Posts Tagged ‘activists’

Leave Abortion to the States? No, Say Anti-Choice Activists Demanding National Ban

Now that Roe v Wade has been trashed by the hard-right Supreme Court majority created by former President Donald Trump and Senate Republicans, anti-choice activists are no longer promoting the fiction that their goal in overturning Roe was to return the question of abortion to the states. The Family Research Council is one of the […]

The FBI Used an Undercover Cop With Pink Hair to Spy on Activists and Manufacture Crimes

THE YOUNG WOMAN with long pink hair claimed to be from Washington state. One day during the summer of 2020, she walked into the Chinook Center, a community space for left-wing activists in Colorado Springs, Colorado, and offered to volunteer. Source

Grave Concern for Life of 2 Bahraini Activists behind Al-Khalifa Bars

3 Mar 2023 By Staff, Agencies The rapid deterioration in the health condition of two prominent rights activists, Abdulhadi Al-Khawaja and Abduljalil Al-Singace, who are serving life sentences in Bahraini jails linked to the 2011 uprising has sparked grave concern. Al-Khawaja, 61, was sent back to prison on February 28 after security forces denied him […]

Greenpeace activists board vessel carrying Shell oil platform

Activists from environmental group Greenpeace boarded a vessel contracted to Shell as it sailed in the Atlantic Ocean on Tuesday, demanding that the Anglo-Dutch oil giant “stop drilling and start paying”. Source

‘There are bodies in the forest’: Missing migrants worry activists on Lithuania-Belarus border

Lithuania’s government recently approved controversial legislation to formalise pushbacks as an official policy at the Belarus border. Source

Overturning Roe Is Just the Beginning: Anti-Choice Activists Look to Abolish Abortion Rights Nationwide

In a bright pink, purple, and red-lit ballroom in downtown Washington, D.C., last Thursday, anti-choice activists gathered to listen to prominent activists in the anti-choice movement. “For 49 years, our role has been to influence five people on the court,” said Maureen Ferguson, a senior fellow for The Catholic Association. “Now, we have to persuade […]

Young climate activists at Davos want fossil fuel execs to ‘cease and desist’ new oil, gas or coal extraction

“I just think it sends a message of where we’re headed right now, if we’re putting the heads of fossil fuel companies to lead climate negotiations.” Source

Black Activists Demand Good Samaritan Be Charged For Shooting Armed Robber at Houston Taco Joint

A group of race hustlers organized a press conference on Sunday to demand the Good Samaritan who shot and killed an armed robber at a Houston taco joint earlier this month face criminal charges. WATCH: From KHOU, “Houston activists say ‘vigilante killer’ who shot robbery suspect should be charged”: Several community activists gathered Sunday at the southwest Houston […]

Israel activists take part in raising Palestine flag in Jerusalem

Left-wing Israeli activists participated alongside Palestinian activists in raising the Palestinian flag during a demonstration organised on Friday in Jerusalem's Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood, Anadolu Agency reported. The Israeli and Palestinian activists defied directives issued by Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir on Sunday. For years, Israeli and Palestinian activists have been organising Friday demonstrations to […]

WHO Says ‘Anti-Vaccine Activists’ Are A ‘Major Killing Force Globally’

“Anti-vaccine activism” is a form of “anti-science aggression” and a “major killing force globally” worse than terrorism, gun violence and nuclear proliferation and “political solutions” are needed to shut it down, according to the World Health Organization’s Dr Peter Hotez. Source

Climate activists breach Munich airport to protest air travel on northern runway

Updated: 08/12/2022 – 22:00 Munich Airport saw its traffic disrupted on Thursday after climate activists staged a protest against the environmental impact of air travel. The group “Last Generation” said some of their members glued their hands on the tarmac while others entered the ground of Berlin Airport.  A spokesman for the Munich airport did […]

‘Just Stop Oil’ Activists Admit Using Petrol Cars, Claim They’re Not Hypocrites

Climate change activists Prince Harry and Meghan Markle arrived in New York on their luxury private jet, the second such trip in a week, to pick up an ‘anti-racism award’, prompting more charges of rampant hypocrisy. “The Duke and Duchess of Sussex arrived in Manhattan on Monday afternoon by private jet where they were whisked […]

Greek court acquits activists over 2021 protest against Beijing Olympics

A Greek court has acquitted three activists detained in October 2021 after unfurling banners at the Athens Acropolis opposing the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics, their lawyer and activists said on Thursday. Those acquitted were 19-year-old Tibetan student Tsela Zoksang, 22-year-old Hong Kong-American Joey Siu and a 35-year-old Vietnamese-American activist. They had staged a brief protest at the… […]

Palestine Action activists squirt Balfour statue with fake blood – London

Palestine Action activists doused a statue of Lord Arthur Balfour at the UK Houses of Parliament, in fake blood, using ketchup, on Saturday, in protest against the Balfour Declaration, which established the UK's support for a national home for the Jewish people in Palestine. The 1917 letter from Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour to leading Zionist, […]

Van Gogh’s “The Sower” latest painting to be targeted by climate activists

A painting by the Dutch master Vincent van Gogh on exhibition in Rome is the latest masterpiece targeted by climate activists Source

