Italian Purple People Protest Berlusconi the Bombastic
On a crisp, sunlit winter morning, Via Del Corso — the main street that cuts a straight line through the tangled alleys and piazzas of the historic center of Rome — has ground to a halt. Its two lanes...
View ArticleChina Overreacting to Fears of Arab-Spring Style Uprising
Editor’s Note: Outspoken Chinese artist Ai Weiwei was released from jail late Wednesday after being detained for 80 days in Beijing. Here’s a Miller-McCune.com report published on April 5 that...
View ArticleThe No Nukes That Turned to Slow Nukes
“No Diablo,” chanted thousands of protesters at the gates of the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant near San Luis Obispo, Calif., in September of 1981. “No Diablo over me.” The 10-day gathering came two...
View Article#OWS: Have We Entered the Age of Protest?
The Occupy Wall Street movement is in many ways a sign of the moment. The unemployment rate has been hanging out around 9 percent for more than two years. Income inequality is rising. Washington’s...
View Article#OWS: What Took So Long?
Among the many issues raised by the Occupy Wall Street movement, perhaps the most basic is: What took so long? Why did three years elapse between the time reckless financial traders nearly brought down...
View ArticleWhen Memes Collide: Tank Man, Pepper Spray Cop
Thanks to quick-thinking protesters and bystanders carrying cellphone cameras, Web surfers around the world quickly learned the story of what happened at UC Davis on November 18. The event began with...
View ArticleOWS, Egypt Expose Limits of Town Square Test
Many of last year’s most dramatic photographs showed people packing public places to sound off. We saw memorable images of crowds gathering at Tahrir Square to lambast one government then castigate its...
View ArticleWhen Extreme Animal Rights Activists Attack
This is the third of several stories exploring the contentious relationship between the scientific community, which insists animal research is essential to medical progresss, and the animal rights...
View ArticleOrwellian Update: Undercover Cops Spying on Protesters via Cell Phones
Watch out, Occupiers and other protesters: the guy next to you taking cellphone snapshots may not be a fellow traveller, but an undercover officer sending real-time video to a distant spy center. As...
View ArticleProtest. Arrest. Dismiss. Repeat
It’s as much ritual as protest, and both sides know the drill cold. Before the test launch of an ICBM, anti-nuclear demonstrators clutching homemade signs gather outside Central California’s Vandenberg...
View ArticleWhere Have All the Protesters Gone?
A couple of years ago at a trade show I met an Egyptian business executive. He had come to Barcelona directly from the Tahrir Square protests in Egypt, where he’d been brained by a rock thrown by...
View ArticlePeace Protest Kabuki Now Booked for the High Court’s Stage
Last October I talked about the kabuki of the Vandenberg peace protesters, who routinely demonstrate right outside of the California missile base’s front gate, are just as routinely arrested, and then...
View ArticleAre the Protests in Brazil Due to Falling Inequality Levels?
This past Monday, in an attempt to calm the nation’s growing discontent, Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff proposed a vote to amend the country’s constitution. “The streets are telling us that the...
View ArticleAsia Watches as Taiwan’s Democracy Falters
Thousands of protesters in Taiwan have been occupying the country’s legislature for a week now, demanding that the ruling party retracts a trade deal with China, which they say was negotiated behind...
View ArticleMaking Police Departments More Diverse Isn’t Enough
The shooting of an unarmed black teenager by a white cop in Ferguson, Missouri, has inspired nationwide protest and reflection about (among other things) the racial dynamics of police departments and...
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