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18 Feb 2011, 2:00 am by John Day
App. 2003) (stating that both plaintiffs, one the wife of mayor of Clarksvillewho had been a guest writer for the local newspaper, and the second who was the incumbent Grants Writer for the City of Clarksville and former mayoral candidate were public figures within the parameters laid down by the Tennessee Supreme Court), Murray v. [read post]
17 Feb 2011, 5:43 pm by Simon Maghakyan
#Feb29 From Bahrain: The world has turned upside down. [read post]
17 Feb 2011, 10:52 am by Natalie Hamill
The EU could have tried to initiate a more active response to the North African protests had it wished to. [read post]
16 Feb 2011, 8:02 pm by annalthouse@gmail.com (Ann Althouse)
Students, union members, and others protested the new governor's budget plan. [read post]
16 Feb 2011, 9:04 am by Rafia Zakaria
The authorities in Bahrain had no compunction about cracking down on the Day of Rage protests that were organized by rights activists on February 14, 2011. [read post]
16 Feb 2011, 7:55 am by Administrator
Workers at the Suez Canal, in textile factories, in government departments downed tools, sat in, picketed and otherwise brought normal productive activity to a halt. [read post]
16 Feb 2011, 6:08 am by William Carleton
" "Getting people onto the streets, which may indeed become easier with modern communication tools, is usually the last state of a protest movement, in both democracies and autocracies. [read post]
15 Feb 2011, 10:55 pm by Alasdair Henderson
The Iranian regime brutally suppressed the protesters in 2009, and there has been a crack-down on opposition activists since. [read post]
15 Feb 2011, 12:29 pm by Terry Lenamon / Reba Kennedy
   Specifically, the Iranian rallies yesterday were 10,000s of Iranians in the streets (Slate magazine is reporting 100,000s), protesting for the Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to step down. [read post]
15 Feb 2011, 11:12 am by The Editors
The Bahrain authorities must thoroughly investigate what occurred, stand down the police involved in these shootings and make clear to the police that the use of excessive force will not be tolerated. [read post]
15 Feb 2011, 9:48 am by annalthouse@gmail.com (Ann Althouse)
ADDED: Scroll past the first 2 paragraphs to the interviews by CNN correspondent Nic Robertson, who tries to get Egyptian protesters to show how much Obama means to them and gets less than nothing: ROBERTSON: Achmed, you've been here down here on the Square for many days. [read post]
15 Feb 2011, 7:58 am
When times are prosperous people are less likely to protest and demand a change in leadership. [read post]
14 Feb 2011, 11:49 am by Christopher G. Hill
”) As a mediator, lawyers are always explaining why now is not the time for a sit down. [read post]
14 Feb 2011, 9:55 am by Danielle Citron
Two decades later, we watched in awe as the brave people of Eastern Europe brought down one repressive communist dictatorship after another. [read post]
14 Feb 2011, 7:10 am by The Editors
Inspired by the uprising in Egypt and the stepping down of Hosni Mubarak, Yemeni people continue with their anti-government demonstrations. [read post]
14 Feb 2011, 1:59 am
 Pan noted that inspectors have cracked down on pork producers, sellers, and distributors in larger cities, like Beijing and Shanghai, which has proven to be successful in decreasing the number of reported food poisoning cases due to clenbuterol contamination in those areas. [read post]
13 Feb 2011, 9:47 pm by Dave Wieneke
It’s been an incredible two weeks, let alone the two years since we first covered President Hosni Mubarak’s threat to close down Facebook in Egypt after it was used to rally 80,000 protesters back in 2008. [read post]
13 Feb 2011, 10:32 am by Kimberly Alderman
 AP reports: On Jan. 28, as protesters clashed with police early on in the turmoil and burned down the adjacent headquarters of Mubarak’s ruling party, a handful of [...] [read post]
12 Feb 2011, 9:32 pm
Hundreds of riot police then brought out their guns, marched in formation and shut down the square altogether. [read post]
11 Feb 2011, 6:56 pm by Glenn Reynolds
In one instance, protesters threw a Molotov cocktail through the front window of Marfin Bank in central Athens. [read post]