At last night’s Occupy Wall Street General Assembly, ‘neath lower Manhattan’s tungsten lights.
Video showing NYPD telling protesters they’ll be arrested if they don’t leave the Brooklyn Bridge.
From the NY Post:
Police released two videos today of a captain warning anti-Wall Street protesters on the Brooklyn Bridge that they will be arrested if they do not leave the road.
“Since you have refused to leave this roadway, I’m ordering your arrest for disorderly conduct,” a captain told a large mob of protestors on the roadway through a megaphone, barely audible. The captain goes on to tell protesters that they will be carried if they refuse to walk, and charged with a misdemeanor.
Click through to see a different officer tell the protesters the same thing.
ICYMI.
Under-Reported Story of the Week: Protests in Chile. The protests have been about a wide range of issues with the government but have centered around and been dominated by student protests about education issues. Thousands at a time have been marching through the streets of the capital of Santiago and in other cities throughout the country in recent days. The primary demand of the student protesters is a free public education system for all in Chile. They are joined by parents, teachers, and regular members of the community.
Yesterday, students of the Metropolitan Technological University in Santiago set up a flaming street barricade and clashed with police. In past days, the number arrested is nearly 1000. A BBC article calls these demonstrations, especially the night-time cacerolazos (“saucepan protests”) reminiscent of pro-democracy protests against General Pinochet in the 80s.
Today, the students received a verbal chiding from President Sebastian Pinera as he signed into law a bill meant to appease them.
We all want education, healthcare, and many more things for free, but I want to remind them that nothing is free in this life. Someone has to pay.
Opposition to Pinera, the first conservative president since Pinochet left power, is growing. Unions representing public sector workers and copper miners have vowed to join the students. His popularity is dropping with the protests in the past months, reaching an all-time low of 26% in a poll published last week. That’s the lowest rating for a Chilean president since 1990.
A protest against the Santiago mayor is being organized for August 16th and another massive protest also in Santiago for September 3rd. Organizers are hoping to draw half a million people.
Read news articles at Al Jazeera, Merco Press, and the BBC.
Photos: Banging pots and pans in caceralazos via Merco Press; students put up a fiery street barricade via Al Jazeera; thousands march in protest, Hector Retamel/AFP; protests in Santiago, AP via Merco Press
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“The situation was very ugly with the leaders being beaten and thrown into the vehicle. The police were overwhelmed here by the crowd of people, although they finally suppressed the rioting crowd.”
One dead, several injured as government corruption riots continue in Malawi.
A rising group of advocates for rape victims has taken to the streets to try to take the stigma off women who’ve been sexually assaulted. A series of protests known as “SlutWalks” have spread across the world to bring attention to “slut shaming” - or blaming the victims for being raped. Continue reading… NYDailynews
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Greek rioters use lasers against riot police in Athen protests
Protesters aim a laser pointer at riot police officers during clashes between residents and police in the town of Keratea, southeast of Athens, on Tuesday, Feb. 8, 2011. Police said that the violence started Tuesday when a crowd threw molotov cocktails and stones at Keratea’s police station to protest the detention of a local man suspected of involvement in previous clashes. Police responded with tear gas. Residents of the town of Keratea, have clashed repeatedly over the past two months with riot police guarding the site of the planned rubbish dump.
Students march around Westminster protesting against planned increases in tuition fees and maintenance grant cuts on November 24, 2010 in London, United Kingdom.This is the second student day of action and a student march on the 10th November caused widespread damage to Millbank Tower and the Metropolitan police were accused of greatly underestimating the amount of demonstrators.
Gen. Khattiya Sawatdiphol, a renegade Thai general also known as Seh Daeng, was shot minutes after this photograph was taken on Thursday.
A renegade Thai general was shot in Bangkok on Thursday as the military prepared to encircle the barricaded encampment of antigovernment protesters.
The general, Khattiya Sawatdiphol, 58, was struck in the head by a bullet during an interview with this reporter about 7 p.m. on the street in central Bangkok, near a park occupied by his hard-line followers. This reporter, who was facing the general and about two feet away, heard a loud bang not unlike a firecracker. The general fell to the ground, with his eyes wide open, and protesters took his apparently lifeless body to the hospital, screaming out his nickname.
“Seh Daeng has been shot! Seh Daeng has been shot!” protesters shouted amid growing panic.
continue reading… (Thomas Fuller) nytimes
Iran Video: Gunman opens fire on demonstrators, crowd fights back
An amateur video apparently taken with a cell phone has surfaced on YouTube that appears to contradict the Iranian government’s claim that its security forces didn’t shoot at protesters last Sunday during demonstrations that left at least eight people dead, including the nephew of opposition leader Mir-Hossein Mousavi.
Iran protests: Police slamming into a cyclist in the city of Yazd.
Iranian Protesters united in song: ‘Ey Iran’ (Persian: ای ایران) (O Iran) is a famous and popular anthem in Iran.
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New Iranian Protest video.
