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7 March 2015
Press Release – ItsOurFuture.org.nz
The lead-up to Saturdays protests against the TPPA shows the commitment of people across the country to send a message that the government cant ignore, said ItsOurFuture spokesperson Edward Miller.Nationwide day of action against TPPA: “Ignore us at your peril” government warned
“The lead-up to Saturday’s protests against the TPPA shows the commitment of people across the country to send a message that the government can’t ignore”, said ItsOurFuture spokesperson Edward Miller.
A video shows young activists publicising Saturday’s nationwide protests with footage from Auckland, Wellington, Dunedin, Christchurch, and Nelson.
Action in the 22 centres starts at 10am in Raglan and many of the larger centre marches begin at 1pm, including Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch.
“People have been incredibly creative”, Miller said. “In Christchurch a giant plain-packaged cigarette packet will be marching in the crowd, while Auckland will be led by an enormous Trojan Horse, locked in a tug-of-war between major commercial interests and activist communities.”
“Around the country everyday kiwis will be photographed for a virtual campaign with signs saying ‘I am a ___________ and I say #TPPANoDeal.’ Already this campaign has been very popular.”
“Trade minister Tim Groser needs to recognise that people don’t buy the ‘trust me’ line. They want to be listened to when they say they don’t want the TPPA. And they deserve to be listened to.”
- Ends
On 21st October 2011, English PEN took part in a global 'Poetry Protest'. Campaigners around the world read poems by Burma's imprisoned poets. In London, at the Burmese Embassy in Mayfair, acclaimed poet Ruth Padel led the readings with Burmese artist Htein Lin, former political prisoner Zaw Zaw Aung, and Salil Tripathi, Chair of English PEN's Writers in Prison Committee.
Lawyers from Islamabad protesting against General Pervez Musharraf for filling his nomination paper for the upcoming Presidential Election in Pakistan.
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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.
Tibetan Protests in Delhi
Some hundred protestors had assembled near Jantar Mantar about 1 mile from Indian Parliament to protest against Chinese action in Lhasa .Some persons were on hunger strike others indulged in burning of effigies of Chinese leaders around lunch time on 20th March.Here are some photos taken by me.
Protesters break through police lines.
Stop the Islamisation of Europe called for a demonstration outside Harrow Mosque in North West London to coincide with evening prayers on Friday September 11th. The protest was also being promoted by the English Defence League who have repeatedly clashed with Muslims and Anti-fascists in recent months. A counter demonstration was called by Unite Against Fascism.
About 1000 counter demonstrators gathered to protect the Mosque during the afternoon. Police ordered Stop the Islamisation of Europe to call of the protest to prevent violence.
A small group (less than 20) of English Defence League protesters were chased from the area by the counter demonstrators and were escorted away by the Police.
Frustrated elements of the crowd then turned on the Police resulting in a few skirmishes with bottles, stones and firecrackers being thrown. Other sections of the protesters eventually restrained these elements and by about 7.30 in the evening the crowd had started to disperse.
There were 10 arrests reported.
For footage of the protest by videojournalist Jason Parkinson see current.com/12s1m4c
Protesting outside the United States embassy.
We are not happy with the United State's support with Israel in the Gaza situation
14 individuals protesting Arizona's controversial immigration law handcuffed themselves together and laid down in the street outside the Federal Detention Center.
An estimated 200,000 students protest against a proposed increase in university tuition fees in one of the largest protests in Montreal's history, March 22, 2012. ©Copyright John Jantak
This was taken at a protest I went to today. Rather than focus on the event as a whole, I decided to look at the individual protesters.
Free the EDO 2
on January 16th they broke into the EDO MBM ITT complex and disarmed the factory that was making vital component’s for the paveways bombs and the bomb release mechanisms for the F15’s and F16’s. These components were essential for Israeli war crimes, they caused £300,000 worth of damage trying to protect innocent people’s lifes in Gaza, Palestine.
Protest in Kansas City MO on March 6 2011 against Libya's Muammar Gaddafi regime.
photoblogged at
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Protesters against the US government's 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' policy gathered in front of the north fence of the White House, as led by openly-gay Army LT Dan Choi and former infantryman Jim Pietrangelo.
Washington, DC / March 18, 2010
Foxton protest, weekend 25/26 November
008 David Stevenson ascending the locks on a canal time boat, 056 has Mp in
centre, 061 just a few of the boats at the bottom of Foxton, there were
more at the top. 064 boats and visitors
The protest organised by David Stevenson and a team from IWA Leicester, Old
Union Canals Society and Foxton Inclined Plane Trust against the DEFRA cuts.
