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Bougainville - The long struggle for freedom
They were fired upon with tear gas and charged with batons. Women threw themselves in front of company bulldozers, ... lives for their ancestral land. "The Australian" wrote in an editorial (August 1969): "the use of tear-gas and clubs this week to enforce alien laws on the uncomprehending people was a damning ...
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Solidarity South Pacific - News - Papuans shut down Freeport mine
Indonesia soldiers reportedly use tear gas and live rounds to attack protesting tribal people. Reports from inside West Papua suggest that at ... comes to human rights, either. The Indonesian military have already arrived at the mine and are firing gas at the protestors. One man has been shot and killed. I am deeply concerned for the safety ...
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Battling the System or Waiting for Collapse - A Report from the WTO Protest in Seattle.
People who fled from the gas bombs were soon to reappear. Some protesters got physical with civil disobedience, and some property damage ... down resulted in an active police state for the duration of the conference. Concussion bombs and tear gas were common features on the streets, the threat of which, along with arrest kept ...
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The battle of Seattle has been won but
The EU therefore lost out most when the party ended in tear gas. Almost all of the issues on the EU wish-list could have big, negative, implications for the world's ...
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Save The Redwoods/Boycott The Gap
River Watershed Protection Association, P.O. Box 467, Albion, CA 95410. THE SHOT HEARD ROUND THE WORLD! TEAR GAS FILLS THE STREETS OF SEATTLE THE NEW AMERICAN REVOLUTION HAS BEGUN 50,000 PROTEST CORPORATE ... am. Police bar the "Delegation for the Environment" from entering the WTO meeting--with pepper spray, tear gas, noise bombs and plastic bullets. Click here to see the whole photo series (and an ...
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Save the Redwoods - Boycott the Gap Tear-gassed at Seattle WTO Protests
Protests turn violent, trigger overnight curfew Andy Clark, Reuters Clearing the streets: Police fire tear gas and pellets at protesters Tuesday outside the WTO conference in Seattle. Mayor Paul Schell ... When protesters began smashing windows and setting fire to trash bins, police moved in with tear gas. Rubber pellets were fired, and dozens were arrested. The crowd was estimated to be ...
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Amazon Genocide
Rondonia, on Brazil's borders with Bolivia. Riot police wearing bullet-proof jackets and using tear gas made a dawn raid on the Santa Helena farm, set up by the squatters less than a month before. "Many people were lost in the bush and some were wounded, dazed by the tear gas, and jumped in the river. It's really impossible to know exactly how many people died," an ...
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Robert Young Pelton's Traveling Right - National Geographic Adventure Magazine
Thy Enemy Imagine yourself in sunny Argentina. Now imagine yourself in sunny Argentina during last fall's Americas Summit: protests, riots, tear gas. A typically tranquil country turned hostile. A true traveler needs to be prepared for any situation, and courses for war correspondents provide quick training. I respect the guys at AKE Limited, whose five-day Surviving ...
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No Dirty Gold
Last year, residents of Cajamarca stepped up protests against the expansion of Yanacocha to Cerro Quilish. Over 10,000 people staged demonstrations and blocked access to the mine for 2 weeks in September 2004. Protestors faced tear gas, police violence, and long nights, but refused to back down. Realizing the depth of local opposition to the mine's expansion, ...
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Tear Sheets, Photo, Photos
Sensory Advantage? (Kajiura, Forni and Summers): 4/8/2006 Biological Sciences Cover Filed under: Tear Sheets   Here’s another “scientific journal” cover, we’ve had a few of these in ... cover of the Where magazine: 3/21/2006 Isla Guadalupe :: Restauracion Y Conservacion Filed under: Tear Sheets, Guadalupe Island   Finally, an authoritative book has been published about Guadalupe Island, our favorite ...
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