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A group of Romanians protested the use of cyanide in gold mining operations in Romania. For several hours on a brisk spring day, they gathered in front of mine company investor John Paulson, hedge fund manager, investor, and held up banners and passed out flyers.
The protest was part of a larger international movement against the Romanian government’s controversial decision to allow a Canadian firm to build Europe’s largest opencast gold mine.
Environmentalists and activists are warning that the mine, if opened, would lead to the destruction of four mountain peaks and three villages. Terrible as that would be, their greatest fear is the planned use of cyanide, a highly toxic substance, that is required for the mining process—12,000 tons of it each year.
The fear is well grounded in recent history. In 2000, a cyanide spill near the town of Baia Mare, Romania, occurred when a dam containing toxic mining waste burst, releasing 100 tons of cyanide-contaminated waste water into the Lapus, the Somes, as well as the Tisza and Danube rivers.
Considered the worst environmental disaster since the Chernobyl nuclear leak in 1986, the poisoning of the river Tisza resulted in the destruction of the river's entire ecosystem in a matter of days, everything from microbes to otters, according to the BBC.
Protests after #stealingparadise which reveals that the President of Maldives, his govt, police, military and judges behind acts of grand corruption, money laundering, abductions, looting and every other crime under the sun. www.aljazeera.com/investigations/stealing-paradise/
This protest took place in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida June 5th and 6th 2005. Although the protest was inspired by George W. Bush attending the OAS meeting taking place in South Florida, the protesters had many different agendas; some of the protesters were even there in support of Bush.
The Organization of American States (OAS), or, as it is known in the three other official languages, (OEA), is an international organization, headquartered in Washington, D.C., United States of America. Its members are the thirty-five independent states of the Americas.
The notion of closer hemispheric union in the American continent was first put forward by Simón Bolívar ("The Liberator") who, at the 1826 Congress of Panama, proposed creating a league of American republics, with a common military, a mutual defense pact, and a supranational parliamentary assembly. This meeting was attended by representatives of Gran Colombia (comprising the modern-day nations of Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, and Venezuela), Peru, the United Provinces of Central America, and Mexico, but the grandly titled "Treaty of Union, League, and Perpetual Confederation" was ultimately only ratified by Gran Colombia. Bolívar's dream soon foundered with civil war in Gran Colombia, the disintegration of Central America, and the emergence of national rather than continental outlooks in the newly independent American republics.
About 60 protestors showed up at Landsbanki, and delivered a resignation letter to the bank’s CEO. Words by Paul Fontaine, photos by Art Bicnick
Protesters erected some protest tents in Sulaymaniyahs Bardarki Sara square but were all burnt down by Patriotic Union of Kurdistan affiliated gunmen before it was sunrise.The protesters set up other tents right after that;this one is written on in Kurdish;
For God's sake don't set me on fire,If you decided to do so anyway,tell me,so that I can go inside it and burn with it,because I will never leave this tent.
signed Hardy
The flags on display at the CND Wrap up Trident MArch, January 24th 2015.
Wrap up Trident was a CND run protest march on the 24th January 2015. This was my first protest, both photographing it and participating. When I left my house for the hour long journey into central London I was hit by a sense of excitement and trepidation, hoping I could get good photos from a one off event. It took some time to find the base of the protest, outside the MOD, building Whitehall but I was still the first photographer there. Everyone was more than happy to be photographed while carrying the 2 mile peace scarf, marching to Old Palace square and at the Rally.
I have been very encouraged by this event to go and cover future protests.
There was a protest at BYU on Friday. BYUSA fired someone who wrote a lot of negitive things about BYUSA in the BYU newspaper. BYUSA also says there were other factors that lead to him being let go.
Photo a day # 572
This protest took place in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida June 5th and 6th 2005. Although the protest was inspired by George W. Bush attending the OAS meeting taking place in South Florida, the protesters had many different agendas; some of the protesters were even there in support of Bush.
