september 2013

September 2013

30/9/13:

South Africa: cops fire rubber bullets during violent service-delivery protest

USA, New Jersey: stylish improvements made to police vehicles

Australia, Queensland: aborigines in anti-cop riot after arrest; rocks thrown at the local police station (more here)

Yemen: farmers and water drilling company in violent confrontation

Sudan: cops launch heavy tear gas attack on university (more here)

Haiti: barricades set on fire after political demonstration

Madagascar: students end strike against hunger after violent confrontation with army

Canada, Winnipeg: cannabalise legalis

29/9/13:

Turkey, Istanbul: leftist killed by drug gang “Gülsuyu, known to be one of the most politicized neighborhoods in Turkey, has been witnessing attacks by drug gangs on locals for months.” Coincidence? Provocateurs? Why would a “drugs gang” move from outside to a very politicised (therefore organised) neighbourhood, unless they are simply attack-dogs of the YDD (New Deep State)? Expect the same in Gazi Mahallesi very soon.”

Gaza: hundreds of stranded Palestinian students riot against border guards

Sudan: riots continue……“…revolution is the choice of people” but the state tries to bribe them

Romania: Rosia Montana gold diggers’ plans not withdrawn as previously promised… (see this)…

“Gold…will make black, white; foul, fair; wrong, right; base, noble; old, young; coward, valiant”

(Shakespeare,Timon of Athens).

27/9/13:

Sudan: protests against fuel hikes etc. continue – at least 50 deaths

South Africa: NUM scabs (surprise surprise) on AMCU miners strike against redundancies … rand faces losses….reports of “intimidation” and NUM members being stopped from going to work

Nigeria: riot cop shoots 60 yr old woman in protest against demolition of market

26/9/13:

India, Kerala: protest against road conditions takes interesting form“The Road Vikasana Janakeeya Munnani on Thursday staged a novel protest against the poor condition of the Badiadukka-Mullaria road by turning it into a playground of sorts and cooking delicacies….Volunteers of the Munnani blocked vehicular traffic on the road by placing huge logs and stones”…Walajah – road blocked in ptrotest against lack of water….. Interesting (despite its obvious liberalism) take on the recent ethnic riots in Muzaffarnaga – “People of diverse faiths who live together do not spontaneously turn against each other. There are three requisites for mass communal violence to occur. The first is the deliberate manufacture of hatred. The second is the manufacture of a ‘riot’. The third is a complicit State: no riot can continue beyond a few hours unless the state actively wishes that it does so….I visited Muzaffarnagar as part of a Centre for Policy Analysis fact-finding team…We were deeply dismayed to find striking evidence of each of these elements combining to violently divide communities that have lived and worked together peacefully through generations….Communal organisations have perfected the art of manufacturing hatred against the ‘other’ community by cynically deploying rumour, innuendo and falsehood. The issue chosen to demonise the ‘other’ varies based on what would resonate and enrage most. In Partition, pork was thrown into mosques and beef into temples; later riots are spurred by rumours of cow slaughter, support to terror, and violence perpetrated by the ‘other’ community (the falsehood of the slaughter of Hindu students in hostels by Muslims led to the massacre of more than a thousand people in Bhagalpur)….In Muzaffarnagar, in the patriarchal Jat community, the issue chosen to foment hatred was women’s ‘honour’. The claim was that ‘love jihad’ was being waged, by which Muslim boys were equipped with smart clothes, deodorants and sweet talk to entice Jat girls into ‘love’ traps….”

Turkey, Istanbul: commuters block roads for 3 hours in protest at insufficient number of buses

25/9/13:

Sudan: 3rd day of fuel subsidy riots – cars, petrol stations, university building torched, cops stoned – “Internet access was cut off all over Sudan after activists began sharing images of the unrest on social media.”…at least 29 dead…police station set alight

Greece, Athens: anti-fascist stone-throwers tear gassed …shops and bank attacked, molotovs thrown at cops Interesting look at some aspects of the struggle in Greece by the TPTG here (July this year).

Bangladesh: garment workers violent strike enters its 5th day….over 100 factories on strike

Iraq, Sadr City: riot attacks government institutions after bombing ”A security source stated to Iraqi News (IraqiNews.com) “Some protesters attacked some governmental institutions including the Local Council of Mudhafar square on the background of the bombing that took place in Sadr city and targeted a solace.” “The protesters called to close the governemtal institutions in Sadr city,” the source concluded.

