(CNN) – The demonstrators have no clear leader. Many say Twitter posts and Facebook groups brought them to the streets of Mexico’s capital and cities around the country. With presidential elections less than six weeks away, they are protesting media coverage of the campaign and criticizing the candidate widely seen as the front-runner. Local media reports have described it as “the… Read more →
(Reuters) – Millions of Egyptians, choosing their leader freely for the first time in their history, voted on Thursday in a fraught contest between Islamists and former officials of President Hosni Mubarak who was toppled in a popular uprising last year. After six decades under authoritarian, military-backed rule, Egypt’s 50 million eligible voters may entrust the most populous Arab nation… Read more →
We’re learning today that just last year, at a public forum, George Zimmerman publicly testified against the Sanford police department in defense of a homeless black man. In other words, what we have here is more proof that the media narrative surrounding the shooting of Trayvon Martin might just end up being the most disgraced and failed media narrative since… Read more →
Nearly 700 people have been detained in two Quebec cities in the biggest single night of mass arrests since student protests over fees began in February. Police invoked a controversial new law designed to curb demonstrations as they detained 518 people in Montreal and another 176 in Quebec City. The protests against a planned rise in tuition charges escalated after… Read more →
(multimedia) Over the past year, a lot of people have been talking about “the 1%” versus “the 99%.” But if you’re concerned about one class exploiting another for economic gain, that’s the wrong way to look at the problem. The protesters are right about one thing: there are gross class inequities in America. There is one class that works more… Read more →
At least 100 people have been arrested in Montreal as the latest in a series of protests against a planned rise in student tuition fees turned ugly. The main protest passed off peacefully as tens of thousands of demonstrators filled the streets of the Quebec city. But trouble broke out in the evening as some students began throwing bottles and… Read more →
video platformvideo managementvideo solutionsvideo player Two prominent U.S. lawyers are among the skeptics questioning whether evidence in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin supports the second-degree murder charge against George Zimmerman, given the confessed shooter’s apparent injuries and freshly released eyewitness accounts. “There is no second-degree murder evidence in this case,” Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz said. “It’s a very close… Read more →
(multimedia) Police clash with demonstrators protesting the NATO Summit during a march through downtown streets on Sunday in Chicago. Sunday, May 20, 2012. CHICAGO (AP) – Chicago braced for more demonstrations Monday, with protesters vowing to march to the Boeing Corp. headquarters a day after police clashed with a group of demonstrators at the end of a march protesting the NATO… Read more →
CHICAGO (AP) — Three men arrested earlier this week when police raided a Chicago apartment were being held Saturday on terrorismconspiracy charges, accused of trying to make Molotov cocktails ahead of the NATO summit. Their attorney, Sarah Gelsomino, said the men are “absolutely in shock and have no idea where these charges are coming from.” They were scheduled to be in court later Saturday for… Read more →
NATO weekend is officially here. Busloads of Occupiers, anarchists, communists, and other radicals have been arriving for the past few days in Chicago. Events and “actions” began on Monday this week with 8 arrests that morning at the Obama campaign headquarters and continued that afternoon on the south side of Chicago at a protest organized by the Chicago Teachers Union… Read more →
