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Tools to Expose Big Oil’s Influence on Our Political System
You can use Oil Change USA‘s tools to educate, activate and engage people coming to your website and blog by: launching an email campaign that links our tool to your recipients, telling them exactly
Read More »Groups protest DNA collection law
By Laura Smitherman | The Legislative Black Caucus and civil rights activists criticized yesterday Gov. Martin O’Malley‘s plan for implementing a new program for collecting DNA samples from crime suspects, accusing the administration of
Read More »France marches online to protest ‘security’ database
Personal privacy is, of course, a major issue these days, particularly when it comes to authorities gathering data in schemes such as the UK’s proposed identity card program or France’s Edvidge electronic database. Edvidge,
Read More »10 Ways to Reduce Plastic Consumption
By Neil McLaughlin | By now you have likely heard of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a tragic byproduct of the plastics industry and consumerism that is an island of garbage floating in the
Read More »Police block anti-war march to GOP convention
Several people who refused to clear the area Thursday were arrested after a planned, anti-war march to the site of the Republican National Convention became a sit-in after police blocked the protest route. Hundreds
Read More »RNC protesters charged with terrorist offences
RNC 8 Charged with “Conspiracy to Riot in Furtherance of Terrorism” In what appears to be the first use of criminal charges under the 2002 Minnesota version of the Federal Patriot Act, Ramsey County
Read More »Amy Goodman: Why We Were Falsely Arrested
By Amy Goodman | ST. PAUL, Minn.—Government crackdowns on journalists are a true threat to democracy. As the Republican National Convention meets in St. Paul, Minn., this week, police are systematically targeting journalists. I
Read More »Counterattacking Army recruiting
By Mitch Weiss | Sally Ferrell bounded from the truck and grabbed a posterboard sign that read: “War is not the Answer.” Over the years, she’s organized dozens of peace vigils like this one
Read More »RNC Raids Have Been Targeting Video Activists
By Liliana Segura | In the run-up to the Republican convention, Minnesota police launched a series of preemptive raids to intimidate protesters and quash dissent. “St. Paul is a free country!” cried a resident
Read More »Protesters denied access to attorneys, forced to march in leg shackles, ACLU charges
By John Byrne | The ACLU issued a stinging rebuke to the Denver Police Department Wednesday, alleging that the department may have violated laws and constitutional rights of protesters arrested outside the Democratic National
Read More »3,000 Vets, War Protesters Hand-Deliver Their Message
By Patti Thorn | DNEVER – “Follow Us. Welcome to Denver,” read the electronic sign on the police vehicle. And with that conciliatory gesture, an unpermitted march for peace was allowed to proceed Wednesday
Read More »Two arrested in DNC protests
By Sue Lindsay | The first session of DNC Court was convened at 4:15 today in Denver County Court. Four people appeared, but only two had been arrested in relation to convention protests. The court
Read More »Man Selling Anti-War Shirts Wins Ruling
PHOENIX – A federal judge on Wednesday permanently barred Arizona from using a state law to prosecute an online merchant who sells shirts that list names of thousands of troops killed in Iraq. U.S.
Read More »London tube workers hit back at profiteers
Socialist Worker | The threat to strike by 1,000 workers at the Tube Lines consortium on the London Underground over pay and conditions this week has won a new offer from bosses as Socialist
Read More »Elderly women sent to labour camp over homes protest
Two elderly Chinese women who applied during the Olympic Games to protest over the loss of their homes have been ordered to spend a year in a labour camp, a relative said, while police
Read More »DENVER PLANS ITS OWN GITMO FOR PROTESTERS
DENVER (CBS4) ― CBS4 News has learned if mass arrests happen at the Democratic Convention, those taken into custody will be jailed in a warehouse owned by the City of Denver. Investigator Rick Sallinger
Read More »India to examine protest deaths
By Ram Dutt Tripathi | The government of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh has ordered an inquiry into the deaths of four farmers during clashes with the police on Wednesday. The clashes –
Read More »Antiwar activists seek expanded police probe
Tom LoBianco | Antiwar activists who were targeted by an undercover state police operation from 2005 to 2006 will ask state investigators Tuesday to expand their probe to learn whether other law enforcement agencies
Read More »Indian police shoot dead Kashmir demonstrators
By Rahul Bedi in New Delhi | The violence followed a simmering row over the transfer of land to a Hindu organisation in the country’s sole Muslim-majority province. Police and military personnel enforced a
Read More »Climate activists vow to stay at camp
guardian.co.uk | Climate change campaigners pledged today to set up a permanent protest camp at Kingsnorth, near Rochester in Kent, if the government allows a large new coal-fired power station to be built there. Their
Read More »Climate protesters arrested after gluing themselves to bank
guardian.co.uk | Two environmental activists who glued themselves to the front doors of a bank in London today have been arrested for a breach of the peace, police said. A group of four protesters calling
Read More »Peaceful Protesters Become Terrorists in a Federal Database
By Patty Donovan | According to documents released on Thursday, July 17, 2008, undercover state troopers in Maryland infiltrated at least three groups peacefully protesting the death penalty and advocating peace. These troopers illegally
Read More »US, UK activists protest under Olympic spotlight
BEIJING (AP) – Activists from the U.S. and U.K. unfurled pro-Tibet banners and spoke out against China’s rights record in Tiananmen Square on Wednesday in the first attempts by foreigners in the Chinese capital
Read More »Climate change protesters deny they are armed
guardian.co.uk | Climate change protesters today accused police of conducting a smear campaign after officers said they had recovered knives and makeshift weapons during searches of the protest camp at Kingsnorth power station in Kent.
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