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Aarhus, Denmark - November 2022.
From a protest action against Iran which I suddenly ran into. #iran_revolution #women_life_freedom
In New York City 400,000 or more people marched or crawled in a masssive protest against Donald Trump and his anti woman, Climate Change denying, right wing administration.What will develop from this and the many other protest demonstrations around the world remains to be seen. How many of these participants in this actually participate in political activity, organising and voting?
An anti-lockdown protest at Queen's Park April 25 attracted about 200 who claimed measures to control the spread of COVID-19 are an infringement of freedom.
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Pensions protest in London, June 2011
Please forgive me for having uploaded the Nelson Mandela Memorial photos first. But I felt this was a worthy exception to today now. I didn't see the protest until I had uploaded them.
We at the We're Here group are protesting today for the Protests, Political Art, Democracy, Social Change group, I'm taking my protests for a holiday, back in a few days.
Came back to the chi today and ran right into this protest... Funny how much of a difference there is between hearing about news on the radio and actually seeing it right in your face
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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a protester has advanced about 50m beyond the first row of protesters to aim his slingshot at police further down the road.
Schoolkids protest. Apparantly they organized themselves through MSN. Good enough for a headline. If they had organized it by phone it would not have been. The result was protest in quite a number of different cities around the country.
Protests took place in Rochdale on Saturday 22 July 2017.
The Force worked to ensure the events took place safely and ensuring the right to protest while minimising any disruption to the local community.
Chief Superintendent Neil Evans, Borough Commander, said: “This has been a challenging day with hundreds of people attending Rochdale town centre for the protest.
“I understand that these events are very emotive and that tensions may run high when there are polarised views and counter-protests.
“However, we have worked jointly with Rochdale Council and the community to ensure the most effective way to facilitate and manage this protest in a balanced and safe manner.
“This has very much been a community focused operation aimed at reducing the impact of the protest on the normal lives of people in Rochdale.
“I would like also like to thank members of the community who have acted as mediators and helped the smooth running of today’s event.
“In order to ensure we could deliver a safe operation we deployed large numbers of police which meant another busy weekend for officers, who have worked long hours in challenging circumstances to look after our communities.
“It was pleasing to see that this protest did not stop the people of Rochdale from going about their normal activities.”
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I think this truck delivered the free hot dogs to the protesters and residents of the Balmoral Hotel and others of the Downtown Eastside, during the protest against the Balmoral Hotel evictions.
East Hastings Street, Downtown Eastside, Vancouver, BC
Protest in Berlin
Stop the genocide in Syria
May 28 29 2019
Photographs taken on my vacation in Berlin
Photographs of my author
14 individuals protesting Arizona's controversial immigration law handcuffed themselves together and laid down in the street outside the Federal Detention Center.
Black Lives Matter protestors and public artworks around the Statehouse & Capitol Square - downtown Columbus,OH.