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Does it work?

They Are Very Upset

Protest illegal medical marijuana protest
Protest dwindling environment protest
Protest indigenous rights protest
Protest citizenship protest
Protest education system protest

Protest tax hikes protest
Protest immigration protest
Protest unemployment protest
Protest foreclosures protest
Protest income inequality protest

Protest corporate welfare protest
Protest corporations protest
Protest tax cuts protest
Protest bailouts protest
Protest Fed protest

Protest foreign wars protest
Protest the system protest
Protest fighting protest
Protest lies protest
Yes.



Do you agree? What issue did I forget? Are you protesting?


From the new York times article "countless grievances, one thread. We're angry"

Bangkok Floods

Floods triggered by heavy

monsoon rains & entire villages

submerged completely & more than 280

people have been killed since late July, when

the flooding began.

At first, with flood defenses

tall, it looked like Bangkok would escape

the worst of the flooding, but then a boat

ran up against the flood walls

& let water come into

the city.

One accident with &

a lone boat.  

City under several meters of

water & it will overstay its welcome

for at least a month

more. 

Pile sandbags high &

drain canals.

Every temple & school & college &

orphanage & or stadium still dry

is housing the newly homeless. 

Toyota and Honda are suspending

production because of damage

to their factories & sorry.

Ayutthaya, containing temples and

monuments, has been injured &

some residents use elephants

to escape the flood &

they’re desperate.

Cambodia too & with 250

people lost.

From BBC’s “Bangkok floods: Thai capital fights to hold back waters” at http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-15319921

Ukraine

Ukraine sentenced its former Prime Minister
             to seven years in jail, but it may be repealed,
                        "This is an authoritarian government" but they want us
                                    to know, they're mad at Russia.

School

I raise my hand but
You won't call because I do
St-st-st-stutter?

Bouncing limbs jiggle
The word out faster - focus -
It's not a seizure.

I'll lend you my pat-
Ience, because it's not me, it's
From my proven genes.

From the New York Times article "Stutterer Speaks Up in Class; His Professor Says Keep Quiet."

Cairo's Protest

In Cairo

Egypt says it’s moving towards democracy quickly -

the military, led by their Field Marshall

Mohamed Hussein Tantawi,

the military should relinquish its power in as little as

two more years,

when there have been parliamentary elections

and ratification of a Constitution. 

Muslims make up 90

percent of the populations and Christians,

Coptic Christians, make up 10 percent, and the

military partially dismantled a church

near Aswan recently.

Yesterday, the Christians marched

from a Cairo neighborhood towards the radio and

television buildings downtown, and they scuffled

at least three times with Muslims, but the violence

wasn’t awful - horrible, meant, mean - until 6

pm, where plainclothes security forces and demonstrators threw

rocks at each other. 

State televisions had urged “honest Egyptians” to go into the streets

and protect the soldiers from Christian protesters.

            Previous Christian protestors have appealed to the military

            for protection against radical Islamists.  Not this

time – at one point, groups of riot police officers beat

Muslim protestors, who were shouting in Arabic,                             

“God is Great!”

while a few yards away other Muslims were breaking pavement into

pieces, so they could throw rocks into a group of Christians –

both sides. 

The protestors chanted                       

“The people want to bring down the Field Marshall”

and

            “Muslim and Christians are one hand.”

The police officers, cushioned by hundreds of men armed

with clubs and stones chanted

            “The people want to bring down the Christians”

and

            “Islamic state, Islamic state.”

In retaliation to the fighting, military

vehicles drove into protestors, crushing at least four

people -           bones, skin, meat – were they the passionate ones or the slow ones – how fast were the vehicles going?

Soldiers fired bullets at the protesters - 

at least 24 dead, and 200 wounded.

 

Thanks to the New York Times’ “Rage at Military in Egypt Fuels Deadly Protest”

Fighting in Streets of Sirte

On Thursday, Colonel Gaddafi urged Libyans to take

to the streets “in their

millions” to resist the current leaders and

if Sirte falls, Libya will be free, even if Gaddafi

lives.  Yesterday the UTC – the National

Transitional Council looked like it rode

a rapid sweep through Sirte, like it could be tidy with a giant

dustpan in the city hall by the weekend, but the sweeping has slowed

and now its more like a stumbling sweep with a hairbrush instead of a

broom and there’s dirt in the cracks between the tiles

so go find your toothbrush. 

Efforts last week to negotiate

failed

like a doughnut boat. 

So Pro-Gaddafi snipers fight

unseen, using burning

tires or trenches to give themselves cover to

travel between buildings, taking advantage of the

dust and advancing, then aiming from rooftops,

Ouagadougou conference center, the dusty universe-

ity and a complex of flats crammed.

500 yards separate these Gaddafi

Loyalists from the UTC fighters.  Today the conference

center where the Loyalists have been holed up is

isolated.  The rest of the city they fight one

street, building, alley at

a time. 

Thousands of civilians stay trapped in the city. 

Some leave in cars crammed

with people and possessions. Others leave

on feet.  Their faces look

terrified – they were convinced that they would be killed

outside the city.  To reassure them, the UTC gives them generous bottles

of water and flags

of the new Libya.  They’re stopped

at checkpoints and searched meticulously

for any evidence of sympathies pro-Gaddafi

before they can go on – but most

often they have no

place to go. 

From the article "Lybia NTC fight Gaddafi forces in the streets of Sirte" at
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-15229351