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The centennial pool demolition is under way. On a walk around the city to catch up on events happening June 18, 2014 Christchurch New Zealand.
Swimsuits have been hung on the fence around the Centennial Pool by campaigners against the complex's demolition.
The Armagh St facility is being pulled down to make way for the new Margaret Mahy Family Playground. The work is not expected to affect traffic in the surrounding streets.
Christchurch Central Development Unit (CCDU) director Warwick Isaacs said construction on the playground would begin this year.
The pool complex was closed after the February 2011 earthquake and the CCDU controversially bought it from the Christchurch City Council to form part of the city's recovery blueprint plan.
The council later looked at keeping the centre but was bound by a cost-sharing agreement with the Crown.
www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/news/city-centre/10180001/Pool-...
On a sunny and rather chilly June afternoon, activists and protesters showed up near the front entrance of the Cook County Jail on California Avenue to call for the defunding of not only the police, "but the entirety of the carceral system that works to control, harm, and destroy Black and brown lives throughout Chicago and the entire country." The event was hosted by the Chicago Torture Justice Center and Black Lives Matter Chicago. After meeting in front of the entrance, well over 100 protesters on foot and most likely the same number in vehicles circled the correctional facility. Those walking loudly expressed their support for reforms to the justice system and for the inmates just behind the walls of the facility. The vocal expressions were supported by those in their vehicles blowing their horns as they took up the rear of the march and caravan.
Defund the Carceral System Rally, March & Car Caravan at the Cook County Department of Corrections, Chicago, Illinois, USA
People from London's Biafra community, protesting in Trafalgar Square against Nigerian government actions in the State of Biafra. The protesters were friendly and peaceful!
Protest against the termination of the grant for Ninsee
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Protesters march around Washington D.C. during the 2015 D.C. Million Mask March on November 5th, 2015.
We had 'Yellow Vest' protest in the UK in this video they block the gates of Westminster police get violent
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based Amy pushed on the floor James Goddard hit in the throat by police back up channel.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmhhbL8v7g4
Theresa is a traitor
Aarhus, Denmark - November 2022.
From a protest action against Iran which I suddenly ran into. #iran_revolution #women_life_freedom
Expectations of privacy while demonstrating in public place, 'you are not allowed to take pictures of me' , have no idea about the conditions for greyhounds or whether they have lately become worse (not explained), but feel that right anonymous protest is not the way.
Photo taken at a protest rally in front of the presidential residence, the Grassalkovich Palace in Bratislava. HDR created from a single image, shot with a Canon 450D with a Sigma 10-20mm lens.
btw.. this is my number 100 photo on flickr :)
June 12th protest over Minneapolis Police Union head Bob Kroll outside the Union Headquarters in Minneapolis, MN.
Protests are part of unrest over the May 25th death of George Floyd.
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This image is part of a continuing series following the unrest and events in Minneapolis following the May 25th, 2020 murder of George Floyd.
A demonstration against the Iranian regime at Sergels torg in Stockholm. The first one was back in September, when a group of women cut off their hair and burned their hijabs after the killing of Mahsa Amini. This is from the 30th of December. This protest was followed by another one, that one was in support of Afghan women.
In 1943 Gauleiter Paul Giesler spoke at the Ludwig Maximilian university.
Imagine the scene, the middle of WW2, nazi flags everywhere, high ranking nazis who could have you shot for even the slightest insult or 'defeatist' comment, many of the students actually wearing Wehrmacht uniform as they are also active soldiers.
When Giesler, a nasty piece of work, started talking about the female students, saying they shouldn't really waste time in school but concentrate on being mothers and give the fuhrer a few sons, how they weren't suitable for studying and if they couldn't find a husband because they were too ugly, he could find a few of his men to do the deed, the students were shocked and appalled.
But even in this nazi society, at a nazi indoctrinated institution, surrounded by nazis, having grown up in a time when the idea that women should indeed just be housewives and not study were actually quite common even among non-nazis, even in this situation, the students protested.
