On May 22, prisoners at Virginia’s Red Onion State Prison [ht: db] began a hunger strike. The series started Dec. 9, 2010, with a sit-down strike by thousands of prisoners in Georgia, tired of being forced to work for free like slaves, followed by Lucasville prisoners’ hunger strike at Ohio State Penitentiary in January 2011 [...]
Posts Tagged ‘protests’
Protest of the day
Posted: 28 May 2012 in UncategorizedTags: Appalachia, California, coal, Georgia, Ohio, prisoners, protests, race, Virginia
0
Cartoon of the day
Posted: 28 May 2012 in UncategorizedTags: banks, capitalism, cartoon, jobs, protests, Syria, United States, war
Special mention
[ht: er]
Demonstrators in Montreal have continued to defy an emergency law passed by the provincial government in Quebec to restrict protests by students against planned tuition fee hikes.
Tens of thousands of people clogged Montreal’s streets to commemorate the 100th day of Quebec’s student strikes and to protest the new security law.
Protest of the day
Posted: 20 May 2012 in UncategorizedTags: Chicago, inequality, NATO, protests, war
Another day of protests in Chicago, as NATO begins its two-day summit.
Tom Morello and the National Nurses United protest in Chicago yesterday.
Protest of the day
Posted: 15 May 2012 in UncategorizedTags: austerity, Occupy Wall Street, protests, Spain
Protesters hold up a banner that reads, “Regime of the 1%, Crisis for the 99%,” during a protest marking the one-year anniversary of Spain’s Indignados (Indignant) movement in Madrid’s Puerta del Sol.
Thousands of protestors took to the streets of Moscow, and hundreds were swept up the police, before and during Vladimir V. Putin’s third inauguration as president.
It needs to get better
Posted: 5 May 2012 in UncategorizedTags: GLBTQ, Notre Dame, protests, students
source
