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by Andrew Lee On October 3, Portland City Hall decided to postpone a vote on homeless rest area Right 2 Dream Too’s proposed move from Fourth and Burnside to the affluent Pearl District. At a public hearing, scores of R2DToo supporters as well as Pearl residents and business representatives contended in front of City Council. … Continue reading
Istanbul’s Taksim Square and Gezi Park were both cleared by riot police over the weekend, with protesters filtering into nearby neighborhoods, where there were running clashes with police. Now Turkey’s deputy prime minister is threatening to deploy the military to quell the two-week-old protests. The British are accused of spying on other countries during the … Continue reading
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Erdogan has issued a “final warning” to those occupying Gezi Park and Taksim Square in Istanbul, and cryptically ordered his interior minister to “end” the occupation. Police fought protesters for an entire day on Tuesday, clearing Taksim Square, but the occupation of Gezi Park still remains. Anarchists in Barcelona, Spain attacked five … Continue reading
Protesters were cleared from Istanbul’s Taksim Square last night, after a day-long clash with police that saw riot cops making steady progress into the square using tear gas, water cannons and rubber bullets. Protesters have retreated to Gezi Park, where tents still remain. In an interview with Chinese press, admitted NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden says he … Continue reading
Today is an international day of solidarity with long-term anarchist prisoners. Let them know they’re not forgotten today! In Olympia, Washington, locks were glued shut at the west side police substation to mark June 11. Yesterday, a statement also said that an Olympia Mormon church was attacked in solidarity with grand jury resisters. Tomorrow supporters … Continue reading
On Saturday, the identity of the man who leaked National Security Agency documents to the Guardian’s Glenn Greenwald detailing massive surveillance became known. Edward Snowden, a former CIA operative and NSA contractor copied the documents and left his home in Hawaii for Hong Kong, where he’s holed up in a hotel. Also on Saturday, a U.S. … Continue reading
Yesterday, in the wake of the scandal which erupted when Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald revealed that the NSA was obtaining information on every single Verizon Business account in the US, a story also broke of massive collusion between Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Apple, Skype and other major tech corporations and the NSA, giving the agency free … Continue reading
The Guardian reports that all Verizon phone records obtained by the company are shared with the National Security Administration, as confirmed by a secret court order which says the telecom is ordered to provide information on an “ongoing, daily basis.” Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said the government will press ahead with their … Continue reading
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. … Continue reading
Unions in Turkey are staging a two-day strike starting today, in solidarity with anti-government protesters. Two people have died during the unrest and thousands more are injured in a popular uprising which has swept Turkey. Here is a reportback from protesters who seized land in San Francisco, in solidarity with Turkish protesters. Thousands of striking … Continue reading
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