Former Gardening Australia presenter Peter Cundall was was arrested at an anti-pulp mill protest yesterday after he and 50 other activists refused to vacate the front steps of Tasmania’s Parliament House.
Protests
Guy Rundle: Reality, alternate reality and tea parties
Organisers of a march in Washington against the Obama administration claimed to have attracted 1.5 million attendees, but it looks like they were off by a good 1.43 million. Of course, it’s all the Left’s fault.
Hazelwood protest included ‘ordinary people’, not just guys in wombat suits
Yesterday’s protest at Hazelwood power station was billed as a day of “community protest and non-violent mass civil disobedience”. Yet despite the small numbers, what was remarkable was the ‘ordinariness’ of the crowd, writes Ian McHugh.
China’s pollution problems fuel dissent
Protests in China over the country’s badly polluted cities and water are turning violent, with 10,000 rioting in Fujian yesterday over a broken-down waste treatment plant. Things are bound to heat up across the nation.
China faces an environmental uprising
Rapid industrial development in China has led to a raft of pollution and environment-related health and social problems. But the country’s citizens aren’t taking it lying down, with environmental demonstrations on the rise in recent years. Could the government be facing a green revolution?
Iran protests, then and now
Ahmad Batebi, an icon of Iranian student protests that took place 10 years ago speaks to The Daily Beast about the latest wave of uprising and dissent in the country — and why he believes it is unstoppable.
Crikey Clarifier: Who are the Uighurs and why are they protesting?
Professor & Director at the Monash Asia Institute, Monash University, Dr Marika Vicziany clarifies the conflict in Xinjiang.
China vow to execute riot killers
Anyone found responsible for one of the 156 deaths that occurred during the Xinjiang riots will be executed, a Chinese government official has announced.
The Amazon’s uprising is more urgent than Iran’s
The world is glued to the protests in Iran, but an even more important political uprising has been passing unnoticed — but its outcome will profoundly impact our lives, writes Johann Hari.
A Twitter revolution? Hardly
Hold your horses, social media experts: some Iranian protesters have used Twitter to get people on the streets, but according to Business Week, most of the organising is happening the old-fashioned way.
Another
Tiananmen?
Has the backlash in Iran gone too far for even the hardline clerics to crush?
Mayday! Mayday! Berlin’s Left implodes
And so it comes around again, the tiresome ritual of rocks and bottles, batons and boots. Ben Gook reports from the Berlin barricades.
