protests on Vice

Dodging Water Cannons and Sound Bombs at Israel's Catastrophe Day

I arrived in Jerusalem on Nakba Day. Nakba (a word that translates as "catastrophe") Day commemorates the 750,000 Palestinians who were forced from their homes when Israel became a state in 1948. I expected shit to get wild, but the speed with which the demonstration went from zero to full throttle shocked even me. Full story

Workers' Rights in Egypt Stalled Two Years After the Revolution

Hundreds of workers joined unemployed youth, students, and other groups opposed to President Mohamed Morsi's government and marched to commemorate May Day in Cairo Wednesday, calling for minimum-wage reform and the right to unionize. Full story

Anarchopanda Speaks!

On Friday, for the fourth time in under a month, hundreds of Montrealers attempting to participate in a peaceful protest found themselves kettled by the Montreal Police. Among those surrounded by riot police, detained for hours, and issued a ticket was the mysterious character kn… Full story

Why Did a Student in Montreal Get Arrested for an Instagram Post?

A 20-year-old in Montreal was arrested Wednesday for posting a photo taken of a graffiti wheat-paste illustration that showed Montreal's police commander with a bloody bullet hole in his forehead. Full story

Sawdust Stories

Sitting Down in the Deep End

It was an oppressively cold day in New York. The wind was particularly icy. I was huddled between my girlfriend and a posse of union organizers. By nightfall over 14 million people would have marched against the US invasion of Iraq all over the world. In New York City, it felt li… Full story

Kimani Gray and Two Weeks of Struggle in Flatbush, Brooklyn

Daily demonstrations in Flatbush began two weeks ago, after 16-year-old Kimani Gray was gunned down by two plainclothes cops with lengthy histories of misconduct, who ambushed the young man on the street, jumping from a vehicle and discharging seven shots, three into his back. Full story

Looking at Modern-Day Iran Through the Eyes of an Exile

At 21 years old, instead of shotgunning beers and flirting with the idea of a career in bedroom production, Hesam Misaghi was riding a horse through a mountain pass with a bunch of smugglers who were trying to help him escape Iran. Full story

Explaining Bangladesh's Month of Massive Street Protests and Violence

The Shabagh protests are a liberal street festival with a morbid demand. Nooses and chants calling for accused war criminals to be hanged have become shorthand in a battle of what defines the nation, an unfinished struggle of identity for a pluralistic liberal society fused with Full story

The Egyptian Feminist Who Was Kidnapped for Posing Nude

Aliaa Elmahdy, the founder of an Egyptian branch of the radical feminist protest organization Femen, has posed naked online, protested naked against Sharia law, and encouraged other Egyptian women to defy their male-dominated society. This has gotten her in a lot of trouble. Full story

Egypt's Black Bloc Doesn't Want to Be Your Friend

Modeling themselves on the anti-establishment ideals of their Western counterparts, the Egyptian Black Bloc shares the same tactics and uniform, but have adopted the name with its capital letters intact: Black Bloc as anti-Islamist movement, rather than lowercase anti-CCTV strate… Full story