World Popular Resistance Clippings 8/5/2013

 

Liberia: Eviction Play – in Cooper’s Family E.L.W.A Land Saga, Residents Riot, Reject Action

Normal activities in the ELWA Robertsfield Highway Community Tuesday came to a standstill as a result of a protest action staged by some residents of the community. Some aggrieved residents of the area who are victims of a Supreme [...]

World Popular Resistance Clippings 30/4/2013

Jordan Charges Syrians over Riot in Zaatari Camp

Eight Syrian refugees were charged on Tuesday with “unlawful assembly” after rioting last week at the Zaatari refugee camp injured 10 policemen, a judicial official said. A court in the northeastern city of Mafraq “charged the eight Syrian men today with unlawful assembly for taking part in [...]

World Popular Resistance Clippings 18/4/2013

Riot Broke Out as Street Vendors Being Evicted

A riot broke out at Pasar Minggu Station when authorities attempted to evict street vendors on Thursday, April 18. A number of street vendors, aided by students from the University of Indonesia, stood up against roughly 900 officers from PT Kereta Api Indonesia (KAI) who tore [...]

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 8/3/2013

 

Meeting held on mine row as four locals held for arms

A Thessaloniki prosecutor met on Friday with the lawyers of four people arrested by police following a protest against a gold mining project in Skouries, near Halkidiki, and with members of the Hellas Gold Company in a bid to diffuse an intensifying [...]

World Popular Resistance Clippings 6/2/2013

Tunisia police tear gas protesters in Sidi Bouzid

Tunisian police on Wednesday fired tear gas at protesters trying to storm their headquarters in the central town of Sidi Bouzid, birthplace of the 2011 revolution, after the murder of a prominent opposition figure. Some 200 protesters attacked the police station and policemen fired tear gas in [...]

World Popular Resistance Clippings 16/1/2013

Push to Protect Local Livelihoods, Rights

The government is increasingly being urged to consider people’s rights when formulating regulations on natural resource management and plantations, with both sectors become increasingly synonymous with cases of land grabs, environmental damage and violent clashes. “The government must be able to formulate regulations of exactly how much land can [...]

World Popular Resistance Clippings 12/12/2012

Police arrested eleven (11) suspects for Public Violence and Looting

POTCHEFSTROOM: In an ongoing unrest situation in Jouberton outside Klerksdorp, police this morning (11-12-2012) arrested 11 suspects for the alleged Public Violence and Possession of Suspected stolen Goods. The suspects are part of the groups that went on a rampage following an execution of an [...]

World Popular Resistance Clippings 6/12/2012

Riots break out in Manokwari

Hundreds of angry protestors set fire to two police posts at Sanggeng market and Amban in Manokwari, West Papua, on Wednesday after police shot dead escaped convict Timotius AP as he attempted to avoid being returned to Manokwari penitentiary.

“Demonstrators started a riot in Manokwari, they vandalized a number of [...]