Articles Tagged with protests

18Jun

‘Standing Man’ Defies Turkey Police, Holds Vigil In Taksim Square [Video]

A “standing man,” as many have dubbed him, stood silently in Taksim ...

11Jun

Arrests Made Ahead Of G8 Summit

Six people were arrested in London today in the lead up to the G8 Summit ...

21Feb

School Closings In Sacramento Draw Protests

School closings have been a hot topic around the country since the start of ...

05Jan

California Father To Protest LGBT Movement In Classroom

The gay and lesbian community has faced some harsh criticism in the past, ...

19Sep

France Bans Protests Concerning Anti-Muslim Video

France, a nation sometimes held up as a pioneer in the ideas of liberty, has ...

17Sep

Occupy Wall Street Anniversary: Protestors To Surround New York Stock Exchange

Occupy Wall Street will celebrate its first anniversary on Monday. To ...

12Sep

Twitter Privacy Battle: Court Rules Social Network Must Turn Over Deleted Tweets

New York State Supreme Court Judge Matthew A. Sciarrino Jr. ordered Twitter ...

24Mar

Trayvon Martin Case Sparks Rallies Nationwide

I doubt George Zimmerman would have ever thought the actions of one night ...

19Mar

Topless Protesters Rally In Front Of The General Prosecutors Office Of Ukraine

Topless protesters recently rallied in front of the General Prosecutors ...

12Feb

The European ACTA revolt draws large number of protesters

While here in North America everyone is still slapping each other on the ...

29Dec

Occupy Ron Paul. Five OWS Protesters Arrested At Politicians Campaign Headquarters

A group of Occupy Wall Street protesters were arrested on Thursday as the ...

24Dec

Occupy LA Is Costing City Taxpayers Less Than Michael Jackson Memorial

LOS ANGELES, CA – Occupy LA protesters have cost the city of Los ...

14Dec

Occupy Wall Street Stomps On Stimulus, Destroys Park

California Congressional Representative Darrell Issa, the fiery chairman of ...

13Nov

Occupy Wall Street Couple Meet While Praying, Get Married One Month Later

Emery Abbedl-Latif, 24, and Micha Balon, 19, were wed on Sunday morning just ...

28Oct

New York Officials Cut Power To Occupy Wall Street Protesters At Zuccotti Park

Citing safety concerns New York officials on Friday cut power to Occupy Wall ...

27Oct

Pepper Spraying Protesters

I have to say, I did not think of it that way. [via]

23Oct

Chicago Police Arrest 130 Occupy Chicago Protesters

130 Occupy Chicago protesters were arrested at 1 a.m. on Sunday morning ...

18Oct

Lemony Snicket Explains Occupy Wall Street Protest To Children

Lemony Snicket (author Daniel Handler) has led his characters through A ...

16Oct

Occupy Wall Street Protesters Have $230,000 War Chest

Protesters for the Occupy Wall Street movement aren’t going in alone, ...

12Oct

OccupyWallStreet could prove to be double edge sword for famous people

It is a movement that is slowly moving not only across the country but also ...

11Oct

100 Protesters Arrested At Occupy Boston Event

Nearly 100 Occupy Boston protesters were arrested in the early morning hours ...

06Oct

Unions Endorse Wall Street Protests, Numbers Swell

The 99% are growing louder. Wednesday saw numbers at the ‘Occupy Wall ...

03Oct

Occupy Wall Street Goes Zombie Today

The Occupy Wall Street protests are going into their third week, as ...

26Sep

Wall Street Protests Gain Steam as Videos of Alleged Police Brutality Go Viral

Reports about the size of crowds and the stamina of protesters at Wall ...

17Sep

Day of Rage Underway on Wall Street, Protestors Flood Downtown Manhattan

With the “Arab Spring” protests of the past year or two serving ...

07Jun

Armed Gangs In Syria Kill 120 Police and Security Officers

It’s hard to pin down truths from fiction in Syria at the moment, ...

18Feb

The internet shows up to Wisconsin protests

Been following the protests in Wisconsin? The internet has been, too- here ...

13Sep

Amarillo skateboarder stops Koran burning- “Dude, you have no Koran”

If you somehow missed it, there’s been a bit of a debate in the US ...

04Jun

Foursquare blocked in China

Popular geolocation and social networking app Foursquare has been blocked in ...

20Dec

Detective draws gun at Twitter hyped snowball fight in D.C.

A snowball fight on steroids (thanks to Twitter) on a busy street in ...

19Dec

Hipsters battle Hasidim in Brooklyn with topless bike ride

A planned protest in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn may be difficult ...

16Dec

AT&T users staging “Operation Chokehold” to protest sucktastic network

Earlier this week, I posted about how AT&T is whining that people who ...

30Jul

(Video) Pwnage: Dude pays for towed car with 8800 pennies

Some dude was none too happy when his ride was towed from the pub. So the ...

23Jun

That picture of Neda everyone is using …. it’s the wrong one

Images can become iconic extremely quickly, identifying movements with a ...

14Jun

Twitter gives CNN a smack of reality

At one time I was a big fan of CNN. Walk into our home and you could ...