PROTESTS
Romanians Are Fighting Fracking on Horseback
Zîna Domintean says riot cops beat her up and choked her with the Romanian flag while trying to clear the way for a shale gas fracking operation.
Thailand's Anti-Government Protests Turned Deadly This Weekend
After months of relatively peaceful demonstrations and a week of massive anti-government rallies, protests in Bangkok have turned violent.
Hundreds of Thousands of Protesters Are Trying to Take Over Kiev
This weekend, the street protests that have been taking place in Kiev for weeks arrived at a dramatic crux, as peaceful public dissent escalated into full-on violence.
Thousands Rally in DC to Urge the NSA to "Stop Watching Us"
Outside of DC’s Union Station at noon on Saturday, about 2,000 people congregated to march through downtown and eventually protest in front of the Capitol to honor Edward Snowden and express disdain over government spying.
Artist David Cerney's Giant Purple "Screw You" to the Czech President
When a 30 foot purple hand appeared earlier this week in the middle of Prague’s Vltava River giving the finger to the Prague Castle, where Czech president Milos Zeman lives, it was pretty obvious David Černý was behind it.
No One Wants a Nazi Corpse Except These Shady Catholics
After Nazi war criminal Erich Priebke died on October 11, nobody expressed any interest in dealing with his corpse for five days. Then, last Tuesday, the controversial Lefebvrian community announced that the funeral would take place in their Saint Pius...
Canadian Cops Ambushed a First Nations Anti-Fracking Protest
Protesters say that the cops used rubber bullets and mace when they didn't need to while breaking up a demonstration blocking access to a natural gas company's facilities.
Bashar's Bangerz
While the Western world spent the last few months debating Miley Cyrus’s right to gyrate on a teddy bear, Syrian citizens continued a three-year long discussion about Syrian actresses and soap operas’ public disapproval of President Bashar al-Assad.
Spanish Squats in Andalusia
In 2012, a bunch of leftist workers and farmers seized some unoccupied land in economically depressed southern Spain. Photographer José Colón, who grew up in the region, was there with his camera.
Rio's Anarchists Rioted in Support of Schoolteachers
The idea of anarchists rioting their angry hearts out on behalf of schoolteachers is a pretty weird one, but that's exactly what happened in Rio on Monday.
Appalling Violence Ravaged Cairo Again This Weekend
Bloodshed, tear gas, and plumes of acrid black smoke are never far from the streets of Cairo these days, and they returned this weekend as police fought with supporters of Egypt's ousted Islamist president, Mohamed Morsi.
Sudan Detained Journalists Who Supported Anti-Government Protests
In the midst of Sudan's ongoing economic crisis, President Omar Al-Bashir's regime decided to lift fuel subsidies, doubling prices. Citizens began to demonstrate in the streets on September 23rd, and in the last two weeks, authorities detained 70...