Germany: Climate Activists Douse Priceless Monet Painting with Mashed Potatoes

When two adolescent protestors covered a Monet painting in mashed potatoes in Germany, the continuing practice of climate activists defiling precious pieces of art continues. Two members of the group Letzte Generation (Last Generation) bathed Claude Monet’s “Les Meules” painting with mashed potatoes on Sunday at the Museum Barberini in Potsdam, Germany, before adhering themselves […]

Activists in Iran call for more protests as demonstrations enter fifth week

Iranian activists called for mass demonstrations on Saturday, as the protest movement sparked by the death of Mahsa Amini entered its fifth week, despite a deadly crackdown. The outrage over the death of the 22-year-old has led to the biggest wave of demonstrations in Iran since 2019. At least 108 people have been killed since […]

TPUSA Promotes John Guandolo’s Call for Right-Wing Activists to Bully and Harass Political Opponents

A new film produced by the right-wing youth organization Turning Point USA spotlights radical right-wing conspiracy theorist John Guandolo urging sheriffs to take the law into their own hands and resist federal authority. Guandolo is a former FBI agent who resigned in 2009 “before the bureau’s Office of Professional Responsibility could question him about his […]

Italian activists raise alarm over abortion rights after Meloni’s win

Activists in Italy are concerned about what far-right firebrand Giorgia Meloni’s election as the new prime minister could mean for abortion rights in the country. Source

Tunisia: Activists call for the declaration of a climate state of emergency

Dozens of activists from the Tunisian Youth Climate Movement yesterday organised a sit-in in front of the capital's Municipal Theatre to demand "a climate state of emergency" be declared in the country. "We are young men and women gathered in front of the municipal theatre to demand our right to a healthy environment and our […]

Iran arrests journalists, activists over Mahsa Amini death

Iranian police have arrested several journalists and activists as thousands were protesting against the government over the death of Mahsa Amini in prison last week, news agencies reported on Friday. Mohsen Tavakoli posted on Twitter that his brother, Majid Tavakoli, an activist who has been repeatedly imprisoned in Iran, was arrested overnight at his home. […]

Iran arrests journalists, activists over Mahsa Amini death

Iranian police have arrested several journalists and activists as thousands were protesting against the government over the death of Mahsa Amini in prison last week, news agencies reported on Friday. Mohsen Tavakoli posted on Twitter that his brother, Majid Tavakoli, an activist who has been repeatedly imprisoned in Iran, was arrested overnight at his home. […]

Iran arrests journalists, activists over Mahsa Amini death

Iranian police have arrested several journalists and activists as thousands were protesting against the government over the death of Mahsa Amini in prison last week, news agencies reported on Friday. Mohsen Tavakoli posted on Twitter that his brother, Majid Tavakoli, an activist who has been repeatedly imprisoned in Iran, was arrested overnight at his home. […]

Iran arrests journalists, activists over Mahsa Amini death

Iranian police have arrested several journalists and activists as thousands were protesting against the government over the death of Mahsa Amini in prison last week, news agencies reported on Friday. Mohsen Tavakoli posted on Twitter that his brother, Majid Tavakoli, an activist who has been repeatedly imprisoned in Iran, was arrested overnight at his home. […]

Iran arrests journalists, activists over Mahsa Amini death

Iranian police have arrested several journalists and activists as thousands were protesting against the government over the death of Mahsa Amini in prison last week, news agencies reported on Friday. Mohsen Tavakoli posted on Twitter that his brother, Majid Tavakoli, an activist who has been repeatedly imprisoned in Iran, was arrested overnight at his home. […]

Iran arrests journalists, activists over Mahsa Amini death

Iranian police have arrested several journalists and activists as thousands were protesting against the government over the death of Mahsa Amini in prison last week, news agencies reported on Friday. Mohsen Tavakoli posted on Twitter that his brother, Majid Tavakoli, an activist who has been repeatedly imprisoned in Iran, was arrested overnight at his home. […]

Iran arrests journalists, activists over Mahsa Amini death

Iranian police have arrested several journalists and activists as thousands were protesting against the government over the death of Mahsa Amini in prison last week, news agencies reported on Friday. Mohsen Tavakoli posted on Twitter that his brother, Majid Tavakoli, an activist who has been repeatedly imprisoned in Iran, was arrested overnight at his home. […]

Peace activists hit the streets from DC to San Francisco

Image Credit: CodePink This article was produced by Local Peace Economy, a project of the Independent Media Institute. Marcy Winograd, coordinator of CODEPINK for Congress, is a longtime antiwar activist who served as a 2020 DNC delegate to Bernie Sanders and co-founded the Progressive Caucus of the California Democratic Party. A retired English and government […]

Peace activists hit the streets from DC to San Francisco

Image Credit: CodePink This article was produced by Local Peace Economy, a project of the Independent Media Institute. Marcy Winograd, coordinator of CODEPINK for Congress, is a longtime antiwar activist who served as a 2020 DNC delegate to Bernie Sanders and co-founded the Progressive Caucus of the California Democratic Party. A retired English and government […]

Peace activists hit the streets from DC to San Francisco

Image Credit: CodePink This article was produced by Local Peace Economy, a project of the Independent Media Institute. Marcy Winograd, coordinator of CODEPINK for Congress, is a longtime antiwar activist who served as a 2020 DNC delegate to Bernie Sanders and co-founded the Progressive Caucus of the California Democratic Party. A retired English and government […]

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