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Protest held against Park Police shooting deer in Montgomery County

Submitted by Luke on Fri, 02/06/2015 - 20:54

The Montgomery County Park Police are shooting deer in Rock Creek park and elsewhere in MD, once again claiming there are "too many" of them in an area dominated by human overpopulation. On the 6th of February area residents outraged by these "culls" showed up at the intersection of Beach Drive and MD rt 410 with banners denouncing the killing. Many of the banners advocated "birth control instead of bullets," a population control measure sucessfully used in other areas that have decided they have too many deer.

Video of the protest

Animal Rights

The Shortwave Report 02/06/15 Listen Globally!

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Civil Rights/Equal Rights
Elections/Legislation/Government
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World Uprisings

Calvert County Sheriff's Dept acting as Dominon's mercenaries

Submitted by Luke on Thu, 02/05/2015 - 16:26

Dominion has hired ten Calvert County sheriff's deputies and two armed patrol boats to protect their plans to export fracked gas at Cove Point. The patrol boats were shown to the media during a string of peaceful protests at Dominion's construction sites. Word at one of the protests was that the ten deputies draw their paychecks from Dominion, not from the Calvert County taxpayers. This implies they also take their orders from Dominion. That in turn makes them mercenaries like Blackwater and not police at all.

Video of armed patrol boats set to "warpigs"

Environment/Food/Health
Poverty

Some perspective after Code Pink calls for defunding ISIS instead of going back to war

Submitted by Luke on Wed, 02/04/2015 - 14:59

On the 3ed of February, Code Pink somehow managed to get onto Faux News and Bill O' Reilly's show, and suggested their own way to stop ISIS: Cut off the flow of money from Saudi Arabia and other US allies that keeps ISIS afloat. They also reminded O'Reilly that the US invasion of Iraq created ISIS in the first place. That Isis/Daesh was born in reponse to US occupation of Iraq is shown by the orange Guantanimo jumpsuits their victims are always shown wearing in the execution videos. Some of their founders did time in Camp Bucca in Iraq, where former Gitmo guards had been sent to "Gitmo-ize" the camp.

Anti-War/Peace

Banner drop and crane occupation against gas export at Cove Point, MD

Submitted by Luke on Tue, 02/03/2015 - 13:31

On the 3ed of February, Maryland teacher Carling Sothoron scaled a 150 foot crane at Dominion's "offsite A" construction site. This site is part of the Cove Point fracke gas export project. Carling and another activists were arrested in this civil disobediance, the latest in a string of actions aimed at preventing fracked gas from being compressed to LNG and exported out the old gas import facility at Cove Point.The banner read "“Dominion get out. Don’t frack Maryland. No gas exports. Save Cove Point"

Environment/Food/Health

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