Lonmin, which had been hoping to restart production on Monday after a two week shutdown due to the violent protest, said 13% of its 28,000 workers reported for duty.
The whole world did watch not because 30,000 protesters gathered in one location, but because uncivil disobedience and symbolically violent tactics effectively disrupted the WTO, shutdown Seattle, provoked police violence, and staged the images the media feed upon.
Violent men die violently.
Other perfectly survivable occurrences include violent engine shuddering, sputtering flames and engine shutdown.
But by April, members of a small but militant faction of the union began pushing back with violent protests in Guerrero State, including the shutdown of the highway connecting the tourist hub of Acapulco to Mexico City.
The national power company reported that armed men entered its buildings on Monday night and ordered the shutdown, the latest step in an increasingly violent move towards civil war.
The planned shutdown comes amid a state of emergency declared in the several northern states after the violent Islamist group Boko Haram stepped up a long-simmering insurgency when it attacked four churches simultaneously on Christmas day.
Even now, Trump's mendacity astonishes ― witness his repeated assertions that droves of violent terrorists are assaulting our southern border, or his plainly false claim that government workers support his petulant shutdown.
The government has already faced student protests in London, some of them turning violent, and union leaders have said they plan to turn up the pressure with "coordinated strikes," including transit shutdowns, that could produce Britain's widest labor unrest since the heyday of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s.
So the shutdown could be a major inconvenience and nothing more, or it could be the start of a whole new violent chapter for Thailand.
