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Chinese Protest and Tweet Against Trash Incinerator
They are concerned about pollution and toxic emissions. More than a thousand Guangzhou residents held a protest on Monday against local officials building a rubbish incinerator near their homes.There were many middle-class people among the protesters—which is unusual, compared with the hundreds of thousands of demonstrations held by peasants across the Chinese countryside each year.
Tags: Year: 2009 Location: Asia Category: Protest and Persuassion Category: NonCooperation Category: NonViolent Intervention Protest and Persuassion: Declarations by organizations and institutions Protest and Persuassion: Newspapers and journals Protest and Persuassion: Records, radio, and television Protest and Persuassion: IT messaging - Mass SMS and e-mailing Protest and Persuassion: Protest meetings Methods of NonCooperation: Action by Workers and Producers Methods of NonCooperation: Strikes by Special Groups NonViolent Intervention: Nonviolent obstruction NonViolent Intervention: Nonviolent occupation Video: Has Video
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Martin Luther King - A Time to Break Silence » Martin Luther King - A Time to Break SilenceStarting in 1965, King began to express doubts about the United States' role in the Vietnam War. In an April 4, 1967, appearance at the New York City Riverside Church — exactly one year before his death — King delivered Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence. In the speech he spoke strongly against the U.S.'s role in the war, insisting that the U.S. was in Vietnam "to occupy it as an American colony" and calling the U.S. govern...
Activists, politicians reportedly arrested in Iran » Hadi Ghaemi, director of the New York-based International Campaign for Human Rights, said he had spoken with family members and colleagues of people who have been arrested or disappeared and was told that there were at least 200 across the country. The Associated Press could not independently confirm the rights groups' reports because of government restrictions on reporting inside the country. The Iranian government has said that it has arrested a relatively small number of people responsible fo...
A broken health care system. Real reform in jeopardy. It's time to turn the tide. » On September 27th, the Mobilization for Health Care for All launched a national campaign of "Patients Not Profit" sit-ins at insurance company offices to demand an end to a system that profits by denying people care. We want the real "public option": Medicare for All, a single payer plan that cuts out the profit and puts patients first.Together, through this campaign, we can turn the tide and win the fight for health care for all. To succeed, we need to organize sit-ins in as many cities as poss...
IRAN: Grim fates for prisoners with ties to foreigners » No mercy for those accused of trying to topple the Islamic Republic.Britain on Thursday protested a four-year jail sentence apparently imposed on one of its senior employees at its embassy in Tehran accused of spying and fomenting violence. Hossein Rassam, 44, who served as chief political analyst at the British Embassy in Tehran was sentenced in a closed courtroom earlier this week, according to The Times of London. British authorities were informed of the sentence Tuesday and have summoned the...
Honduran president exiled to Costa Rica - 28 June 09 » Troops in Honduras have ousted the president and flown him out of the country after a power struggle over plans to change the constitution.After arriving in Costa Rica, deposed President Manuel Zelaya said he had been kidnapped by soldiers in a "coup". Mr Zelaya, elected for a non-renewable four-year term in 2006, had wanted a vote to extend his time in office.
Iranians Flex the Power of Nonviolence » What we’re witnessing in Iran over the last several days is the power of nonviolence. Unarmed Iranians by the hundreds of thousands, and across all ages and classes, have flocked to the streets of Tehran, defying bans and brutal paramilitary squads, to demand one simple thing: that their votes be counted fairly. The democratic longing, and the democratic thronging, shows no signs of letting up. “Every day, the number of people attending the protests is increasing,” says Camelia Entekhabifar...
Iran's Karroubi under attack at rally » TEHRAN, Oct. 26 (UPI) -- Bodyguards for Iranian opposition figure Mehdi Karroubi fired warning shots into the air following a confrontation with supporters of the conservative regime.Karroubi came under attack by supporters of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at a press fair during the weekend in Tehran, reports Radio Zamaneh, an independent Persian broadcaster in the Netherlands.Demonstrators reportedly attacked Karroubi, who challenged Ahmadinejad in June, with clubs and managed to remove...
Suicide protest in Vietnam » The authorities in Vietnam have confirmed that a badly burned body has been found in a park in the central coastal city of Danang. The Paris-based Buddhist Information Bureau says it was that of a man who committed suicide on Sunday by burning himself as a protest against religious repression. Such suicides in Vietnam, although they do not happen often, are a reminder of the monks who self-immolated in the 1960s to protest against religious repression by what was then a US-backed government i...
Tacoma Police arrest nonviolent protesters against Strykers » Three people were arrested for peacefully protesting at the Port of Tacoma at about 12:30 AM Monday morning, March 5, 2007. They were protesting the shipment of Stryker Brigade armored vehicles from Fort Lewis to the illegal war and occupation in Iraq. Caitlin Esworthy was arrested within second after the Tacoma Police Disorder Response Team confronted the protest. Another person, Navy veteran Wally Cuddeford, was then brutally dragged on his stomach (and tasered three times) just after his ar...
Palestinians who see nonviolence as their weapon » Every Friday, Mohammed Khatib's forces assemble for battle with the Israeli army and gather their weapons: a bullhorn, banners - and a fierce belief that peaceful protest can bring about a Palestinian state.A few hundred strong, they march to the Israeli barrier that separates the tiny farming community of Bilin from much of its land. They chant and shout. A few teenagers throw stones. Khatib helped launch the weekly ritual five years ago in an attempt to "re-brand" a Palestinian struggle often ...