On board are MP Edward Garnier and County Councillor Graham Hart, the MEP
Chris Heaton-Harris turned up later. boats gathered at the bottom of Foxton
and received plenty of support from visitors and the press.
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On July 28, 1917, in New York City, a silent parade was staged in protest of the East St. Louis, Illinois, massacre of July 2, 1917, as well as the recent lynchings in Waco, Texas, and Memphis, Tennessee. The march was organized by the NAACP, churchmen and other civic leaders to protest the violent events against African Americans around the country. The United States had just entered World War I and many were questioning the use of African-American soldiers to fight in a war that President Woodrow Wilson had described as necessary to the survival of democracy abroad, especially at a time when these same men and their families were denied their basic rights here in the United States. President Wilson continually dismissed the requests of African-American leadership to address the problem of lynching and was considered by many to be one of the most racist presidents ever to occupy the White House. The lynching and murdering of blacks was on the rise. And in the wartime climate many African Americans were migrating to the North, both to escape racial oppression in the South and to secure the plentiful jobs in the munitions centers and factories in the Northern urban centers.
The riots in East St. Louis began when whites, angry because African Americans were employed by a factory holding government contracts, went on a rampage. Over $400,000 worth of property was destroyed. At least 40 African Americans were killed. Men, women and children were beaten, stabbed, hanged and burned. Nearly 6,000 African Americans were driven from their homes.
Across the country, people were aghast at the violence. On July 28, 8,000 African Americans, primarily from Harlem, marched silently down Fifth Avenue. They were dressed in their finest clothes and marched to the sound of muffled drums. They carried picket signs while thousands of New Yorkers watched from the sidewalks. The children marched as well as the adults. Some of the banners read: "Mother, do lynchers go to heaven?" "Mr. President, why not make America safe for democracy?" "Thou shalt not kill." "Pray for the Lady Macbeths of East St. Louis." "Give us a Chance to Live."
The New York Age reported on the march:
They marched without uttering one word or making a single gesticulation and protested in respectful silence against the reign of mob law, segregation, "Jim Crowism" and many other indignities to which the race is unnecessarily subjected in the United States. (1917)
Lynching was never declared a felony by the judicial system of the United States.
Yeah, hide your face why don't you. I would too if I'd done what you've just done!
(Mounted police arrived to clear the road of peaceful demonstrators!)
2 April 2009 Memorial Demonstration outside the Royal Exchange, London, to mark the death of a man during the G20 protests.
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There is a small group of people who are protesting the State of Texas removing 400-something kids from the FLDS polygamist compound. They are in front of the Delta Center where the Utah Jazz are playing the Houston Rockets in the NBA Playoffs. Rockets-> Houston-> Texas-> CPS removing children from homes. So the protest is a bit removed from the intended target. It was still fun to watch them.
On May 23rd, 2019, demonstrators and leafleters gathered at McDonald’s annual shareholders’ meeting to encourage the company to use its power for good and end the horrific cruelty endured by chickens killed for its menu items. This year’s shareholders’ meeting was held inside a hotel at Dallas Fort Worth Airport, and for the first time away from its Illinois headquarters, possibly a reaction from our large protest in Chicago at the same event last year.
With more demonstrators than shareholders on site, McDonald’s should know advocates are committed to ending #McChickenCruelty. Aside from organizing the protest, we also took out full-page newspaper ads in the Dallas Morning News and the Chicago Tribune, as well as commissioned mobile billboards, geo-targeted ads at the entire airport and social media actions.
I asked them why the masks, and they said that protestors had been followed, harrassed and threatened.
Didn't see much G20 protesting in our little corner of the City but these 2 kept us amused for a few minutes. They were shouting slogans through cones although I was inside so couldn't hear what they were saying. When no one rushed over to arrest them they got bored and wandered off.
Practically I wasn't really effected by the protests. I caught the early train in the morning as a precaution and dressed down (not that I dress that "up" normally) but I don't think I really needed to do either. This evening there was some big protest on Bishopsgate but I don't normally walk along there on the way home and my usual route was uneffected.
The main way I have been effected is that I've become really fearful of getting my camera out in the City this week. You may notice that my shots so far this have been taken outside of London and today's was taken from the safety of my desk. I have probably taken a photo in London nearly every day for the last six months without fear but quite frankly this week I just daren't and that makes me sad.
Everyday in 2009 my brother and I will each be posting a new photo on our blog: