A Beautiful Timeline Visualisation: TimelineJS by VéritéCo. Montréal : les casseroles grondent. About - Active Citizen. What is Active Citizen?
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Montreal tuition protesters defy law and clash with police - Montreal. About 300 people were arrested and 20 were injured during overnight protests in Montreal in defiance of Quebec's contentious Bill 78, which cracks down on student-stoked demonstrations sparked by the province's proposed tuition hikes.
Ten police officers and 10 civilians suffered minor injuries in the latest protest. Occupy, Los Indignados: towards radicalization? The polarisation that can be observed in recent elections in 2012, notably in Greece and in France for the first round of the Presidential elections, appears to also take place within some of the current Opposition Movements existing outside the classical party system.
Occupy Galway protest camp is being removed by gardaí. Migs. Shareholders protest at Barclays AGM: live. 5.21pm: So I'm hearing that as well as F&C the likes of M&G, the fund management arm of Prudential, and Fidelity voted against the pay plans.
And here's some reaction from Pirc, the investor advisory body. Alan MacDougall, managing director of Pirc , said: "This vote is humiliating for Barclays and will cement its reputation as a bank that just doesn't get it when it comes to concerns about excessive pay at the top. " "The government has proposed that in future companies that experience a 25% or greater vote against their remuneration report should issue a statement to the market setting out how they intend to specifically address shareholder concerns. Now that Barclays has seen the level of shareholder dissent it should do the right thing and issue such a statement setting out a specific response as quickly as possible. " To put today's results in context, Pirc estimates that the average vote against a remuneration report in the All-Share in 2011 was approximately 6%.
New Opposition Nexus. Since December 2010 with the “Arab Spring,” the world has become dimly aware that protests and demonstrations are now a common, everyday reality in many countries, even if this fact still tends to be very much downplayed.
Earlier (weak?) Signals could be found with the French 2005 riots and 2006 students’ protests, with the 2007-2008 food riots, as well as with violence in Greece during the winter 2008-2009. Fifteen countries, mainly in Asia and Africa were hit by the food riots.
A few thoughts regarding #OccupyWallStreet. OWS GUT CHECK. Hey you nimble dreamers, believers and jammer tacticians out there, Our movement has reemerged from winter hibernation to find that this spring we are different but so too is the political and tactical situation. Occupy now faces a series of existential challenges that will define the month of May and set the tone for our long-term future. #1 challenge: Jump over the corporate media. Occupy Wall Street Plans Global Disruption of Status Quo May 1. Occupy Wall Street demonstrators, whose anti-greed message spread worldwide during an eight-week encampment in Lower Manhattan last year, plan marches across the globe today calling attention to what they say are abuses of power and wealth.
Organizers say they hope the coordinated events will mark a spring resurgence of the movement after a quiet winter. Calls for a general strike with no work, no school, no banking and no shopping have sprung up on websites in Toronto, Barcelona, London, Kuala Lumpur and Sydney, among hundreds of cities in North America, Europe and Asia. An Open Letter to Our Comrades. From 3 anonymous OWS Occupiers in Chicago: On the eve of the feast of the cabal of hypocrites, otherwise referred to as the 2012 NATO Summit, the people of Chicago have undergone a grave injustice at the hands of the violent police state.
The Chicago Police's actions today, May 19th, were a brutally violent attack on our bodies and on our rights. An absurdly large police force was deployed in order to intimidate and provoke a peaceable assembly, and resulted in unbridled, militaristic attacks on activists demonstrating against NATO, inflicting several serious injuries - including broken noses, bloodied eyes, and a particularly sickening incident in which a dedicated comrade was belligerently run down by a police van. This national convergence represents an incredible and unique opportunity to bring together a diverse spectrum of activists in a unified front of resistance unlike any other seen in over a decade. May Day – a day for all. May Day Declaration of Solidarity. Real Democracy Now: global map – date as on map. The Road to May 12th. Posted 1 year ago on May 4, 2012, 11:56 p.m.
EST by OccupyWallSt ¨You can cut all the flowers, but you cannot stop the coming of Spring.¨ –Pablo Neruda via May12.net: Twitter. Bruselas 12M. 19 June #globalrevolution: noise or weak signal? Designers and graphists support the Global Revolution @ Voces con futura.
(2) #12M15M - Let’s take the streets on May 12th. We are the 99% Global Nonviolent Action Database.
Quebec Government Passes Law to Restrain Protests. Protect Dublin Bay No Oil Rigs on Our Coast. Dublin - Event NoticeSunday April 29 201212:00 PM Protect Dublin Bay – No Oil Rigs on Our Coast.
Protest this Sun 12 midday – Meet at Seafront Entrance to People’s Park Dun Laoghaire.Tony O Reilly’s Providence Resources wants to drill for oil in Dublin Bay just 6km off the coast of Dalkey Island.