Al Gore has sought to inject fresh momentum into the Copenhagen build-up, saying he is certain Barack Obama will attend and predicting a rise in civil disobedience against fossil-fuel polluters unless drastic action is taken over global warming.
LASHKAR GAH, Afghanistan - Angry Afghan villagers
protested Thursday against what they said was the killing of 11
civilians by foreign troops, but local authorities said only fighters
were killed.
The NATO-led force said it had fired a rocket from the ground at a
group it believed to be planting a roadside bomb in Babaji in Helmand
province. It said it was not aware of any civilians in the area and was
investigating the incident.
TEHRAN - Police clashed with supporters of Iran's opposition leader Mirhossein Mousavi in Tehran on Wednesday when a rally marking the 30th anniversary of the storming of the U.S. embassy turned violent.
Reformist website Mowjcamp said police opened fire on protesters at Haft-e Tir square, but there was no independent confirmation of the report. "Some people were injured," Mowjcamp said, reporting other protests in the cities of Shiraz and Rasht.
The occasional sign at an antiwar demonstration used to ask, "What if they had a war and nobody came?" Unfortunately, right now the question is more like "What do we do when they have an antiwar demonstration and nobody comes?" While I can't readily come up with a satisfying answer to that one, I thought it might at least be a useful first step to find out why they're not coming.
BREAKING NEWS: The Coalfield Uprising is spreading across the nation.
As millions of pounds of explosions rip across their mountain
communities, including the clean energy landmark of Coal River
Mountain, scores of residents from the Appalachian coalfields have
joined with supporters from across the country in a series of sit-ins,
die-ins, protests, and a haunting "Day of the Dead" funeral procession
and sit-in in the courtyard of the Washington, DC headquarters of the
Environmental Protection Agency.
At least three doctors will be risking arrest in civil disobedience actions during Mobilization for Healthcare for All's
third wave of actions this week, which are being held to demand an end
to insurance abuse and to demand real health care reform for all.
Personal details about thousands of people - said to include those only suspected of minor public order offences such as peaceful direct action and civil disobedience - are being compiled on a database run by the National Public Order Intelligence Unit (NPOIU).
The data includes pictures of people taken demonstrations and other observations made by police on the scene, such as vehicle registration numbers. These enable cars to be tracked using automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) cameras.
MONTREAL — As George W. Bush cracked jokes with a
business crowd inside a hotel ballroom Thursday, hundreds of people
outside the building cheered while he was being burned in effigy.
Police in riot gear and others on horseback held back a crowd of
hundreds, including many people who tossed shoes at Montreal's historic
Queen Elizabeth Hotel in a demonstration of disdain for the man
speaking inside.
Two protesters who tried forcing their way through the line of
shield- and baton-carrying police were wrestled to the ground and
arrested.
A massive rally in Chicago next week aims to express public displeasure with the massive bank bailout outside the American Bank Association annual meeting. Protesters will converge at 11:30 on Monday, October 26, at 301 North Water Street, where the meeting is taking place.
ENGLAND -- There was no mistaking the target: the eight huge
cooling towers at Ratcliffe-on-Soar power station, sending plumes of
steam high into the watery blue sky of the English Midlands.
Instead
the question in the minds of an estimated 1,000 protestors gathered in
the surrounding woods and scrubland was how could they get in and shut
it down.
