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Law School Study Alleges NYPD Overstepped its Power During Occupy Protests
A report by New York University and Fordham Law Schools studying the actions that police took in response to Occupy protests has found that the New York Police...
May Day Protests Around the Globe
Thousands are marching through city streets across the world in observance of May Day, the international workers’ holiday, shouting their demands for greater...
Bahrain Puts 11-year-old on Trial over Protests
Playing in the street with your friends could land you in a Bahraini jail, as sixth-grader Ali Hasan has discovered. Charged with taking part in an illegal...
Supreme Court Health Care Protests in Pictures
TIME captures proponents and critics of the Affordable Care Act as they square off outside the Supreme Court, which is hearing arguments on the law’s...
SOPA Protests Gain Steam as Web Activists Flex Growing Clout
Internet-based protests against a pair of controversial anti-piracy bills gained momentum Wednesday, as several lawmakers dropped their support in the face of...
Protests Turn Nasty in Greece
"We are not lazy; it's the Germans, they want to take our blood." — ELEFTHERIOS ZARKADOS, a protester outside Greece's parliament building on Wednesday, during a...
Why Are Today's Anti-War Protests So Muted?
For folks of a certain age, the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations bring back memories of Chicago ("The whole world is watching") 1968, and the anti-war protest I...
Global Briefing, January 16, 2011: Protests, Profiles and Putin
‘If I Die, I Die’— Storyful spotlights a video dispatch from Nigeria’s protest movement; here is TIME’s take on the country’s ‘occupy’ strikes. A New Burmese...
Photos: The Funniest Signs at the Global 'Occupy' Protests
Their intentions might be serious, but protesters still have a sense of humor.
Indian Man Protests Bureaucracy By Releasing 40 Cobras in Tax Office
In perhaps a new take on the Occupy protests, an irate snake charmer dumped three sacks full of poisonous reptiles on the floor of a Government Land Registry...
Occupy the Classroom: NYU to Offer Classes on Occupy Protests
The Occupy Wall Street protestors may have believed they were making history, but not even the most optimistic among them could have guessed their story would be...
The 1% for the 99%: 7 Celebrities Who Support the Wall Street Protests
Just because they're in the 1% doesn't mean they can't support the movement.
Wall Street Protests Get Specific: Could ‘Bank Transfer Day’ Pit Americans Against Their Big Bank?
The growing anger directed at U.S. banks (especially the big ones that took federal bailout funds) over recent fee increases coalesced this weekend into a...
Anonymous Attacks Just Political Protests, Say Lawyers
Cyber attacks on PayPal, AT&T and other organizations weren't just attempts to cause chaos or anarchistic assaults on the establishment, according to attorneys...
How Palestinian Bloggers Cover Protests in Their Own Villages
As the cycle of protests goes on, Palestinian videographers and live bloggers produce footage of great immediacy and pointed perspective
Grisly Self-Immolation Protests Spread to Tibetan Capital
Two men lit themselves on fire Sunday in Lhasa, Chinese state media and overseas Tibetan groups reported, marking the first time that the self-immolation...
May Day: Watch the Occupy Wall Street ‘General Strike’ Protests
The movement is calling for a “day without the 99 percent,” calling for protesters to skip work and refuse to patronize corporations to shut down commerce for...
Occupy the Internet: Protests Give Rise to DIY Data Networks
Isaac Wilder's Freedom Towers and other "free networks" are alternatives to the corporate-owned, government-regulated fiber optic cables running underneath us...
