John Pike ("Pepper Spray Cop," "Pepper Spraying Cop" or "Casually Pepper Spraying Everything Cop") was a lieutenant in the UC Davis Police Department. He gained notoriety for pepper spraying peaceful, sitting protesters during the UC Davis protest on Friday November 18.
Chess players in Myanmar protest the military coup and arrest of Aung San Suu Kyi by playing without their queens.
RIP Loukanikos (~2004-2014)
Local protests began in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul metropolitan area of Minnesota before quickly spreading nationwide and in over 2,000 cities and towns in over 60 countries in support of the Black Lives Matter movement. Protests continued throughout June, July, and August, with polls at the time estimating that between 15 million and 26 million people had participated at some point in the demonstrations in the United States, making the protests the largest in United States history.
Vicky Osterweil is the author of an essay I liked in the New Inquiry called "In Defense of Looting," which she has expanded into a book that was recently published.
"[Looting] also attacks the very way in which food and things are distributed. It attacks the idea of property, and it attacks the idea that in order for someone to have a roof over their head or have a meal ticket, they have to work for a boss, in order to buy things that people just like them somewhere else in the world had to make under the same conditions. It points to the way in which that's unjust."
The Colorado Coalfield War was a major labor uprising in the southern and central Colorado Front Range between September 1913 and April 1914
Al Jazeera's 24-minute documentary about Occupy Wall Street (2012)
This is pretty funny.
Joshua Clover, as usual, with the good takes on the current riots.
A couple of weeks after I visited the Eagan Parkrun.
Riot is the recourse of surplus populations: both Marx's "industrial reserve army" and the lumpen, the excluded — those who are "chronically outside the formal wage, or 'structurally unemployed.' "
An interview with Joshua Clover (author of Riot. Strike. Riot) on the biopolitical turn toward eco-nationalism
Good interview with an activist in Hong Kong.
A first-hand account of a Hong Kong protest.
"In order to understand the nature of the Syrian conflict, it is essential that we remember the first years of the uprising, and, through remembering what took place between 2011 and 2014, dispel the myth that Syria has always been a proxy war or has always been a struggle between a secular government and jihadis. To ignore the years which lead Syria from a democratic uprising to a bloody proxy war is to read history backwards."
Uses Brazil's 2013 uprising as an example of how the labour union's fears of the far-right danger becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.
I enjoyed these first-person reflections by the author who was visiting her home in France during Acte IV of the protests.
This is a good account of the 1981 Brixton riots (but leads to a page linking to a large 90MB PDF).
CrimethInc's analysis of the Yellow Vest movement and the conundrum it presents to anarchists.
A report on the blockade of the ICE field office in Centennial, CO.
"Occupy Oakland began as a protest encampment at Frank H. Ogawa Plaza on October 10, 2011. Protestors renamed it Oscar Grant Plaza after a young man who was fatally shot by Bay Area Rapid Transit Police in 2009. The encampment was cleared out by multiple law enforcement agencies on October 25, 2011. The movement also helped spur the November 2, 2011 Oakland General Strike that shut down the Port of Oakland. Police again cleared the protest encampment at Frank Ogawa Plaza on November 14, 2011. Other protest encampments were created and subsequently dismantled by law enforcement. The last encampment at Snow Park was cleared on November 21, 2011."
Sizeable protests have been taking place in St. Louis almost every day since Officer Jason Stockley was acquitted in the shooting of Lamar Smith. Rebelutionary Z has been streaming most actions live on his stream: http://rebz.tv/
I've been watching these protests on the http://reb.tv livestream.
"[Drew Burbridge] was separated from his wife, Jennifer, who alleged that she was taunted by officers who asked her if she 'liked' watching her husband being beaten and told her 'Come back tomorrow and we can do this again.'"
