How to spread the word: lessons from Greenpeace
Dangerously scaling buildings costs lives
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Old wounds, new violence in Belfast
Once again violence has flared across Northern Ireland. In Ardoyne, a Catholic district in north Belfast, republicans threw petrol bombs, stones and bottles, injuring 23 police officers. The friction...
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Cops divide anti-Olympics protesters, and conquer them
It was dubbed the “heart attack march.” The idea, said one demonstrator, was to clog the main arteries of downtown Vancouver “like a Big Mac clogs the ones in your body.” Did it work? Well, traffic on...
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Whistler: mountain war zone
It’s not only Vancouver that is enduring Olympic protest and conflict. I can report that clashes in Whistler continued deep into the night, keeping security officials on high alert. At Bear Foot...
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We were best when it counted
Photograph by Mark Ralston/ AFP/ Getty Images There are tides and rhythms to an event that spans 17 days and includes 82 countries—an event so large it is capable of altering the emotional climate of a...
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The Battle for Okinawa
Photograph by Shizuo Kambayashi/ Associated Press It’s tradition to celebrate 50 years of marriage with gold. But in January, the golden anniversary of the U.S.-Japan military nuptials—the landmark...
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The problems run deep
Orestis Panagiotou/ EPA/ Keystone Press Taxis are still reasonably priced in Greece, even though not much else is. In Athens, where an espresso can cost $6, gin and tonics $12.50, and the latest issue...
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Remembering Tiananmen
Chinese censors aren’t laughing. A cartoon published in a Chinese newspaper last week appears to refer to the violent crackdown in 1989 on protesters in Tiananmen Square. It shows a boy drawing a...
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Scenes from outside the summit: Day 2
Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 10:38 pm [Stephanie] This is at Yonge and Front. Despite reports to the contrary, there are no protesters, but a lot of of police—all in full riot gear. 6:44 pm [Stephanie]...
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Scenes from outside the summit: Day 3
Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 7:06 pm [Julia] Lockdown at Queen and Spadina—after mass arrests and reports of riot police using sound cannons and rubber bullets, no one is allowed through. The ever-present...
View ArticleCanada’s fossilized G20 protesters
It’s a good thing for the G20 protesters that the focus has gone all meta and shifted to the realm of civil rights, including the questionable five-metre rule and the behaviour of the police. Because...
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The fallout from Toronto’s G20 protests
Reuters/ Nic Thorne/ Getty Images As the crowd in Toronto’s Allan Gardens spilled onto Carlton Street, many looked around, as if searching for directions. It was the first official day of G20...
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Middle-aged anarchists
JAYME POISSON/Toronto Star Back in the summer of 2002, a quiet, middle-aged Ottawa public servant named Roger Clément began offering the use of his shower to a group of young squatters occupying a...
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The rise of the far right
Matthew Lloyd Getty Images/ Phil Noble Reuters/ Sand Tan AP “We’re expecting a nice peaceful protest, and we’ll all be home for tea time.” The police officer in the northern British city of Bradford...
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France isn’t the only country that needs to get real
MAXPPP/HUGUES LEGLISE BATAILLE/KEYSTONE PRESS France’s penchant for public displays of political discontent is frequently at odds with the basic tenets of economics and logic. Alexis de Tocqueville,...
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Why only freedom can bring stability to the Middle East
Amir Dalsh/Reuters Ascribing the birth of an international movement to a single act by a single person may grossly misrepresent the process of history. Nonetheless, the tragic story of Mohamed Bouazizi...
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Why the revolts in Egypt and Tunisia are just the beginning
AP; Khaled Abdullah/REUTERS An old Syrian joke tells the story of a man who gets in a traffic accident involving his own beat-up car and an immense and shining limousine. The poor man leaps from his...
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Bows, arrows, and firebombs
Yiorgos Karahalis/Reuters Protests were once again roiling Greece last week as the two main labour unions staged the first general strike of the year, disrupting basic services across the country. In...
View ArticleMessy questions for Western companies in China
The Globe had a lengthy piece over the weekend that looked at Canadian companies operating in Libya. It showed once again the dangers for businesses that do deals in high-risk zones. One moment you’re...
