The American Spring: A Time for Occupy To Blossom
By Kevin Zeese 16 March, 2012 http://www.countercurrents.org/zeese160312.htm National Occupation of Washington, DC Will Bring Occupiers Together to Share Experiences, Educate Each Other and Build an Independent Movement to Shift Power from Concentrated Wealth….
Saudis Hold Demonstrations Over Regime Killing
PressTV, 01-14-2012 http://www.presstv.ir/detail/220929.html Anti-government demonstrators in Saudi Arabia have taken to the streets in the country’s oil-rich Eastern Province to protest the killing of a young activist by security forces during a demonstration…
Occupy Wall Street Makes Official Call To Amend Constitution
By Nike Sachs Posted: 1/6/12 12:43 PM ET http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/06/citizens-united-constitutional-amendment-occupy-wall-street_n_1189373.html Efforts to amend the Constitution to declare that corporations are not people and money is not speech gained support in two notable New York…
French ex-President Jacques Chirac Guilty of Corruption
BBC News, Dec. 15, 2011 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-16194089 Mr Chirac did not attend the trial because he suffers from memory lapses A French court has given former President Jacques Chirac a two-year suspended prison sentence…
Occupy Plans to Shut Down US West Coast Ports
Action relates to union battle over Longview terminal – though union itself has disowned the planned shutdown By Adam Gabbatt 9 December 2011 19.41 EST http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/dec/10/occupy-shutdown-west-coast-ports The Occupy movement will attempt to shut down all…
Russia’s Anti-Putin Protests Grow
Russia’s anti-Putin protests grow Tens of thousands say they are prepared to take to the streets in the biggest challenge yet to the country’s government By Miriam Elder Wednesday 7 December 2011 15.03…
China Factory Unrest Flares as Global Economy Slows
James Pomfret, Reuters, 11-25-2011 http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/11/25/us-china-factory-strikes-idUSTRE7AO04C20111125 DONGGUAN, China – In factory towns across China’s export powerhouse in the Pearl River Delta, a vicious cycle of slowing orders from the West and increasing wage pressures…
Colombians Protest at FARC Executions, Call for Peace
Helen Murphy, Reuters, 12-6-2011 http://news.yahoo.com/colombians-protest-farc-executions-call-peace-182229366.html BOGOTA (Reuters) – Outraged by the execution of four captives by FARC rebels, tens of thousands of Colombians protested across the nation on Tuesday to demand an end…
Thank You, Moscow. Time to Set the Agenda
By Steve Beckow http://the2012scenario.com/2011/12/thank-you-moscow-time-to-set-the-agenda/ I suppose I write this to the 99% around the globe. What Muscovites are showing us is, I think, the next step for the Occupy Movement. The people of…
Peru Mining Protests: State Of Emergency Declared by President Ollanta Humala
Franklin Briceno, AP, 12-5-11 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/05/peru-mining-protests-state-of-emergency_n_1128729.html LIMA, Peru — President Ollanta Humala declared a 60-day state of emergency Sunday to quell increasingly violent protests over the country’s biggest investment, a highlands gold mine, by…
