
Kashmiri shot dead during protest against Indian premier
11 October 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
By Jawed Naqvi
Source: "The Dawn", daily from Karachi
NEW DELHI, Oct 10: Police in the Kashmir Valley gunned down a protester on Friday ahead of a visit to Srinagar by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh that coincides with the arrival here on Saturday of Pakistan’s National Security Adviser Mahmud Ali Durrani.
Widespread protests by Kashmiris have begun to include President Asif Ali Zardari as one of the targets and according to reports from the Valley angry crowds burnt his effigies after (…)