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(Newser) - Canadian Tamil demonstrators protesting fighting in Sri Lanka shut down a highway in Toronto for several hours, reports CNN. Some estimated the crowd at several thousands. As many as 70,000 people have been killed in Sri Lanka's civil war. Government troops are pressing a final assault on the rebel... More »

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Canada • Sri Lanka • Tamil Tigers • protests • Toronto • protesters • Sri Lankan Army • Jay-ZTV

(AP) - Hundreds of thousands of European workers feeling the pinch of the economic crisis rallied at May Day protests today from Moscow to Berlin to Istanbul. Violence and clashes between police and angry protesters disrupted some events, including in Greece, Germany, and Turkey. But overall participation fell short of what many... More »

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Germany • Europe • France • protests • May Day • labor unions

 France Steels 
 for Raucous May Day 

Rising tide of discontent has many French talking about a revolution

May 1, 09 3:46 AM CDT
(Newser) - France's traditional May Day marches are expected to be bigger and angrier than ever today, the BBC reports. Unemployment nearing 10% has swelled the ranks of the discontented. More than 300 rallies are planned across the country to protest the government's handling of the financial crisis. Many accuse President Nicolas... More »

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France • protests • May Day • financial crisis

Kenyan Women Use Sex Strike to Sway Politics

They want political rivals to stop infighting

Apr 29, 09 12:23 PM CDT
(Newser) - Kenyan women are withholding sex in hopes of forcing an end to the squabbling that threatens to break the government's fragile coalition and plunge the nation into chaos, the AP reports. Thousands of members of 11 women's groups are participating in the week-long strike, and they have asked the wives... More »

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Africa • Kenya • politics • women • sex • protests • boycott • coalition government

(Newser) - Five House Democrats were arrested today at a protest outside the Sudanese embassy in Washington, the AFP reports. The five are being detained, along with three protest organizers, for refusing a police order to disperse. The protesters were calling for the Sudan to allow humanitarian groups to return to Darfur. More »

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Darfur • Sudan • protests • John Lewis

(Newser) - A second autopsy of the man who died during recent G20 protests in London revealed that abdominal bleeding, not a heart attack, killed him, the New York Times reports. The follow-up by a board looking into police misconduct did not specify what caused the bleeding. But Ian Tomlinson was filmed... More »

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London • crime • England • protests • heart attack • hemorrhage • coroner's report • G20 • Ian Tomlinson • bleeding

(Newser) - Evaluations of the effectiveness of yesterday’s anti-tax “tea parties” are split predictably down partisan lines, Chris Cillizza writes for the Washington Post. Republicans touted the protests, which brought out tens of thousands and garnered major media coverage, as a success. “I think something is going on out... More »

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Democrats • taxes • government spending • GOP • protests • grassroots • blogger • Obama administration • cable news • President Obama • Republicans • tea parties

(Newser) - Texas Gov. Rick Perry thinks this union of states we call America is a pretty good thing, but he warned that Washington better not take it for granted, the Dallas Morning News reports. "There's absolutely no reason to dissolve it," he told reporters after addressing the anti-tax, anti-big-government... More »

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Texas • taxes • Austin • protests • Rick Perry • governor • secession • Kay Bailey Hutchison

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 Anti-Tax Faithful 
 Rally at Tea Parties 


Apr 15, 09 6:32 PM CDT
(AP) - Whipped up by conservative commentators and bloggers, tens of thousands of protesters staged "tea parties" around the country today to tap into the collective angst stirred up by a bad economy, government spending, and bailouts. Protesters even threw what appeared to be a box of tea bags toward the... More »

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(Newser) - Want to get in on the fun and excitement of the anti-Obama Taxpayer Tea Party? Here’s how, writes Marc Cooper in the Los Angeles Times: “Go to a hobby store. Buy a scale model of a UN One-World-Government Black Helicopter and a tube of glue. Toss the... More »

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taxes • government spending • conservative • tea • protests • political demonstrations • Obama administration • tea parties

Tax-Day 'Tea Parties' Test Aversion to Obama Spending

Tens of thousands set to attend nationwide demonstrations

Apr 15, 09 10:02 AM CDT
(Newser) - Fiscal conservatives across the country will reenact Revolutionary history today with tea parties in every state to protest taxes and increased spending, ABC News reports. Tens of thousands are registered to attend in major cities, testing whether anti-Obama budget sentiment, which has picked up steam on the Internet, with help... More »

