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 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 13/4/2013

 

25 petrol bombs thrown during riot in Fountain, Derry

About 25 petrol bombs were thrown during rioting in the Fountain area of Londonderry on Friday night, police have said. The trouble broke out at about 19:30 BST with nationalist youths throwing stones in the area. When police arrived, petrol bombs were thrown towards [...]

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 23/2/2013

 

Experts urge Arab nations to train forces in ‘crowd control’

Defence experts who say many lives could have been saved during Arab uprisings if states used proper crowd control measures sought to tap into a growing market at an Abu Dhabi arms fair. Anti-riot vehicles with sophisticated acoustic repellents have boldly taken their [...]

World Popular Resistance Clippings 2/15/2013

Rail workers on strike in Khashuri

TBILISI, DFWatch–Around 800 rail workers in Khashuri in central Georgia went on strike Wednesday,demanding increased salaries and to restore benefits which they used to have years ago.

There are no staff available on the railway section between Zestaponi further west and Gori closer to Tbilisi, but Georgian Railway [...]

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 [...]

World Popular Resistance Clippings 7/2/2013

NPA rebels torch construction equipment in Agusan del Norte

MANILA, Philippines – Communist rebels in Agusan del Norte torched on Wednesday two construction equipment owned by a local official who refused to pay revolutionary tax, the military said. First Lieutenant Joe Martinez, chief of the 42nd civil-military operations company, said the rebels burned one dump [...]