Encountering Tear Gas & Pepper Spray | Protection at Protests. Follow: #AlexNeeds for supplies | List of needs | #FF @AlexSuppliesIncluding continuous updates for protesters and emergency requests, collecting points for medical supplies. Any help to spread the manual 1st aid is appreciated The article of democrati.net in the link is being updated round the clock as events progress. Please visit the weblog/article again! Article by @AmrBassiouny his post goes through how to prepare and protect yourself from attacks by the Central Security Forces (CSF) and the Military forces, as each uses different weapons and strategies. Chemical weaponry was first used in the United States in the Civil War at the siege of Charleston. Wood was saturated with sulphur and burned under the parapets around the city hoping that favorable winds would propel huge clouds of choking smoke to drive out the defenders.
French law enforcement is reputed to have been the first police organization to have used a chemical lachrymator (tear-producing) in a hand-thrown device. 1. 2. Marokkaans protest krijgt Nederlandse tak - Nederland. Majda Ouhajji − 12/11/11, 12:55 © ap. De Marokkaanse koning Mohammed VI tijdens een ceremonie in zijn paleis in Tetouan. De Marokkaanse hervormingsbeweging '20 februari' heeft nu ook een Nederlandse afdeling. Een van de oprichters is voormalig GroenLinks-politicus Mohamed Rabbae. © epa. Demonstraties op 20 februari in Rabat. © epa. Gisteren lichtte hij tijdens een persconferentie in Den Haag toe dat de beweging vanuit Nederland de roep om meer democratie voor de Marokkanen wil ondersteunen. Koning heeft touwtjes in handenDe beweging heet naar de dag waarop dit jaar tienduizenden Marokkanen de straat op gingen, aangestoken door de Arabische Lente. De Marokkanen hebben vrijheid van meningsuiting en persvrijheid, maar ook dat is volgens '20 februari' schone schijn.
De organisatie heeft niets tegen de monarchie op zich, zei Rabbae, maar wil scheiding van de drie machten. Meer democratieMoeniem Moessaoui, lid van de Marokkaanse beweging in Nederland, zei: "We gaan door met onze strijd. RAP NEWS 7: #Revolution spreads to America (#OccupyWallSt) - w Pilger, Mahfouz & Glenn Beck. The Globalization of Protest - Joseph E. Stiglitz. NEW YORK – The protest movement that began in Tunisia in January, subsequently spreading to Egypt, and then to Spain, has now become global, with the protests engulfing Wall Street and cities across America.
Globalization and modern technology now enables social movements to transcend borders as rapidly as ideas can. And social protest has found fertile ground everywhere: a sense that the “system” has failed, and the conviction that even in a democracy, the electoral process will not set things right – at least not without strong pressure from the street. In May, I went to the site of the Tunisian protests; in July, I talked to Spain’s indignados; from there, I went to meet the young Egyptian revolutionaries in Cairo’s Tahrir Square; and, a few weeks ago, I talked with Occupy Wall Street protesters in New York.
There is a common theme, expressed by the OWS movement in a simple phrase: “We are the 99%.” This is not to deny that some of the 1% have contributed a great deal. Guerrilla gardeners planten Palestijnse olijfbomen | IPS. The Revolution Will Not Be Televised. One World One Revolution. World R-love-ution - 11.11.11. Another world is possible. Blogger David Dayen at Firedoglake hit the nail on the head last week: "The Occupy Wall Street protesters have done more to change the political dynamic in the country in a month than national Democrats have done in 30 years.
" If only the national Democrats had the wits or heart to notice or care. Yes, Obama has changed his tune and is pushing hard on his new-found jobs agenda. But it's ultimately as superficial and opportunistic as his entire 2008 campaign turned out to be, given how disconnected it remains from the rest of his overall neo-liberal agenda. Above all, his long-term welfare state slashing priorities remain completely intact, along with the monstrously anti-democratic deficit super-committee and its mandated appetite for destruction. It's little wonder that a poll of Occupy Wall Street participants found relatively low support for Obama's re-election, compared with those who voted for him in 2008. Yet little has changed inside the Beltway. Another world is possible.