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taxes • government spending • tea • protests • political demonstrations • Obama administration • President Obama • tea parties

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 Gunfight Causes 
 First Deaths 
 in Thai Riots 

Marketplace fight led to shooting: minister

Apr 13, 09 11:41 AM CDT
(Newser) - As political street-fighting rages on in Thailand, a gun battle in a residential area of Bangkok has led to the first two deaths, authorities tell the AP. A government spokesman said the encounter was between anti-government protesters and local residents, who were angry over the continuing demonstrations. More than 100... More »

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(Newser) - Anti-government protesters ignored Thailand’s state of emergency by the thousands today while former PM Thaksin Shinawatra called on them “to come out in revolution,” the New York Times reports. In defiance of a ban on gatherings of more than five people in Bangkok, demonstrators rallied outside the... More »

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Thailand • protests • Bangkok • arrest • state of emergency • Thaksin Shinawatra • political demonstrations • protesters • Thai protesters

 State of Emergency 
 Declared in Bangkok 

Gov't bans gatherings of more than 5 in capital

Apr 12, 09 5:55 AM CDT
(AP) - Thailand's embattled government, humiliated by demonstrators who shut down a 16-nation Asian summit, declared a state of emergency in the capital today and ordered armored vehicles into the streets to stem a tide of protest across the country. Bands of anti-government protesters roamed Bangkok as the decree was announced. They... More »

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Thailand • protests • Bangkok • state of emergency • political demonstrations • Thai protesters

New Yorker Who Cracked G20 Death Case Backs Probe

London visitor came forward with evidence of police attack

Apr 9, 09 8:58 AM CDT
(Newser) - The New Yorker whose video revealed a police attack on a man who died during the G20 protests is glad the footage has led to an investigation, he tells the Guardian. The fund manager, who attended the London protests out of curiosity, came forward with the footage after hearing of... More »

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London • protests • Britain • police brutality • G20 • Ian Tomlinson

 Getty Nails 
 Guerrilla Girls 
 Archive 

Rad fems' files going to LA research institute

Apr 9, 09 2:57 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Guerrilla Girls gang of subversive feminist artists has apparently reached an accommodation with the white male establishment with an agreement to turn over the organization's archives to the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles, reports the Independent. "We've had this stuff sitting in boxes for ages,"... More »

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art • protests • guerilla • feminists • female artists • guerilla art

Business Is Booming for French 'Protest Coach'

Parisian makes a living schooling dissenters in the art of civil disobedience

Apr 8, 09 6:01 AM CDT
(Newser) - France's leading "protest consultant" has never been busier, he tells the Wall Street Journal. Xavier Renou provides—for a discretionary fee—tips and training courses for anticapitalist protesters on making sure their message is heard. Renou sticks to nonviolent means, but has plenty of practical advice on everything from... More »

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France • protests • activist • political protest • civil disobedience • consultant

 Protesters Swarm Bangkok 

More than 30,000 red-shirts gather for 'D-Day' attempt to oust PM

Apr 8, 09 5:06 AM CDT
(Newser) - The political protests in Thailand continued to rage as some 30,000 red-shirted supporters of exiled former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra thronged the main government offices in Bangkok, where fellow protesters have staged a sit-in for the past two weeks. Thousands more are expected for a “D-Day” push to... More »

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Thailand • protests • Bangkok • Thaksin Shinawatra • Abhisit Vejjajiva

G20 Cop Attack Sparks Demand for Investigation

Officials seek probe in death of man knocked down by riot police

Apr 8, 09 3:40 AM CDT
(Newser) - British officials are calling for a criminal investigation into a police attack on a man who died during the G20 protests in London last week, the Daily Telegraph reports. Video of the incident, shot by a New Yorker in town on business, shows a "sickening and unprovoked attack" by... More »

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London • protests • Scotland Yard • death • police brutality • G20 • riot police

Twitter Fuels Moldovan Anti-Communist Riots

Moldovan youth use social networking to mobilize against election result

Apr 8, 09 2:55 AM CDT
(Newser) - Thousands of young Moldovans have been using Twitter and other social networking sites to mobilize against the Communist Party's election victory, the New York Times reports. A crowd of some10,000 young activists, accusing the government of vote-rigging in Sunday's race, clashed with riot police outside the country's parliament yesterday,... More »

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social networking • Eastern Europe • Communist Party • protests • Twitter • Moldova

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