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Murder of Indigenous Activist Opposing Mega Dam Project

The assassination of Antonio Esteban Cruz, leader of the Independent Movement of Urban and Popular Workers and Farmers (MIOCUP), on June 4, confirms the atmosphere of terror and repression of activists...

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Laws That Kill Protesters In Mexico

People in this town in the central Mexican state of Puebla found out the hard way that protesting can be deadly. A new law passed in Puebla makes it possible for police to use firearms or deadly force...

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Turkish Soccer Fans Face Life For ‘Coup Attempt’

The indictment submitted to the court has accused çArşı members of establishing an organization and attempting “to create an image similar to the Arab Spring that could be provided to the foreign press...

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Top Peruvian Foe of Illegal Logging Slain

IMA, Peru -- An outspoken Peruvian opponent of illegal logging and three other native Ashaninka community leaders were shot and killed in the remote region bordering Brazil where they live, villagers...

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7 Rules For Recording Police

Last week the City of Boston agreed to pay Simon Glik $170,000 in damages and legal fees to settle a civil rights lawsuit stemming from his 2007 felony arrest for videotaping police roughing up a...

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Whistleblower Warned Company Tailings Pond Would Fail, Lost Job

Larry Chambers warned Imperial Metals that its tailings pond was bound to fail – and he was fired for it, the Likely, BC resident told media in Vancouver earlier today. He and his wife, Lawna...

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Egypt Risks ‘Student Intifada’ Amid Campus Crackdown

The Egyptian government risks causing a major student uprising against the state if the authorities continue their current policy of cracking down on dissent in university campuses, warned a new report...

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Eyes On The Spies: Art On Hyper Surveillance

Repression breeds resistance, Sixties radicals once insisted – and sometimes, as newspaper headlines remind us, repression simply silences citizens from China to Chile and the Czech Republic. Then,...

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Spain: March Against New Law Criminalizing Protest

By Mary Scully - Despite massive protests in cities across Spain for months, the regime has installed a new security law criminalizing protests. It’s a sweeping, draconian law that does more than...

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Repression Against Landless Peasants Movement In Brazil

By Staff of The Real News Network - Joaquin Piñero of the MST talks about the latest round of repression against the movement and how it is connected to the current political crisis in Brazil.

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Major State Repression In Oaxaca: Several Killed, Dozens Wounded And Detained

By Scott Campbell for It's Going Down - The looming federal police attack on the people and striking teachers of Oaxaca, Mexico has begun. There are reports of between six and eight demonstrators...

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WRL Condemns Baton Rouge Police Department Repression

By Staff of WRL - War Resisters League condemns in the strongest terms the Baton Rouge Police Department’s heavily militarized response to protests against the murder of Alton Sterling by BRPD this...

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Turkey’s Failed Coup Hands Erdoğan Pretext For Further Repression

By Julian Sayarer for New Statesman - Turkish politics is seldom what it seems and so a coup late at night, backed with the imposing presence of military hardware, unravels to become an attempted coup...

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People Arrested For Criticizing Cops On Social Media After Dallas Shootings

By Naomi LaChance for The Intercept - FOUR MEN IN Detroit were arrested over the past week for posts on social media that the police chief called threatening. One tweet that led to an arrest said that...

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North Dakota Seeks More Felonies For Water Protectors

By Staff of Last Real Indians - North Dakota continues to escalate repression of the people protecting sacred sites and waters from the Dakota Access Pipeline. On Tuesday, two more felony charges were...

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Armed Police Descend On Water Protectors At DAPL Site

By Nadia Prupis for Common Dreams - Police descended on water protectors in North Dakota on Wednesday, as images on social media showed a dramatic standoff along a creek that borders a construction...

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Mainstream Media MIA As DAPL Action Is Met With Water Cannons And Mace

By Jenni Monet for Indian Country Today Media Network - Outside a triage tent at the foot of the Oceti Sakowin Camp, frantic chatter and whirring generators fused with the familiar drone of police...

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Police Treating Dakota Access Protesters ‘Like An Enemy On The Battlefield’

By Phil Mckenna for Inside Climate News -The American Civil Liberties Union and Amnesty International are stepping up calls for the Department of Justice to investigate what they feel is excessive use...

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Trump Son-In-Law’s Paper Outlines ‘A Complete Crackdown On Dissent’

By Staff of FAIR - AlterNet‘s Sarah Lazare (12/6/16) quotes Jim Naureckas on a call for an FBI crackdown on protesters appearing in the New York Observer (12/2/16), the paper owned by Trump son-in-law...

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Obama Establishes Controversial Anti-Propaganda Agency

By Lauren McCauley for Common Dreams - "It owns all these not-at-all-important laws are smuggled into NDAAs that are signed on Christmas Eve with basically no public debate," wrote media critic Adam...

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