Lobbying Politicians

by Amal Jayasinghe Wed Jul 2, 2008

COLOMBO (AFP) - Hundreds of Sri Lankan reporters and cameramen staged a protest outside President Mahinda Rajapakse's home Wednesday demanding an end to a wave of killings, abductions and assaults against journalists.

Media workers' associations peacefully demonstrated outside the main access to Rajapakse's Temple Trees residence while dozens of unarmed police stood behind yellow iron barricades.  read more »

By Kelly Brewington Baltimore Sun July 1, 2008

Hoisting signs that read, "Don't divide our families," about 75 immigrant advocates held a rally in Baltimore this morning to protest an immigration raid yesterday. The raid on an Annapolis painting company resulted in the arrest of 46 suspected illegal immigrants.  read more »

By CHOE SANG-HUN NY Times June 30, 2008

SEOUL, South Korea — The government of President Lee Myung-bak sealed off major rallying points in central Seoul on Sunday after hundreds of citizens and police officers were injured  read more »

By KWANG-TAE KIM, Associated Press May 26,2008

SEOUL, South Korea - Thousands of protesters marched through Seoul against a U.S. beef import pact that has renewed fears of mad cow disease. Police said Tuesday that 30 demonstrators were arrested after scuffling erupted.

A crowd estimated by police at 3,000 held a candlelight vigil Monday night before embarking on the march.  read more »

http://friendsofthewaterfront.org/

Friends of the Waterfront is a group of Olympia Area residents and businesspeople who see the Olympia waterfront as a community treasure -- a central feature that is vital to the health of the whole community.

We advocate managing the waterfront area, the land within 600 feet of the water, wisely. It should be developed for the benefit of the entire community, not for the benefit of limited interests.

Doing that well requires managing it according to the community's vision, as determined by a process that includes all elements of the community.
What we think most people would want...  read more »

By E. EDUARDO CASTILLO, Associated Press April 14, 2008

MEXICO CITY - Leftist lawmakers erected makeshift barricades Monday around the podium in Mexico's lower house of Congress, where they have been camped out for more than five days to protest the president's oil reform proposal.  read more »

Sat, 12 Apr 2008 Earth Times Zagreb - Over 40,000 workers from all over Croatia took part in Zagreb Saturday in a mass protest calling for higher wages to keep pace with the rising cost of living. Despite very heavy rain and low temperatures, the demonstration - under the banner "together for higher wages" - turned out to be the biggest such event of its kind in over a decade, Croatian HRT television reported.

The peaceful demonstration cheered trade union leader Kresimir Sever's declaration that "Croatia is split - there are a few super- rich people, and countless poor."  read more »

By JONATHAN M. KATZ, Associated Press April 8, 2008

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - U.N. peacekeepers fired rubber bullets and tear gas into a crowd that gathered outside the presidential palace Tuesday during the second consecutive day of protests over soaring food prices.

Fritz Longchamp, chief of staff to President Rene Preval, said some protesters were trying to break down the palace gates before the U.N. troops moved to establish a security perimeter around the building.  read more »

By Matthew Roy
The Virginian-Pilot March 5, 2008

Nearly 200 people marched to City Hall on Tuesday night to protest the fatal police shooting of James "Gucci" Dennis, chanting for "justice."  read more »

From Times Online March 3, 2008

Protesters have scaled a crane opposite the Houses of Parliament to call for a referendum on the European treaty, in the third such stunt seen in the last week.

Days after green demonstrators mounted the roof of a British Airways plane at Heathrow and a separate group staged a rooftop protest at the House of Commons, two men climbed hundreds of feet late last night and were still there this morning.  read more »