ShareCannabis cultivator confounds the authorities
A man who has been on a hunger strike since his imprisonment for growing and trading in cannabis continues to confuse the authorities about how they should react
Bernard Rappaz is now in Bern’s Insel hospital and doctors have been told by Esther Waeber-Kalbermatten, a member of the Valais government who is [...]
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There is a thin line that separates violence sanctioned by the state – the use of police force – from violence that isn’t. That line is our collective consent to be held to certain behaviour. In our name, the state delegates the regulation of this behaviour to the police and other law enforcement agencies. This [...]
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“We’re for seeds that have never been touched by multinationals. In our advocacy, we say that seeds are the patrimony of humanity. No one can control them,” said Doudou Pierre, national coordinating committee member of the National Haitian Network for Food Sovereignty and Food Security (RENHASSA), in a recent interview. “We reject Monsanto and their [...]
ShareThe People’s Republic of Bangladesh has blocked Facebook in the wake of public protests against images of the Prophet Muhammad that were hosted on the social network. The block was also imposed in part because of unfavorable caricatures of prominent political figures.
The protests were in response to groups and pages like “Everyone Draw Mohammed Day,” which [...]
ShareThe incident occurred about 9:30 p.m. Friday on Hollywood Boulevard, just east of Highland Avenue, where about 400 bicyclists were traveling east, according to a statement from the Los Angeles Police Department.
Hollywood Area bike unit officers were patrolling the area, watching for red light violations and issuing citations. “As officers attempted to detain several bicyclists, [...]
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Afghans Protest Deadly Nighttime Raid: “If the Americans Do This Again, We Are Ready to Shed Our Blood Fighting Them”
Mourners continued to gather on Saturday in the small farming village of Koshkaky, in eastern Afghanistan’s Nangarhar province, where an early Friday morning raid by US and Afghan Special Forces left eight people dead. The military [...]
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I’ve always been pretty open about the fact that I am not a fan of Facebook. I find the site to be difficult to use, shocking I know since grandmas seem to command it with ease. However I did eventually create a bare bones account simply because I write about events each week and most [...]
ShareA protest on the Japanese island of Okinawa calling for the closure of a United States military base attracted almost 100,000 people on Sunday, after speculations that the Japanese government may back out of an election promise to force it off the island entirely.
The base, Marine Corps Air Station Futenma, has been long criticized by the Japanese people, [...]
ShareI found this video at Mikes Blog. It seems the white man with the long beard was speaking out against the protesters and was met with violence.
Mike’s point is well taken. There is NO violence at any of the hundreds of tea party protests in this nation and yet they are smeared with a massive media campaign [...]
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