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Kyiv Post has some interesting analysis of the ongoing massive demonstrations in Tbilisi against the government’s efforts to force through essentially the same controversial “foreign agents” law they ended up withdrawing last year in the face of...
by Irontortoise
on Sat May 04, 2024 at 10:11 PM PDT
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Anti-Netanyahu demonstrations in Israel that had been drawing hundreds of thousands of protesters are starting to ramp up again once more. According to the BBC: Anti-government demonstrations were relatively frequent in Israel before the Hamas attacks...
by Irontortoise
on Sun Feb 25, 2024 at 10:12 AM PST
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From Reuters today: Support for Germany's far-right AfD reaches six-month low after protests Support for the Alternative for Germany (AfD) dropped below 20% for the first time since July, a poll published on Tuesday showed, after nationwide protests...
by Irontortoise
on Tue Jan 30, 2024 at 07:05 PM PST
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So, yesterday evening I went to pick up my daughter from her evening class at the Weimarer Mal- und Zeichenschule (Weimar Painting and Drawing School, founded by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Anne Amalia, and Duke Carl August in the late 1700s) and she...
by Jeffersonian Democrat
on Tue Jan 23, 2024 at 01:03 AM PST
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The main story on NBC Nightly News concerned the first hostage release in the Israel/Gaza war. About 10 minutes into the broadcast, they ran three stories, all involving heightened mall security on Black Friday. The first story was about a...
by AliceT4
on Sat Nov 25, 2023 at 01:53 PM PST
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A couple of weeks ago I attended what was billed as an “anti-war/peace rally” at the Lincoln Memorial in DC as the 1-year anniversary of the Russian war on Ukraine approached. Despite glorious early spring weather and an exceedingly disparate group of...
by Irontortoise
on Tue Mar 07, 2023 at 10:39 PM PST
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Extraordinary things are happening in the world today and protests in Iran and China are perhaps the most glaring. Iranian women are threatening to tear down the regime after the killing of a young woman by modesty police sparked an ongoing revolt,...
by chloeatkinson
on Tue Nov 29, 2022 at 02:27 PM PST
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Those of us who can recall the events which happened at the October 1968 Democratic Presidential Convention remember it as a watershed moment in American History. As thousands of mostly younger anti-war demonstrators besieged it to protest the party’s...
by psychusa
on Wed Apr 20, 2022 at 11:47 AM PDT
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by Sravya Tadepalli
This story was originally published at Prism .
A year after protesters flooded American city streets decrying the murder of George Floyd by police, Republican state ...
by Prism Guest Writer
on Tue Oct 19, 2021 at 08:15 AM PDT
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I've been covering the police killing of Manuel Ellis in Tacoma as a journalist since last year. It looks like we may have finally turned a corner in this country in terms of police accountability after the death of George Floyd. Three Tacoma police...
by Mark Taylor Canfield
on Fri May 28, 2021 at 02:26 PM PDT
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A group calling itself Freedom 515 is supposedly coordinating demonstrations this Saturday, 5/15. This warning was disseminated throughout the Army this morning: From USARNORTH Law Enforcement Intelligence Branch (LEIB): The LEIB has become aware of...
by phein53
on Fri May 14, 2021 at 07:33 PM PDT
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Happy Earth Day to those who observe!
And who doesn’t observe? Extraterrestrials, maybe?
But don’t they want us to fix our own planet so we don’t go off and dirty up theirs?
Anyway, this ...
by Carolyn Fiddler
on Thu Apr 22, 2021 at 06:34 PM PDT
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A man I know said how upset he was by anti-Trump protesters picking off and ganging up on pro-Trump demonstrators in Washington D.C. last weekend; the anti-Trump bunch beat up individual pro-Trump demonstrators they caught alone, he said. As...
by we must have hope
on Sun Nov 22, 2020 at 12:09 PM PST
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So. The elderly are waking up after dozing off watching The Price is Right, with Drew Carey. They are witnessing a president that says he is for them and all else, yet, the man doesn’t have to live on social security, so why should he worry about...
by marroyo66
on Tue Oct 06, 2020 at 04:53 AM PDT
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Though June feels like decades ago in today’s political climate, a new report from VICE shows some absolutely stunning details about what local and federal authorities were apparently prepared to do in case chaos or unrest broke out while...
by Marissa Higgins
on Thu Oct 01, 2020 at 01:55 PM PDT
with 48 Recommends
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It’s been nearly seven months since Breonna Taylor, a 26-year-old Black woman, was shot and killed by police during a fumbled late-night drug raid in her apartment in Louisville, Kentucky. Since then, protests for justice have spanned the nation....
by Marissa Higgins
on Thu Oct 01, 2020 at 10:12 AM PDT
with 60 Recommends
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As the nation continues to face the ongoing novel coronavirus pandemic and we near the November 2020 election, the Department of Justice released a list of three cities (New York, New York; Seattle, Washington; and Portland, Oregon) it...
by Marissa Higgins
on Mon Sep 21, 2020 at 11:10 AM PDT
with 189 Recommends
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The city of Louisville, Kentucky, has agreed to settle a wrongful death lawsuit and pay $12 million to the family of Breonna Taylor, the 26-year-old Black woman killed by white Louisville Metro Police police officers when they entered her...
by Marissa Higgins
on Tue Sep 15, 2020 at 01:03 PM PDT
with 61 Recommends
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If they hadn’t thought of it before, people now know it is easier to throw a can of soup than a brick. Trump was either foolish enough to let that news out the other day to everyone who learned something, or, having seen the bad optics of his...
by joe quigley
on Wed Sep 02, 2020 at 11:53 AM PDT
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During a Monday afternoon briefing, White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany used fearmongering language typical of the Trump administration, including painting a picture of anarchy, chaos, and riots in Democrat-led cities, in her opening...
by Marissa Higgins
on Mon Aug 31, 2020 at 12:55 PM PDT
with 104 Recommends
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