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DoomsdaysCWHundreds of thousands <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/protest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#protest</a> across <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Greece" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Greece</a> over deadly <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TrainCrash" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TrainCrash</a>Story by Reuters Published 6:19 AM EST, Fri February 28, 2025"Hundreds of thousands of people rallied in cities and towns across Greece on Friday to demand justice on the second anniversary of the country’s deadliest-ever train crash, and striking workers grounded flights and halted sea and train transport."Fifty-seven people were killed when a passenger train filled with students collided with a freight train on February 28, 2023, near the Tempi gorge in central Greece. "Two years later, the safety gaps that caused the crash have not been filled, an inquiry found on Thursday. A separate judicial investigation remains unfinished and no one has been convicted in the accident."<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MassDemonstrations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MassDemonstrations</a> were planned in dozens of cities across the country. All international and domestic flights were grounded as air traffic controllers joined seafarers, train drivers, doctors, lawyers and teachers in a 24-hour <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GeneralStrike" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GeneralStrike</a> to pay tribute to the victims of the crash. Businesses were shut and theatres canceled performances."By early morning, tens of thousands had gathered in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SyntagmaSquare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SyntagmaSquare</a> in the center of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Athens" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Athens</a>, watched by police in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RiotGear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RiotGear</a>. A sign read: 'Government of murderers.' Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis’ center-right government, which won re-election after the crash in 2023, has faced repeated criticism by relatives of the victims for failing to initiate a parliamentary inquiry into political responsibility."The government denies wrongdoing and says it is up to the judiciary to investigate the accident. Friday’s protests reflected mounting anger over the disaster in Greece, where mistrust of government is common following a 2009-2018 debt crisis in which millions lost out on wages and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/pensions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#pensions</a>, and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PublicServices" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PublicServices</a> suffered from underfunding."Read more: <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/28/europe/greece-protests-deadly-train-crash-intl/index.html?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/28/europe/greece-protests-deadly-train-crash-intl/index.html?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GreeceProtests" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GreeceProtests</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PowerToThePeople" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PowerToThePeople</a>

DoomsdaysCWPolice in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RiotGear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RiotGear</a> face-off with protesters in downtown <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LosAngeles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LosAngeles</a>Story by Josh DuBose, February 3, 2025 "Police in riot gear moved in on protesters in downtown Los Angeles after a daylong demonstration against Trump’s <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/immigration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#immigration</a> policies and mass <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/deportations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#deportations</a>. "The <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/protest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#protest</a>, which was organized and promoted on social media, originated on the Placita Olvera on Olvera Street near DTLA and saw demonstrators on the 101 Freeway at Alameda Street blocking both sides of roadway by 12:30 p.m., causing massive gridlock. "Officers with the Los Angeles Police Department assisted by California Highway Patrol were able to clear the freeway as protesters took to downtown surface streets, but then quickly got back on the major artery through downtown at Los Angeles Street. "Many of the protesters were carrying signs, some of which were speaking out against Trump’s policies regarding immigration. "'The real criminal is in the White House,' one sign read. Another read 'Jesus said ‘Love Thy Neighbor,’ not deport them.'"Read more [with photos]: <a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/police-in-riot-gear-face-off-with-protesters-in-downtown-los-angeles/ar-AA1yiPev" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/police-in-riot-gear-face-off-with-protesters-in-downtown-los-angeles/ar-AA1yiPev</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ACAB" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ACAB</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AntiDeportation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AntiDeportation</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AntiICE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AntiICE</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AntiTrumpDemonstrations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AntiTrumpDemonstrations</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Protests" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Protests</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LAProtests" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LAProtests</a>

DoomsdaysCWCrackdowns on <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateActivists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ClimateActivists</a> are happening in a lot of places -- including the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#US</a>! NYPD in riot gear! For a 63 year old cellist!!!via <a href="https://gratefuldread.masto.host/@verdantsquare" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@verdantsquare</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Cello" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Cello</a>-playing <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateActivist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ClimateActivist</a> arrested at <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NewYork" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NewYork</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Citibank" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Citibank</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/protest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#protest</a> as crackdown escalatesSecond activist also arrested during ‘summer of heat’ protest against second largest financier of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FossilFuels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FossilFuels</a>Nina Lakhani in New York Thu 8 Aug 2024 19.13 EDT"A 63-year-old climate activist and professional cellist faces up to seven years in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/prison" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#prison</a> after being arrested on Thursday while performing a Bach solo outside the headquarters of one of the world’s largest fossil fuel financier Citibank in downtown New York."<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/JohnMarkRozendaal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#JohnMarkRozendaal</a>, a former Princeton professor, and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AlecConnon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AlecConnon</a>, director of the climate nonprofit group <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/StopTheMoneyPipeline" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#StopTheMoneyPipeline</a>, were arrested for criminal contempt in the public park at the bank’s global headquarters as the crackdown against <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/nonviolent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#nonviolent</a> climate protesters escalates."Rozendaal was handcuffed and led away to the police vehicle singing 'we are not afraid, we are not afraid, we will sing for liberation because we know why we were made'. The crowd of protesters chanted 'let him play' and “ shame on you Citibank”."Thirteen other climate activists, who had linked arms in a circle around Rozendaal to protect him as he played Bach’s suites for cello, were detained for alleged obstruction of governmental administration, a misdemeanor criminal charge. 'People are dying … today is my birthday,' said Mike Bucci, 77, teary eyed as the police in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RiotGear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RiotGear</a> broke up the protest."Since 10 June, climate activists have been peacefully protesting against Citibank’s record financial support for new fossil fuel projects as part of the Summer of Heat on Wall Street campaign. At least 3,700 people have participated in the nonviolent civil disobedience, repeatedly blockading the entrance to its global headquarters. More than 475 people including faith leaders, scientists and elders have been arrested while calling on Citi to stop bankrolling new <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/coal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#coal</a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/oil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#oil</a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/gas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#gas</a>."Citi is the second largest financier of fossil fuels and the largest financier of fossil fuel expansion since the 2015 Paris climate agreement, according to the latest Banking on <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateChaos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ClimateChaos</a> report."The latest arrests come as climate advocates accuse Citibank and the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NYPD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NYPD</a> of coordinated and escalating efforts to suppress nonviolent protests in retaliation for drawing attention to the banking giant’s key role in funding fossil projects globally."Read more: <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/aug/08/citibank-climate-protest-new-york" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/aug/08/citibank-climate-protest-new-york</a><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SummerOfHeatIOnWallStreet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SummerOfHeatIOnWallStreet</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SummerOfHeatProtests" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SummerOfHeatProtests</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NYC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NYC</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ACAB" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ACAB</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NonViolentProtests" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NonViolentProtests</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BigOilAndGas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BigOilAndGas</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SLAPPs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SLAPPs</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CorporateColonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CorporateColonialism</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EarthDefenders" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EarthDefenders</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CriminalizingDissent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CriminalizingDissent</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BigOilAndGas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BigOilAndGas</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WaterIsLife</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateDefenders" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ClimateDefenders</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Fascism</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ExtinctionRebellion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ExtinctionRebellion</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ExtinctionRebellionNYC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ExtinctionRebellionNYC</a>

