Posts Tagged ‘IMF’
Protesters and the Police
October 6th, 2009 by lifeproof
Just a few days ago, I have written about the culture of protest, as a protester has thrown a shoe to the IMFs boss, Mr. Strauss-Kahn. Today we will enlarge our scale and talk about the protesters and their enemy, the police. It’s today’s topic because just a few hours ago–and I still hear the [...]
Tags: culture of protest, IMF, interention, Istanbul, pepper spray, police, pressure water, protest, protesters, riot van, Taksim Square, Tiananmen Square, Turkey, World Bank
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Culture of Protest: Shoeing
October 2nd, 2009 by lifeproof
Yesterday, a 24 year old Turkish university student, who is a journalist at the same time at a small left wing newspaper, BirGün, has thrown his Nike shoe at IMF‘s president Dominique Strauss-Kahn, while he was taking questions from students, after his speech at Istanbul Bilgi University. This was a protest that was influenced from [...]
Tags: Ahmedabad, Beşir Atalay, BirGün, Dainik Jagaran, Davos, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, egging, flag burning, flag desacration, George W Bush, IMF, iraq, Istanbul, Istanbul Bilgi University, Jarnail Singh, journalism, journalist, Manmohan Singh, Muntadhar al-Zaidi, Nike, P. Chidambaram, pieing, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Reuters, Selçuk Özbek, shoe, shoe throwing, shoeing, Sikh journalist, Turkey, Turkish politics, Wen Jiabao, World Economic Forum, World Economic Forum in Davos
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