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DOUGLAS COUNTY, NV--A homicide warrant, out of Oakland, CA, was issued for the arrest of a Bart Officer, who was picked up in Nevada. Johannes Mehserle, 27, was picked up in Douglas County, NV, for shooting a Mr. Oscar Grant at a Bart Station on...
OAKLAND, CA--Many streets on Thursday afternoon were empty of people by 4:00 p.m. Word spread like wildfire that more destruction by rioters will take place on Thursday night: Black, white, Chines and other minority groups that...
Riot police clashed with rock-throwing demonstrators in central Athens today, sending Christmas shoppers and people in cafes running for cover. Frightened parents scooped up their children from a Christmas carousel in the city's main square and fled....
Tags: police, athens, teenager, anarchist, Athens University Law School, riots police, riots, Greek Parliament, tear gas, central athens
Greek youth protesters say they are planning sit-ins in front of police headquarters across the country. The students have called for the sit-ins Monday, 10 days after the police shooting death of a 15-year-old boy sparked nationwide riots in which at...
Tags: police, riots, athens, sparked, teenager, Greece, anarchist, ins greece, old boy, Athens Polytechnic University
Karamanlis was attending a European Union summit in Brussels, and condemned the worst unrest Greece has seen since the end of military dictatorship in 1974. He said that his country should focus its attention on dealing with the global economic downturn,...
Tags: police, riots, teenager, Athens, anarchist, Greece, tear gas, Greek Parliament, Alexandros Grigoropoulos
There was no surprise in Athens that the shooting of a 15-year-old youth by a policeman should have triggered an angry reaction. What stunned people was that the reaction went on, and on. "We could understand the violence after that for one day," said...
A 15 years old teenager was shot dead in Greece, at 21:55 (Standard Greek Time), in Athens, by a policeman. Greek media reported that a police car was surrounded by poeple trying to break the windows and a policeman shot three times. Later on, the policeman...
Media Glutton, March 26, 2008 by Rick Dakan So I had a rather unusual but quite exciting media overload experience this past weekend - spoke and worked my publisher's table at the San Francisco Bay Area Anarchist Book Fair. It was, in fact, a lot of...
Tags: anarchist, books, dispossessed, china mieville, thomas pynchon, rick dakan