They started shouting, booing, disagreeing.
And even when Police officers with truncheons entered the hall and started wacking people, the students still would not be silenced.
And not just the girls who were forced to sit on the balcony, but also the male students sitting downstairs, many of whom in wehrmacht uniform, conscripted into the Wehrmacht.
The Gauleiter was forced to end his speech early and leave.
This public and dangerous protest encouraged members of one of Germany's most famous resistance groups die Weiße Rose to continue their work with renewed passion.
This story which sadly is mostly unknown, deserves some extra attention these days.
I find it very interesting that in 1943, in Nazi Germany, at an university students who had been living in a Nazi society and been bombarded by Nazi propaganda for over a decade, since their childhood, protested against a sexist Nazi speech.
Two subjects that somehow are way too relatable than they should be today.
A time when words like Nazism, feminism, rude and vulgar politicians, patriarchy, protesting, not taking the younger generation seriously, free speech, etc, etc, are again in the news in unexpected ways.
Disclaimer; I got the pictures from the movie 'Die weiße Rose' (1982) as there are none of the actual event.
This superb movie was made in the 1980s and tells the story of the German resistance group of the same name, not to be confused with the also very good 'Sophie Scholl - Die letzten Tage' (2005).
I highly advice you to go watch both these movies, the 1980s one first.
Although it is not my habit to promote illegal behaviour, I think the times we live in make it important to hear these stories and see the movies, no matter how you do it.
So check out youtube.
George Floyd protest in D.C., June 2, 2020, on 16th St. , stopping to take a knee while marching to the White House
D200 passes Ribblehead station with the return "West Yorkshire Dalesman" charter from Carlisle to Leeds. The train had been hauled north by steam loco 5305 and conveyed various West Yorkshire stakeholders protesting at the closure proposals for the S & C. 8th March 1986.
A big protest rally was held at Lee Circle, where a statue of Robert E. Lee stands high above the city of New Orleans. The protest was a result of the city deciding to remove 4 Confederate statues throughout the city. This is an attempt to improve the image of New Orleans by eliminating symbols of racism, white supremacy. The atmosphere has been pretty tense in the city since it was announced that the statues were coming down. Three were already removed and this is the last one, as per the mayor.
The first one removed was Liberty Place Monument, followed by Jefferson Davis and then P.T. Beauregard.
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Benjamin R. Tillman, post-reconstructionist governor (1890-1894) of South Carolina (and later U.S. Senator), is now roundly regarded as a virulent racist. He should not be honored with a statue. Take it down!!!
silent protests 3 min At SHAHABAG
unbelievable moments -millions of people got stand silently for three minutes as part of the protest and movement!
Date:12/2/13
This is Bert in protest mode. When in places with too much temptation he's in a harness on a flexi lead. Which is normally ok but every now and then it needs a protest. Queue five minutes of circling with the evil lead in mouth!
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Pensions protest in London, June 2011
At the official opening of Vancouver’s Trump International Hotel and Tower. There were deliberate no-shows from some local politicians and community leaders.
Despite what the maps shows, the tower is on Georgia Street near Bute, not Robson Street, Vancouver, BC.
‘Movement of Protest’ | 2023 | By Callum James.
I took this photo back in 2023 during the early days of the growing Palestinian protests. I was discussing it with a friend last night and the words I wrote to accompany the piece seem even more relevant today after the atrocities in Manchester yesterday (October 2025) for those who may be reading this in the future. The original work I wrote is below and I hope you feel as I do when you read it. Something needs to change. We need to come together, and we need to replace fear and hate with trust and love.
This was taken of one of the many Palestinian protests which are taking place in the UK. What struck me about the protest was firstly their collective anger, followed by their passion and finally the peacefulness of the protest. They moved in unison, in one voice and it was these aspects I wanted to capture in my picture, hence the use of ICM to take the photo.
