NEW DELHI: The Airport Authority of India employees on Tuesday observed a day-long relay fast to protest the privatisation of airports and press for their 19-point charter of demands, saying if the issues are not resolved within 10 days, they will resort to "severe industrial action". "The AAI employees observed a day-long relay fast, from 10 am to 5 pm, in protest of efforts to privatise airports being managed by the authority and our other demands," All India General Secretary of Airport Authority Employees' Union M K Ghoshal said here. Ghoshal said they had a meeting with AAI Chairman K Ramalingam after the relay fast during which he directed the management representatives to take steps to resolve the issues. "The issues should be resolved within a period of 10 days failing which AAEU will be forced to undertake a severe industrial action including the closure of all AAI-managed airports," Ghoshal said in a statement.The AAEU has been protesting the opening of greenfield airports an
Protests continue mounting on Okinawa over the latest incident in which a 14 year-old girl allegedly was raped by an American soldier. The Okinawa Women Acting Against Military Violence set a letter to the American government demanding an apology and compensation for the girl who was attacked. “Can we allow the U.S. military to interfere [...]
This Sunday will be a scientology protest in San Francisco on 701 Montgomery St. The leaders said that will be A sunday afternoon well spent. They also said that the participants should make folowing things:
wear a EFG mask
bring with you a lightweight sign
must-have: water, snacks, change for public transport
must-not-have: ID form, personal car, a lot [...]
A GLOBAL day of protest against the Church of Scientology organised by internet group "Anonymous" began today with demonstrations outside the church's Australian offices.
About 150 people gathered at the Church of Scientology building in the Sydney CBD this morning, most of them carrying picket signs and wearing costumes or masks.
At 11am, when the protest was scheduled to start, staff inside
No war is an anti-war song I wrote a few years back. It has an interesting story - here is the background. I have written about 70 songs over the last 10-20 years but certainly have slowed down. I think the last song was Brown Study - perhaps it was a [...]
Muslim women training in several hospitals in England have objected to removing their arm coverings in theatre and to rolling up their sleeves when washing their hands, because it is regarded as immodest in Islam. Universities and NHS trusts fear many more will refuse to co-operate with new Department of Health guidance, introduced this month, which stipulates that all doctors must be "bare below the elbow". According to a report in The Telegraph, the measure has been deemed necessary to stop the spread of infections such as MRSA and Clostridium difficile, which have killed hundreds. Minutes of a clinical academics' meeting at Liverpool University revealed that female Muslim students at Alder Hey children's hospital had objected to rolling up their sleeves to wear gowns. Similar concerns have been raised at Leicester University. Sheffield University also reported a case of a Muslim medic who refused to "scrub" as this left her forearms exposed. Documents from Birmin
Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) General Secretary Prakash Karat on Sunday threatened to launch a nationwide protest, if the UPA government increased fuel prices. He said this while addressing an election rally of the Left Front here today ahead of the State Assembly poll slated for February 23. Slamming the Congress party for "wrong economic policies" and "anti-people policy," Karat said people are already suffering with price hike of essential commodities and added that "non-secular parties" have taken an advantage of this and gained power in recent Assembly elections (in Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh). The government should reduce import duty on crude oil instead of passing the burden of hike in crude oil prices to the people, he said. The Union Cabinet is likely to take a decision on increasing petrol and diesel prices early this week. On the Indo-US civil nuclear deal, Karat said the United States was trying to make India a "junior partner
Following the violent death of a Moroccan teenager in Cologne, hundreds of immigrants have taken to the streets in nightly demonstratins to protest what they regard as continued evidence to be a Muslim in Germany is to be classified as a second-clas citizen. Muslim protestors interpret the death of Salih as a German attack on [...]
Dear Membership and Community,
On Wednesday, January 30, 2008 please show up to City Hall regarding Officer Caton’s recent promotion to Sergeant. Please get to City Hall located at 801 Plum Street by 1:00 PM so that you may fill out a speakers card and speak to the mayor, the council and the city manager about our outrage regarding the decision to promote Caton on the Martin Luther King holiday.
Booby brunette Lucy Pinder and Kayleigh Pearson joined a group of almost naked chicks today in London to hold signs like: "MTV is making beautiful people look stupid."Glamour models, accompanied by 16 of their bikini-clad comrades, stage amock protest against MTV show America's Most Smartest Model.Banner-waving flesh-flashers then proceed to Oxford Street's Topshop,Selfridges and Carnaby Street. The show sees a group of US models being putthrough a series of tests to see if they have both brains and beauty.
