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| 1.5 million in Seoul, South Korea |
In the latest development of the South Korean protests that have been taking place for several weeks now, the number of people in Seoul’s Guanghwamun Square has grow to over 1.5 million. President Park has just apologized publicly for the third time to the nation, but still refuses to step down. She has however, stated that she will allow the Parliament to decide whether she should stay or be impeached.......
In one of the largest organized marches in the history of the world, tens of millions of Shia Muslims made an incredibly heartening statement, by risking their lives to travel through war-stricken areas to openly defy ISIS. This massive event that would have undoubtedly helped to ease tensions in the West was almost entirely ignored by corporate media.
Women, men, elderly, and children made their way to the city of Karbala on Sunday and Monday last week for the holy day of Arbaeen. Arbaeen is the event which marks the end of the 40-day mourning period following Ashura, the religious ritual that commemorates the death of the Prophet Mohammad’s grandson Imam Hussein in 680 AD........
Thousands of people took to the streets of Madrid on Saturday in
the latest Dignity March – a protest against the government’s austerity
policies.
Participants in Saturday
evening’s demonstration walked about two kilometers from Plaza de España
to Plaza de Neptuno carrying banners demanding that the government put
an end to budget cuts and act independently from Brussels. They also
accused their government of protecting the interests of big
multinational corporations at the expense of the Spanish people....
