Dozens of Libyans yesterday demonstrated in front of the banks, expressing their anger against the eastern Libya government led by the retired Major General Khalifa Haftar following a recent delay in the disbursement of their salaries. The protests were reported to have taken place in Libya’s eastern city of Al-Bayda where Haftar’s government is headquartered. The protesters burned tyres, insulted officials and said they would not […]
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mentions Inside this detention center, immigrants are on hunger strike because it’s the only tool they have to push for release, before it’s too late. We’re outside making as much noise as we can. We want the people inside to know they’re not alone, & we need to hear us! Source
Amid Protests And Crises, Lebanon Defaults On Eurobond By Jean Shaoul, Wsws.org March 20, 2020 Amid Protests And Crises, Lebanon Defaults On Eurobond2020-03-202020-03-20https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/03/6309941378_d0a8ffd9f8_o.jpg200px200px Above Photo: quapan/Flickr Lebanon defaulted Monday on a $1.2 billion Eurobond. The decision by the government of Prime Minister Hassan Diab not to meet the payment comes amid a spiralling financial and economic crisis, protests, increasing poverty and other signs of social disintegration within the […]
New Wave Of Protests Sweeping Across Chile By Betsey Piette, Workers.org. March 15, 2020 New Wave Of Protests Sweeping Across Chile2020-03-152020-03-15https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/03/fd529dff8b224ac287c93e03c5a06927_18-e1584284925772.jpg200px200px Above photo: Women demonstrate during a march on International Women’s Day in Santiago [Martin Bernetti/AFP] Chile has witnessed a week of renewed protests demanding the resignation of billionaire President Sebastián Piñera and calling for a Peoples’ Convention to scrap former dictator Augusto Pinochet’s 1980 neoliberal laws, […]
Iraqi social media activists and bloggers have called to temporarily halt the protest movement taking place in the squares and fields in Baghdad and in central and southern cities, in order to diminish the spread of the coronavirus, following the announcement of the deaths of eight people in the country. These calls come after the Iraqi authorities decided to close celebration halls, cafés and restaurants, to […]
Israel lodged an official protest with Russia yesterday after Russian Foreign Minister, Sergey Lavrov, hosted a delegation from the Palestinian Islamic Jihad movement in Moscow. The Israeli TV Channel 13 quoted a high-ranking official in the Israeli foreign ministry as saying that the Israeli interim Ambassador to Russia, Eli Belotserkovsky, has visited the Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov and registered Tel Aviv’s protest over the […]
Just two days before Thanksgiving, the nearly 100 elderly residents of Brookdale San Pablo received an unfortunate holiday notice – they were going to be evicted. Brookdale, which operates around 800 senior living facilities across the United States, had decided not to renew the lease of their San Pablo location, which expired in January — leaving tenants scrambling in the midst of California’s affordable housing crisis. […]
Police in Raleigh, North Carolina have released body-cam footage of a police-involved shooting that sent protesters into the streets earlier this week amid rumors that a “little boy” had been gunned down. In multiple YouTube videos posted Wednesday, Raleigh Police walked through the entirety of the foot chase and eventual shooting of 26-year-old Javier Torres. The department released the footage after pleading with residents “not to […]
Chile: Despite Harsh Repression Of Thousands In Dignity Square Protestors Prevail By Carlos Aznárez and Maria Torrellas, Resumen-english.org March 10, 2020 Chile: Despite Harsh Repression Of Thousands In Dignity Square Protestors Prevail2020-03-102020-03-10https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/03/3-9-chile.jpg200px200px Above Photo: From Resumen-english.org Neither the carabineros with their usual violent repression, nor Piñera, the dictator-puppet of US policies for the continent, nor even the hegemonic media with their lies or concealment of what is really […]
A “Twitter Storm” has been launched by a Palestinian rights organisation in response to the International Criminal Court’s decision to delay the investigation into Israel’s human rights violations and war crimes in the occupied West Bank. Despite having found a reasonable basis to mount an investigation of “the situation in Palestine,” after a five-year preliminary examination, the ICC has decided to hear briefs submitted by numerous […]
At a concert in Miami on Monday, Billie Eilish surprised her fans with a spoken word interlude. The singer, for whom baggy clothes have become a calling card, took off her shirt and performed a monologue about sexism and body shaming. Fan videos from the Miami show captured Eilish’s pre-recorded spoken word video, which the singer played on a large screen. Some fans shared the full […]
Women, and some men, have marched in capitals around the globe over issues ranging from violence against women to patriarchy to climate change. Some chose topless protests, while some others got a rough response from police. Late on Sunday, activists took to the streets of Turkey’s largest city, condemning violence against women, only to be met with a violent police response. Clashes break out between police […]