If you want riots, wear your riot gear
If you want violence, then shoot your tear gas in the air
Redneck Revolt got some coverage in the Guardian:
"Redneck Revolt is a nationwide organization of armed political activists from rural, working-class backgrounds who strive to reclaim the term “redneck” and promote active anti-racism. It is not an exclusively white group, though it does take a special interest in the particular travails of the white poor. The organization’s principles are distinctly left-wing: against white supremacy, against capitalism and the nation-state, in support of the marginalized."
A long Austin Chronicle article on the Red Guards Austin. My favorite part is when the assistant chief of police calls them "anarchists". Marxist-Leninists love that.
It's almost unbelievable to me how much effort law enforcement put into identifying someone accused of throwing an unlit molotov at a protest.
According to various sources, more than 2,000 people were at the protest at John F. Kennedy International Airport in Queens, New York City with other protests appearing at significant international airports around the U.S.
This is by far the best defense of looting I have read today.
"The trial revealed that CPD infiltrators Mehmet Uygun and Nadia Chikko, known to the activists as 'Mo' and 'Gloves,' helped plan and instigate the crimes. They plied the defendants with alcohol, getting them drunk on multiple occasions, helped purchase gasoline for the Molotov cocktails, and even cut up a bandanna to use as a wick."
The Denver Post also reports "Six arrested in downtown Denver Protest": http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_25505064/six-arrested-downtown-denver-protest
There was also a "not one more deportation" pro-immigration march scheduled earlier in the afternoon on Saturday, but I haven't seen any reporting on it. I guess no one got arrested.
As someone only peripherally involved but who followed along with the news, I thought Kelsey Whipple did a great job reporting on Occupy Denver.
I'm number 4!
This was a day after I was arrested. There was a big demonstration in Denver with DPD shooting kids out of trees with pepper balls and everything.
The Westword's coverage of Denver's October 15:
http://blogs.westword.com/latestword/2011/10/occupy_denver_denver_largest_gathering_police.php
I think Wikipedia editors have done a fine job of summarizing these movements. There's also a separate "Timeline of the Arab Spring" article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_Arab_Spring
See also the impressive "List of Occupy movement protest locations": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Occupy_movement_protest_locations
"A protest group called “Occupy Denver” that used to protest in downtown Denver and in public areas has now reverted to a different tactic — descending on a quiet Denver neighborhood every Sunday afternoon and protesting outside the private home of a Denver business leader whose organization supported Denver’s urban camping ban"
Apparently The Denver Post Editorial Board thinks it is okay to harass and arrest the propertyless for sleeping, but rent-seeking CEOs should be left alone. Good thing The Denver Post is keeping an eye on the situation, otherwise who would lookout for the interests of the rich and powerful?
(I read revision 590841297: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Reactions_to_Occupy_Wall_Street&oldid=590841297)
"The ban makes it illegal to camp on public and private property in Denver. The City Council voted 9-4 to pass the ban in 2012."
This kid's one-man protest ended up stopping the bison slaughter for at least the rest of the year.
"Global Uprisings is an independent news site and video series dedicated to showing responses to the economic crisis from around the world."
For a balancing view, see Timothy Snyder's upcoming The New York Review article:
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2014/mar/20/fascism-russia-and-ukraine/?insrc=hpss
"But are the protests really as anti-nationalist and class conscience as we might hope? Or are they merely an outlet to the rising frustration and narrowing options for BiH’s youth? I talked to Minel Abaz, a student activist and organizer from Sarajevo, to find out."
"The 2014 unrest in Bosnia and Herzegovina is a series of demonstrations and riots that began in the northern town of Tuzla on 4 February 2014, but quickly spread to multiple cities in Bosnia and Herzegovina."
I read revision 595164490: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=2014_unrest_in_Bosnia_and_Herzegovina&oldid=595164490
"In short, we are dealing with a rebellion against nationalist elites: the people of Bosnia have finally understood who their true enemy is: not other ethnic groups, but their own leaders who pretend to protect them from others. It is as if the old and much-abused Titoist motto of the "brotherhood and unity" of Yugoslav nations acquired new actuality."