Merrion Row, Dublin, literally minutes ago.
Snug.
(Alan McSherry)
Protesters Lockdown Finance Dept. (Lyndsey Telford, Irish Independent)
Tag Archives: protest
Via Independent Legal Observers
Thanks Allan Dixon
Anti ‘monster dump’ protesters including (bottom pic. No the other bottom pic) Avi Jacobson and Quiva Murphy age 4 at the demonstration outside Fingal County Council offices in Swords yesterday.
(Photocall Ireland)
Post budget protests on Merrion Street and at the front gates of Leinster House last night.
Budget 2012 As It Happened (Tuesday) (RTE News)
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USI deputy president Colm Murphy talks to gardai (top pic) as students occupy the Department of Social Protection building yesterday demanding clarification of Labour’s position on education cuts and third level fees.
(Photocall Ireland)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjnR7xET7Uo
Less than a week after police were recorded beating students with batons at the University of California, Berkeley, here’s the unedifying sight of Lt John Pike casually dousing peaceful protesters with military-grade pepper spray at the UC Davis campus on Friday.
According to an open letter to the University’s chancellor Linda Katehi by English professor Nathan Brown, the brutality didn’t end there:
Police used batons to try to push the students apart. Those they could separate, they arrested, kneeling on their bodies and pushing their heads into the ground. Those they could not separate, they pepper- sprayed directly in the face, holding these students as they did so. When students covered their eyes with their clothing, police forced open their mouths and pepper- sprayed down their throats. Several of these students were hospitalized. Others are seriously injured. One of them, forty- five minutes after being pepper- sprayed down his throat, was still coughing up blood.
Yesterday, Chancellor Katehi, who initially approved Friday’s police action, received an epic helping of the silent treatment from still-protesting students as she walked to her car.
Now that’s free speech.
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A version of the Monopoly board complete with accessories, a penniless Frank Moneybags, a series of transnational corporations in place of utilities and a shoutout to fellow tagger Tox – Banksy’s show of support for the OccupyLondon movement at St Paul’s Cathedral last night.
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This Friday is the 44th anniversary of the day when 70,000 demonstrators gathered at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC to protest the Vietnam war.
Later that day, 50,000 marched to the Pentagon, among them legendary counterculture vibesters Abbie Hoffman, Allen Ginsberg and The Fugs, who hadn’t simply come to protest the war. They had come to exorcise (exorgasm) the Pentagon, then levitate it using a magical incantation prepared by the Fugs’ Ed Sanders.
The levitation may not have happened, but some who were there apparently witnessed the building ‘shudder a bit’.
They were, of course, very high indeed.
Here’s rare 16mm footage of the day shot by Edward Folger who describes it as an “impressionistic immersion in the experience of the march.”
44th Anniversary Of The Exorcism Of The Pentagon (Dangerous Minds)
It’s hard to muster up a decent head of outrage in a country with free healthcare and virtually no unemployment, but 27-year-old Simen Spikkeland, who’s set up camp outside the Oslo Stock Exchange, is prepared to give it a shot.
The sign reads: ‘The Stock Exchange Owns You!’
Go Simen!
