Growing public anger at Starbucks was clear this weekend as over 40 of their shops across the UK - including in Exeter and Bristol - were targeted on Saturday by the anti-cuts direct action network, UK Uncut.
Local activists gathered outside the Exeter branch of Starbucks on Saturday and performed protest theatre, subversive carols and built a mini-shelter. Activists were asking the public to sign a petition and carried signs such as ‘Too little Too latté and ‘making a mochary’.
UK Uncut took action to confront the company over its tax avoidance and highlight the impact of...
(NewsPoint) –More than one hundred people disrupted roads in and around Westminster on Tuesday in solidarity with the 700 Kurdish prisoners on hunger strike in over 50 different prisons.
Among those on hunger strike are several leaders of the chief Kurdish party, the Kurdish Peace and Democracy Party (BDP). They are accused of ties to the outlawed rebel Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), which has for decades sought autonomy for the Kurds.
The detainees are surviving on salted or sweetened water and vitamins alone in a strike that has gained momentum since it began with...
(NewsPoint) –Protest movement Occupy Wall Street have come under fire after posting a blatantly anti-Semitic cartoon on their Facebook page.
The cartoon shows a caricature of a Jewish man sitting on their shoulders of Obama and Romney, about to 'dig in' to a mosque on a plate.
Occupy Wall Street, which began just over one year ago when protesters set up camp in Manhattan, developed into a worldwide movement on an unprecedented scale. Although the motives behind each individual camp, and even each individual protester differed, they largely stood against capitalism and the...
(NewsPoint) – Hundreds of people are protesting in Lyon, France, against same-sex marriage, and for what they believe to be the protection of children.
Banners and t-shirts worn by participants read, 'A dad, a mum, period!', 'In defence of children', and 'Protect the weaker' (direct translations).
The demonstration appears to have been organised by Alliance Vita, a group that self-proclaims to "promote the protection of human life and the dignity of every person", and is a key part of the pro-life movement in France
Eyewitnesses report more than 200 people currently protesting outside the newly-opened Marie Stopes clinic in Belfast, Northern Ireland. The clinic is the first in Northern Ireland offering the legal termination of pregnancies.
The protesters at the clinic are from a range of religious denominations and are reportedly holding up placards with images of aborted foetuses.
The Marie Stopes clinic has said it will carry out medical, not surgical, procedures only up to nine weeks gestation and only within the existing legal framework. In Northern Ireland...
(NewsPoint) – A loyalist flag protest which took place on Monday evening descended into violence once again, with an Alliance Party office attacked, and a police vehicle 'petrol-bombed'.The incident took place on Newtownards Road, east Belfast, and is the latest in a series of protests following the decision that the union flag would not be displayed on Belfast City Hall every day of the year, and could only be displayed on special days such as the Queen's birthday.Police are treating the attack close to Alliance Party MP Naomi Long's east Belfast office as attempted murder. A gang of six...
NewsPoint) –Dublin is braced for protest as Michael Noonan and Brendan Howlin are set to publicly announce the €3.5 billion of spending cuts and tax increases of Budget 2013 with the annual Autumn StatementAlthough today only marks the beginning of the process of negotiating budget measures for the forthcoming year, the speeches made by the ministers, and the expected announces of continued austerity measures.An anti-austerity protest is expected to take place outside the Dáil (lower chamber of the Irish parliament) at around 4pm.
Similar budget announcements across Europe have...
Dozens of Eritrean migrants staged a protest outside Israel's Defence Ministry in Tel Aviv on Thursday.
Demonstrators protested to denounce the detention of hundreds of asylum seekers in the Saharonim prison in the Negev, a desert region in southern Israel. Eritrean migrants also called on Israel's Interior Minister Eli Yishai to grant them the refugee status. Some protesters held signs saying "Being black is not crime" and "Freedom yes, Prison no!”, while others chanted "Remember your history Yishai".
