”Mobs” News

San Francisco wants "flash mobs" to behave

SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) – San Francisco wants flash mobs to mind their manners. The city would also like notice before the next mass 03 12 2009 5:17AM (...more)

Haiti mobs dole out vigilante justice

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - Mobs attacked two suspected kidnappers in Haiti 's capital, stoning one to death, local and U.N. police said Monday.
02 12 2008 6:22PM (...more)

Shoppers, Unite! Carrot Mobs Are Cooler Than Boycotts

Forget sticks, and stick with carrots instead. So says Brent Schulkin, founder of a fledgling movement of activist consumers who are employing a kind of reverse boycott that he calls a Carrotmob. The concept is simple: instead of steering clear of environmentally-backward stores, why not reward
05 22 2009 6:51PM (...more)

China's virtual vigilantes: Civic action or cyber mobs?

Beijing – Some call it a weapon in the hands of a righteous army, forged so that wrongdoers might be smitten. Others say it simply allows a mob of vigilantes to publicly vilify and humiliate anyone they choose to pick on through grotesque invasions of privacy. Either way, the peculiarly
12 6 2008 10:06PM (...more)

Flushing Mobs, Exporting Terrorism, and Infiltration of Chinese Communists in the U.S.

To: POLITICAL EDITORS Contact: Tsuwei Huang, Falun Dafa Practitioners in Washington DC , +1-301-395-8009 WASHINGTON, June 5 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/
06 5 2008 9:12PM (...more)

Project Nur Student Activists Organize Iran Solidarity Flash Mobs

To: FOREIGN EDITORS Contact: Bashir Martin of the American Islamic Congress , +1-202-595-3160, Bashir@Aicongress.org Washington DC going green in solidarity with fellow students under fire
07 17 2009 8:08AM (...more)

Mobs roam China's restive Urumqi

URUMQI, China (AFP) – Mobs wielding makeshift weapons roamed this restive city Wednesday, with vigilantes pummelling two Uighur Muslims, despite a massive show of force by Chinese troops that brought some calm. President
07 9 2009 4:32AM (...more)

Mobs spread ethnic strife in western China

URUMQI, China – Sobbing Muslim women scuffled with riot police, and Chinese men wielding steel pipes, meat cleavers and sticks rampaged through the streets Tuesday as ethnic tensions worsened in 07 8 2009 4:42PM (...more)

Armed mobs spread ethnic strife in China's west

URUMQI, China – Mobs of Han Chinese wielding meat cleavers and clubs and groups of Muslim Uighur men beat people in the streets of the capital of China's Xinjiang region Tuesday.
07 8 2009 11:31AM (...more)

Xinjiang capital in chaos as mobs vow revenge

URUMQI, China (AFP) – Police have fired clouds of acrid tear gas to disperse thousands of Han Chinese protesters armed with makeshift weapons, as chaos gripped this flashpoint city riven by ethnic tensions. Thousands
07 8 2009 8:57AM (...more)