Joshua Wong, the 17-Year-Old Leading Hong Kong’s Democracy Protests
▻http://www.newsweek.com/democracy-protests-hong-kong-are-led-17-year-old-274531
Joshua Wong, the 17-Year-Old Leading Hong Kong’s Democracy Protests
▻http://www.newsweek.com/democracy-protests-hong-kong-are-led-17-year-old-274531
Hong Kong protests
Here’s an updated map showing the key locations of the latest developments. CY’s offices are in the Admiralty area.
#Calais migrants in human rights protest
Migrants in Calais have taken part in a protest asking for human rights protection amid rising tensions at the French port.
When Will Orginary People Rise Up?
▻http://www.filmsforaction.org/articles/when-will-orginary-people-rise-up
Public uprisings and mass occupations have become a significant force for change on the world stage since 2011, as evidenced in the Middle East revolutions and Occupy protests across North...
#Jane-#Finch Residents Rally Against Immigrant Detentions
Protesters denounce police targeting of Latin American migrants as racial profiling.
#protestation #manifestation #détention #détention_administrative #rétention #racisme #xénophobie #controle_au_faciès #Canada #migration
Turkey protest in Istanbul over Syrian refugees
Hundreds of people have clashed with Turkish police in Istanbul during a protest against the rising number of refugees from Syria.
#Turquie #Syrie #réfugiés #asie #protestation #Istanbul #asile #police
#Canfin zappe le #Mali en raison de l’expulsion d’un étranger
Pour protester contre la reconduite à la frontière d’un Malien par le vol régulier dans lequel il devait embarquer vendredi, le ministre délégué au Développement, #Pascal_Canfin, a décidé de rester à Paris et de ne pas se rendre à Bamako.
▻http://www.lejdd.fr/Politique/Actualite/Pascal-Canfin-seche-le-Mali-en-raison-de-l-expulsion-d-un-etranger-604879
#expulsion #vol #protestation #renvoi
cc @reka
Anti-Arab protest erupts in Erbil
▻http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/video-anti-arab-march-held-kurds-erbil-397174944
#ERBIL - Tensions came to a peak Saturday afternoon, as hundreds of young Kurds weaved in and out of cars, hunting out Arabs in Iraqi Kurdistan’s capital, Erbil.
The young men, marching in anger at the increasing number of Arabs in Iraqi Kurdistan, began their pursuit in Erbil’s Arab Quarter.
Protestors chanted “Arabs are traitors,” and other anti-Arab slogans while they marched, periodically stopping near a known Arab apartment or business and intensifying their chants, some throwing stones at the buildings and windows, until police dispersed the crowd with tazers and batons.
With Islamic State militants making extensive gains to the west of Erbil after Kurdish Peshmerga forces retreated to official Kurdistan Regional Government borders, the Islamic State now virtually controls all of the Nineveh plains, causing tensions to escalate in Erbil. .
Police are now armed, and there is a constant on-patrol Peshmerga presence in the city center. Residents have expressed fears that even if the Islamic State cannot takeover Erbil—which seems highly unlikely considering recent United States involvement—that the usually safe city will become a target of car bombs, a tactic, the Islamic State has used to deadly effect in the cities of Baghdad and Kirkuk where they have been unable to gain control.
Protestors told Middle East Eye that the demonstration, which had a mob atmosphere, was a reaction to the thousands of Arab refugees who had fled into the Kurdish autonomous region recently seeking safety from the sweeping onslaught of Islamic State militants.
“We don’t want the Arabs here because they are all spies,” one protestor told MEE. “They come here to Kurdistan like they are refugees, but we know most of them are working with the Islamic State. If it was the other way, they wouldn’t help us, in the past they have killed us, we don’t want to help them.”
The belief that Iraqi refugees in Erbil were in the Kurdish region as spies for the Islamic State was widespread, with many protestors holding signs in Arabic and Kurdish that read, “You are spies, we are saving you and you are helping Da’ash [Islamic State].”
The national campaign against #IKEA in Italy
‘The warehouse worker has no fear’: this is the slogan that has been backing the national day against IKEA launched by the two grassroots unions S.I. Cobas and ADL Cobas for the 26th of July. The campaign against the well-known ready-to-assemble furniture company is inscribed in a longer round of struggles within the logistics sector, whose starting point can be traced back to the 2008 picket lines blocking the entrance of the warehouse of the large retail company Bennet in Origgio (VA). These struggles, involving several companies (like TNT, DHL, Esselunga, Granarolo), stemmed from the workers’ demands for better working conditions, fair wages and the protection of workers’ dignity, and have put under attack a twisted system of subcontracting used by firms to avoid compliance with the collective agreement and with the guarantees thereon provided to the workers.
