The pepper spray used by Hong Kong police is made by the Sabre company—its headquarters just oustide Ferguson, Mo., now exploding into protest over the Michael Brown case.
As protests continue in Hong Kong, a new film profiles Joshua Wong and other young leaders of the movement, highlighting contradictions—including in their stance towards the West.
Dozens of activists across the People's Republic have been detained for posting online statements in support of the Hong Kong protests, and even raising placards in public.
Some 2,000 campesinos blocked streets in Celaya, Guanajuato, demanding that authorities take measures in response to the plunging price of maiz and sorghum.
Instagram was blocked in mainland China in an evident attempt to stop images of pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong as street clashes entered their third day.
Hundreds of campesino families sat in at 18 bank branches in three Brazilian states to demand that the government restore cuts to a low-income housing program.
The hyper-security in Tiananmen Square on the 25th anniversary of the 1989 massacre speaks to well-grounded fear of a social explosion on the part of China's rulers.
Hundreds of students remain barricaded in Taiwan's legislature in protest of the ruling party's push for a Cross-Strait Trade Agreement with the People's Republic of China.
The Ukrainian protesters are demonized as “fascists,” exploiting far-right elements in their ranksābutĀ there is a far greater case that the Yanukovich regime is truly “fascist.”
Riot police in Istanbul used water cannons against demonstrators in the latest protest against a bill that would increase government control over the Internet.
As Bogotá waits to see if Colombia's prosecutor general will honor a court order allowing Mayor Gustavo Petro to remain in office, threats are reported against his supporters.
Protesters in Burgos, Spain, defeated a redevelopment plan that included replacing traffic lanes with greenways—a contrast to the struggle to save Istanbul's Gezi Park.
