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Posts Tagged Protests

Watchdog targets mayors: Stop harassing journalists covering Occupy protests

By | 11.16.11 | 10:46 am

As has been widely reported, police crackdowns on the Occupy movement in cities across the country have extended beyond the protesters to include attacks on journalists as a way to stanch news of police action. Ten reporters were arrested in New York when police cleared Zuccotti Park on Tuesday, including reporters for the AP, NPR, and the New York Daily News, according to watchdog organization Free Press. The organization announced today it has launched a campaign “targeted at mayors around the country to demand they honor the 1st Amendment and drop all charges against journalists.”

‘Occupy Aspen’ tries to bring populist protests to posh 1-percent playground

By | 10.12.11 | 1:03 pm

It was a modest start, but a start nonetheless for disaffected worker bees representing the 99 percent toiling in the 1-percent playground of the rich and famous in Aspen on Monday.

A gas rig at the entrance to Battlement Mesa, Colo. (David O. Williams photo)

Oil and gas lease protests way down in wake of Obama administration reforms

By | 08.08.11 | 9:34 am

Sportsmen and conservation groups are singing the praises of a new federal analysis showing protests of proposed oil and gas leases on federal lands are way down in the wake of reforms first implemented by the Interior Department last year.

The lake in Avon's Nottigham Park will be the site of a protest rally Sunday. (Image: vail.whattodo.info)

Progressive groups in Avon Sunday to protest Koch brothers conservative confab

By | 06.24.11 | 5:32 pm

Colorado Common Cause will hold a rally Sunday in Avon to protest a Vail Valley retreat this weekend set up by conservative political donors Charles and David Koch.

Frank Rich: the internet as a ‘workaround’

By | 02.07.11 | 10:23 am

Prominent New York Times columnist Frank Rich this Sunday wrote about Americans’ fickle interest in international news. As political and social events unfold everywhere but here, we don’t recognize the players and we know almost nothing beyond what we can see happening before our eyes. The protesters are on the bridge! The protesters are still on the bridge! Rich laments the near-blackout of cable news station Al Jazeera English due to U.S. Islamophobia. He’s right about all that and right to be mad as hell about it, too. Then he starts talking about the internet.

Live-streaming Egypt: Al Jazeera-English news of the protests flickering on- and off-line

By | 01.28.11 | 10:02 am

Americans looking for news on the incredible events rocking the Egyptian government have tuned into Al Jazeera-English on the web, where contributors are live blogging and live streaming events on the streets as they happen. Although the government shut down the internet in Egypt as protests turned into clashes, Al Jazeera is blinking off and back on to the web, delivering compelling word and image snapshots. Examples from the last few minutes: Embattled President Hosni Mubarak, who has been publicly silent for days, deployed Egyptian armed forces to enforce a curfew tonight. His plans to address the nation have not materialized. The Egyptian National Democratic Party headquarters is in flames. And More: More than 800 wounded in Cairo, some with bullet wounds. Egypt’s national airline has suspended flights from Cairo. Thousands of protesters try to storm foreign ministry and state TV building in Cairo. Convoy of army tanks roll through Cairo streets.

A contrast in styles: Protesting energy policies in New York, Colorado

By | 11.13.09 | 12:00 pm

If it seems like it was just a few months ago when Xcel Energy was asking for a nearly $160 million rate increase – and drawing polite protests like the one pictured here in downtown Denver – that’s because…

National anti-health reform campaign shapes Pelosi protest in Denver

By | 08.07.09 | 10:53 am

Among the cacophony of protesting screams and the jumble of signs decrying government-controlled health care, few noticed the woman and her three children as they locked hands and ran through the screaming crowd that gathered Thursday to protest the proposed House overhaul of health care in the United States.

DNC daily calendar

By | 08.25.08 | 8:15 am

As a service to our readers, The Colorado Independent has compiled public event calendars for official DNC events, shadow convention information and maps to the protest and parade routes.

Remember Kent State during Convention Protests

By | 05.04.08 | 3:26 pm

It may be chic to insinuate there will be rioting in the streets in Denver at the Democratic National Convention. However, let’s not forget that tragedy can occur during protest clashes — like May 4, 1970, at Kent State…

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