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World Popular Resistance Clippings 18/5/2013

Tourists stuck as social unrest hits northwestern Colombia

More than 30 Colombian and foreign tourists are stuck in the northwestern corner of Colombia after locals went on strike. According to a strike leader, the tourists are not being held against their will. Thirty-two tourists got stuck in the Uraba region after strikers shut down public [...]

World Popular Resistance Clippings 11/4/2013

Army beefs up security at jail holding top rebels

The 303rd Infantry Brigade has beefed up the forces of the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology to secure the Negros Occidental District Jail in Barangay Tabunan, Bago City, where a notorious rebel leader and his wife are detained on non-bailable charges, its commander, [...]

World Popular Resistance Clippings 1/4/2013

Thirteen Police Officers Fall Victim to Mob Violence in 2013: IPW

In the first three months of this year, a total of 13 police officers fell victim to violence, the Indonesia Police Watch chairman said on Monday, just days after two police officers were killed. “In 2013 so far, only three months have passed [...]

World Popular Resistance Clippings 19/3/2013

Authorities collar top rebel leader in Iloilo

Mar 19, 2013 (Menafn – The Manila Times – McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX) –COMBINED security forces from the Armed Forces of the Philippines and the Philippine National Police nabbed a ranking leader of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP)-New People’s Army-National Democratic Front in Panay Island.

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World Popular Resistance Clippings 14/3/2013

Colombia’s biggest coal exporter attacked with explosives

BOGOTA (Reuters) – Unknown assailants bombed the rail line of Colombia’s largest coal exporter on Thursday, knocking 17 wagons off the rails, the Cerrejon coal company said. The latest attack comes only days after Cerrejon and its workers signed a wage deal to end a strike that had [...]

World Popular Resistance Clippings 26/2/2013

Colombia greets coffee strike with force

BOGOTA, Feb. 26 (UPI) — National Police in Colombia said 15,000 policemen are reporting to duty to maintain order as an estimated 30,000 coffee growers staged demonstrations. Colombia Reports said Tuesday that street demonstrations demanding government support for the struggling coffee industry occurred in Antioquia, Huila, Risaralda, Quindio [...]

World Popular Resistance Clippings 2/18/2013

Iberia workers and riot police clash at start of five-day strike

Riot police clashed with striking workers (video) from Spain‘s Iberia airline on Monday as they began a five-day stoppage in protest at plans to sack a fifth of the workforce in a country struggling with 26% unemployment.

As hundreds of flights were [...]

World Popular Resistance Clippings 10/2/2013

Thousands of security cameras installed across Baghdad

At least 13,000 security cameras have been installed across the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, the security committee on the Baghdad provincial council said Saturday (February 9th). The cameras began operating on Friday and are “linked to a sophisticated control centre supervised by security personnel specialised in surveillance”, committee head [...]

World Popular Resistance Clippings 8/2/2013

China’s Urbanization Risk: Magnified Unrest

China’s new leaders seem to be placing their hopes for economic growth on urbanization. They see an upsurge in demand for a whole range of services – from housing to schooling and health care as the rural population is increasingly pulled into the urban economy. But high urbanization has [...]

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