Food Fight in Brussels

Posted by Miss Cellania in Odd News on October 6, 2009 at 12:25 pm

Angry farmers took to the streets to protest low food prices in Brussels, Belgium. They dumped milk into the streets and threw eggs. One pictures shows a farmer aiming streams of milk directly from a cow’s udder onto policemen.

The protest organizers, the European Milk Board, said that more than 1,000 tractors and 5,000 people took part on behalf of “more than 80,000 dairy farmers”.

The group said milk prices are below 75 percent of production costs. Another European farm union organization, Copa-Cogeca, says that milk prices have plummeted 30 percent in a year and that dairy producers will lose up to 14 billion euros before the end of the year if nothing is done.

See the awesome full version of this cropped picture at the New York Times. Link -via Buzzfeed

(image credit: Georges Gobet/Agence France-Presse)

 
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A Day WITH Cats: A Day Without Cats Counter Protest

Posted by Alex in Animal on September 9, 2009 at 3:24 am

Well, today is the day. A week ago, Urlesque blog dared the Interweb to ban posts about cats.

Well, that ain’t right – so us Neatorama folks decided to stage a counter protest. To restore the cosmic balance caused by the lack of posts about cats today, we will post about cats, cats, and more cats!

Here are a few from the archives of the blog to kick start the whole thing:
 
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Tiananmen Square Anniversary

Posted by Miss Cellania in Politics, Travel & Places on June 4, 2009 at 8:05 am


People around the world are marking the 20th anniversary of what became known in China as the June 4th Incident. In April of 1989, students and intellectuals gathered in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square to mourn the death of communist party secretary Hu Yaobang, who advocated government reform. The gathering grew into an anti-government protest and lasted until June 4th when government forces cleared the square. Official Chinese records say 241 died in the incident, but the Chinese Red Cross initially put the figure at 2,600. Frontline aired a 2006 documentary about the protest and its aftermath called The Tank Man. That episode is now available online, along with a timeline and other features. Link -via Metafilter, where you’ll find more links

 
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Student Protest School's "No-Touching" Policy

Posted by Alex in Baby & Kids, Politics on March 28, 2009 at 2:08 pm

Patrick Abbazia attends his class bound in blue duct tape. He’s not doing it just to be weird – instead, he’s protesting a strange policy of the East Shore Middle School in Milford Connecticut: a "no-touching’ policy that bans physical contact between students!

"Going down the halls it is so cramped that it is hard not to touch anyone," Amanda Bollano said. "But if it is accidental, they won’t do anything. If it is intentional, you might get detention."

Patrick Abbazia said that he and his friends like to give each other "knuckles" and to high-five, and that to ban those actions — when fighting is the problem — doesn’t seem right.

"My mom says it’s not good for a person to go all day without touching,” the eighth-grader said.

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(Photo: B.K. Angeletti / Connecticut Post)

 
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Pink Underwear Protest

Posted by Miss Cellania in Odd News on February 12, 2009 at 10:29 am


The Consortium of Pub-going, Loose and Forward Women is a Facebook group formed to protest the actions of an Indian group called Sri Ram Sena (Army of Lord Ram). Members of the group were arrested for attacking women in a bar in Mangalore last month. The attack was caught on video.

Pramod Mutalik, who heads the little known Ram Sena and is now on bail after he was held following the attack, has said it is “not acceptable” for women to go to bars in India.

He has also said his men will protest against Valentine’s Day on Saturday.

The Facebook group urges its over 28,000 members to send pink chaddis (underpants) to Mutalik’s office on Valentines Day in protest. Link to story. Link to website. -via Arbroath

 
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