Category Archives: protest

October 13, 2011 · 5:54 pm

Juxtaposition: Curfews vs. Tahrir square

Artifact 1:

January 31: Mubarak still refuses to step down, amid growing calls for his resignation. Protesters continue to defy the military-imposed curfew. About 250,000 people gather in Cairo’s Tahrir Square and hundreds march through Alexandria.

via Timeline: Egypt’s revolution – Middle East – Al Jazeera English.

Artifact 2:

SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — Protesters say they’re ready to face arrest again on the fourth day of the “Occupy Sacramento” demonstrations, but they are now calling for city leaders to rescind the curfew that makes it illegal to continue protests overnight.

About 14 protesters were arrested after midnight following Saturday’s event, and the attendees of Sunday’s march said they were prepared to follow suit and remain at Cesar Chavez Park until police arrested them.

“These arbitrary rules that say at midnight at this park, you’re not allowed to be here, that’s ridiculous,” said protester Morgan Lesko.

via ‘Occupy Sacramento’ Protests Demand City Rescind Park Curfew « CBS Sacramento.

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October 5, 2011 · 6:04 pm

#occupy wallstreet gives some hope

So if we tax the rich and the corporations, and eliminate 95% of the military, there will be plenty of money, even in our depleted condition, to pay for what we need, which is environmental sanity, climate-friendly industry, energy self-sufficiency without fossil fuels or nuclear power, economic justice, and enlightened education that teaches respect for women, other races, other religions, and animals.

via Wall Street? Occupy Every Street! « Talkin’ Blues About The News.

I couldn’t agree more.

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October 4, 2011 · 3:22 pm

#occupy wall street vs. fox news

I have to run out to get to the eye doctor, but thanks to this clip, I can feel my vision getting better.

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October 3, 2011 · 8:09 pm

Reader re-articulation against crap ads

Thanks to Chloe at feministing, I discovered #notcool the website which helps angry viewers to alter wretched ads.  Simply by adding “NOT COOL” in  spray paint style (MS Paint anyone?) the ads become a parry/response kind of read.

Although I like #notcool, I think there is a further discussion to be had about the symbolic energy sponge of angry web-based re-articulation.  I think this site might satisfy the desire to actually graffiti terrible advertisements.  I cheer on those who alter public space with graffiti and billboard modification, so I guess I just wish the response meme could somehow swamp or poison the brand.

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August 16, 2011 · 3:35 pm

Crane protest for South Korean labor rights

In 2003, after waging a three-month vigil to protest working conditions, Kim Ju-ik, a 40-year-old father of three, hanged himself in the crane’s control room. His suicide note proclaimed, “This is a country where a laborer has to risk his life to live like a human.”

Kim Jin-suk has no intentions of suicide, instead vowing to stay put until workers win back their jobs.

On the ground, dozens of private security officers roam the fences around the yard, which have been buttressed by spirals of concertina wire.

For her protection, fellow activists monitor Kim’s movements via a camera in a nearby apartment building — footage that is broadcast on the Internet 24 hours a day.

In June, officials cut off electricity to the crane’s control room. Each day, as her body weakens, Kim says, she thinks of the deceased activist for the willpower to continue her protest.

“I am sitting at the place where Ju-ik sat. I sleep where Ju-ik slept and I see the last view of the world Ju-ik saw before passing away,” she wrote in a letter. “And I am going to do it, the thing that Ju-ik wanted to do so much but couldn’t do at last: Walk down the crane of my own free will.”

via South Korea activist’s protest on cargo crane to enter 8th month – latimes.com.

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August 16, 2011 · 3:30 pm

Jail the protesters: it’s where we belong

An Indian government attempt to head off a political crisis by arresting a key anti-corruption activist appeared to backfire Tuesday when parliament walked out and demonstrations broke out across the country.

Approximately 20 plainclothes police surrounded activist Anna Hazare, 73, early Tuesday morning as he left his house to begin a hunger strike against alleged widespread corruption, reportedly forbidding him from leaving the premises. When he defied them, they took him into custody on peremptory charges of “breach of peace.”

via Indian police arrest anti-corruption activist sparking peaceful demonstrations throughout the country – latimes.com.

 

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August 14, 2011 · 11:51 pm

Rap and riots in the U.K.

Someone is paying attention . . . oh yeah, the Guardian.  Thanks.

The most extraordinary of the bunch is also the most full-on. They Will Not Control Us, a snarling litany of dispossesion and rage against politicians, police and the media, will be a bit strong for some stomachs – and not only because of the wailing chorus lifted from the Muse track Uprising. By a little-known rapper called 2 K Olderz, it’s nothing if not direct. “Dear Mr Prime Minister …” it begins, “was you travelling on London transport the day the bombs went off?/ How about you go and pay rent to the landlord, earn shit money doing a labouring job?/ We’re living like shit in this country, while you’ve got your feet up living nice and comfy/ Well we know where the problem is, the people acknowledge this: stand up to the politics.”

via Rap responds to the riots: ‘They have to take us seriously’ | Music | guardian.co.uk.

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August 13, 2011 · 6:17 pm

Big bank takes little bank: blocking cell reception of protesters in SF

SAN FRANCISCO — Transit officials blocked cellphone reception in San Francisco train stations for three hours to disrupt planned demonstrations over a police shooting.

Officials with the Bay Area Rapid Transit system, better known as BART, said Friday that they turned off electricity to cellular towers in four stations from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. Thursday. The move was made after BART learned that protesters planned to use mobile devices to coordinate a demonstration on train platforms.

The tactic drew comparisons to those used by the former president of Egypt to squelch protests demanding an end to his authoritarian rule.

via San Francisco Transit Blocks Cellphones To Hinder Protest.

If you want to know what cops have learned since Oscar Grant.  Perhaps “Game recognize game” would have been a better articulation.

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July 25, 2011 · 5:07 pm

Alan Moore on resistance

No, this cannot be tolerated. You cannot have libraries, schools and things that people need for a basic standard of living taken away while George Osborne is making deals with companies to allow them to make better use of tax havens because they are threatening to take their business elsewhere. There are alternatives. We are not all in this together.

I’m all in favour of anti-cuts demonstrations. And it’s always very pleasing to see so many V for Vendetta masks in the crowd. I’m very proud of those boys and girls.

via Alan Moore: an extraordinary gentleman – Q&A | Books | guardian.co.uk.

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