1. No Stars Over Bethlehem"2. Heretics and Killers3. Divinity Within4. Bury the Hatchet5. Nautical6. Blindfolds Aside7. She Who Mars the Skin of Gods8. Turn Soonest to the Sea9. The Divine Suicide of K.10. A Plateful of Our DeadDescargar: FileSendwww.myspace.com/protestthehero
1. Red Stars over the Battle of the Cowshed2. An Apathetic New World3. These Colours Don't Run4. Soft Targets Dig Softer Graves5. Fear and Loathing in Leramie6. Led Astray7. I Am Dmitri Karamazov and the World is My FatherDescargar: FileSendwww.myspace.com/protestthehero
First, Markos calls John Edwards "an ass" for Edwards' criticism of Barack Obama for calling the Republicans "the party of ideas for about 10-15 years" and "challenging conventional wisdom" here while giving credit to Ronald Reagan, allowing infamous freeper demagogue Fred Barnes a shot to write stuff like this).Next, we have Markos citing Edwards' "stalling effort" and claiming that "this may be the last week of the Edwards campaign" if he doesn't win South Carolina (here - it's crucial I'll admit and doesn't look good at the moment, but the primary will be held on the 26th, so we'll see). In fact, Edwards has stated that he's in for "the long haul" (here, though I can assure you that I will acknowledge it if Markos turns out to be right).And also, we have this post from Markos where he alleges that Obama's supporters ridiculed the Edwards supporters, though there is no link or further information to back up that charge.All of this is starting to cause concern with yours truly, not on
On January 11, 2008, Center for Constitutional Rights Executive Director Vincent Warren spoke to a crowd in Washington DC assembled to protest the continued and indefinite detention of people without charge in Guantanamo Bay by the U.S. government. You can listen to Warren’s remarks yourself by clicking here, or read the transcript below:
“Thank you all [...]
By Daren Butler ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkish media lamented on Saturday the failure of an investigation into the killing of prominent Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink to shed full light on a murder which shocked Turkey a year ago. An ultra-nationalist gunman shot Dink outside his office in Istanbul on Jan. 19, 2007. Protesters planned to gather at 3 p.m. on Sunday at the spot where he was killed to call for justice. Amnesty International urged Turkey on Friday to widen the scope of the investigation and the liberal media called for the alleged complicity of security officials to be fully investigated. "Hrant Dink is in his grave, they are still at their posts," said a headline in the Radikal daily, in reference to claims that police failed to act on warnings that Dink's life was in danger. Before his murder, Dink received death threats for his articles urging Turkey to accept responsibility for its part in mass killings of Armenians by Ottoman Turks and Kurds i
Tibetans-living-in-exile have planned a march from India to Tibet to protest against the Beijing Olympics, which they say is China's propaganda to gain international acceptance to its "illegal" rule in Tibet. Five leading Tibetan organisations today said that hundreds of Tibetans would march from Dharamsala to Lhasa, the capital of Tibet, on March 10, the day Tibetans would be observing the 49th anniversary of the failed uprising against Chinese rule. Tibetan Youth Congress President Tsewang Rigzin said the Tibetans must utilise the time over the next eight months to fight "China's massive Olympics propaganda campaign." "We must seize this unprecedented opportunity to have the Tibetan voice of resistance heard loud and clear by the Chinese leadership and the people around the world," said Rigzin. The march organisers have called upon Tibetans worldwide to use peaceful means to protest the Beijing Olympics. Tibetans will engage in non-violent mass protests
Thousands of Alevis from both Germany and Turkey are gathering for a massive protest in Cologne over a German TV program which they claim was insulting to members of their religion. The Alevi denomination is a distinct and liberal movement in Islam and its members are manly found in Turkey and Syria as well in [...]
Tourists in Goa have been asked to leave the State by December 28 as anti-Special Economic Zone (SEZ) activists have threatened to start a month-long agitation. The Goa Movement Against SEZs (GMAS) has the support of NGOs and political parties, including the Bharatiya Janata Party. "The whole of Goa is opposed to SEZs. Even village council, has said that they don't want SEZs. The NCP and all opposition parties are opposing it. It's not that we don't want tourists, but we want them to sacrifice one season. One year in solidarity with the people of Goa, who will suffer forever, plus the tourists themselves will not come to Goa anymore," said Mathany Saldhana, the convener of GMAS. The State administration has beefed police patrolling and assured safety of the tourists. "I will make sure that every tourist will be secure here. We will take every precaution to make their holidays perfect," said Micky Pacheco, Tourism Minister. Many tourists, foreign and domestic, who
The city council of New Orleans voted unanimously to demolish thousands of public housing units while protesters tried to get into the chambers and were maced by police standing behind iron gates, some of who appeared to be smirking. Yeah, that’ll get a lot of good PR for the city.
And no, they aren’t rebuilding an [...]
