East Asia
Tiananmen Square: futility of revisionism
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.
Tag: Occupy
East Asia
Taiwan gets a Maidan movement?
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.
Europe
‘Fascism’ and the Ukraine protests
The Ukrainian protesters are demonized as “fascists,” exploiting far-right elements in their ranks—but there is a far greater case that the Yanukovich regime is truly “fascist.”
Greater Middle East
Turkey: street clashes over cyber freedom
Riot police in Istanbul used water cannons against demonstrators in the latest protest against a bill that would increase government control over the Internet.
The Andes
Bogotá stand-off amid renewed repression
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.
Europe
Burgos and Gezi Square: contradiction?
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.
Mexico
Mexico City barrio resists spread of car culture
Residents of Mexico City's San Pedro Márti barrio pledge to continue resisting construction of a gas station despite the eviction of their protest encampment.
Southeast Asia
Occupy Phnom Penh dispersed
Cambodian military police opened fire on striking garment factory workers, killing four, and then dispersed a protest encampment from a central square in Phnom Penh.
Europe
Ukraine, Thailand, Italy: hope and contradiction
In Ukraine, Thailand and Italy, riot police stood down and ceded control of urban space to protesters—yet the demonstrators in all three countries have problematic politics.
The Andes
Protesters occupy Bogotá over municipal ‘coup’
Thousands of protesters continue to occupy Plaza Bolívar, the central square in Bogotá, to oppose the removal of the Colombian capital’s populist mayor, Gustavo Petro.
Palestine
Occupy Tel Aviv —again
Thousands marched in Tel Aviv, blocking traffic on the city’s main thoroughfares, for a rally marking the two-year anniversary of Israel’s mass movement against inequality.
Greater Middle East
Egypt: Tahrir Square occupied again
Street clashes between supporters and opponents of President Mohamed Morsi shook Egypt's cities in a day of rival protests nationwide that left two dead.