Tag: Protests

In cities across the country, police fired projectiles at journalists covering protests of police brutality and, in some cases, attacked, gassed, harassed, and arrested them...

No one seems to understand why a 64-year-old man with no criminal history and, according to his brother, with no history of gun violence,...

Hundreds of protestors flocked outside the Denver office of Republican U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner Tuesday. "Shock event after shock event. We need to put a...

Today at noon, 538 Electoral College members from across the nation will meet to cast their votes for president. The vote is typically nothing...

  DENVER — Flanked by a throng of city cops, more than a dozen Green Party activists loudly disrupted the only live televised U.S. Senate...

A day after announcing former Douglas County School District Superintendent Liz Fagen would take the helm of the 39,000-student Humble (TX) Independent School District,...

This story first appeared on High Country News.   The movement to halt oil and gas drilling on public lands kicked into higher gear on May...

Lakewood — Inside the Bureau of Land Management office Thursday, a fast talking, cowboy-hat-wearing auctioneer did quick work: In three hours, buyers had purchased...

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."

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.