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A photo opportunity on a relatively quiet day on Capitol Hill.
Women, many wearing black veils protesting the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court at the Hart Senate Office Building on Friday, September 7, 2018.
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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Turkey has some very strict laws against criticizing the government. I don't know what this protest was about, but I was a little surprised to see anything like this allowed on the streets at all.
Image Licensed to i-Images Picture Agency. 21/11/2020. London, United Kingdom. Anti Lockdown Protest.
Police disperse protest against lockdown restrictions and mask wearing by groups of conspiracy theorists in London’s Hyde Park.
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Whether you agree or disagree with the protests going on around the country, it's clear that Americans are sick of the undercurrent of racism that still runs through the country.
These images are meant to document a small piece of what has happened in Denver. They were not taken to condone, nor condemn, these actions.
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Nancy Mancias of Global Exchange, wearing an orange jumpsuit and hood around her head, stood at the corner of W. 87th and N.W. 36th St in Doral, Fla. protesting against detainment camps at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba.
They were protesting for the humane treatment of animals. So, they were of course dressed as animals. Interesting to witness protesting in other countries. There were some police on horses nearby and they dispersed around 4:00 with no problems.
Police search a protester because he had a mask and a radio. After a brief stop they let him on his way.
A protester holds up a sign reading "Black Lives Matter" outside the Hennepin County Government Center on May 28, 2020.
Note:This image is part of a continuing series following the unrest and events in Minneapolis following the May 25th, 2020 murder of George Floyd.
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I had to go to my office in Downtown Indianapolis on July 1 so IT could fix my laptop. This was the scene Downtown.
LETTER FROM MEXICO CITY
The naked truth behind protest
Villager movement vents more than its anger, writes the Tribune's Oscar Avila
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Oscar Avila is a Tribune foreign correspondent based in Mexico City. oavila@tribune.com
June 3, 2007
MEXICO CITY -- As hundreds of naked and almost-naked protesters descend on one of Mexico City's busiest intersections, the first impulse is to avert your eyes. But they are screaming and beating large oil drums. So you turn and look.
They want you to look.
The members of the "400 Villages" movement aren't ashamed. They are proud that they are fighting, 15 years after they say corrupt state authorities took away their people's land in Veracruz state.
They are following the tradition of a city where people take to the streets to get results. One day, thousands of teachers with bullhorns and placards might flood the avenues. The next, it might be indigenous residents or liberal activists angry over pension reform.
In this environment, the Veracruz protesters said they felt like their voices were being drowned out. Since they started protesting, they had tried blockades, pickets, hunger strikes and marches. Then one day, five years ago, their frustration took over.
Nereo Cruz, a member of the group's governing council, said protesters started taking their clothes off, down to their underwear. They liked the metaphor: a community stripped of justice. The stunt got them in the papers and on the news.
"We realized we had gotten their attention," said Cruz, 52. "The only thing we can't do now is stop protesting. If we stop, they will win."
Cruz said the group got its name from a coalition of 400 villages that fought for farmers' rights decades ago. Their complaints come from the seizure of about 2,000 acres from about 14 villages, a dispute that started under former Gov. Dante Delgado.
Delgado is now a federal senator, and he unwittingly takes center stage at the group's protests. Most of the men wear a thong with a strategically-placed photo of Delgado on the front.
Other male protesters march in unflattering and ill-fitting briefs, and all the men generally have at least a few stitches of clothing. Most of the women -- only a dozen or so -- march naked.
Every year, the 500 or so protesters come to Mexico City for a few months before returning to Veracruz, along the Caribbean coast. They sleep under tattered tarps at an abandoned parking lot, subsisting on donations from residents.
Their goal is the return of their land, or at least to be properly compensated. They are also calling on Mexican lawmakers to establish an investigative commission to look into the matter and decide whether they deserve restitution.
Group leaders say Delgado and another senator promised to establish the commission but have ignored demands to follow up. The protesters have placed a banner that reads "The Senate doesn't see us, doesn't hear us."
The two lawmakers did not respond to several requests for comment.
But the protesters don't lack feedback from the people of Mexico City.
Tourists hoot, whistle and snap pictures from the top of a double-decker bus that cruises the capital's streets. Some motorists flash thumbs-up signs. Many laugh, point or shake their heads.
"Here is the beautiful of Mexico," protester Judith Romero, 40, mused as she scanned a thoroughfare lined with trees and sculptures. "Here we are, the ugly of Mexico."
As he stood on a narrow median along Paseo de la Reforma, the city's equivalent to the Champs Elysees in Paris, Miguel Aguilar recalled how terrified he was when he first took his clothes off five years ago. On this day, the 67-year-old man looked totally at ease in his Delgado thong, black work shoes and a denim baseball cap.
Aguilar proudly pointed to his leathery skin, proof of the countless days spent without clothes under Mexico City's sun. The city's prosperous residents are the ones who heckle, he said, while "the ones who have also suffered, they understand."
He has no plans to stop. "With clothes, no one paid attention. Without clothes, maybe they will," Aguilar said.
Across the street, a housewife was waiting to board a bus and trying her best to keep Aguilar and his comrades out of sight. Lorena Perez, 29, said she regularly takes this route home and often comes across the 400 Villages group in the flesh. She doesn't know why the group is protesting and doesn't seem to care.
"How reckless," Perez said, half grimacing. "It's a lack of respect. As an adult, you can comprehend it, but, for children, it looks bad. There are other ways to protest."
Romero has heard these complaints before. A resident approached her once and called her "a gross old woman." But Romero said her own four children support her activism, and are proud that she has gone "from a housewife to a warrior."
The most common complaint Romero receives is from fellow mothers who don't want their children seeing naked people on busy city streets. But she would tell those families that they shouldn't view her nudity as something shameful.
She wants them to look.
"I am not ashamed. On the contrary, ours is a dignified struggle," Romero said. "The parents shouldn't see this as something obscene. Instead of judging us, they should tell their children, 'Look at them, look how far those women have to go for justice.' "