A ring of police barricades and security checks around Davos swing back to admit chief executives, media, queens, presidents, even world-renowned artists, then swing closed to protestors and tourists.
The Israeli warning shots included at least two tank shells and machine-gun fire at open fields close to the protestors.
In Koodankulam, at the southern tip of India, the police have suppressed a prolonged and spirited campaign against new Russian reactors by turning away journalists, deporting foreign sympathizers, desecrating a church, placing three villages under virtual siege and slapping sedition cases (which can carry sentences of life imprisonment) on close to seven thousand protestors, including children.
And one clinic in London is reportedly being forced to close because of intimidating protestors.
But having seen these protestors up close and spoken to those involved, it became clear their message was to protest peacefully.
"Nothing is operating here," she said "Main roads are blocked by protestors, businesses are closed, banks are closed, petrol stations have no gas, schools are closed.
But if I may be so presumptuous (pretty much everyone else is, so why not me?), I'd suggest that rather than singling out Wall Street fat cats for taking too much of the pie, the protestors look closer to home.
In Alexandria, a gas canister was shot into the neck of a protestor at close range, killing him almost instantly. .
Just as Black Lives Matter protestors have closed bridges, and disrupted holiday shopping, we may need to "shut shit down" for Black children in schools.
As someone from Dallas, the recent shooting of police officers and a protestor highlighted close to home for me that something is wrong in this country.