A protest is a movement, and this picture captures a small essence of that movement. In movements and protest the individual is not important. It is the message as a collective body that is at the forefront. There were people of all ages, all colours and nationalities, and all religions. It struck me as interesting how protest can often divide us, but can also bring us together. Walking together was a Muslim man in his 20’s and a Jewish man in his 70’s, both protesting the same issue. A small gesture maybe, but one that gave me a sudden hope for the future. The only way to resolve a conflict is through talking and eventually compromise. You may disagree with my views, but if we are to have any chance as human beings on this planet then this is the only was forward.
When Voyager II turned around to take its last picture of earth from millions of miles away, the now famous image saw the earth as a pale blue dot. Here are the words of Carl Sagan, the leader of the voyager project who had requested NASA to turn the probe around to take the final picture. “
“We succeeded in taking that picture [from deep space], and, if you look at it, you see a dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever lived, lived out their lives. The aggregate of all our joys and sufferings, thousands of confident religions, ideologies and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilizations, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every hopeful child, every mother and father, every inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every superstar, every supreme leader, every saint and sinner in the history of our species, lived there on a mote of dust, suspended in a sunbeam. The earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that in glory and in triumph they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of the dot on scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner of the dot. How frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity -- in all this vastness -- there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. It is up to us. It's been said that astronomy is a humbling, and I might add, a character building experience. To my mind, there is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly and compassionately with one another and to preserve and cherish that pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known." - Carl Sagan -
Protesters dressed as handmaids from Margaret Atwood’s 1985 novel “The Handmaid’s Tale” rally against U.S. Vice President Mike Pence shortly before the arrival of the Vice President at Denver Marriott Tech Center in Colorado, USA-Oct26 2017.
Protesto de egípcios pró-Morsi, em Paris, nas imediações do Pompidou. 13/10/2013
Pro-Morsi Protest in Paris France
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I spotted this guy on my walk around London on February 28th, 2020.
I've never attended a protest. My life and right to exist have never been threatened by the powers that be. If there was a checklist of privileges, I'd be able to tick almost every box. White, male, able-bodied, heterosexual, English-speaking, born in Canada, born into an upper-middle-class family, etc. But more and more, I've come to realize the need to protest.
To paraphrase Barack Obama, progress isn't always straightforward. Sometimes we take a giant leap backward for every few paces forward. In America right now, the Supreme Court has decided to strike down Roe vs. Wade, because they believe that women are second-class citizens.
They believe that women are second-class citizens.
They believe that women are second-class citizens.
They believe that women are second-class citizens.
In a year that's already been hard to believe (Omicron shattering records; Putin invading Ukraine; horrible inflation), Republicans have gained a victory in trying to bring America back to the stone age. And you know what? They'll succeed. They've already succeeded in disenfranchising Black people in parts of the South of their voting rights...rights that they only had for a handful of decades. They've been gerrymandering for a while. They are taking a bit-by-bit approach to take away the rights of people they don't like, rather than doing it in one big, obvious move, and that is what the Nazis did to the Jews in the years leading up to the Holocaust. It wasn't a matter of throwing open the doors to Auschwitz on opening day and telling the Jews to quit their jobs and get on the trains. The Jews had been stripped of their rights, resources, and dignity for years leading up to that point. They were deliberately weakened. Just like the Republicans are trying to do to everyone who isn't a rich white man.
It all begs the question of who the enemy is. More and more, I'm seeing that it's not so much a fixed category of people who are the enemy. It's people in power who abuse it to deliberately cause harm to segments of the population (Hitler), or who want to enrich themselves at the expense of the masses (Trump) and who want to hold onto that power forever (Putin). Authoritarians. And inconveniently, such people have historically landed all over the political spectrum.
The protestor in this picture wants to ban disposable plastics. While I think disposable plastics have some uses that (thus far) haven't been satisfactorily (I said satisfactorily) replaced by alternatives (i.e., for sanitary purposes), I do think massively reducing the amount of plastic that gets produced -- by a combination of less demand and more regulation -- is a good thing for our environment. And the environment is more important than jobs.
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