'No One Else Is Going to Stand Up For Us': Workers Target Walmart on Black Friday. Pickets, strikes, and protests are slated to sweep across the United States on Black Friday. (Photo: TwitPic/@WorkingAmerica) This Black Friday could be Walmart's biggest yet. As the annual shopping bonanza commences, Walmart will be hit with what is likely to be the largest nation-wide strike in the company's history, as workers demand the right to organize, full employment, and a living wage of $15 an and hour—and remind shoppers and employers that many of the company's associates can't afford enough to eat this holiday season.
Pickets, strikes, and protests are slated to sweep 1,600 stores across the United States on Friday, with tens of thousands of Walmart workers and supporters pledging to take part. Some major metropolitan areas, from Chicago to Los Angeles, are expected to draw large crowds of protesters. Walk-outs and workplace actions already began earlier this week in numerous cities, including a sit-down protest at a Washington-DC store on Wednesday. Police-often-provoke-protest-violence-UC-5704918. Egypt passes law restricting public protests - Middle East. Cairo - Egypt's interim president, Adly Mansour, has signed a restrictive new "protest law" that would require Egyptians to seek approval days in advance before organising demonstrations.
The law will take effect later this week once the final text is published in the official state register. It gives police wide latitude to use force against demonstrators, which could give the government a pretext for a widespread crackdown. The law has gone through numerous revisions, but rights groups say the latest version requires protesters to seek approval from police three days in advance, and allows the interior ministry to block rallies that could "pose a serious threat to security or peace".
Election campaign events are subject to a 24-hour notification period in some drafts, and "processions" of more than 10 people are only allowed for "non-political" purposes. Violators could face fines of up to $4,360. More laws on way. Shot in the Head, for Protesting. The FBI – Drowning In Counter-Terrorism Money, Power and Other Resources – Will Apply The Term “Terrorism” To Any Group It Dislikes And Wants To Control And Suppress. Can You Take a Photograph Anywhere? Mickey H. Osterreicher is the general counsel for the National Press Photographers Association and edits the organization’s Advocacy Committee blog.
He spoke with James Estrin. Their conversation has been edited. It seems like photographing in public is becoming a crime. Literally every day, someone is being arrested for doing nothing more than taking a photograph in a public place. It makes no sense to me. Since 9/11, there’s been an incredible number of incidents where photographers are being interfered with and arrested for doing nothing other than taking pictures or recording video in public places. It’s not just news photographers who should be concerned with this. I remember it quite well, but what does that have do to with taking a picture in public? What’s caused this? It’s been a perfect storm. When did you start doing this work? Well, I was originally a still newspaper photographer for 10 years at the Buffalo Courier-Express, and they went out of business in 1982. Absolutely. Angry Chinese occupy government office, smash computers in environment protest. Ecuador: Authorities misuse judicial system to stop protests.