A black UCLA student at an anti-Prop 8 protest reported that the gathering, "was like being at a klan rally except the klansmen were wearing Abercrombie polos and Birkenstocks.
TUNISIAN POLICE FIRE TEARGAS AND RUBBER BULLETS TO DISPERSE PROTEST OVER FILM NEAR U.S. EMBASSY – REUTERS REPORTER — Reuters Top News (@Reuters) 12 Sep 12 Despite the dramatic CAPSLOCK presentation of that news by Reuters on Twitter, Erik Churchill, an American blogger who lives in Tunis and witnessed the protest reports that the protesters were very few, numbering only about 40.
Local co-ordination committees, which have been documenting anti-government protests, reported that the town was attacked from the south and east by troops in about 200 vehicles, including tanks.
Early on Saturday morning a man was shot at a protest in Portland, Oregon, where police also reported that "burning projectiles" had been thrown at officers.
Meanwhile, Syrian activists reported that protests continued elsewhere, including in the capital, Damascus, in the well-to-do district of Sha'alan, an area with fashionable stores and food stalls.
Newspapers in Iran reported that students protested in Tehran after Mr. Ahmadinejad's government distributed 3,000 traveler's checks of $50 each among the students last week.
One guy cut his veins, you understand?" And then he added a detail that had been circulating on the Web: "The inmates are writing their banners with blood!" Meanwhile, the top news story on the official Web site of the Chelyabinsk regional prison authority, posted two days before the protest began, reported that Colony No. 6 had installed a new 3D home theater system.
After the bombings on Saturday, angry residents smashed the windows of cars from Syria, and a Turkish newspaper reported that protests against Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan later erupted in Reyhanli's streets.
— Reem Abdellatif ريم (@Reem_Abdellatif) 14 Sep 12 Erin Cunningham, a correspondent for the Global Post, reported that a protest in Jordan was attended by just dozens.
While some travellers are having such a hard time getting tickets home this holiday season that they have unveiled their underpants in protest, it is reported that on one line $352 luxury sleeper tickets are going begging.This mismatch raises questions about the $300 billion being thrown at high-speed rail this decade.
