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Protesters clashed with police outside Indonesia's national parliament in Jakarta overnight after politicians inside voted in favor of the first rise in fuel prices since 2008
About 2,000 opponents of a natural-gas drilling process that involves blasting chemical-laden water deep into the ground rallied outside New York's Capitol on Monday...
A number of artists and intellectuals continue to occupy the culture ministry headquarters in Zamalek, Cairo, insisting on the removal of Culture Minister Alaa Abdel-Aziz.
Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday evening into Sunday morning had police deploy water cannon and tear gas (some say laced with pepper spray) to clear Gezi Park of protesters.
The protesters, mainly university students but also activists from leftist political parties, appear to be loosely tied to an organization called the Free Fare Movement.
And nearly two years ago, in September 2011, the birth of the Occupy movement caught America’s attention and forced a national conversation about income inequality.
“At a certain point we saw the police cracking down on the Occupy Wall Street activists. I won’t call the actions of police appropriate or inappropriate,” he said.
We are vagabonds from various nations involved with the Occupy movement and the Burning Man community and we are in Spain building rafts out of trash. We are going to sail th...
Great video from @EyeOnTheGround re: our Bangladesh solidarity action in the Brooklyn Target store.
Target, Children’s Place and Gap Inc.: sign the Bangladesh Accord on Fire...
25 activists affiliated with 99 Pickets and other local solidarity groups staged a demonstration inside the Target store at the Atlantic Center Mall in Brooklyn, NY, ca...