Ashley Wells, CC Liu, Wisdom Quarterly; KPFK.org
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| Bangkok (Sakchai Lalit/AP/news.yahoo.com) |
Thailand is demanding the ouster of its corrupt first female prime minister (
Yingluck Shinawatra, 45), sister of corrupt billionaire and
former P.M. Thaksin Shinawatra (who is in self-imposed exile, trying to make a comeback without having to face political corruption charges in majority Buddhist Thailand). As part of the campaign pitting radical
Red Shirts and reactionary
Yellow Shirts in the Thai capital, Los Angelenos are joining the fray just outside UCLA at the
Westwood Federal Building at 2:00 today, Jan. 13, 2014, in solidarity with Thai protesters.
Bangkok braces for protest shutdown
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| Keeping a Free-Land free (thai) |
(AP) Thailand
braced for a new wave of mass unrest Monday as anti-government
demonstrators blocked major roads to
"shut down" Bangkok in a bid to
thwart February elections and overthrow the nation's democratically
elected prime minister. The intensified protests, which could last weeks or more, raise the stakes in a long-running crisis...
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