The official campaign website
The demands of the occupiers
Scenes of a struggle? (A dispassionate eyewitness account)
Da Man speaks (NYTimes dispatch)
Live and archived video
February 20, 2009
NYU Occupation
February 20, 2009
Iran: Drop Charges against Jailed Unionists
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Iran: Drop charges against jailed union leaders
Ali Nejati, Feridoun Nikoufard, Mohammed Heydari Mehr, Ghorban Alipour and Jalil Ahmadi are leaders of the trade union of workers at the Haft Tapeh Sugar Cane Plantation and Industry Company in Shush, an affiliate of the IUF.
The 5,000 workers at Haft Tapeh have had to resort to repeated [...]
February 20, 2009
Helsinki University Occupied!
UPDATE! Overnight Student Sit-in Ends at Helsinki University
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University students, researchers, professors and staff are currently occupying the director’s floor in the building of the university administration of Helsinki University in Finland. This happened as an offshoot of a demonstration against a new draconian “reform” soon to be presented to the Finnish parliament. The new laws (more below) would [...]
February 20, 2009
Watch What You Sign (Police Intimidate Municipal Election Petition Signers in Petersburg)
The St. Petersburg Times
Issue #1450 (12)
Friday, February 20, 2009
Police Said To Have Intimidated Opposition
By Sergey Chernov
Staff Writer
The local political opposition says the authorities are increasing the pressure on them as the March 1 municipal elections approach. City Hall refused to authorize a meeting that the Solidarity democratic movement was planning to hold on Saturday, and [...]