The clean up operation began at Seattle’s Capitol Hill Organized Protest (CHOP) zone on Wednesday after police in the city reclaimed their precinct following the mayor’s early morning executive order to vacate the area. Bulldozers moved in and crushed the camp where protesters occupied several blocks around a park and the Seattle Police Department’s East Precinct. Officers … Read more
Protesters in Seattle’s Capitol Hill Occupied Protest (CHOP) zone confronted construction workers as they attempted to remove roadblocks on Friday morning. Employees from the Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) arrived around 6.00am with trucks and heavy machinery to haul away the concrete and wooden barriers. Video taken by Converge Media showed Sam Zimbabwe, head of … Read more
China has been deploying bulldozers and diverting the course of a river near the disputed Himalayan border where Chinese and Indian soldiers died in a deadly clash on Monday, satellite images suggest. The images appear to show China bringing in pieces of machinery and damming a river in the Himalayan mountainside in the last 10 … Read more