By James Pomfret MACAU (Reuters) - More than 1,000 Macau residents staged an anti-government protest on Thursday, demanding an end to corruption and calling
Two New South Wales Members of Parliament have called for the scrapping of a 1,200-student Islamic school in Sydney's southwest. Joining hundreds of residents outside
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On Friday, November 30th, a handful of protesters hit Milford, holding signs outside of the “Kids Helping Kids” facility. They claim the institution is a cult-like brainwashing center that abuses children in the name of treatment. “The treatment was based on North Korean brainwashing of American prisoners,” said Anthony Connelly. “The abuse I endured occurred from 1986 until 1988. It ranges from verbal assaults to solitary confinement.”
I was beginning to think there was no such thing as a sane Venezuelan. It's great to finally see people standing up to dictators. Tens of thousands of people flooded the streets of the capital Thursday to oppose a referendum that would eliminate term limits for President Hugo Chavez and help him establish a socialist state in Venezuela. Blowing whistles, waving placards and shouting "Not like this!" the marchers carried Venezuelan flags and dressed in blue—the chosen color of the opposition—as they streamed along Bolivar Avenue. "This is a movement by those of us who oppose a change to this country's way of life, because what (the referendum) aims to do is impose totalitarianism," said former lawmaker Elias Matta. "There can't be a communist Venezuela, and that's why our society is reacting this way."
Time was that the website at pax.protest.net contained a pretty vibrant calendar of progressive political actions. Now it’s nearly devoid of activist events and deluged with mocking right-wing spam about sex acts, white supremacy and cults of the Homeland.
Fortunately, Indymedia is still chock full of information about local, national and international protest, [...]
The Czech News Agency reported on the 19th of November, that the European Celestial Marching Band, consisting of over eighty European Falun Gong practitioners, performed at the Old Town Square in Prague on the 17th of November. After the performance, they started a parade in protest against the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) persecution against Falun [...]
Riot police broke up a march against President Vladmir Putin and arrested chess legend Garry Kasparov and several other opposition leaders. The marchers were peaceful and solely intent on presenting a petition questioning the adherence to democratic principles by authorities in the upcoming election when police armed with truncheons moved in on the marchers. The [...]
Shiv Sena activists staged a protest here today against the Pakistani team, even as cricket fans thronged Firoz Shah Kotla stadium to witness the first
Two Oklahoma men whose sons were killed in Iraq staged a small protest on Monday at the state capitol. They said the Iraq war never should have happened and it is past time to end the United States participation in the tragedy. Warren Henthorn of Choctaw said: “This thing has lasted longer than World War [...]
Law enforcement authorities cracked down on lawyers who were staging a protest demonstration against the imposition of emergency outside the Sindh High Court (SHC) here
RAIPUR, India (Reuters) - More than 75,000 tribal people armed with bows and arrows took to the streets on Monday in mineral-rich Chhattisgarh to protest
College students across the country have been strapping empty holsters around their waists this week to protest laws that prohibit concealed weapons on campus, citing concerns over campus shootings.
This is one of those ideas that should be filed under fan-fucking-tastic. Nothing screams safety to me like a bunch of binge drinking 21 year olds walking [...]
Hundreds of New Zealanders protested across the nation against this week’s massive police sweep aimed against terrorists. During the police action, vehicles were halted and people searched. There was considerable anger because the police halted school buses, entered waving guns and frightened hundreds of children. A bus driver described the police entering his bus with [...]
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This Saturday 83 protesters were arrested after demonstrators blocked the city’s annual Columbus Day parade. Prior to their arrests, protesters poured fake blood on the streets to represent the genocide of indigenous people that began after Columbus sailed to the Americas.
Below is a video related to this post. A United States Veteran cut down an American flag that a Nevada business was flying below a Mexican flag illegally. I speculated in my original post that the company had hired Mexican workers and were trying to appease them. This video shows us that the owners of [...]
I hate reading stuff like this (guess I’m just an old, moralistic, liberal stick-in-the-mud today).I have a question for Tara Kissane, the Director of Visual and Performing Arts for the Higley Unified School District in Mesa, AZ; did you actually ask any of the kids whether or not you should stop the production of “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged),” as noted in the story? Did they appear to be confused, scared, or offended somehow?As noted in the story…The play was produced by a New York-based touring company, Windwood Theatricals. Paul Bartz, the producer, said he was surprised to learn the performance was stopped.“It's a matter of interpretation, but they're surely not seeing anything on that stage that they're not seeing on television,” Bartz said Tuesday. “You might liken it to a 'Saturday Night Live' sketch on Shakespeare.”The group's Web site says it's a “whirlwind roller coaster tribute to the immortal bard. Three actors take on the daunting
Beyoncé Knowles’ Kuala Lumpur concert scheduled to take place November 1 has been cancelled following protests by local Muslim groups.Kuala Lumpur-based concert promoter Pineapple Concerts issued a statement Friday announcing the cancellation — without giving a reason — of what would have been the Beyoncé’s Malaysian debut performance. A ministry official says [...]
This is what senior citizens at the William Koehler Memorial Senior Center in New York resorted to when they were basically told that they didn’t know what was good for them.
