Macron Fights Eurosceptics in France, as UK Postpones ‘Brexit’ Vote, Protesters from Hong Kong’s Occupy Central Movement on Trial, Film ‘Strike A Rock’ Follows Victims’ Families of South Africa’s Marikana Miners Massacre
By Worldview Staff
A demonstrators stands alone with a French flag during clashes Saturday, Dec. 8, 2018 in Paris. Crowds of yellow-vested protesters angry at President Emmanuel Macron and France's high taxes tried to converge on the presidential palace Saturday, some scuffling with police firing tear gas, amid exceptional security measures aimed at preventing a repeat of last week's rioting. Rafael Yaghobzadeh / AP Photo
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A demonstrators stands alone with a French flag during clashes Saturday, Dec. 8, 2018 in Paris. Crowds of yellow-vested protesters angry at President Emmanuel Macron and France's high taxes tried to converge on the presidential palace Saturday, some scuffling with police firing tear gas, amid exceptional security measures aimed at preventing a repeat of last week's rioting. Rafael Yaghobzadeh / AP Photo
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Macron Fights Eurosceptics in France, as UK Postpones ‘Brexit’ Vote, Protesters from Hong Kong’s Occupy Central Movement on Trial, Film ‘Strike A Rock’ Follows Victims’ Families of South Africa’s Marikana Miners Massacre
By Worldview Staff
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- This past Saturday in Paris, protesters took to the streets for the fourth weekend in a row, dressed in neon yellow vests, to symbolize rebellion.
- Nine leaders of Hong Kong’s “Occupy Central with Love and Peace,” a pro-democracy movement also known as “The Umbrella Movement”, went on trial last month.
- On August 16, 2012, South African police committed what’s been called the worst act of police brutality in the post-apartheid era.