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700 arrested on Brooklyn Bridge in NYC
Guy Godfree/Maclean's About 700 of the demonstrators taking part in the Occupy Wall Street protest in New York City were arrested late Saturday during a march across the Brooklyn Bridge. In a...
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Yes we can—stop the Keystone XL pipeline
One day in early September, some dozen Democratic activists showed up at the Washington state headquarters of Obama for America, the President’s re-election campaign organization in Seattle. They...
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All grown up: the Occupy Wall St. movement takes shape
Guy Godfree/Maclean's “The whole world is watching.” Roughly 1,000 protesters were chanting as much on the Brooklyn Bridge this Saturday, after they were kettled by the NYPD (some may recall the...
View ArticleScenes from the Occupy Wall St. protest in NYC
Thousands gathered in New York City this week to join the burgeoning movementThe post Scenes from the Occupy Wall St. protest in NYC appeared first on Macleans.ca.
View ArticleTaking it to the streets
Brian Topp considers the Occupy Wall Street protests. There are false roads open – like the fantasist right-wing populism of the American Tea Partiers. And there are better roads open – like modern,...
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Could the Occupy Wall Street movement really be about student loans?
Stan Honda/AFP/Getty Images Could the Occupy Wall Street movement really be about student loans? The protests have spun off a Tumblr blog called “We Are the 99 Percent,” where ordinary people submit...
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Occupy Wall St. comes to Canada
One of the first arrivals early this morning at Bay and King, the financial district launch spot for today’s Occupy Toronto demonstration, was a transgendered woman named Stephanie who parked her...
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A phony class war
Photographs by Carlo Allegri Was there ever a more ersatz political movement than that which purported to “occupy” Canadian cities over the last week? The Occupy Wall Street protest on which it was...
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Let’s hear it for democracy in Kyrgyzstan
Vyacheslav Oseledko/AFP/Getty Images Voters in Kyrgyzstan elected Almazbek Atambayev as president Sunday, overcoming the first hurdle in a series of reforms aimed at creating Central Asia’s first...
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The Occupy movement: from farce to tragedy and back
Darryl Dyck/CP In Saskatoon last week, as temperatures sank below zero, residents of the local Occupy encampment began taking stock. The tiny tent community had dwindled from the 30 who’d set up camp...
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My Occupy (a job) movement
Mark Blinch/Reuters I’ve avoided writing about the Occupy movement for the following reasons: 1. Until last week I thought Warren Buffett sang Margaritaville. 2. I’m young and I have a job—a...
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Greece: When democracy is denied, people take to the streets
Yannis Behrakis/Reuters Ancient Athenians made no distinction between themselves and their government. Official pronouncements attributed decisions to “the citizens of Athens” and left it at that. Such...
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Spring awakening in Bulgaria
Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP/Getty Images On Wednesday, March 20, a 41-year-old man in the Bulgarian village of Sitovo paid a visit to his local gas station. There, Todor Yovchev doused himself with gasoline...
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Protesters block main road to Trump rally in Phoenix
Benjamin Garland, far left, yells out in protest as attendees walk into the Tucson Convention Center for a Donald Trump rally on Saturday, March 19, 2016, in Tucson, Ariz. (Mamta Popat/Arizona Daily...
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Trump denounced in protests across U.S.
Protesters march through downtown along Spring Street during a protest against President-elect, Donald Trump, Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2016 in Los Angeles. (Keith Birmingham/The Pasadena Star-News/SCNG via...
View ArticleAnti-Trump protest in Vancouver draws hundreds
VANCOUVER – Hundreds of protesters snaked their way through downtown Vancouver on Thursday, pumping their fists in the air and chanting “Love trumps hate,” as they rallied against the outcome of the...
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What can Canada do for Venezuela?
(Carlos Garcia Rawlins/Reuters) Ben Rowswell was Canada’s ambassador to Venezuela from 2014 until last month, when he retired from the Canadian foreign service. He’s now working in Toronto as...
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The uprising in Iran: ‘This is what revolution looks like’
The Iranian uprising that began last Thursday in Mashhad, Iran’s second largest city, was initially reported as an isolated protest over food prices and unemployment. By Sunday, the entire country was...
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