Two Tibetan Buddhist Monks Protest China, Set Selves On Fire At Jokhang Temple In Lhasa, Tibet
May 28, 2012
Two men engulfed themselves in towering flames outside a temple that is a popular tourist site in Lhasa, marking the first time a recent wave of self-immolations to protest Chinese rule has reached the tightly guarded Tibetan capital, a U.S. broadcaster reported Monday.
Radio Free Asia said in a statement that the men were taken away by authorities within minutes of setting themselves on fire Sunday outside the Jokhang Temple.
(via truedemocracy)
Tens of thousands march across Tbilisi in anti-government rally
May 28, 2012
Check this video out! It is such an exciting time to be a revolutionary. Between 30,000 and 100,000 (I always lean toward the larger estimate as numbers at protests I go to seem to always be under-reported) people have taken to the streets of Tbilisi in anti-government demonstrations in Georgia.Different estimates say between 30,000 and 100,000 people have flooded the streets of Tbilisi in the largest in three years of anti-government demonstrations in Georgia’s capital.
50,000 people flooded the streets of Casablanca to address the government’s failure to address the growing unemployment rates & injustice issues throughout the country.
Currently, nearly half of all people 15 to 29 in Morocco are neither employed or going to school.
Very proud to introduce the brand spankin’ new website for #OccupyCityHeights!
Success! I’m so glad Occupy issues are being brought to court — it’s one of the main ways laws get changed in the U.S. — And considering how ineffective our politicians are, it may be our only hope.
#A federal judge has granted a preliminary injunction to block the so-called “Homeland Battlefield” provisions of the National Defense Authorization Act that would allow the military to indefinitely detain anyone it accuses of knowingly or unknowingly supporting terrorism, ruling it unconstitutional. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges filed the suit along with Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg, Noam Chomsky, Icelandic parliamentarian Birgitta Jonsdottir, Occupy London organizer Kai Wargalla, and Alexa O’Brien, an organizer for U.S. Day of Rage. They call themselves the Freedom Seven.
#RT points out that a repeal of the Homeland Battlefield provision would only protect American citizens from arbitrary arrest; citizens the world over would still face indefinite detention.
#The day after the injunction was issued, the House voted down an amendment to the NDAA that would have blocked the Homeland Battlefield provisionshttp://occupiedmedia.us/2012/05/occupied-reports-from-the-front-lines-11/
More from the Los Angeles Times:
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/environment/la-me-gs-national-defense-authorization-ruling-20120518,0,2046039.story
The government isn’t thinking for the future. One issue: insane amount of student debt. We’re expected to pay for the debt -fine. Issue two: Lack of jobs. No jobs = no income = debt -not fine. In fact, impossible.
My goal was to become a doctor, but I don’t think I can even continue to afford my undergraduate education. I’ve already been telling myself to accept the reality and go to college near home instead; giving up what I love, and taking up something I have no interest in. Might as well just not go to post-secondary altogether.
It’s obvious, the government has designed society in such a way where only the rich can excel. Only the rich can be educated to get good jobs, to get even more rich. Way to increase the gap between the rich and poor.
“Right to an education”? Well, my education is going to be taken away soon (by the very people who “enforced” that statement -the government) because the government made it impossible for me to continue university.
Retired Episcopal Bishop George Packard was arrested in Vietnam Veterans Memorial Plaza in New York City on Tuesday night as he participated in the May 1 Occupy demonstrations. He and 15 other military veterans were taken into custody after they linked arms to hold the plaza against a police attempt to clear it. There were protesters behind them who, perhaps because of confusion, perhaps because of miscommunication or perhaps they were unwilling to risk arrest, melted into the urban landscape. But those in the thin line from Veterans for Peace, of which the bishop is a member, stood their ground. They were handcuffed, herded into a paddy wagon and taken to jail.
#Montreal: Approx 300-400 thousand students and supporters walk Rene Levesque Blvd on May 22
(via truedemocracy)
this was out side of Oakland tech #hella #occupy #bus #graffiti #Oakland #tech (Taken with instagram)
that was either Friday or Monday when we hit up all the high schools in Oakland and even Berkeley High