DoomsdaysCW<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DartmouthCollege" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DartmouthCollege</a> professor arrested during protest: 'It's really shameful'Story by Hannah Cotter 5/2/2024"Video captured by News 9 showed the moment <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Orleck" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Orleck</a> was arrested by police during the protest. She said she was among a handful of professors who showed up to support students at what she called a peaceful protest until law enforcement arrived in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RiotGear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RiotGear</a>."'And it's really shameful in a sleepy little campus, in a rural area like Dartmouth, that they brought in this ridiculous show of arms and strength and violence,' she said."She also wanted to address Gov. <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ChrisSununu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ChrisSununu</a> calling the protests against the war in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Gaza" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Gaza</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/antisemitic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#antisemitic</a>. She said she's a <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Jewish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Jewish</a> woman and did not feel safe after last night's police response."'As a Jewish woman of an age that I grew up in a neighborhood full of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Holocaust" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Holocaust</a> survivors and knew Holocaust survivors, I have to say that I think this is disingenuous,' she said. 'It's a weaponizing of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/antisemitism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#antisemitism</a> for their own <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/political" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#political</a> purposes, which is to <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SuppressDissent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SuppressDissent</a>. And if, in fact, as the governor and the college president said, the point is to make the campus safer for the Jewish community members, I have to say that what happened next made it decidedly less safe for all of us.'"Orleck, who has been a professor at Dartmouth for more than three decades, said as part of her bail condition, she is being banned from Dartmouth's campus. She said her emails to the institution have gone unanswered."Read more: <a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/dartmouth-professor-arrested-during-protest-its-really-shameful/ar-AA1o3IrY" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/dartmouth-professor-arrested-during-protest-its-really-shameful/ar-AA1o3IrY</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/JewishVoiceForPeace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#JewishVoiceForPeace</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GazaSolidarity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GazaSolidarity</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AntiWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AntiWar</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AntiGenocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AntiGenocide</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NewHampshire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NewHampshire</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Protest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Protest</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ACAB" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ACAB</a>

DoomsdaysCWIn Backlash to Campus <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ProPalestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ProPalestine</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Protests" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Protests</a>, Echoes of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/StandingRock" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#StandingRock</a> and the Global Crackdown on <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateProtest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ClimateProtest</a> The use of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/militarized" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#militarized</a> police and “<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/antiterrorism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#antiterrorism</a>” laws against <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/activists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#activists</a> is not new in the U.S. by Alleen Brown, Drilled This story is co-published with the Center for Media and Democracy and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CensoredNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CensoredNews</a>May 3, 2024"As soon as a single <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Palestinian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Palestinian</a> activist showed up at an anti-<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DakotaAccessPipeline" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DakotaAccessPipeline</a> camp on the edge of the Standing Rock reservation in 2016, intelligence analysts for the mercenary security firm <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TigerSwan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TigerSwan</a> were on alert. "El-Zabri, the Palestinian activist surveilled at Standing Rock, was among 79 people arrested this week while protesting at the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/UniversityOfTexas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UniversityOfTexas</a> at <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Austin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Austin</a>. 'It really felt like the same as Standing Rock, when we were facing the police,' he said. "''There was a whole army that looked like it was at war in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RiotGear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RiotGear</a>. They eventually used <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TearGas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TearGas</a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PepperSpray" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PepperSpray</a>.' "'They're afraid of what we have to say and the people that we can touch,' said Cornell senior Yanenowi Logan, who is Deer Clan from the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SenecaNation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SenecaNation</a> and has been negotiating with campus administrators. "Logan said that by standing up for Gazans, she and other Native organizers are also standing up for themselves. 'We want to be able to show them that, hey, we're still here,' she said. 'You can try to kill us. You can burn our crops. You can do whatever you want to do, but we're still going to persist.'"<a href="https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/05/drilled-in-backlash-to-campus-pro.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/05/drilled-in-backlash-to-campus-pro.html</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Genocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Genocide</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Israel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Israel</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Palestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Palestine</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FreePalestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FreePalestine</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GazaSolidarity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GazaSolidarity</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoDAPL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NoDAPL</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Colonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Colonialism</a>

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