Tag: protests

Over the weekend, 16 people were arrested after trying to block the entrance to the Grant Town Power Plant, which burns pricey waste coal bought from Sen. Manchin’s company.

A total of 5,500 anti-war protesters have now been detained since Russian President Vladimir Putin launched a full-scale military assault on Ukraine.

A coalition completed a weeklong occupation of land close to the President’s home with two demands: that he declare a climate emergency and that he stop any new fossil fuel projects.

Those who want movements to fail will try to lure them into violence. A new handbook shows how to reduce that risk.

"We are glad the court has agreed to suspend enforcement of this key provision while we continue to advocate to ensure that protesters in Florida can safely exercise their right to speak out against injustice."

“The Olympics Games put tremendous pressure on the host city’s local budget, crash the democratic government process and destroy the environment."

People are taking to the streets to resist repression, from the U.S. to Japan.

We hear voices from protests in the Philippines, Mexico and Guatemala in a year where women have been disproportionately impacted by rising poverty, unemployment and violence during the pandemic.

Several participants ProPublica and FRONTLINE identified from video have direct links to the white nationalist movement.

While recent brutality against protests for racial justice is concerning, the decline in basic freedoms in the USA began before this crackdown.