Tagged: Movements & Protests
Ten activists who took part in a nonviolent civil disobedience protest in Lower Manhattan ahead of the UN Climate Summit last September stood trial this week for disobeying a lawful order. They were found...
About 8,000 Californians took to the streets of Oakland on Saturday calling on Governor Jerry Brown to follow the lead of New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and issue a statewide ban on fracking. Fracking,...
A nationwide general strike against austerity measures proposed by a newly-formed coalition government paralyzed Belgium today. Aris Oikonomou reports from Brussels. Download Audio Monday’s national strike was the largest Belgium had seen in decades....
Download Audio Demonstrations demanding racial justice and police accountability continued across the U.S. this week. The nationwide uprisings come after two grand juries did not return charges against white police officers responsible for the...
Over the weekend, nationwide protests continued in reaction to a Staten Island grand jury decision not to bring charges against the NYPD officer who killed Eric Garner by putting him in a banned chokehold....
A new wave of protests erupted in Mexico after the country’s attorney general announced Friday afternoon that the 43 students who went missing in late September are most likely dead. Parents of the students...
A battle over affordable housing in London drew to a close this week when a group of young mothers who had occupied a section of empty public housing left the building after signing an...
In Mexico, 43 students from a teachers’ college are still missing after a double ambush by local police and armed men in the small city of Iguala. Many of the students were last seen...
Massive pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong turned violent Friday. Samuel Chu updated Nell Abram on the situation on the ground Friday and shared these photos. Hear the update and click on any thumbnail image...
Massive pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong turned violent Friday. The student-led protests began last week, triggered by Chinese authorities’ announcement that only approved candidates would be placed on the ballot in the region’s 2017...