Favorite For two months now, the animosity between right-wing activists and left-wing antifascists, which regularly leads to violence at street protests, has played out in a setting where physical combat is not allowed: the Los Angeles Superior Court in Torrance, California. The legal battle began on September 3 when Adam Kiefer, a far-right activist, obtained…
Favorite Jeremy Scahill describes the extraordinary scene from the middle of the Women’s March on Washington. “This is a good indication of the kind of resistance that we’re going to see going forward,” he says. (Video by Cameron Hickey; Edited by Lauren Feeney.) Hours before the Women’s March program was set to start on…
Favorite On October 22, just before dawn, hundreds of people, including many families, gathered and prepared to march toward the Dakota Access pipeline construction site near Standing Rock, North Dakota. Native American organizers lit sage and prayed for protection from police brutality before setting off on the 8-mile trek. Many in the crowd were emotional…
Favorite Last Updated | 5:34 p.m. Viewed through the eyes of those skeptical of the Charlotte police, video recorded by Keith Scott’s wife, Rakeyia, released to the media on Friday, seems to contradict the official claim that a gun was found on the pavement near his feet after he was shot and killed by an…
Favorite Hashtag activism has its limits, and most social-media reaction stories are predictable and boring, but the discussion of Colin Kaepernick’s “Star-Spangled Banner” protest taking place in #VeteransForKaepernick threads on Twitter and Facebook right now is more varied and interesting than almost all of the commentary on the subject cramming the airwaves. Dear America stop…
Favorite Na terça-feira à noite, um juiz federal do Rio de Janeiro concedeu uma liminar impedindo que a polícia removesse espectadores de estádios olímpicos por simplesmente protestar contra o impopular presidente Michel Temer, seja vestindo camisetas, empunhando cartazes ou cantando palavras de ordem contra o interino. Conforme informado pela Folha de S. Paulo, o juiz…
Favorite A federal judge in Rio de Janeiro issued an injunction late Tuesday night barring the police from ejecting spectators from Olympic venues simply for protesting against Brazil’s unpopular interim president, Michel Temer, by wearing T-shirts, waving signs or chanting slogans against him. As Folha de S. Paulo reported, Judge João Augusto Carneiro Araújo ruled…
Favorite Photographs and video of heavily armed police officers wearing body armor and helmets arresting protesters in Baton Rouge over the weekend reverberated on social networks and in the world’s media, focusing new attention on the militarization of police forces across the United States. The image that drew the most comment, taken by Jonathan Bachman…
Favorite Egyptian newspapers, including the state-owned daily Al Ahram, have escalated a showdown with their government by adding the slogan “journalism is not a crime” to their websites and printing photo-negative images of the interior minister to protest the arrest of two journalists in a police raid on the press union headquarters in Cairo earlier…
Favorite THROWN INTO DISARRAY by a Panama Papers scandal, Iceland’s coalition government appointed a new prime minister on Thursday, refusing to call early elections to resolve a crisis in public confidence brought about by the revelation that three senior ministers had secret offshore accounts. Opinion polls suggest that the government would be trounced in any immediate…
