French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte confronted unmasked protesters during a Bastille Day walk in a public garden, raising further concerns about their security arrangements. A group of “vests jaunes” – yellow vests – protesters saw the Macrons and followed them, asking the president to resign and shouting …
Read More »New security law begins to break Hong Kong’s pro-democracy economy
HONG KONG (Reuters) – As soon as Hong Kong’s new national security law went into effect last week, Ivan Ng removed all protest-themed paintings, posters and flags from the list of items for sale at his print shop. Onestep. FILE PHOTO: Memo documents with protest slogans are seen outside a …
Read More »Let’s say, perhaps applauding the BLM protests has undermined the credibility of the epidemiologists’ COVID-19
The deuce you say! This Paper of Record flash only surprises to the extent that the New York Times covered this topic at all. “Are the protests unsafe?” its headline asks and then adds: “What the experts say may depend on who protests against what.” We have realized, we have …
Read More »Protesters boycott Whole Foods mask policy on Black Lives Matter
Critics are asking Whole Foods Market to change its policy that prohibits workers from wearing Black Lives Matter masks while they are at work, saying there should be “no safe place for racism” in American companies. More than 40 people protested Sunday outside the chain’s Cambridge location, where seven employees …
Read More »Phoenix protesters demand body camera images after police kill man in parked car
A group of protesters gathered in Phoenix on Sunday to demand that the city’s police department release the camera footage of the body of officers involved in the fatal shooting of a man who died while sitting in a parked vehicle on the fourth of July. Video of the incident, …
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