World Popular Resistance Clippings 20/5/2013

 

Unrest in Ashulia again

Some thousands of ready-made garment workers blocked the Dhaka-Tangail highway and clashed with police while staging a protest demanding a wage hike and other facilities in Ashulia on Monday morning. Authorities of the concerned Ha-Meem Group were compelled to declare a holiday in the wake of the protest.

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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 16/4/2013

 

Social conflict in Latin America sparked by inequality: UNDP report

UNITED NATIONS, April 16 — The Latin American countries with greatest numbers of conflicts are those with broad social inequalities and governments with limited capacity to manage unrest, said a report released on Tuesday in English by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). [...]

World Popular Resistance Clippings 3/4/2013

CPN-Maoist capture private land of Regmi

KATHMANDU, APR 03 – Cadres of CPN-Maoist captured some 35 acres of private land belonging to Interim Election Council Chairman Khil Raj Regmi in Bardiya. A team led by CPN-Maoist District Secretary Drabya Sah ‘Suman’ seized the land and hoisted the party flag on Tuesday midnight.

According to Suman, [...]

World Popular Resistance Clippings 13/3/2013

Protesters Demonstrate for 2nd Night After Police Shooting

Large crowds demonstrated in Brooklyn for a second straight night to protest the deadly police shooting of 16-year-old Kimani Gray over the weekend, though Tuesday’s march was noticeably more peaceful and subdued. A crowd of about 100 people, some apparently affiliated with the Occupy movement, marched 20 [...]

World Popular Resistance Clippings 28/2/2013

Top NPA leader arrested in Bohol

MANILA, Philippines – Combined government security forces on Tuesday arrested in Bohol a top New People’s Army (NPA) leader in Central Visayas. Arrested for illegal possession of firearms was Ruben Nabas, who is also known as Ka Ebyong, Ka Elmer, Ka Padi and Ka Rex in the underground movement. [...]

World Popular Resistance Clippings 25/2/2013

 

Unrest spreads across Bulgaria

Violent anti-government protests in Bulgaria are spreading. At first the demonstrations were confined to the capital city of Sofia, but at the weekend tens of thousands of people took to the streets in all the major cities across the EU’s poorest nation. VoR’s Juliet Spare reports. The protests in [...]

World Popular Resistance Clippings 12/2/2013

3 soldiers wounded in Davao bomb blast

DAVAO CITY, Philippines, Philippines (Xinhua) – At least three government troops were wounded in today’s bomb explosion in Davao City. According to Lt.Col. Inocencio Pasaporte, battalion commander, a team from the 69th Infantry Battalion led by Lt. Brian Malinao was conducting security patrol at Lumiad village, in Davao [...]

World Popular Resistance Clippings 1/2/2013

Protests Outside Trial in Rabat

Rival protests were held on Friday outside a military tribunal in the Moroccan capital where 24 Sahrawis accused of killing members of the security forces in the Western Sahara in 2010 are in the dock. The politically charged trial, which is being attended by a number of independent foreign [...]

Protest In Onitsha, Nnewi As Another Bus Driver Is Shot Dead By Policeman

The killing of unarmed civilians by men of the Nigerian Police in unexplainable circumstances is now assuming an alarmin rate as there’s hardly any day that we don’t hear of one shooting incident. Yesterday, wasn’t any different as a 35-year-old commercial bus driver in Nnewi, Anambra State was shot dead by a trigger-happy mobile [...]