GLOBALCONFLICTMAPS.COM » Protests http://www.globalconflictmaps.com World conflict news ... Mon, 16 Jan 2012 03:10:02 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Nationwide Strikes in France: Flights Expected to Be Canceled, Gas Stations Out of Fuel http://www.globalconflictmaps.com/2010/10/19/flights-expected-to-be-canceled-in-france/ http://www.globalconflictmaps.com/2010/10/19/flights-expected-to-be-canceled-in-france/#comments Tue, 19 Oct 2010 09:35:43 +0000 admin http://www.globalconflictmaps.com/?p=1111
Students take to streets to join union protests, burn cars.

Many flights from several airports across France are expected to be canceled Tuesday as a result of nationwide strikes that have disrupted fuel supplies and transportation.

Ten of 200 fuel terminals were blocked Monday by protesters opposed to a government cost-saving measure that would raise retirement age from 60 to 62. French unions had said that production has stopped at 12 of the nation’s refineries.

About 1,000 gas stations in France have are out of fuel because strikers had blocked access to oil refineries and depots.

]]> http://www.globalconflictmaps.com/2010/10/19/flights-expected-to-be-canceled-in-france/feed/ 0 Copenhagen Climate Conference in Disarray, Inside and Out: Delays, Protests, Arrests http://www.globalconflictmaps.com/2009/12/17/copenhagen-climate-conference-in-disarray-inside-and-out/ http://www.globalconflictmaps.com/2009/12/17/copenhagen-climate-conference-in-disarray-inside-and-out/#comments Thu, 17 Dec 2009 11:21:01 +0000 USA21 http://www.globalconflictmaps.com/?p=195 Progress in the climate change summit in Copenhagen was in jeopardy Wednesday night with complex negotiations falling 18 hours behind schedule over failure to overcome disagreements on how to combat global warming. Outside the conference, police clashed with protesters, who broke through a security cordon in a failed to break in to the conference center. Climate secretary, Ed Miliband, warned of a “farce”.


Massive protest outside Copenhagen Climate Conference. Associated Press


POLITI beat downs and arrests: Girls in leopard suits, protesters push through police line and violence erupts — arrest made. Uptake Video/THEUPTAKE.ORG

Protester Poster Slogans …

NATURE DOESN’T COMPROMISE

CLIMATE JUSTICE NOW

THERE IS NO PLANET B

PLANET NO PROFIT

NATURE DOESN’T COMP

DEGROWTH

Speaker quote:
‘The time as long past for big capital to make more money.’

United Nations Climate Change Conference 2009 | Ed Miliband

SOURCE: Copenhagen summit veering towards farce, warns Ed Miliband

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