Several protesters were dragged out of a Donald Trump rally in New Orleans last night by his security personnel. Rally attendants yelled “all lives matter” and shoved them as they were being forcibly ejected.
Paris is once again in tumult on the eve of the COP21 climate summit, a series of negotiations that activists hope will achieve significant strides where past gatherings have failed.
Reporters on the scene in Ferguson say the protests erupted into chaos as police began firing tear gas at crowds of protestors Sunday night—well before the official curfew time was set to begin—hitting media and children in the abrupt offensive.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy was forced to seek refuge in a bar after a crowd grew increasingly hostile, the BBC reports. Carla Bruni's husband had been campaigning in the Basque town of Bayonne when he was met by hundreds of angry protesters who shouted boos and threw eggs at him. Riot police were needed to guide…
Thousands of protesters—by some counts as many as 20,000—took Times Square last night, demonstrating for four hours as 74 people were arrested. In Chicago, 175 protesters were arrested for refusing to leave Grant park; in Arizona, more than 40 people were detained in Tucson and Phoenix.
Let's not jump to conclusions about this video, which (at about a minute in) shows a woman dressed in a business suit, carrying her Citibank checkbook, trying to leave her bank only to be dragged back inside and arrested by a plainclothes NYPD officer.
Here's Rupert Murdoch, CEO of News Corp, giving a speech at an education forum in San Francisco—and getting heckled by a group of education activists yelling "Occupy Sesame Street," which is, we guess, a slogan for education reform? (It's also a jokey meme.) According to the write-ups, the hecklers were dressed as …
Occupy Wall Street is growing! The demonstration, entering its fourth week, has gotten a little too big for Zuccotti Park downtown; today, at around 3 p.m., it founded another encampment in Washington Square Park (they're holding a General Assembly right now).
This is the scene at Occupy Wall Street Wednesday tonight, where a few hundred protesters continued the day's even larger demonstration with another march on Wall Street.
Ten Occupy Wall Street protesters have reportedly been arrested after a few hundred people launched an impromptu march on Wall Street following today's huge demonstration in downtown Manhattan.
Less-evil-than-Walmart superstore chain Target, embattled with gay rights groups over some donations to anti-gay politicians, is suing a group of protesters who, they claim, have been harassing customers outside of several stores in San Diego.
Whatever coalition remains from the defeated Iranian uprisings of 2009 hit the streets again today for demonstrations, hoping to build on momentum from the 2011 Tunisia-Egypt Wave of Freedom Everywhere. After all, the Iranian regime had been encouraging the demonstrations in Egypt; why shouldn't it allow such protests…
Egypt has finally dumped its arrogant, paternalistic dictator of three decades in the largest country in the Arab world. That's quite an achievement for a suppressive police state after only two to three weeks of protests that weren't very organized to begin with. But what comes next? Will pure democracy just kind of…
A group of protesters stood behind BBC political editor Nick Robinson last night, waving an anti-war sign behind his head. Mad that they ruined his shot, he grabbed their sign, tore it apart, and stomped on it. On camera.
The gays sure enjoy heckling Barack Obama at fundraisers when they're angry. Last night, for the third time in six months, a "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" protester did just that, in New York. And another heckler yelled about "AIDS funding."
Tipster "Dave" sends this airplane photo of Weird Racist T-Shirt Guy, the ubiquitous protester we investigated this weekend. He's done enough weird racist t-shirt protesting in Washington for now, so he's flying back to Charlotte. But he'll resurface soon enough.
The ladies of the Foxhole, an Ohio gentleman's club, are so fed up with protesters from the nearby New Beginnings Ministries church picketing and writing down their patrons' license plate numbers, they've begun a bikini'd protest of their own. [Consumerist]
A stray mutt that has appeared at "nearly every demonstration in Athens over the last two years." He's always on the side of the protesters. He barks at the police. Locals call him and his ilk "dogs of the movement."
While it's tempting to judge all Tea Party Protesters by the offensive actions of a few, each sign wielding crowd certainly contains some thoughtful individuals with nuanced grievances. That being said, here are some sensational incidents of teabaggery!
With the Tea Party convention having just ended and with organizers already planning another one for this summer (in Vegas maybe!), it is time to cast judgment on the movement: these guys are old right-wing college activists.
