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Protesters blockade Sizewell
Protesters blockade Sizewell
FIVE anti-nuclear power protesters blocked the entrance to Sizewell power station today. Representatives from the People Power not Nuclear Power Coalition wearing arm tubes locked themselves on to concrete just under the barrier at the main entrance around 6.40am. The demonstrators brought big black barrels with them daubed with 'Don't Nuke the Climate'. Other protesters are also there in support.The group said they are demonstrating against the flawed government consultation on nuclear new build - which ends today - and the dumping of local democracy.
Tags: Year: 2010 Location: Europe Category: Protest and Persuassion Category: NonCooperation Category: NonViolent Intervention Protest and Persuassion: Banners, posters, displayed communications Protest and Persuassion: Group lobbying Protest and Persuassion: Paint as protest Protest and Persuassion: Drama and Music Protest and Persuassion: Performances of plays and music Protest and Persuassion: Protest meetings Methods of NonCooperation: Social disobedience NonViolent Intervention: Sit-in NonViolent Intervention: Nonviolent obstruction
Redefining Protest in Copenhagen
The art of protest is being redefined in Copenhagen. Yes, tens of thousands marched peacefully on Saturday, and some opted for sticks and stones. But another group, the Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination, has embraced the bicycle as a symbol and medium for a new kind of environmental protest.On Wednesday morning, hundreds of bikers will swoop toward the building hosting the UN negotiations over climate change. This activist cavalry aims to divert enough police from the Bella Center to enable other protesters to successfully storm the fences cocooning negotiators and launch an alternative "people's summit" on climate change.
Tags: Year: 2009 Location: Europe Category: Protest and Persuassion Category: NonCooperation Category: NonViolent Intervention Protest and Persuassion: Declarations by organizations and institutions Protest and Persuassion: Slogans, caricatures, and symbols Protest and Persuassion: Newspapers and journals Protest and Persuassion: Records, radio, and television Protest and Persuassion: Group Representations Protest and Persuassion: Group lobbying Protest and Persuassion: Symbolic Public Acts Protest and Persuassion: Drama and Music Protest and Persuassion: Humorous skits and pranks Protest and Persuassion: Performances of plays and music Protest and Persuassion: Singing Protest and Persuassion: Protest meetings Methods of NonCooperation: Protest strike NonViolent Intervention: Nonviolent interjection NonViolent Intervention: Nonviolent obstruction Video: Has Video
Song and Walk for Aung San Suu Kyi
Song and Walk for Aung San Suu Kyi
Burmese opposition leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi has been awarded the 2009 Amnesty International Ambassador of Conscience award. The announcement was made by Irish rock band U2 in Dublin on Monday night.U2's lead singer Bono announced Daw Aung San Suu Kyi's award before the band performed the song 'Walk On', which they have dedicated to her on every night of their '360 Degrees' tour.
Tags: Year: 2009 Location: Europe Category: Protest and Persuassion Protest and Persuassion: Public Speeches Protest and Persuassion: Communications with a Wider Audience Protest and Persuassion: Records, radio, and television Protest and Persuassion: Mock awards Protest and Persuassion: Symbolic Public Acts Protest and Persuassion: Displays of portraits Protest and Persuassion: Drama and Music Protest and Persuassion: Performances of plays and music Video: Has Video

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Musicians Who Poked at the Iron Curtain » Guitars, keyboards and drums did not topple the Berlin Wall. But for the young people who helped bring down Communist regimes across Eastern Europe in the fall of 1989, pop music was a profoundly subversive force, inspiration and vital tool of protest for challenging and undermining a totalitarian state stricter than any parent.The latest on the arts, coverage of live events, critical reviews, multimedia extravaganzas and much more. Now middle aged, some of the musicians who played in ostracism ...
Thailand's "red shirts" rally again in Bangkok » BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thousands of "red shirt" supporters of ousted Thai prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra rallied in Bangkok on Saturday in their biggest protest since violent street clashes two months ago.The United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD), better known as the "red shirts," gathered in the capital to demand that Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva dissolve parliament and call an election. Six hundred police were on duty and hundreds more on standby at Sanam Luang, a public sq...
Fathers defiant over arrests » Members of Fathers 4 Justice (F4J) say they are prepared to spend time behind bars as their national campaign of civil disruption enters its second week. About 40 members of the fathers' rights group met in Shropshire over the weekend to organise their next series of protests. They warned members that prison was a reality and planned action on major travel routes, including airports, motorways and ports, if the leaders are arrested.
Bread & Roses: The Strike Led and Won by Women » Jan. 12 was the anniversary of the start of the 1912 Bread and Roses strike--one of the most significant struggles in the history of the U.S. working class--in Lawrence, Mass. A new state law had reduced the work week from 56 to 54 hours. A small gain for workers? Sounds like it. But of course the bosses found a way to gain the advantage. They speeded up the looms and cut the average measly wage of $6 a week--a last straw for workers living on the edge...
Tens of thousands call for removal of Serbia's leader » Tens of thousands of demonstrators crowded downtown streets today calling for the resignation of Serbia's President as the first effects of United Nations sanctions were being felt. The President, Slobodan Milosevic, criticized the sanctions imposed on Saturday, saying Serbia was not responsible for the fighting in Bosnia and Herzegovina, which continued today. "This is the price we have to pay for supporting Serbs outside Serbia," Mr. Milosevic said early this morning afte...
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...
Necessary Gesture Or Bad Decision? U.S. Cuts Funds To Iran Rights Group » WASHINGTON -- The Iran Human Rights Documentation Center specializes in collecting data on human rights abuses that it says the government of Iran has been perpetrating against its own people, ranging from unlawful detentions to torture to assassinations. In the past five years, the group has received about $3 million from the State Department's U.S. Agency for International Development, or USAID. Rene Redman, the group's executive director, reportedly was ready to ask for $2 million more for th...
Mothers Arrested Before Opposition Rally in Iran » Ahead of a planned opposition rally on Monday, Iran tightened security and arrested over 20 mothers who were mourning children killed in the unrest that has broken out since the disputed June 12 elections.The mothers took part in an antigovernment protest in Leleh Park in central Tehran every Saturday since the death in June of Neda Agha-Soltan, 26, whose shooting became a symbol of the government’s violent repression. The rally had been attacked by the police before, but Saturday was the first ...
Sri Lankans Protest at UN Human Rights Office » Hundreds of Sri Lankan demonstrators have broken through a police barricade at the United Nations offices in Colombo while protesting against the U.N. investigation of alleged war crimes during Sri Lanka's civil war.The protesters, led by Housing Minister Wimal Weerawanasa, surrounded the U.N. offices Tuesday and blocked the building's entrances and exits.  Police briefly clashed with some of the demonstrators as authorities tried to allow U.N. staff to leave.  U.N. spokesman Farhan Ha...
1968: Londonderry march ends in violence » Police have used batons and water cannon to break up a civil rights march in Londonderry, Northern Ireland. At least 30 people, including MP Gerard Fitt and some children, have been injured. Reports say police tried to disperse the protesters by using their batons indiscriminately and spraying water from hoses on armoured trucks. The demonstrators retaliated with petrol bombs.