UK, London: official tube solidarity strike with firemen…Coventry arsonists in solidarity with firemen

24/9/13:

Sudan: 2 killed as riots break out against lifting of fuel subsidies; shops looted, state building set on fire (more here)

USA, New York: angry demo against former CIA chief Petraeus

India, Hyderabad: a truly successful strike

Turkey, Antalya: high school students skirt the issue

23/9/13:

UK,Ashton-Under-Lyne: the despotism of speed cameras

21/9/13:

UK, Worcestershire: stand off with screws in Hewell prison, Redditch, has riot cops called

USA, Washington: Thou Shalt Be Condemned To Listen To Tedious Lectures

20/9/13:

India, Kashmir: demo against curfew (now almost 2 weeks old) imposed after cops kill 3 students turns into riot; media attacked; cops shoot…

19/9/13:

Greece: workers’ demo turns into small riot

18/9/13:

Ireland, Dublin: key bridge blockaded after anti-austerity demonstrators are pepper-sprayed outside Parliament

Greece, Athens: stones, molotovs thrown at cop shop on anti-fascist demo…..clashes erupt across the country

17/9/13:

Thailand: rubber planters occupy and blockade main highways

15/9/13:

Nigeria: cop lynched, and then a riot with cops being beaten after cop kills youth for traffic violation

Bahrain: riot in west of Manama

14/9/13:

USA, Florida: riot at juvenile detention centre

13/9/13:

Mexico, Mexico City: riot pigs take back square from teachers and others “Friday’s massive raid by thousands of police against the teachers was a dramatic reassertion of state authority after weeks of near-constant disruption in the centre of one of the world’s largest cities. The teachers have marched through the capital at least 15 times over the last two months….. The confrontation erupted after the teachers armed themselves with metal pipes and blocked off the Zocalo with steel grates and plastic traffic dividers, threatening to scuttle the Independence Day gathering. The teachers, many veterans of similar battles with police in poor southern states, vowed to not move from the square where they have camped out since last month. Some fixed knives and nails to wooden planks and declared themselves ready to fight. Others set up sewage-filled portable toilets in the path of police vehicles. Shortly after 4 pm, the police swarmed in, firing tear gas canisters and spraying water from armored trucks. Protesters hurled sticks and chunks of pavement broken from the streets around world-famous tourist attractions including the Metropolitan Cathedral, the Templo Mayor and the National Palace. But within a half hour, police had cleared the Zocalo and much of the surrounding historic center of virtually all demonstrators. Union organisers said they would reassemble away from the main plaza at the nearby Monument to the Revolution. Small knots of teachers, self-described local anarchists and other supporters hurled bottles and rocks at police on some of the main downtown avenues. “We’re going to reorganise and go back,” said a masked teacher who gave only his first name, Juan Carlos, as he waited in an alley with about 10 other demonstrators. “It’s not going to stay like this. The government isn’t going to repress us.” – from here

Mexico city

Manuel Mondragon y Kalb, head of the federal police…. warned that aggressive protesters would be detained. The police were not carrying firearms or truncheons, he said.

India: power workers strike seriously disrupts power supply

Turkey: 3rd night of anger (more here)

12/9/13:

India, West Bengal: angry parents ransack school – classrooms, offices, the auditorium, furniture, computers, telephones and window panes after death of pupil …Telangana: national highway blocked …Kashmir: violent protests against cop killings continue

USA, Washington: 100 women immigration protesters arrested after blocking road intersection outside House of Representatives

Turkey: Ankara & Istanbul – clashes with cops over killing of 22-year old in Hatay …

UK, Shropshire: dairy farmers blockade milk processing factory

Chile: video of riots Also, see “chile: the Allende years” for a reflection on what happened in the early ’70s leading up to the coup.

11/9/13:

Greece, Thessaloniki: sports fans trash office of Golden Dawn …..Athens: state losing war on graffiti

‘Kaminis, no wall will be left untouched,’

In Athens a strike (against massive public sector worker redundancies) of employees at the University (the University of Athens) and Polytechnic (National Technical College) has been going on since Friday the 6th, with an occupation of the Physics and Pharmaceutical departments of the University and the whole of the Polytechnic going since Tuesday 10th, with entrances being blockaded, though often not totally successfully. These occupations, however, are minority occupations – run by the more politicised (leftist/anarchist etc.) sections. The majority are mostly passive.

