protest

  1. No Warranty

    Vancouver demonstrators protest robocall scandal

    Demonstrators marched through downtown Vancouver Saturday in protest of the robocall scandal. More...
  2. the doctor

    NYC protest gets heated when Yemen leader is seen (AP)

    AP - A protest against embattled Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh outside a luxury hotel in New York got heated Sunday when demonstrators saw him leave the building, with one charging toward him and another throwing a shoe. More...
  3. No Warranty

    OPP charge 8 with trespass in Caledonia

    Ontario Provincial Police have charged eight people with trespassing during a protest over the long-standing aboriginal land claim dispute in Caledonia. More...
  4. the doctor

    Egypt's Islamists confront military, vie for votes (AP)

    AP - Tens of thousands of Islamists and young activists massed Friday in Tahrir Square, confronting Egypt's ruling military council with the largest crowd in months to protest the generals' attempt to give themselves special powers over a future elected government. More...
  5. the doctor

    Syrians protest Arab vote, embassies stormed (AP)

    AP - Tens of thousands of pro-regime demonstrators gathered in a Damascus square Sunday to protest the Arab League's vote to suspend Syria over its bloody crackdown on the country's eight-month-old uprising. More...
  6. No Warranty

    McGill investigates 'disturbing' protester-police clashes

    McGill University's principal has launched an investigation after a massive student tuition protest reportedly turned violent and riot police were called in. More...
  7. FTA Hacker

    Bay Area transit police cut mobile service to thwart protest

    The agency that runs the commuter trains that rumble beneath San Francisco each day hit the panic button Thursday night, cutting off mobile-phone service to hundreds of thousands of commuters in an effort to thwart a protest that was expected to snarl up the evening commute. More...
  8. CASPER

    Puerto Rico nat'l park is site of Obama protest

    SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – About 20 pro-independence demonstrators have kept an all-night vigil at a colonial fort in Puerto Rico to protest during President Barack Obama's visit to the island. Demonstrators are on the grounds of the San Cristobal Fort on the edge of Old San Juan. The fort is part...
  9. CASPER

    Kuwait awaits protests but no stranger to upheaval

    DUBAI, United Arab Emirates – The next scheduled stop on the Arab protest tour: Kuwait. This, however, is more of a return engagement. Calls for anti-government rallies Tuesday are an extension of nasty political skirmishes in Kuwait that were under way long before the first glint of dissent...
  10. Scammer

    Witnesses: One dead in Yemen protests

    -- One person was killed in an anti-government protest in the Yemeni city of Aden on Wednesday, eyewitnesses reported, while human rights activists accused pro-government demonstrators of beating students after a similar protest in the capital, Sanaa. Witnesses in Aden said the victim was an...
  11. Scammer

    Californians protest Arizona push to end birthright citizenship

    More than 1,500 people in the predominantly Latino suburb off Pacoima took part in the protest Saturday. -- An Arizona state lawmaker's push to end the guarantee of birthright citizenship to the U.S.-born children of illegal immigrants on Saturday set off a protest hundreds of miles away in...
  12. Scammer

    Protest will end 'over my dead body'

    http://cnn.com/video/?/video/world/2011/01/29/watson.cairo.walk.talk.cnn -- Egyptians and activists around the world took to the streets in various cities Saturday to show their support for the protests currently underway in Egypt and to join the call for President Hosni Mubarak to step down...
  13. CASPER

    Protestors arrested on Egypt 'day of anger'

    Protestors arrested on Egypt 'day of anger' -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CAIRO (AFP) – Egyptian police were out in force on Monday to deal with a nationwide protest called by pro-democracy groups, arresting Islamists and containing small...
  14. CASPER

    Forty-eight people charged as clashes mark Montreal anti-police brutality protest

    Forty-eight people charged as clashes mark Montreal anti-police brutality protest -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- By Jessica Murphy, The Canadian Press MONTREAL - Vandalism, a series of skirmishes and about 200 arrests marked a tense...
  15. CASPER

    Naked Spaniards in seal-cull protest

    Naked Spaniards in seal-cull protest -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MADRID (AFP) - Around 100 people stripped naked and lay on the ground in a central Madrid square on Sunday as part of an international day of protest against Canada's annual...
Top