Protest outside Home Office as authorities clamp down on anti-detention movement
Activists will gather outside the Home Office tomorrow, as they respond to reports that authorities violently broke up a protest in a detention centre this weekend.
▻http://www.politics.co.uk/news/2014/08/11/protest-outside-home-office-as-authorities-clamp-down-on-ant
#détention #détention_administrative #asile #migration #réfugiés #Home_Office #UK #Angleterre #protestation #manifestation #solidarité
Wedding photographer uses rivers as backdrops to protest hydroelectric plants
▻http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/wedding-photographer-uses-rivers-as-backdrops-to-protest-hydroele
20 detainees stage peaceful protest at Gatwick immigration centre and refuse to return to cells
ABOUT 20 detainees at a Gatwick immigration centre staged a peaceful protest last night and refused to return to their cells, according to firefighters.
At around midnight last night, inmates were reportedly protesting on a small section of grass within the Brook House Centre, located towards the south of the airport.
The complex, which was opened in 2009 and is designed to hold more than 400 people, is operated by security firm G4S.
It is unclear what the inmates were protesting over. A crew of firefighters were called from Horley Fire Station because a small bonfire had been lit, which was quickly extinguished.
G4S is currently looking into the issue and say they will respond in due course.
#détenton #détention_administrative #asile #migration #réfugiés #Gatwick #protestation #protestation_pacifique #UK #Angleterre
Detainees ’mocked and abused’ at immigration centre
G4S has suspended nine members of staff from an immigration removal centre near Gatwick Airport, following a BBC Panorama undercover investigation.
Hundreds of Thousands March in Day of Rage Against Israel
▻http://www.filmsforaction.org/articles/hundreds-of-thousands-march-in-day-of-rage-against-israel
As Israeli airstrikes continued to rain down on the the Gaza Strip on Saturday, hundreds of thousands of people worldwide are taking to the streets in an international Day of Rage to condemn the...
’The largest West Bank protest in decades’
Thousands of Palestinians in the West Bank and Jerusalem march in solidarity with Gaza, in the largest such protest in years. At least two were killed.
#Gaza #Israël #Cisjordanie #Palestine #protestation #marche #manifestation #solidarité
Flüchtlinge besetzen Berliner Fernsehturm
Berlin. Rund 40 Flüchtlinge haben am Mittwochnachmittag das Café des Berliner Fernsehturms besetzt, um gegen die deutsche und europäische Asylpolitik zu protestieren. Die Berliner Polizei ist mit mehreren Einsatzwagen und Beamten vor Ort. In einer ersten Erklärung begründeten die Flüchtlinge die Aktion mit den Einschränkungen, unter denen sie als Asylchuchende in Deutschland zu leiden haben: »Überall werden wir abgelehnt. Jeder hat die gleiche Antwort für uns, jeder schiebt uns weiter, niemand hört uns zu. Niemand will für uns Geflüchtete und die unmenschliche Gesetze, unter den wir leben müssen, zuständig sein.« Konkret kritisieren die Aktivisten, bei denen es sich überwiegend um Asylsuchende aus dem Umfeld von O-Platz und Gerhart-Hauptmann-Schule handeln soll, »Lager- und Residenzplicht« sowie fehlende Arbeitserlaubnisse und Deutschkurse.
▻http://www.neues-deutschland.de/img/o/95427
▻http://www.neues-deutschland.de/artikel/938615.fluechtlinge-besetzen-berliner-fernsehturm.html
#réfugiés #asile #migration #Allemagne #protestation #manifestation #Berlin
Inside the Tamil’s burning protests
As Sri Lankan asylum seekers attempt self-immolation, and scores are turned back by boat, the government buries its head.
▻http://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/politics/2014/07/05/inside-the-tamils-burning-protests/1404482400
#tamil #Sri-Lanka #réfugiés #asile #migration #Australie #protestation #manifestation #démonstration
The Town Where Immigrants Hit a Human Wall
Influx of Central American Migrants Roils #Murrieta, Calif.
Suddenly, this city in the desert has become the place that turned away the immigrants.
When the three busloads of immigrant mothers and children rolled into town for processing at a Border Patrol station this week, they were met by protesters carrying American flags and signs proclaiming “return to sender” as they screamed “go home” and chanted “U.S.A.” Fearing for the safety of the migrants and federal officers, immigration officials decided to reroute the buses to San Diego, an hour south.
