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 16/5/2013

 

Six injured in Cameroon varsity riot

At least six people have been injured and learning halted following a second spate of unrest in less than four months at state University of Buea in southwest Cameroon. The striking students also damaged at least three vehicles belonging to the institution, according to an official who [...]

World Popular Resistance Clippings 14/5/2013

Hundreds of Bangladesh Textile Plants Shut Indefinitely

DHAKA – Hundreds of factories which form the hub of Bangladesh’s garment industry are to close indefinitely after worker unrest sparked by the death of more than 1,100 colleagues, employees announced Monday. As the search for bodies from last month’s collapse of a factory complex wrapped up, the [...]

World Popular Resistance Clippings 12/5/2013

Eight injured during clashes in Halkidiki

Seven policemen and one female protester were injured in Skouries in the northern peninsula of Halkidiki on Sunday, during a demonstration against mining activities in the area. According to police, one of the policemen was shot with a carbin and taken to the Polygyros hospital along with the [...]

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 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 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 7/3/2013

Palestinian wounded in clash with Israelis dies in hospital

A Palestinian shot by Israeli soldiers during a confrontation with stone-throwers in the occupied West Bank two weeks ago died of his wounds on Thursday, his family and a hospital official said. The incident occurred during protests in support of a hunger strike by four Palestinian [...]

World Popular Resistance Clippings 19/2/2013

 

1 dead, 3 hurt in NPA attack on Del Monte compound

MANOLO FORTICH, Bukidnon — A security guard was killed while three others, including a civilian, were wounded when armed men believed to be New People’s Army rebels stormed the compound of a multinational firm here at around 6:10 p.m. Tuesday. Capt. Christian [...]

World Popular Resistance Clippings 2/17/2013

Widespread Palestinian rioting erupts in West Bank

Widespread rioting erupted in the West Bank on Friday after Palestinians said they would confront the IDF over security prisoners on hunger strike.

Large groups threw rocks and Molotov cocktails at soldiers, who responded with various riot dispersal means.

In Beitunya, west of Ramallah, near the Ofer [...]