Tag Archives: Protests and Riots

How Immigrants and Labor, Long Joined in L.A., Set the Stage for Protest

How Immigrants and Labor, Long Joined in L.A., Set the Stage for Protest

Los Angeles is a city of immigrants. It is also a city of unions. And in California, those two constituencies have essentially melded into one. So it should come as no surprise that federal immigration raids on workplaces around Los Angeles County this week set off the largest protests to date against President Trump’s immigration crackdown. On the first day …

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Oil Prices Are Falling. Here’s Where That Could Spell Trouble.

Oil Prices Are Falling. Here’s Where That Could Spell Trouble.

Oil producing countries are bracing for a bumpy ride this year, with a precipitous drop in prices to the lowest levels in four years seen as the initial, alarming sign of looming turmoil. A price drop benefits any country seeking to cut its fuel bill. But in oil producing nations, lower prices can feed economic troubles, and sometimes political unrest, …

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Used Tesla Market Heats Up as Owners Sell to Protest Elon Musk

Used Tesla Market Heats Up as Owners Sell to Protest Elon Musk

For the last several months, Ken Harvey has been cultivating a budding side business for his Honda and Mazda dealerships in Northern California: selling used Teslas. A few times a month, Mr. Harvey picks up a few pre-owned Teslas at a local automobile auction and offers them for sale, often at surprisingly affordable prices, thanks to a $4,000 federal tax …

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A Quarter-Billion Dollars for Defamation: Inside Greenpeace’s Huge Loss

A Quarter-Billion Dollars for Defamation: Inside Greenpeace’s Huge Loss

When the environmental group Greenpeace lost a nearly $670 million verdict this month over its role in oil pipeline protests, a quarter-billion dollars of the damages were awarded not for the actual demonstrations, but for defaming the pipeline’s owner. The costly verdict has raised alarm among activist organizations as well as some First Amendment experts, who said the lawsuit and …

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Specter of Auto Tariffs Spurs Some Car Buyers to Rush Purchases

Specter of Auto Tariffs Spurs Some Car Buyers to Rush Purchases

Ziggy Duchnowski spent Saturday morning car shopping along Northern Boulevard in Queens with two goals in mind. He wanted to find a new small car for his wife, and he hoped to strike a deal before the new tariffs that President Trump is imposing on imported cars and trucks affect prices. “The word on the street is prices are going …

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Jury Finds Greenpeace Liable for Hundreds of Millions in Damages

Jury Finds Greenpeace Liable for Hundreds of Millions in Damages

A North Dakota jury on Wednesday awarded hundreds of millions of dollars in damages to the Texas-based pipeline company Energy Transfer, which had sued Greenpeace over its role in protests nearly a decade ago against its Dakota Access Pipeline. The verdict was a major blow to the storied environmental organization. Greenpeace had maintained that it played only a minor part …

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It Fought to Save the Whales. Can Greenpeace Save Itself?

It Fought to Save the Whales. Can Greenpeace Save Itself?

Greenpeace is among the most well-known environmental organizations in the world, the result of more than 50 years of headline-grabbing protest tactics. Its activists have confronted whaling ships on the high seas. They’ve hung banners from the Eiffel Tower. They’ve occupied oil rigs. A (fictional) activist even sailed with Greenpeace in an episode of “Seinfeld,” in hopes of capturing Elaine’s …

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Stand Up for Science Rally Sees Mix of Science, Politics and Anxiety

Stand Up for Science Rally Sees Mix of Science, Politics and Anxiety

In Washington, many protesters declined to share their names publicly, for similar reasons. One woman, who wore a surgical mask and a long, white lab coat with the words “Mad Scientist” on the back in red lettering, described herself only as a federally funded researcher “who’s trying to keep things moving forward in these challenging times.” Her field was planetary …

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Hit by ‘Gut Punches,’ Scientists Band Together to Protest Trump

Hit by ‘Gut Punches,’ Scientists Band Together to Protest Trump

On Feb. 8, Colette Delawalla, a graduate student in psychology at Emory University, nervously announced to the online world that she was planning a national protest in defense of science. “I’ve never done this before, but we gotta be the change we want to see in the world,” she wrote in a post on Bluesky, a social media platform. A …

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A Tough Start for Greenpeace in Court Fight With Pipeline Giant

A Tough Start for Greenpeace in Court Fight With Pipeline Giant

The opening week of the landmark trial of Greenpeace in a multimillion-dollar lawsuit by Energy Transfer over the Dakota Access Pipeline protests did not bode well for the defense. Lawyers for Greenpeace said so themselves in a petition filed in North Dakota’s Supreme Court. They asked the court on Thursday to move the trial out of Morton County, arguing the …

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