Factory Occupation Brings Results
An account of the December 2008 occupation of Republic Windows & Doors in Chicago. Labor battles are most often measured in months. Some, like the Congress Hotel strike in Chicago or the recently...
View ArticleUSA: Wisconsin believes in workers rights
Update: Wisconsin Police Have Joined Protest Inside State Capitol (The understory). From inside the Wisconsin State Capitol, RAN ally Ryan Harvey reports: Hundreds of cops have just marched into the...
View ArticleAn Interview With A Participant From Milwaukee
What follows is an interview with a comrade from Milwaukee, Wisconsin on the recent events in the state's Capitol, Madison, over a few hours away. Class war, don't cha know? Let's get to it. The post...
View ArticleHonduras: Police kills teacher in demonstration
.On Friday, March 18, during a protest in the capital of Honduras, Tegucigalpa, the 59-year-old teacher Ilse Ivana Velasquez died after being attacked by police officers and thugs of the right-wing...
View ArticleInternational Cry: Underreported Struggles #48, (3 important documentaries)
In this month’s Underreported Struggles: Barriere Lake Algonquins discover a Canadian mining company working on their land; Indigenous leaders blast the Bangladesh government for not recognizing the...
View ArticleUK: London, 30 of June march
Αcross the capital most schools, colleges, local authority staff and civil servants join an one day strike to warn the government and capital, to stay away from their pensions and wages. Pickets were...
View ArticleThree dead in Argentina, after police raids against indigenous squat
A week ago, approximately 500 indigenous families occupied a land that officially belongs to the company Ledesma. Ledesma is owned by the Blaquier family, an ally of the Jorge Rafael Videla’s murderous...
View ArticleChile: Massive protests in several cities
Thursday 4-8: Two student demonstrations were scheduled for this day in Santiago, starting from Plaza Italia, one at 10:30 and the other would be at 18:30. The students demanded changes in the...
View Article48-hour general strike in Chile. One dead!!!
Major clashes and sporadic looting was reported during the two-day strike declared by the Central Union of Workers (CUT). The protesters demand constitutional changes, immediate reduction of taxation...
View Article#Οccupywallstreet, Reports from New York
Reports: 21 – 09 – 2011: According to Occupy Wall St: Four people have been arrested so far (as of 1:28 PM EST) on day 5 of the Occupy Wall Street protest. The first arrest took place this morning...
View ArticleAttempted police crackdown on Wall Street
A week since the occupation started, the protests on Wall Street are only growing stronger. Several thousands marched today. The authorities went apeshit. According to Jérôme E. Roos (Roarmag.org):...
View ArticleBolivia: Police Repression of Indigenous Marchers in Yucumo
Written by Eduardo Avila (for Global Voices) It has been more than a month since a group of indigenous protesters from the Indigenous Territory and National Park Isiboro Sécure (TIPNIS in Spanish)...
View ArticleNew York police arrest hundreds protesters on Brooklyn Bridge
Today, New York witnessed a clampdown on the constitutional right to protest: The NYPD kettled the march on the Brooklyn Bridge, and arrested hundreds of peaceful protesters. Among the 700+ detainees...
View ArticleSolidarity to Occupy Oakland, from Greece
Below is our solidarity message to Occupy Oakland: Brothers and sisters in Oakland, We, from the small country of Greece, would like to express our solidarity to your struggle. We are all in this...
View ArticleBank’s leaked email admits ‘Occupy’ movement ‘could impact our industry’
A national effort to reclaim vacant properties has one of the country’s largest lenders scrambling. The financial website Zero Hedge has allegedly obtained a memo from Bank of America’s field services...
View ArticleSnapshots of the Student Movement in Montreal
I arrived in Montreal the night the government of Quebec had turned the province into a police state. Jean Charest had passed a law declaring any demonstration over 50 people not pre-approved by the...
View ArticleQuébec: “we didn’t know it was impossible, so we did it!”
Students in Quebec marked their hundredth day of an unlimited general strike on Tuesday, 22 May, the culmination of the most stunning mass protest movement of recent months and North America’s largest...
View ArticleFresh student protests in Chile
28-6-2012: More than 100.000 Chilean students and workers demonstrated in the capital Santiago, demanding free education for all. The protesters walked in front of the Presidential Palace, La Moneda,...
View ArticleMexico Rising: “Peña Nieto is not my President!”
We saw them in Athens on June 28 and 29, 2011 when the Government was voting on the imposition of further austerity measures that would strangle the middle and lower classes. Outside, tens of thousands...
View ArticleIn Brazil, the mask of democracy is falling
Brazil is still a poor country, inhabited by a population that is generally poor by global standards. The minimum wage, despite successive wage increases over the last years, is still a bad joke: 678...
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