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By Jacob SerebrinThe Canadian Press Fri., April 2, 2021timer2 min. read updateArticle was updated 13 hrs ago MONTREAL - Protesters marched through Montreal’s Plateau borough Friday afternoon to denounce what many described as a “pandemic” of violence against women, after a slate of recent killings. Eight women have been killed…

In October of 2018, Leslie Hernandez stood in the hallway of her building, an olive-green stucco and concrete complex in Los Angeles’s Chinatown, trying to communicate with her neighbor Benson Lai, an elder in his early 60s and a monolingual Cantonese speaker. She held up an official notice of a…

Law and order, and the lack thereof, were impossible to ignore amid last year’s “defund the police” protests, and the same tensions are reflected in the Oscar-nominated live-action shorts lineup. Some of the entries predate the George Floyd killing, while another was shot in direct reaction to that tragedy last…

By AFP     6 hours ago in World Myanmar's ousted civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi faced a court hearing Thursday, after a UN envoy warned of the risk of civil war and an imminent "bloodbath" as the junta represses pro-democracy protests. More than 535 people have died in…

Updated 7 hours ago · Published on 1 Apr 2021 11:49AM · Seven activists were found guilty by Hong Kong District Court today of organising and knowingly participating in an unauthorised assembly. Two others had previously pleaded guilty. They face up to five years in jail. – AFP, April 1,…

A litigation support company is suing the Los Angeles-based law firm managed by John Pierce, whose past clients include Rudy Giuliani and Kyle Rittenhouse, the 17-year-old facing homicide charges stemming from protests in Kenosha, Wisconsin. The five-page summons and complaint Veritext Corp filed in New York County Supreme Court on…

My family moved to Detroit in 1998, when I was seven years old, and to the house where we live now on the west side of the city in 2005. Since then, the house to our right has seen a rotating cast of occupants. The house is identical to ours.…

In late June, in a video on the news site Unicorn Riot, the activist Jennifer Bennetch was standing around, waiting to announce an occupation. The video showed her in front of the headquarters for the Philadelphia Housing Authority, wearing a fanny pack and a colorful print hijab, bouncing anxiously on…

The murder trial of Derek Chauvin, the former police officer whose alleged killing of George Floyd last year prompted a wave of Black Lives Matter protests, got fully under way with opening arguments in Minneapolis on Monday. Chauvin, 45, has denied charges of second- and third-degree murder and manslaughter over…

Updated 21 hours ago · Published on 28 Mar 2021 9:27PM · A teenager has died in ongoing Islamist protests in Bangladesh against the visit of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. – EPA pic, March 28, 2021. A TEENAGER has died and at least a dozen people were injured during…