‘Breast Walk’ demo: Woman jailed for hitting Cop with Breast.

Hong Kong ‘breast walk’ held over court ruling

Protesters, including men wearing rainbow bras, decry jailing of woman for bumping her chest against a policeman’s arm.

by Zoe Hu AJE with thanks

Protesters wear bras over their shirts during a demonstration in support of local female protester Ng Lai-ying [Reuters]

Wearing a rainbow of patterned bras over their shirts, dozens of protesters have gathered outside Hong Kong’s police headquarters to protest against the conviction of Ng Lai-ying, who was deemed guilty of assaulting a police officer with her breast during a protest. Continue reading “‘Breast Walk’ demo: Woman jailed for hitting Cop with Breast.”

Shell Arctic Destroyer blocked 40 hrs by Activists

The Shell standoff in Portland comes to a dramatic end

By Katie Herzog on 31 Jul 2015 35 comments

Forty hours after Portland activists took to the Willamette River to block passage of the MSV Fennica, a Shell icebreaking vessel en route to the Arctic, the standoff came to an end.

Thursday afternoon, several hours after protesters successfully forced the Fennica to turn around, a judge — after urging from Shell — ordered activists to abandon their posts blocking the Fennica’s route out of Portland and threatened Greenpeace with fines from $2,500 to $10,000 per hour. The activists — some parked in kayaks on the Willamette, others hanging from slings on the St. Johns Bridge — refused, and local authorities and the Coast Guard eventually forced them from their posts, making way for the vessel.