Protests Videos

The governing board of the University of California approved a $2,500 student fee increase Thursday after two days of tense campus protests across the state. (Nov. 19)

Financially hobbled University of California moved Wednesday to boost student fees by $2,500 over two years as students staged raucous demonstrations across the state against the higher costs. (Nov. 18)

Supporters of President Obama's Amnesty plans attacked Tea Party Against Amnesty That is why we are calling on all people to come out tomorrow, to organize a militant confrontation with the so-called tea baggers. Beating back these forces will require us to organize together, take the streets, fight the racists wherever they show their faces and drive them out of every community. Protest Tomorrow to Shut Down Racist Anti-Amnesty Rally Saturday, November 14 12:00PM Fort Lauderdale, Corner of Oakland Park and Federal Highway The ANSWER Coalition is calling on all its members, allies, and friends to join us tomorrow to confront and shut down the racist Anti-Amnesty Tea Party in Ft. Lauderdale. The Anti-Amnesty rallies being held across the country tomorrow have been initiated by fascist, white supremacist organizations that include the Minutemen and the so-called Americans for Legal Immigration. ... Racism is like anything else in this world: in order to make it fall, you must smash it! That is why we are calling on all people to come out tomorrow, to organize a militant confrontation with the so-called tea baggers. Beating back these forces will require us to organize together, take the streets, fight the racists wherever they show their faces and drive them out of every community. The racist demonization of immigrants only serves the interest of the ruling class during this historical economic crisis. The same bankers, CEO's, and politicians, both Democrat and Republican, which have for decades devastated the economies of countries in Latin America, Asia, and Africa, have once again devastated the economy in this country. The same ruling class that devastates the lives of working people in other nations through war and super-exploitation are the ones throwing workers out of their homes, denying them healthcare, and laying them off from their jobs in this country. Racism is consciously used as a tool by the ruling class because they know that as long as working people are divided and fighting each other, the people are not fighting the bankers, CEO's, and politicians. Only under a brutal system that puts profit over people can you have a whole section of society whose only crime is being forced from their nations because of imperialism and forced to work in the most hostile of conditions in this country. Only racism can justify this reality. The continual devastation of working people because of this crisis, however, is not the fault of one group of workers. On October 28th, President Obama signed the largest military budget in U.S. history-$680 billion dollars, which does not include the cost of the criminal occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan. The new administration is also continuing to hand out the $9.5 trillion dollars in working people's tax dollars to bailout the already rich. The money to end the suffering of all working people tomorrow is there. It is our choice as to whether we will allow the right of a few to profit from labor of workers to continue, or whether we will rise up as one class of working people to and take political power into our own hands. We are building a movement that will beat back racism so that working people of all nationalities can unite and fight against our one, shared enemy: capitalism. Amnesty, full rights for ALL immigrants, is a demand that should be raised not just by the immigrant communities, but by every working class community in our struggle to solve this crisis by our own means. Join us tomorrow, and join us in building the movement against racism and capitalist exploitation! For more information, contact 305-710-3189 or info@answerfl.org! Forward email This email was sent to absynthe@gmail.com by info@answerfl.org. Update Profile/Email Address | Instant removal with ANSWER Florida | 1005 S.R. 84 | No. 116 | Fort Lauderdale | FL | 33315

Israeli soldiers clash with Palestinian, Israeli and international peace activists during a protest against the Israeli-built separation barrier in the West Bank.

While politicians are set to discuss their solutions to the global recession at the G20 summit.

The announcement that the ousted president of Honduras, Manuel Zelaya, would be returned to power in a power-sharing agreement seems to have come too soon. In this video from The Real News, we learn that the agreement seems to be doing more to legitimize the coup government than to get rid of it. Citizen activists' end goal is not only restoration of the democratically-elected president but also a constituent assembly to rewrite a constitution that largely favors those with wealth and power, and they are still fighting despite pressure from outside and restrictions from Micheletti's coup regime.

Nader Hashemi on the latest protests in Iran

Shot back in 2003, in the days leading up to the US invasion of Iraq, I traveled to the heart of Hollywood to document a giant protest against the coming Iraq Attack.

The Chinese government's trying to control information, especially online information, coming from the city of Urumqi, which has been the scene of violence this week. Also, global geeks try to help Iranians keep the flow of information coming. We check in on the search for the black boxes for Air France flight 447. Next, an ancient Bible finds a new home on the Internet, which also happens to be the ONLY place the band Hal and the Big 5 have ever jammed together.

Acclaimed writer Christopher Hitchens examines the current differences between the countries once linked as the "axis of evil" - Iran, Iraq, and North Korea - while revealing intriguing connections between the nations.

Updates on two stories we've been following in recent weeks. First, the Iranian government continues to try to control the flow of on-line information out of the country. We try to sort out Twitter fact from fiction with regard to Iran. Also, China's new Internet filtering plan gets delayed. Then, we have an extended conversation with Ken Banks, founder of FrontlineSMS. We end with a Skype-enabled wedding ceremony between someone in China, and someone in Denver. Cool.

Three stories today: the first is a look at an impressive piece of engineering – a cooker that its makers claim reduces carbon emissions by a staggering degree.

It's all Iran this week, folks. Violence and protests have flaired in Iran following last week's disputed election results. The government moved quickly to shut down the flow of information out of, and into, the country. But Twitter and other social media tools are keeping that flow of information going. In fact, it's not a flow, but a flood. We'll take an in-depth look at how vital social media tools have become in Iran in the wake of the elections. Show notes, links and pics at tinyurl.com/wtpblog.

The Impossible Years (1968) 98 minutes (widescreen) -- Starring David Niven, Lola Albright, Chad Everett, Ozzie Nelson, and Christina Ferrare. Featuring Darlene Carr, John Harding, Michael McGreevey, Rich Chalet, Don Beddoe, and Jeff Cooper. Music by Don Costa, The Tokens, and The Cowsills. Directed by Michael Gordon. Produced by Lawrence Weingarten. PLOT: Jonathan Kingsley (David Niven) is a teaching psychiatrist at the local university and is happily married to his wife, Alice (Lola Albright). The couple has two teenage daughters, and the trouble begins when the oldest daughter, Linda (Christina Ferrare), begins to take an adult interest in boys. Her misadventures corrupt her impressionable younger sister, and may cost her father his job. Kingsley tries to stop his daughter's lustful yearnings before the reputations of the university and his family become fodder for the local gossip mongers. INFO: The Impossible Years is a peppy normal parent/child clashes, all played out against the backdrop of the tumultuous (and often wacky) 1960s. The title track is sung by the family group, The Cowsills. The Cowsills were the inspiration for TV's The Partridge Family. Christina Ferrare, who plays the rebellious daughter, married carmaker John DeLorean in 1974. The pair divorced in 1985 after an FBI sting nabbed DeLorean for cocaine trafficking. (DeLorean was tried and acquitted, having successfully argued that he had been entrapped by the FBI.)