The Organization of American States (OAS), or, as it is known in the three other official languages, (OEA), is an international organization, headquartered in Washington, D.C., United States of America. Its members are the thirty-five independent states of the Americas.
The notion of closer hemispheric union in the American continent was first put forward by Simón Bolívar ("The Liberator") who, at the 1826 Congress of Panama, proposed creating a league of American republics, with a common military, a mutual defense pact, and a supranational parliamentary assembly. This meeting was attended by representatives of Gran Colombia (comprising the modern-day nations of Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, and Venezuela), Peru, the United Provinces of Central America, and Mexico, but the grandly titled "Treaty of Union, League, and Perpetual Confederation" was ultimately only ratified by Gran Colombia. Bolívar's dream soon foundered with civil war in Gran Colombia, the disintegration of Central America, and the emergence of national rather than continental outlooks in the newly independent American republics.
Greenpeace activists protest outside the Russian Embassy in Washington, D.C. Sept. 26, 2013, after the crew of the Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise were ordered held without being charged, some of them for two months, in Murmansk, Russia, earlier in the day. Photo by Robert Meyers/Greenpeace
Annual protest in Hebron for the reopening of Shuhada Street (aparthied street). Shuhada Street lies at the centre of the ancient city of Hebron. For many years it was a busy shopping precinct, full of life. Today it is deserted. When the radical Israeli settler Baruch Goldstein shot dead 29 Palestinian worshippers at Hebron's Ibrahimi mosque in 1994, the Israeli army feared reprisals against three nearby Israeli settlements. It closed off the street to Palestinian vehicles and later Shuhada Street was blocked even for most Palestinian pedestrians.Most of the people who once lived here have left their homes. All the shops have closed, and Palestinians living in the area have to climb over roofs to reach their neighbours. In addition, they suffer violence and harrassment by settlers and soldiers, who often neglect to intervene to protect them from settler violence.
An arrest is made inside the entrance to a store during a student protest against a proposed university tuition fee increase on International Women's Day, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, March 8, 2012. ©Copyright John Jantak
(15th August 2012) - I took a break from shopping to go to a protest. This was a peace protest to raise awareness of the massacre of Muslims in Burma, with the pertinent question being, "Why is this genocide being ignored by the media and politicians?"
George Galloway was the main speaker, and it was a fairly sombre protest, with Galloway hammering home the point that the reason why so much Muslim blood is spilled is because "it's cheap" and that the reason why a "tinpot country" like Burma isn't being reprimanded is due to the corruption amongst the Western and Arab leaders.
Something that did stand out though was when Galloway said that thing would only change after a revolution. A fellow protester asked, "And how we make this revolution happen?". The response: "Write a letter to your MP." I laughed and then realised that it wasn't a joke.
As for George Galloway, I've always been a bit dubious about him. He certainly says what Asians and Muslims want to hear, but in terms of actually getting anything done... it's hard to say. Considering some of his (well documented) past controversies and his recent comments on 'rape', I decided against having him as my picture of the day, instead opting for a more simple and powerful image of the banner which was held aloft throughout the protest.
I ended up leaving after about 40 minutes as, in my mum's absence, it my turn to cook tonight. I did spicy chicken noodles (or 'chicken chilli men' as it's referred to as in the Wagamama cookbook). They were very tasty!
Protesters from various police organizations and civilians gathered on the Haigis Mall of the University of Massachusetts to protest the lecture, “The Great Western Massachusetts Sedition Trial: 20 years later” that took place in the Isenberg School of Management on Thursday, November 12, 2009. The lecture, originally planned to include Ray Luc Levasseur, former leader of the United Freedom Front, was forced to continue without Levasseur because of the U.S. parole board’s decision to not allow him to cross state lines as part of his parole restrictions.
Photo credit Chelsea Dugan / The Amherst Wire
Taksim Square and Besiktas
Istanbul, Turkey
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