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Wednesday News: June 5, 2013

Posted by bolobaau ⋅ June 5, 2013 ⋅ Leave a comment

Filed Under Afghanistan, Bangladesh, coal trains, Columbia River, earth liberation, ELF, Fracking, garment workers, Grand jury resistance, Indigenous Resistance, Jerry Koch, massacre, protest, Rana Plaza, Rebecca Rubin, Robert Bales, Sierra Club, Syria, Turkey

In Turkey, as anti-government protests continue, 25 people were detained in the city of Izmir for “spreading untrue information” via social media, according to Turkish media. Two people have died as a result of the clashes, which started in Istanbul over the government’s plans to destroy a park for the creation of a shopping mall.
Green is the New Red author Will Potter has a story in Vice about imprisoned New York City grand jury resister Jerry Koch.
Police in Bangladesh fired on a crowd of former workers for the Rana Plaza garment factory which collapsed in April, killing over 1,100 people.
The Sierra Club is suing the BNSF railroad, saying that coal dust from their uncovered coal trains pollutes the Columbia River.
Rebecca Rubin, accused of a series of arsons as part of the Earth Liberation Front from 1996 to 2001, and who spent nearly a decade on the run in Canada before turning herself in last year, has been transferred back to Portland while she awaits trial.
A truck belonging to a fracking company was surrounded and seized by self-described warriors from the Elsipogtog First Nation in New Brunswick, Canada, yesterday.
Syrian government troops, aided by Lebanon-based Hezbollah, took over the rebel-held town of Qusayr. The two-year-old Syrian civil war has killed an estimated 80,000 people.
Robert Bales, the US Army soldier accused of massacring 16 Afghan civilians in 2011, many of whom were children, pled guilty today in a military courtroom in Washington state.

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