Massive violent protests against the education system in Chile have continued for years. Protesters are fed up with the largely privatized and very expensive schools, a legacy of Pinochet’s neo-liberal experiments.
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Authorities say a police station has been attacked in a village in northern Greece where frequent protests have broken out against plans to develop a gold mine in the area by a Canadian mining company.
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“Given the crackdown by Russian authorities on groups including Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, I have regretfully decided to cancel my upcoming concerts in Moscow and St. Petersburg in June,” a statement on Mark Knopfler’s website says.
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Russia clamps down on NGO’s including Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International and Mark Knopfler retaliates. The Russians must be devastated.
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More than 4,000 students protested outside the Parliament on Thursday as Greek lawmakers voted for “Athena plan” that will merge or even close down more than 300 university and technical college faculties and departments. The mergers are imposed by Greece’s international lenders, the EU-IMF-ECB Troika, in an effort to cut public expenditure.
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Answering a call put out on social networking site Facebook, thousands of young people in Cyprus took to the streets to protest against the bailout accepted the government.
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Workers at Spain’s royal palaces will go on strike for the first time over Easter to protest against salary cuts and longer working hours, their union has said.
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From Beppe Grillo’s Five Star Movement in Italy to Ukip in Britain, minor parties are shaking up the political establishment
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Thousands across Mexico demand their government reject permits for GMO Corn while Monsanto defends their patent on life in U.S. Supreme Court
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The Islamist Erdogan is rounding up the former power brokers in Turkey, who ruled Turkey since WW1. Word is that many top level Turkish (and thus also NATO) officers have now defected to Moscow with loads of dirty secrets as bargaining chips.
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