Starbucks lends a hand (and a toilet) to Turkish protesters
Starbucks has long been a target of anti-corporate protests. But one store on Istanbul’s Taksim Square has quietly given aid to Turkish protestors.
Tagged: protest
12 Jun
The view from Gezi Park
Seattleite Christan Leonard is in Istanbul documenting a protest movement that is turning out to be about a lot more than saving a park.
05 Jun
What the heck is happening in Turkey?
A small cadre of Turkish Seattleites are organizing support for escalating protests they say are about saving democracy in Turkey.
22 Mar
Video: #IdleNoMore protests coal trains
In Canada, the birthplace of the “Idle No More” movement, six members of the Cree tribe are nearing the end of a 1000 mile trek to the nation’s capital to protest the enduring poverty of indigenous Canadians. For marchers closer to home, the protest route on Thursday was barely four miles long. But the cause [...]
16 Sep
Anti-Putin protests unite Russian opposition
What do a communist, an ultra-nationalist and a gay rights activist have in common? In Russia, they all oppose the regime of President Vladimir Putin. Tens of thousands of protesters took to the streets in central Moscow on Saturday in the first major protest in three months, proving that the anti-Putin movement still has the [...]
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