Google has been asked by a US law enforcement agency to remove several videos exposing police brutality from the video sharing service YouTube, the company has revealed in its latest update to an online transparency report. Another request filed by a different agency required Google to remove videos allegedly defaming law enforcement officials. The two [...]
Continue reading …Police have clashed with hundreds of demonstrators in the U.S. city of Oakland. It happened when hundreds marched to show their anger at police clearing an “Occupy Wall Street” camp. Officers shot several rounds of tear gas into the crowd, who were trying to reclaim their position within the city centre. Earlier on Tuesday, 85 [...]
Continue reading …The Right Reverend Graham Knowles, the Dean of St Paul’s Cathedral in London, has announced that the cathedral will shut down. The street area around the cathedral is home to the Occupy London Stock Exchange protest that has been running continuously since last Saturday, October 15. The statement read by Rev. Knowles describes the issues [...]
Continue reading …In solidarity with the Occupy Wall Street and other “Occupy” protests, activists set up camp outside St Paul’s Cathedral in London on Saturday, and they plan to remain indefinitely. The protest thus far has been described as “largely peaceful” by a police spokesman. On Saturday, an estimated thousand or more people attempted to protest in [...]
Continue reading …Excerpt from Youtube: Updated, 7:58 p.m. | In a tense showdown above the East River, the police arrested about 400 demonstrators from the Occupy Wall Street protests who took to the roadway as they tried to cross the Brooklyn Bridge on Saturday afternoon. The police did not immediately release precise arrest figures, but said it [...]
Continue reading …It is the 4th day of peaceful protests at Wall Street where thousands of activists gathered to express their views on the current economic failure. Unfortunately the police started to make arrests and as shown in this YouTube video three people were violently extracted from the crowd, handcuffed and arrested. At this stage it is [...]
Continue reading …On Saturday afternoon, thousands of people gathered in Manhattan’s financial district, holding up signs and shouting slogans like, “Banks got bailed out, we got sold out.” They were protesting what could perhaps be summed up as the corporate takeover of everything. There are still thousands of people , many were there for the long haul, [...]
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