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  • URGENT - Dignity camp dismantled by force by Moroccan Army - El Aaiun is burning
    8 November 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    The Dignity camp of Gdeim Izik (near El Aaiun) have been dismantled by force by the Moroccan Army, who burned the jaimas (Sahrawi tents) and attacked the people with gas grenades and rubber bullets. The people had to leave the camp and go by foot through the desert to the city of El Aaiun, where the young Sahrawis are confronting the violence of Moroccan Police and Army. There are reports of several people dead in the streets or in the camp (between 5 and 12 dead killed by Moroccan troops). (…)

  • Ecuador’s president attacked by police
    1 October 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    Country’s leader trapped in hospital after assault, as government declares a one-week state of emergency
    Ecuador teetered on the brink of chaos early today as rebellious police officers protesting against austerity measures blocked airports and roads, occupied the national assembly and besieged the president in a hospital after physically assaulting him.
    The government called the revolt a coup and declared a one-week state of emergency which put the military in charge of public order (…)

  • Video: Obama’s FBI Gets Earful from Protesters at Washington, D.C. Rally
    29 September 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    Obama’s FBI Gets Earful from Protesters at Washington, D.C. Rally from William Hughes on Vimeo.
    On Tuesday afternoon, September 28, 2010, a demonstration was staged in front of the FBI’s headquarters in Washington, D.C. The protest action was in response to recent “FBI raids and Grand Jury subpoenas,” which targeted activists associated with the Antiwar Movement, according to the press release of the organizers. For background, see: http://www.counterpunch.org/jacobs09272010.html and (…)

  • Video: Demonstration at FBI’s Headquarters in Washington, D.C.
    29 September 2010 par (Open-Publishing)
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    On Tuesday afternoon, September 28, 2010, a demonstration was staged in front of the FBI’s headquarters in Washington, D.C. The protest action was in response to recent “FBI raids and Grand Jury subpoenas,” which targeted the Antiwar Movement, according to the press release of the organizers. For background, see: http://www.counterpunch.org/jacobs09272010.html and
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Opd3WuTZzWg&feature=player_embedded
    This video contains excerpts from today’s rally. A fuller (…)

  • The Fraudulent Criminalization of Marijuana
    16 September 2010 par (Open-Publishing)
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    For almost 40 years, the United States has waged a war on its own citizens who have used marijuana as a part of a drug culture originally encouraged by the government. The war was commenced despite the government’s own findings that marijuana posed less of a risk to American society than alcohol, and that the greatest harm that would result from criminalization would be the injury caused to those arrested for possession and use. The harm caused by the war extends beyond its 15 million (…)

  • Inside Mexico’s Drug War, Americans Allege Abuse
    19 July 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    Inside Mexico’s Drug War, Americans Allege Abuse
    By NICHOLAS CASEY
    CIUDAD JUÁREZ, Mexico—Two Americans were driving back to El Paso, Texas, last December after an afternoon across the border in Ciudad Juárez. A few blocks from the border, they were surrounded by Mexican army trucks and pulled from their Dodge Ram.
    Violence escalates in the drug wars in Mexico as a car bomb set off by a cell phone kills at least three people. Deborah Lutterbeck reports. Video Courtesy of Reuters. (…)

  • Europe Attacks Kurds
    16 March 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    Europe Attacks Kurds Garbis Altinoglu, 13-15 March 2010
    Facts and Fallacies At 5 A.M. on March 4, Belgian police raided the offices of ROJ TV, the voice of Kurdish people, BDP’s European office and several other addresses in Belgium. 30 people were taken into custody, including Remzi Kartal and Zubeyir Aydar and several journalists. Belgian media sources said around 300 officers took part in raids in Brussels, Antwerp and other Belgian cities. The Belgian police put (…)

  • Citizen’s Arrest of George Bush Justified, Court Hears
    9 March 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    Calgary Sun March 8, 2010
    Political activist John Boncore [Splitting the Sky] was entitled to try to arrest US President George W Bush for war crimes, his lawyer told a Calgary court Monday. Defence counsel Charles Davison said his client’s attempts at breaching a police barrier to gain access to Bush was justified.
    Boncore is charged with obstructing a peace officer for repeatedly trying to get past security and into the Telus Convention Centre last March 17.
    "Mr. Boncore had (…)

  • Nude Protest: Airport Body Scanners in Germany (video)
    1 March 2010 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The underwear bombers Christmas Day attack has prompted calls for the increased use of full-body scanners at airports.
    So to protest, members of the Pirate Party in Germany organized a fleshmob of people who stripped down to their skivvies last Sunday and converged on the Berlin-Tegal airport.
    The protesters marked their bodies with a number of messages such as, Something to hide? and Be a good citizen — drop your pants.
    One woman has the word diaper scrawled on her lower back with an (…)

  • Video: Doctors Flowers and Paris Arrested, Re: Obama and Medicare for All
    29 January 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    On Jan. 29, 2010, Doctors Margaret Flowers and Carol Paris were arrested outside a hotel, at the Inner Harbor, in Baltimore, MD, where President Barack Obama was to give a speech. They were on a sidewalk outside the Renaissance hotel holding a banner. The doctors had a letter that they wanted to give to the President and/or one of his aides, re: Medicare for All. They were arrested for trespassing, according to to a police officer at the scene. Later after getting into a police car, this (…)