We have to try another way what our columnist calls the Great Reverse - a slide in general wellbeing married with a removal of rights that have been won over decades - deserves a robust response. If...
This is disturbing story out of Chicago. It seems a number of young journalists covering the anti-NATO protests in Chicago were targeted for harassment by the Chicago Police Department. Batteries and external hard drives of theirs were smashed and the cell phone of one...
You have to give Middle Eastern protesters, regardless of stripe, credit for one thing: When they wish to express their displeasure in uncertain terms, they certainly manage to do so in a way that grabs your...
Some may have had fantasies of jogging, streaking or cycling in the nude on major thoroughfares in large metropolitan areas, but a group of fleshy folks hit the streets in all its glory without incident June 16 ...
The Massacre in Homs, Syria of anti-government protestors sparked a protest at the Syrian Embassy in London. By the end of next week, the UN will act, ordering President Bashar al-Assad to leave office. If he...
Why were the media blacked out from covering the removal of protestors from Zuccotti Park on the early morning of November 15th, by New York City police? A news helicopter was forced to land. Why? Why were the police suppressing media coverage and arresting and barring...
Toronto, Canada - Occupy Toronto ends their camp-out at St. James Park in downtown Toronto. Court ruled Monday it was illegal and police moved in at 6am Wednesday and cleared the park without ...
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The drug war is destroying our liberties and rights. It must and has to end. Take this example: "Michelle Collette of Hanover, Massachusetts, sold Percocet, a prescription painkiller. "I was planning to do it just once," she says, "but the money was so easy. And I...
New York City - The world’s largest investment firm is going all out this Halloween to make the holiday special for the thousands of Occupy Wall Street protesters who have become its neighbors in the financial...
The Federal Reserve Bank is now home to hundreds of modern day activists. Just like Occupy Wall street and so many others. Occupy SF is dedicated to staying at the federal reserve as long as it takes to...
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Themeless Ezra Klein reports that it’s a rough start, but maybe there is some fire brewing behind the smoke. To me, the smoke is mostly hot dog vendors who would not normally be working on the weekend. T-shirt...
Occupy Wall Street protests spread across U.SInspired by the events in New York City, protesters begin assembling in several cities across the U.S. As police arrested hundreds of protesters on the Brooklyn...
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The United States has imposed its first ever sanctions against the Syrian President, Bashar al-Assad and six other senior officials for human rights abuses, committed during the suppression of antigovernment...
On March 15th 2011 at 11:30 am the Palestinian Youth Movement (P.Y.M) has organized a global network of marches for unity. The theme for the protests is "No Division." One of the marches is to be held at El...
Robert Gates the U.S. Secretary of Defense, arrived Monday in Kabul, Afghanistan for what was supposed to be a surprise visit. Gates will visit southern and eastern part of Afghanistan, where mainly U.S. troops...