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Protesters and onlookers run from tear gas at demonstration in Cairo reacting to the film Innocence of Muslims
Apparently this was a bunch of school cleaners, protesting the guvmint outsourcing cleaning of new schools.
I'm impressed that they didn't go over the double lines.
This afternoon I decided to go out and take some photos. Just as I was about to ride out of the city, I looked behind me and saw a large group of people protesting about something. I decided to abandon my initial project for the day and follow the group instead.
From the pamphlets being distributed by the protesters, and word of mouth, I determined that this was essentially a protest about an eviction. There is a house in the centre of Leiden that, for the past 40 years, has been occupied by squatters. During the 40 years they have been there, the building became somewhat of a cultural centre. Just recently, the local Council decided to evict them: and today they peacefully expressed their objection to the Council's proposal.
I started following the protest from the intersection of the Hooigracht and Nieuwe Rijn, and followed them down Nieuwe Rijn to the Herengracht. From the Herengracht, they turned left along Oude Rijn and into the Haarlemmerstraat. From the Haarlemmerstraat, they travelled up to the Prinsessekade and onto the Breestraat. While travelling down the Breestraat, they stopped and made a point outside the Town Hall, before making their way back to Hooglandse Kerkgracht and the building in question.
This man was probably one of the oldest involved in the demonstration.
Needless to say, I'm glad that I charged my camera and decided to head out... otherwise I would have missed this completely!
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March 8, 2010 Westboro Baptist Protest on E. Wacker and Michicago Ave, Chicago, IL. Read about it on my blog: alicexiao.tumblr.com/
Juneau residents protest President Donald Trump’s immigration policy outside the Alaska State Capitol on Feb. 6, 2017. (Photo by Skip Gray/360 North)
Protesters hold a sign in front of Chinese Embassy in Hanoi,Vietnam, Sunday, Dec. 9, 2007. Hundred of Vietnamese gathered for a rare public demonstration Sunday morning to protest China's latest move to administrative control over two disputed archipelagos in the South China Sea. (AP Photo/Chitose Suzuki)
Anti government supporters are trying to occupy / invade ministries around Bangkok and Nonthaburi in order to stop the government functioning. This is the second time the protestors have been to the ministry in question, this time being a weekend the crowds were much bigger.
On March 10th 2012, Occupy Denver, Denver 350.org, the Colorado American Indian Movement, Deep Green Resistance Colorado and Front Range Rising Tide came together to protest the oil seep contamination of Sand Creek and South Platte River. The demonstration drew attention to the toxic water bed.
[PHOTO: Interior Ministry Officers joining protestors as they stage a strike. The officers aren’t allowed to return to work until they shave their beards.]
The whole scene started winding down around Maghrib time, as those who chose to move towards the embassy went back to the peaceful protests that were being held at the main Square (in front of the Umar Makram masjid).
Some protesters against eating whales were walking around in Reykjavik. For the record, I did not eat any whales, or puffins.