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If you do not work, or you are unable to join a demonstration or march, do what i am going to do, telephone call centers and businesses and tell the person who answers to get the hell out of there and go the hell on strike already! Tell them to take their friends with them!
If many, many people do this, the event is likely to have an increased impact, with the bombardment of the individual worker with repeated messages from their fellow humans to respect this action.
Give them no rest until the lines go unanswered!!
More Than 100 people Detained In Opposition Rally In Moscow
More than 100 people were detained in Moscow on Sunday after taking part in a protest against state television programming, police said.
Two of those held were Sergei Udaltsov, leader of a leftist radical group; and Boris Nemtsov, a leading opposition figure, according to the official RIA-Novosti news agency. Both were released later Sunday, their lawyers told the state-run Itar-Tass news agency.
The arrests occurred after about 400 people gathered at the Ostankino TV Center to protest the airing of a documentary series on state TV channel NTV about opposition rallies against the results of the country’s parliamentary elections in December. The series has been described as “propaganda material against the opposition,” Itar-Tass reported.
Protesters called the “Protest Anatomy” program “insolent lies and provocation,” according to RIA Novosti, and chanted slogans against Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Police told state media that the activists were arrested Sunday because the protest was unauthorized.
Anti-Police Brutality Protest Results In About 150 Arrests
Police have arrested about 150 demonstrators at the annual anti-police brutality march Thursday in Montreal, Canada.
According to police estimates, between 4,000 to 5,000 marchers took off with the crowd at around 6 p.m in the initially fast-paced march (usually a sign that anarchist are leading the protest).
Protesters lobbed objects at officers, vandalized some stores and smashed two police vehicles. Authorities responded by firing off chemical irritants into the crowd.
Occupy Londers were evicted from their encampment around St. Paul’s Cathedral overnight. Bailiffs and policeman worked to evict the protesters, who were not violent in their resistance. About 20 Occupiers were arrested and the police remove tents, threw them away and crushed them as protesters looked on.
Above: An Occupy London demonstrator holds a laptop with a sign on it: “They know not what they do.” Matthew Lloyd/Getty. Via.
If you were at Occupy London and took photographs, please send them my way so I can include them in my Occupy web documentary.
(Source: msnbc.com)
One of the world’s largest ever strikes began at midnight on Monday 27th Feb and will end at midnight tonight. Up to 100,000,000 Indian workers from different sectors and industries are calling for a national minimum wage, permanent jobs, and much more.
(via stfuconservatives)
Picture of the Day. Athens, Greece. A policeman protests in front of parliament. Yes, you read that right. Some police have joined anti-austerity protests today. About 100 uniformed police, coast guard and firemen demonstrated against paycuts.
Read: “Yet More Drama for Greece’s Debt Deal” over at the indispensable Brussels Blog on the Financial Times website.
Photo Credit: Orestis Panagiotou/EPA. Via.
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A peaceful protest against budget cuts in education in Valencia, Spain on Tuesday ended in bloody police repression. Conjuring up memories of Franco’s brutal dictatorship, squads of riot police violently assaulted a group of some 300 students, arresting at least 26 and leaving scores injured. YouTube footage displayed a policeman forcefully pushing two girls onto a car, while photos emerged of young kids with bloodied faces surrounded by riot police.
While the regional police chief branded the students “as the enemy” and insisted that riot police had merely deployed “proportioned physical force”, reporters on the scene confirmed that the baton-wielding police forces had even fired rubber bullets at the students. Despite the Spanish newspaper El Publico reporting “brutal police aggression”, hundreds of students took back to the streets in the evening and encircled the University of Valencia in protest.
Tuesday’s demonstrations, which come a day after over a million Spaniards took to the streets to contest the governments’s labor reforms, marked the fourth straight day of student protests in Spain’s third largest city. Valencia is one of the most heavily hit region’s in Spain’s crippling debt crisis, and with the newly-appointed Rajoy government pushing through even more harsh austerity measures, budget cuts have left most schools without heating.
Watch the video. Trigger Warning: Police Brutality
(Source: domesticterrorism)
The elderly man being attacked by an Athens (Greece) cop in this photo is not a member of the black bloc or a nobody. It is Manolis Glezos, the Greek national hero who, on the 30th of May 1941 tore down the swastika flag from the Acropolis, an act for which he suffered torture and imprisonment. It was the first public act of the Resistance in Greece, only a month after the Nazi take-over.
Who would have dreamed that seventy years later, a dirty coward wearing a uniform serving the capitalists that do not even deserve to wipe the soles of his feet has the gall to touch/assault him?
(via occupyallstreets)
