Frederick Douglass

"Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did, and it never will. Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them..." Frederick Douglass

Sunday, June 5, 2011

Bangladeshi strike disrupts normal life

Dhaka, Bangladesh (CNN) -- Dhaka's usually bustling streets looked barren Sunday as opposition parties enforced a daylong general strike over a government move to change the electoral system.

Police and witnesses said hundreds of anti-government protesters in the capital and several other districts fought with police, who used clubs and teargas to disperse them.


http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/africa/06/05/bangladesh.strikes/