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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/
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
Pres Trump spoke about the Black Lives Matter Movement, respecting the police, immigration, the covid "kung-flu" 19, left wing liberals hate & disrespect for America, etc.
His entire presentation was comical. Often menacing. Exciting and unifying for the crowd. Lots of laughter.
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.
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.
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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
Taken during a peaceful protest against Gary Glenn speaking in the University Center to the Campus Conservatives.
Almost 300 demonstrators, including the student movement mascot Anarchopanda, were kettled and arrested by riot police soon after a march began to protest Montreal's P-6 bylaw which makes it illegal to march without providing an itinerary and for wearing masks, April 5, 2013. ©Copyright John Jantak
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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Sabrina Fulton, the mother of Trayvon Martin at a protest rally thanking and supporting the demands of justice for Eric Garner, Michael Brown, and Israel Hernandez.
Capt. Joel Stewart, right, Pavel and Lara Litvinov, father and sister, respectively, of imprisoned Greenpeace activist, Dima Litvinov, pose in the bridge of the Rainbow Warrior in San Francisco, Nov. 15, 2013. Photo by Mathew Sumner/Greenpeace
Anti-Gadaafi protestors at the Libyan embassy - London UK 20.02.2011
On a day in which the central hospital in Benghazi has confirmed over 200 deaths and 900+ casualties in that city alone at the hands of Gadaafi's hired central African mercenaries as he tries to brutally crush the Libyan people's calls for freedom by, it seems, drowning the whole country in blood, a large and spirited crowd of demonstrators gathered outside the Libyan embassy in London's Knightsbridge.
During the next few hours the size of the crowd grew considerably. Many passing motorists honked their horns in support as they passed the demonstration, and the International media were well represented.
Earlier on a breakaway group managed to cross the busy road and managed to get right outside the embassy until the police moved them back to the other side. Later in the day a large group of about fifty men suddenly appeared, waving the black flags of Hizb ut-Tahrir. The crowd were generally not very pleased to see them, and the police penned them in behind a wall of crush barriers, separated from the main demonstration. A couple of them managed to infiltrate the crowd and a couple of their hard-line banners went up. The police discussed snatching them out at the first sign of trouble.
Speaking to some Libyans who had just had word from Tripoli that "The tide continues to turn in the protestor's favour, with some army units allying themselves with the freedom movement. They have no stomach for turning their weapons on their own countrymen, which is why Gadaafi is shipping in mercenary thugs from Africa to do his filthy work for him, and by tonight Tripoli will be in chaos, if you know what I mean..." It was also confirmed that Gadaafi's sister and her children had fled the country and had turned up in Germany last night.
A much larger demonstration is planned for 27/02/2011 unless they topple Gadaafi and his murderous cohorts before then. The world watches with a mixture of horror and bated breath to see if they can achieve their aim.
Insprire and Poe organized a sticker workshop with social issues in mind... Luckily I was in town to help conduct some visuals.
To learn more about this situation, their web site is:
itstime.blogli.co.il
"Inspire Collective Sticker Workshop
solutions through stickers"
The workshop took place at the protest camp of "victims of socio-economic terror" homeless families and victims of Wisconsin plan Gan HaShiber, King George Street, near the Mashbir...
entrance fee was 15 NIS
all the money was donated to the camp needs..
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
Against Chinese Zero-Covid and censorship policies protest in favour of freedom of speech at 3rd December 2022
Several demonstrations took place peacefully across central Manchester on Saturday 21 February 2026, with officers working closely with organisers to ensure people could protest safely and that wider disruption was kept to a minimum.
A significant policing operation was in place throughout the day with additional resources deployed and pre-prepared plans activated alongside partner agencies to help the day run smoothly.
Assistant Chief Constable Rick Jackson, gold commander for the day's policing operation said: “Manchester was expected to be extremely busy, with multiple planned protests in the city centre as well as several football matches.
“We put extra officers on duty to support people’s right to protest peacefully while reducing the impact on the wider public.
“Thanks to the efforts of our officers on the ground and the planning done with our partners, hundreds of people from a range of groups were able to come together safely, with no significant issues reported.
“Greater Manchester is a place where people can confidently and lawfully express their views, while ensuring that residents, workers, and visitors can go about their day feeling safe.”
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