#USA #Mexique #migration #frontière #go_home #Californie #protestation #manifestation
The struggle for racial equality in Denver, 50 years after the Civil Rights Act of 1964
▻http://blogs.denverpost.com/captured/2014/07/02/civil-rights-denver-50-years-signing-civil-rights-act
The 50th anniversary of the signing of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 falls on Wednesday, July 2, 2014. The act paved the way for affirmative action and further desegregation in schools and workplaces across the country. In Denver the African American community faced harsh discrimination and violence throughout their struggle to achieve racial equality. With photos from The Denver Post archive, here is a glimpse of what it was like to be black in Denver at the time of the civil rights movement and following the signing of the act.
African Migrants Forcibly Removed From Encampment Near Israeli-Egyptian Border
Hundreds of African migrants were forcibly removed from a makeshift encampment near the Israeli-Egyptian border today where they were protesting their treatment at an Israeli detention camp.
▻https://news.vice.com/article/african-migrants-forcibly-removed-from-encampment-near-israeli-egyptian-b
#migration #asile #réfugiés #Israël #Egypte #camps #détention #rétention #manifestation #protestation
Asylum seekers march out of ’open prison,’ demand resettlement
Around 1,000 asylum seekers walk out of the Holot open detention facility but are stopped short of the Egyptian border, announce they will no longer seek acceptance by the Israeli government and demand that the United Nations take responsibility for them and resettle them in third countries.
▻http://972mag.com/photos-asylum-seekers-march-out-of-open-prison-demand-resettlement/92620
Thousands of refugees stage ‘walk of freedom’ to protest detention at Hulot
Thousands of refugees have staged a walk-out protest from Israel’s Hulot detention centre - the worlds largest immigration detention facility. The +972 blog has documented the protest and is providing updates. A group of refugees calling themselves the Asylum Seekers’ Committee in Hulot released the following statement through social media, it has been edited slightly for spelling.
▻http://frlan.tumblr.com/post/90490513252/thousands-of-refugees-stage-walk-of-freedom-to
Asylum seekers in standoff with police at Berlin protest
Police surround a building in #Kreuzberg where a group of asylum seekers are protesting against their treatment in Germany
▻http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/30/berlin-protest-asylum-seekers-kreuzberg-police-standoff
#Allemagne #Berlin #protestation #manifestation #réfugiés #asile #migration #police
Peru now has a ‘licence to kill’ environmental protestors | Une façon radicale de calmer la contestation
▻http://www.theguardian.com/environment/andes-to-the-amazon/2014/jun/29/peru-licence-to-kill-environmental-protestors
“We continue considering this law as one that grants the armed forces as well as the national police a licence to kill,” Quispe told the Guardian. “It permits a high degree of impunity. During the repression of social protests, police officers and soldiers who cause injuries or deaths will now be exempt from criminal responsibility.”
The scandal of immigration detention
Immigration detention has burst onto the national scene in the last two weeks.
▻http://briarpatchmagazine.com/blog/view/the-scandal-of-immigration-detention
#détention #rétention #détention_administrative #Canada #protestation #manifestation #migration
Asylum seekers at Israeli detention facility to launch new protest
Sudanese and Eritrean detainees announce measures to disrupt Negev compound, demand freedom.
▻http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/.premium-1.598946
#Israël #détention #détention_administrative #rétention #asile #migration #réfugiés #protestation #manifestation
Time to Act. Dublin muss weg!
–-> Time to act. Abolish the Dublin Regulation!
Noch nie war der Widerstand gegen die Einschränkung der Bewegungsfreiheit von Flüchtlingen und Migrant*innen und insbesondere gegen innereuropäische Abschiebungen so lautstark: Deutschland- und europaweit formieren sich Initiativen wie die selbstorganisierten Kämpfe der „Lampedusa-Gruppen“. Auch die Außengrenzen sind so umkämpft wie noch nie. Fast wöchentlich überwinden Migrant*innen kollektiv die Grenzzaunanlagen in Ceuta und Melilla, tausende sind in den letzten Monaten in Sizilien gelandet, auf Lampedusa verweigerten öffentlich Hunderte erfolgreich die Registrierung ihrer Fingerabdrücke und auch in der Ägäis kommen täglich mehr Boote auf den griechischen Inseln an.
Bartın residents form human chain to protest thermal plant
▻http://www.todayszaman.com/news-349778-bartin-residents-form-human-chain-to-protest-thermal-plant.
Protests against local projects that disregard the environment have been more common in Turkey since the Gezi protests of last year. In another ongoing protest, a group of residents in Amasya, also a northern province, are standing guard at a park to stop it from being razed to make way for a gas station.