Bolivia, La Paz: residents block roads in protest against nat ional census

Mexico, Mexico City: clashes with cops over education reform (morehere) Chile: violent clashes continue (more here) (summary of cop injuries, stores attacked, etc. here)

South Africa, Randfontein: violent service delivery protests…simillar violent protest in Zuurbekom – 90 arrests (areas 28km apart, both in Gauteng)….“In mid-May, it was reported that Gauteng, South Africa’s smallest but wealthiest province which includes Johannesburg, had seen 650 protests over the previous five weeks, of which 40 had been violent.” – see here…3 diggers and an excavator torched during mineworkers’ strike

Thailand: violent rubber planters protests end with their victory – the government doubling of subsidies

India, South Kashmir: strike and riot against cop killings of 4 civilians –“Soon after the death of the young man, protesters went on rampage and set ablaze the official residence of a senior officer in the town, a PTI report crediting sources said. A curfew had been imposed in the south Kashmir town on Sunday following widespread clashes between security forces and agitated residents after the killings. It was lifted this morning. However, a spontaneous strike was observed in the town with all shops and business establishments closed and transport off the roads.”…….Delhi: students and cops clash in struggle for hostel accomodation

….as for inter-communal strife – it’s not all totally depressing.

10/9/13:

UK, Cumbria: prison rooftop protest

Turkey, Antakya: violent protests over death of demonstrator continue (video here and another video from Istanbul)

South Africa: “initimidation” improves official petrol station strike (more here)

India, Bangalore: short wildcat bus drivers strike

Pakistan: indefinite customs agents strike joined by container boat strike apparently costs 10bn rupees (about 72,044,000 euros) so far –

“The protest is being supported by bonded carrier associations causing a shutdown in supplies for western forces based in Afghanistan….Customs agents’ leaders claimed that goods carriers had also joined the protest and supplies of imported goods up country and similarly transportation of exports would soon be suspended….“All Pakistan Goods Carrier Association, United Goods Carriers Association and KPT Goods Carriers Association have joined the protest of customs agents,” said Saifullah Khan, president, Karachi Customs Agents Association (KCAA)…KCAA, APCAA and All Pakistan Customs Bonded Carrier Association are jointly protesting against the FBR against dragging the clearing agent into the ISAF missing containers scam.”

Colombia: farmers end strike, withdraw blockades; teachers demonstrate

9/9/13:

Nigeria: petrol stations strike in response to State Security Commander violence (commander almost lynched)

Turkey, Istanbul: demonstrators and cops clash over 14-year-old in coma “Police used tear gas and water cannons to attempt to disperse a crowd marching on Istanbul’s main court buildings shouting “We want justice for Berkin Elvan”. The demonstrators, mostly masked members of far-left groups, threw rocks and Molotov cocktails and erected barricades.”... man killed in anti-war protests in border town – Antakya

Romania: gold mine project withdrawn after nightly nationwide protests (see also “Leave it in the ground: the gold of Roșia Montană”) (and also this)

Syria, Homs: prison riot

USA, Denver, Colorado: cops don’t get stoned but protesters do

8/9/13:

Chile, Santiago: clashes with cops on 40th anniversary of coup –“dozens of masked protesters have hurled stones, burned barricades and clashed with police” (more here) (the absurd illusions in Allende on this demo ignore simple facts like, for instance, the fact that on 23 August 1973, Pinochet was promoted to Commander-in-Chief of the Chilean Army byAllende himself…see “Strange defeat“)

Santiago…..pants on fire

7/9/13:

Brazil: clashes between anti-govt demonstrators and cops in several cities (this includes clashes near Mane Guarrincha stadium before the international friendly soccer match between Brazil and Australia in Brasilia and confrontations near Guanabara Palace in Rio; demonstrations also held in Sao Paulo, Belo Horizonte, Fortaleza, and several other cities)

Romania: anti-gold mining protests throughout country…mining project will “lead to the destruction of four mountains and require hundreds of families to be relocated”. Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/09/08/thousands-protest-romania-gold-mine-plans/?#ixzz2eNQLCVj7throughout country ”

India, Hyderabad: students pelt cops and journalists with stones

6/9/13:

Turkey, Ankara: violent clashes over building of new road across university green space

Thailand: rubber planters in violent clash with cops…attack on professional liars of the media