Tag: "Protest"

The War on Women: Faceless Casualties at the Frontlines of the Right-Wing’s Evil Crusade

By Kyle Becker on Mar 13, 2012 in Opinion

By Vanessa M. Kyllove, embedded girlilla journalist with the Feminists for Freedom brigade, second battalion, reporting from America’s frontlines for Gender Neutrality Journal. It has been a long, joyless 342 days since the hard right announced its crusade to eradicate womyn’s rights and to throw civilization back into the dark ages. The Wellsley college campanile [...]

UK Embassy In Iran Stormed By Angry Rioters

By R. Mitchell on Nov 29, 2011 in In The News

The following is from BBC News: Militant students are said to have removed the British flag, burnt it and replaced it with the Iranian flag. They were also shown live on Iranian state TV throwing stones at embassy windows and breaking them. The move comes after Iran resolved to reduce ties following the UK’s decision [...]

Los Angeles Offers "Occupy" Protestors 10,000 Sq Ft Office If They Leave Camp

By R. Mitchell on Nov 22, 2011 in In The News, Opinion

In the “rewarding bad behavior” file, we have this. The City of Los Angeles is said to be offering their “occupy” protestors a whole lot of goodies if they agree to leave their camp. The following excerpt is from LATimes.com. …city officials have offered protesters a $1-a-year lease on a 10,000-square-foot office space near City [...]

U.C. Davis Student Gives Her Side Of Pepper Spray Story

By R. Mitchell on Nov 21, 2011 in In The News

The story of students being sprayed with peppers spray by U.C. Davis police has caused a lot of different reactions on the internet and in the media lately. As it turns out, the U.C. Davis police chief has been put on administrative leave and this student call into CNN to give her side of what [...]

I Occupied Occupy Denver

By R. Mitchell on Nov 13, 2011 in Featured Posts, Politics

Already there had been quite a bit of excitement surrounding the Blogcon 2011 conference in Denver. On Friday the gang from the local Occupy Denver protest decided to take a trip down to the Crowne Plaza hotel, where the event was being held and do their level best to disrupt our evil, insidious, Koch Brothers-funded [...]

Italian Protest Claims It Was Inspired By OWS. Turns Out Violent.

By R. Mitchell on Oct 16, 2011 in Videos

Well, color me surprised. The Italians had their own “Occupy Wall Street” styled riot protest, and it turned out violent. That seems SOOO unlike Europeans too. And it sounds like unlike Liberals, now that I think about it. Oh, well. It could never happen here. Right? Watch the video below to see what a “peaceful” [...]