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Police in Moscow Overpower Opposition Rally (Peter Finn, Washington Post)
april 2007 by kellyramsey
"at least 170 other anti-Kremlin activists were detained Saturday after hundreds of riot police sealed off Moscow's Pushkin Square and clubbed some protesters to prevent a banned opposition rally and march."
social-movements
unrest
Russia
april 2007 by kellyramsey
Protesters turn on Putin (Luke Harding, The Observer)
april 2007 by kellyramsey
"About 2,000 opposition demonstrators gathered in Pushkin Square, defying an official ban on their meeting and threats of arrest. It was the largest-ever anti-Putin rally in the Russian capital."
social-movements
unrest
Russia
april 2007 by kellyramsey
Huge Protest in Iraq Demands U.S. Withdraw (Edward Wong, New York Times)
april 2007 by kellyramsey
"Tens of thousands of protesters loyal to Moktada al-Sadr, the Shiite cleric, took to the streets of the holy city of Najaf on Monday in an extraordinarily disciplined rally to demand an end to the American military presence in Iraq"
social-movements
unrest
Iraq
april 2007 by kellyramsey
Moqtada rallies Shia to demand withdrawal of foreign troops (Michael Howard, The Guardian)
april 2007 by kellyramsey
"a member of Mr Sadr's al-Mahdi militia from Baghdad, said that about 1m-1.5 million supporters of Mr Sadr had taken part, though police estimates gave a figure of less than a million."
social-movements
unrest
Iraq
april 2007 by kellyramsey
Iraqis Loyal to Cleric Protest U.S. Occupation (Edward Wong, New York Times)
april 2007 by kellyramsey
"Mr. Sadr has increasingly tapped into a powerful desire among Shiites to forcefully stand up both to American presence and to recalcitrant Sunni Arabs, with a Kalashnikov if necessary, and to eschew calls for moderation from older clerics."
social-movements
unrest
Iraq
april 2007 by kellyramsey
Huge turnout for anti-US rally (The Guardian)
april 2007 by kellyramsey
al-Sadr finally plays the nonviolent resistance card: "Hundreds of thousands of supporters of the radical Shia cleric Moqtada al-Sadr took to the streets of two Shia holy cities in Iraq today and protested against "US occupiers"."
social-movements
unrest
Iraq
april 2007 by kellyramsey
A New, Computer-Generated Voice (Mark Magnier, Los Angeles Times)
september 2006 by kellyramsey
China struggles with censorship and the suppression of online dissent. Meanwhile, various pissants in the West fret about not having 24-7 broadband access to free non-DRMed music and video.
censorship
police-state
China
unrest
september 2006 by kellyramsey
Pollution fuelling social unrest in China | Reuters
april 2006 by kellyramsey
"China's environment chief has made a rare official admission that serious water and air pollution is fuelling social tension, protests and riots."
China
unrest
april 2006 by kellyramsey
Farmers in China Face Great Wall | LA Times
april 2006 by kellyramsey
"Uneducated farmers, once considered the backbone of the Communist Party, are facing off in growing numbers against well-funded local officials versed in divide-and-conquer tactics, intimidation and backroom dealing."
China
unrest
april 2006 by kellyramsey
China Protest Claims 800 Hunger Strikers | Telegraph
february 2006 by kellyramsey
Claims *to have participating*, not claims *to have caused the untimely ends of*
China
unrest
february 2006 by kellyramsey
More Than 115,000 Chinese Disciplined | Washington Post
february 2006 by kellyramsey
"The Chinese Communist Party disciplined more than 115,000 members for corruption and related violations last year and turned more than 15,000 of them over to the courts for prosecution, the government reported Tuesday."
China
unrest
february 2006 by kellyramsey
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