The protest started when the center decided not to accept free doughnuts for the seniors because they are bad for you. I love [...]
In MY opinion, this case is not black and white, it's gray, my readers and therein lies the heart of the problem.
Where was this school's classes on racial tolerance? From what I have read, they have done nothing to attempt to soothe the pot of boiling racial tension that culminated in the beating of Justin Barker.
In no way am I justifying the Jena Six's appalling behavior. In fact, I think they SHOULD serve some time in a juvenile detention facility as well as be made to attend anger management and racial tolerance classes. But jailed for attempted murder? uh-uh. This is an excessively trumped-up, racially-motivated charge that I don't blame all of these protesters for screaming about one little bit.
READ ABOUT THIS HEREPractice non-violence in your lives. You will be leaving your children a beautiful legacy.
My goodness, we certainly heard some bad language from those pro-war types (and by the way, chanting "USA" like that is a standard Bushco tactic for trying to shout people down who have an opinion that actually makes sense)......and here's more evidence (and attacking the camera person also; wow, these people are real brainiacs - I guess they "support our troops" so much that they want to see them keep getting killed and mutilated).
It would be better if they had just "disappeared". Several thousand anti-war demonstrators marched through downtown Washington on Saturday, clashing with police at the foot of the Capitol steps where at least 160 protesters were arrested. The group marched from the White House to the Capitol to demand an end to the Iraq war. Their numbers stretched for blocks along Pennsylvania Avenue, and they held banners and signs and chanted, "What do we want? Troops out. When do we want it? Now." ... Counterprotesters lined the sidewalks behind metal barricades. There were some heated shouting matches between the two sides. The arrests came after protesters lay down on the Capitol lawn in what they called a "die in" — with signs on top of their bodies to represent soldiers killed in Iraq. When police took no action, some of the protesters started climbing over a barricade at the foot of the Capitol steps. Many were arrested without a struggle after they jumped over the waist-high barr
The WaPo reports that the Capitol was a setting today for “hundreds sprawled on the ground in a symbolic "die-in." Police arrested 189 people, including 10 who organizers said were veterans of the war.” The kind of protest not seen...
In 2004: Guns helped murder:
5 people in New Zealand
37 people in Sweden
56 people in Australia
73 people in England and Wales
184 people in Canada
11,344 people in the United States
TODAY IS THE 44th ANNIVERSARY OF MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.'S HISTORIC MARCH ON WASHINGTON, D.C. TODAY WE ARE OUT THERE IN THE STREETS MARCHING AGAINST ILLEGAL GUNS KILLING OUR NATION'S HUMAN BEINGS READ ABOUT THIS HEREPractice non-violence in your lives. You will be leaving your children a beautiful legacy.
That's good news, especially considering it's a large German bank. The whole article can be found here, with excerpts below.And the Islamic Republic's central bank is protesting...Dresdner Bank has decided to wind up its remaining business in Iran, a spokesman for the German bank said on Tuesday. "We are winding down our business in, with and to Iran," the spokesman said, adding that the administrative costs of doing business in Iran had become too high.Dresdner, part of German insurer Allianz, has been scaling back its activity in Iran for months.
To me there is a definite reason to protest the opening of this particular school since it seems to me that if a public school is theme-based, it should no longer be qualified as a public school but a private school and thus should not be funded by the United States government OR the state of New York. If the Arab community wishes to fund a school that will have an Arab-based curriculum, then it stands to reason that the Arab community should be obtaining private funding for this school. READ ABOUT THIS HEREPractice non-violence in your lives. You will be leaving your children a beautiful legacy.
KIEV, Ukraine -- Ukraine's main opposition force erected a tent camp in the center of the capital Sunday, protesting authorities' refusal to register its candidates for next month's parliamentary elections.
Activists of the Bloc Yulia Tymoshenko group, Ukraine's main opposition force led by former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko, seen in poster at right, rally in front of the Central Election
They are teaming up with A.N.S.W.E.R. on Sept. 15th to protest the war/counter-protest the Gathering of Eagles which will be there the same day. The MAS is nothing more than another front group for extremists. From The Weekly Standard: THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD is an international Islamist group that largely operates underground and behind the scenes, with branches in about 70 countries. The Brotherhood was founded in 1928 by Hassan al-Banna, an Egyptian schoolteacher who--in the wake of the collapse of the Ottoman Empire and abolition of the caliphate--bemoaned the sickness of the Ummah, or larger Muslim community. The Brotherhood's response to this perceived sickness was to emphasize doctrinally that Islam encompasses all the affairs of man. As al-Banna wrote, "Islam is faith and worship, a country and a citizenship, a religion and a state. It is spirituality and hard work. It is a Qur'an and a sword." The group also emphasizes that Islam is a universal faith. As al-Banna put it,
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