#Protesters, National Guard spar over locks on fence outside Chauvin courthouse

#Protesters, National Guard spar over locks on fence outside Chauvin courthouse

“#Protesters, National Guard spar over locks on fence outside Chauvin courthouse” Protesters and the National Guard are clashing in Minneapolis — over padlocks. Police brutality protesters in Minneapolis have been placing padlocks with the names of people killed by police on the fencing surrounding a courthouse where George Floyd’s accused killer is standing trial. But…

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#Activists push Coca-Cola to take stand against Georgia election law

#Activists push Coca-Cola to take stand against Georgia election law

“#Activists push Coca-Cola to take stand against Georgia election law” Activists in Georgia are calling for a boycott of Coca-Cola until the Atlanta-based company comes out against the state’s new election-law changes. The African Methodist Episcopal Church, which represents 500 black churches, on Thursday called for the boycott, and the hashtag #BoycottCocaCola was trending into the weekend….

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#Doctors protest in Myanmar as crackdown claims more lives

#Doctors protest in Myanmar as crackdown claims more lives

“#Doctors protest in Myanmar as crackdown claims more lives” MANDALAY, Myanmar — Health care workers marched through Myanmar’s second-biggest city Sunday as part of a broad civil disobedience movement against last month’s coup. While their protest was left alone, security forces used violence elsewhere and shot dead at least one person. About 100 doctors, nurses,…

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#Protesters urge end to violence against women in Turkey

#Protesters urge end to violence against women in Turkey

“#Protesters urge end to violence against women in Turkey” ISTANBUL — Thousands of people joined a Women’s Day march in central Istanbul on Monday to denounce violence against women in Turkey, where more than 400 women were killed last year. As in previous years, riot police put up barricades and blocked demonstrators from marching to…

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#Myanmar soldiers use TikTok to threaten protesters

#Myanmar soldiers use TikTok to threaten protesters

“#Myanmar soldiers use TikTok to threaten protesters” SINGAPORE – Armed Myanmar soldiers and police are using TikTok to deliver death threats to protesters against last month’s coup, researchers said, leading the Chinese video-sharing app to announce it was removing content that incites violence. Digital rights group Myanmar ICT for Development (MIDO) said it had found…

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#Nancy Pelosi’s Capitol pawns: Devine

#Nancy Pelosi’s Capitol pawns: Devine

“#Nancy Pelosi’s Capitol pawns: Devine” Have we really reached the point where National Guard soldiers in their third month of protecting the Capitol are poisoned with rotten food, worms and metal shavings and no one cares?  The contempt shown to these soldiers by their Washington, DC, masters is as sickening as the rancid slop they’ve…

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#Burmese police arrest Japanese journalist covering anti-coup protest: report

#Burmese police arrest Japanese journalist covering anti-coup protest: report

“#Burmese police arrest Japanese journalist covering anti-coup protest: report” A Japanese journalist has been arrested by police in Burma in the first foreign press arrest since the country’s Feb. 1 military coup, according to a report. Yuki Kitazumi was arrested on Friday morning in Yangon, the largest city in the country, colleague Linn Nyan Htun said in a Facebook post. Kitazumi had…

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