Archive for April, 2012

Students clash in Canada with police

Donnerstag, April 26th, 2012

Students in Quebec have been on strike since February. They have been upset about Premier Jean Charest’s plan to add $1,625 to the annual cost of post-secondary education by 2016. But during Friday’s confrontations, protesters signaled that the unrest was about more than university fees — it was about the general direction of the province.
MONTREAL – A spring of discontent in Quebec characterized by images of red-clad student protesters took on a darker tone Friday as downtown streets were disrupted by scenes of increasingly intense civil unrest.

Demonstrators hurled projectiles from rocks to flower pots in Montreal, committing vandalism (mehr …)

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Spain – back to Franco # growing resistance

Sonntag, April 15th, 2012

from mainstream media:

Spain has been accused of planning “draconian” new laws against street protests by curbing the use of social networking.
Jorge Fernandez Diaz, the Spanish interior minister announced in Congress on Wednesday that a reform of the penal code was planned to criminalise those involved in organising street protests that „seriously disturb the public peace“.

Under the laws, a minimum jail term of two years could be imposed on those found guilty of instigating and carrying out violent acts of protest under a new package of measures unveiled on Wednesday.

But it has raised fears that the new measures could be used to stem the wave of protests that began last summer with the birth of what has been dubbed the „indignado movement“, when tens ouf thousands of peaceful protesters camped out in squares across Spain.

Protest groups were quick to draw comparisons to the fascist dictatorship of Gen Grancisco Franco. (mehr …)

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Protest against capitalism

Montag, April 2nd, 2012

A demonstration on international action day against capitalism 31.march,
turned violent in Frankfurt/Main.
About 6.000 people marched from train station to EZB building. Windows from banks got smashed and police attacked with stones and firecrackers.
465 people arrested and a lot of demonstrators injured, 15 officers injured.
See video

In Santiago de Chile on 29.march riots broke out because of the day of the young fighter.
22:00 – News arrives from Concepción of a count of 30 youth arrested by the clashes that have happened in southern Chile. (mehr …)

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