Over a thousand people marched from San Francisco Chinatown to Union Square on Feb. 29 to protest the wave of racism against Chinese people in U.S. media and political circles, since the outbreak of COVID-19 in Wuhan, China. Organized by a broad coalition of Chinese-American organizations and supported by a local chapter of Veterans for Peace, the march started out in Portsmouth Square Park, then took […]
Israeli snipers who participated in the internationally-condemned crackdown on Palestinian protesters in the Gaza Strip have boasted of their actions in interviews with Haaretz. “I kept the casing of every round I fired,” said one former sniper from the Golani infantry brigade. “I have them in my room. So I don’t have to make an estimate – I know: 52 definite hits.” Asked how this compared […]
Houston, Texas — Today, a grand jury refused to issue felony indictments against the Greenpeace USA activists and others charged following the peaceful protest on September 12, 2019 at the Houston Ship Channel [1]. Thirty-one people had been charged with a felony by the Harris County District Attorney’s Office under Texas’ controversial new anti-protest law, but none were indicted on this charge by a Harris County […]
#NotAgainSU Protest Shuts Down 2 Blocks Of City Streets Near Syracuse University By Julie McMahon and Chris Libonati, Syracuse.com February 29, 2020 #NotAgainSU Protest Shuts Down 2 Blocks Of City Streets Near Syracuse University2020-02-292020-02-29https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/02/wl7pzv7zgrge7jqshpfkrcd5o4.jpg200px200px Above Photo: People gather to support suspended Syracuse University #notagainsu student protesters as they refuse to leave the Crouse Hinds Hall administration building, Tue. Feb. 18, 2020, at Syracuse University, Syracuse, N.Y. Scott […]
Palestinian protesters demonstrate against illegal Israeli settlements, in front of a checkpoint in Hebron, West Bank on February 28, 2020. ( Mamoun Wazwaz – Anadolu Agency ) Palestinian protesters demonstrate against illegal Israeli settlements, in front of a checkpoint in Hebron, West Bank on February 28, 2020. ( Mamoun Wazwaz – Anadolu Agency ) 130 injuries and suffocation cases among Palestinians were recorded on Friday, during […]
The Palestinian Doctors Association has threatened to take “unprecedented measures” and step up protests against the government, after the Supreme Court ruled to end their strike. The Supreme Court in Ramallah issued a decision to stop the medical association’s strike for the second time, after a decision was issued last week at the government’s request. “There will be unprecedented measures, and I hope that the officials […]
The widow of the late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, Safia Farkash, has sent a letter to US President Donald Trump to protest against his decision to extend sanctions on her family for another year, Russia Today reported. Trump recently sent a letter to Congress explaining that he had extended sanctions on the Gaddafi family for another year “to protect against the diversion of assets”, citing the […]
Palestinian Muslims in the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem are engaged in an initiative known as the Great Fajr (Dawn) Prayer protest in mosques across the territories. It started in the Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron, which has had a major portion cordoned off by the Israeli occupation authorities for use by illegal settlers as a synagogue, from which Palestinians are banned. The mosque is also besieged […]
Almost two dozen Palestinians have lost one or both eyes as a result of Israeli forces’ repression of Great Return March protests in the Gaza Strip, according to Israeli human rights NGO B’Tselem. Over the last two years, B’Tselem reported, 19 Palestinians have lost their vision in one eye, while at least two more have lost their vision in both eyes. Overall, “more than 200 people […]
More than 100 Chinese students at Johns Hopkins University in the US on Thursday night (US time) protested against speeches made by Hong Kong secessionists Joshua Wong Chi-fung and Nathan Law Kwun-chung. Inside and outside the speech hall, the Chinese students held banners that read “Hong Kong is part of China” and “Condemn violence” and also chanted patriotic slogans. Wong and Law were invited by the […]
US 21:39 GMT 24.02.2020Get short URL As the extradition hearing for Julian Assange began in the UK on Monday, protesters in Washington, DC, demonstrated against the WikiLeaks co-founder being charged for publishing leaked documents and brought to the US to stand trial. At Woolwich Crown Court, immediately adjacent to the southeast London jail that has held him for nearly a year, Assange’s hearing on being extradited […]
Haitian police and members of the army shot at each other for hours Sunday near the presidential palace in the capital Port-au-Prince, during a protest organized by police for better pay and conditions. Dozens of officers in uniforms marched faces covered, along with hundreds of supporters toward the palace to call for better pay and conditions, according to the Associated Press. The demonstrators stopped outside the army […]