Marches & Protests: progressive photos & art (no 30/60)
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German Christian Democrat Hans-Gert Pöttering has been Parliament's President since 2007 and an MEP since 1979. Here he prepares to open a session. His mandate expires with the June elections.@European Parliament / Pietro Naj-Oleari
Si l'abstention a été la grande gagnante de ce double scrutin, certains ne se sont pas abstenus de voter à leur manière en s'en prenant aux affiches des candidats; ici celle du binôme de la majorité présidentielle pour les élections régionales.
Duration: 22 seconds
Date: July 28, 2016
Protestors at 2016 DNC
Broad Street and Pattison Avenue
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Vintage unmarked metal brooch - the Democrat Donkey - far more useful to mankind than an elephant. Oct. 2020.
The Paris Pride March took place on the eve of parliamentary elections in France, which are likely to bring the far right to power with with a majority of MPs in the assembly.
The only force capable of preventing this is the left-wing coalition bringing together the main currents of the left and the ecologists.
This left-wing and green force is in the majority in big cities, like the popular 20th arrondissement in Paris where I live. Let's hope it will be heard, despite the media steamroller that favors the far right.
This mill is located on the Placer Gulch Trail which you get to from California Gulch trail.
Just liked the view from the road down to the bottom of the gulch.
This building is on Mill Street in Sylva, North Carolina in Jackson County. On December 17th, 2019 local Democrats held a rally here in support of the impeachment of Donald Trump. A counter protestor slowly drove his truck into the crowd of about 100. Nobody was injured.
www.bpr.org/post/sylva-police-investigating-truck-driving...
The votes are coming in…in the USA the Mid-Term Elections yesterday are revealing that The Democrats have won a record number of seats in the House of Representatives, giving them overall control for the first time in 8 years.
Hillary Clinton who won the popular vote by 3MM votes in 2016 remains a devoted Democrat, encouraging US citizens to get out and vote. Seen here are details from a portrait tribute painted by British expressionist artist Stephen B. Whatley that year. The portrait was published in online Election 2016 news coverage in The Guardian newspaper.
The artist has a great affection for the United States - and his portrait of Barack Obama was published in TIME in 2008.
The work of Stephen B. Whatley is showcased through a permanent art exhibit in London: his series of 30 paintings vibrantly charting the history of the Tower of London was commissioned in 2000 - and is reproduced throughout Tower Hill Underpass (outside Tower Hill Station, close to the Tower) - where Americans, amongst them many of his collectors, discover his work.
At the "Respect My Vote" rally at the Bangkok Arts and Cultural Centre / MBK intersection today, January 10th 2014 - when a fair few people displayed they had had enough of Suthep's attempt to derail democracy in the hope of returning to the days of military rule behind the front of an Absolute Monarchy, and enough of Abhisit's leadership of the Democrat Party to boycott the election.
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Tongue-Thai’ed ! Whistle Blown on Abhisit’s Spurious Pleas for Reform
By Saksith Saiyasombut
Jan 09, 2014
(Democrat) Party leader Abhisit Vejjajiva held a speech at a party event called ”Eradicate Corruption, Committed In Reforms” in Bangkok on Tuesday, when this happened:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BstwVBOvYM
Here’s a description...
[...] an unidentified man stood up in the audience and blew his whistle. The audience mistook him as a supporter of Mr. Abhisit, since whistle-blowing has been a trademark of the anti-government protesters, and no one restrained him until he held up a sign which read – in English – “Respect My Vote!”.
The heckler then shouted at Mr. Abhisit, “If you cannot even reform yourself, how can you reform the country?”. Mr. Abhisit was visibly surprised by the incident, but the former leader tried to manage the confrontation by thanking the man for his remarks.
However, the heckler went on to shout, “When you were the government, why didn’t you do it? (Start the discussion) about anti-corruption. You have intimidated other people, so can they not intimidate you as well?”
The heckler was later identified to be a 34-year-old Bangkok businessman referred under his Facebook handle “Ake Auttagorn” who told Prachatai that he staged the one-man protest “out of frustration” at the political discourse now and that “Thailand already had this lesson many times before” with the Democrat Party “always at the center of it”.
And this is how Abhisit reacted to the heckler…
“This is an example of reasons why we need reforms,” Mr. Abhisit told the audience, “This is the form of Democrat Party′s rivals”, to which the heckler shot back, “I am not your rival, I am the people!”
Security guards later surrounded the man and led him out of the room. After the heckler had been removed, Mr. Abhisit told the crowd that such harassment is a reason why the upcoming election on 2 February 2014 would not be a fair one."
asiancorrespondent.com/118047/tongue-thaied-abhisits-flab...
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.... a business man standing and heckling / challenging you with an A4 sign saying Respect My Vote means the upcoming election would not be a fair one?
How's that ex Prime Minister Abhisit ?
Please tell...
I remember in 1994, when the Republicans were swept into power, the pundits said that the country had taken a dramatic turn to the right.
I said that they were wrong; the country is pretty moderate but felt that the Democrats weren't representing their interests. Sure enough, the Republicans overplayed their hand and voters finally made them pay. Now the Democrats have another chance to get it right. I hope they don't screw it up!
In the meantime, it's a good day to be a donkey!