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Police disperse protest against lockdown restrictions and mask wearing by groups of conspiracy theorists in London’s Hyde Park.
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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.
Hologram Protest organized by Amnesty International.
From the BBC:
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Gwanghwamun, Seoul, South Korea
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Police search a protester because he had a mask and a radio. After a brief stop they let him on his way.
Corazon Aquino, Philippines president, dead at 76 Reuters – Former Philippine President Ex-Philippines leader Corazon Aquino dies at 76
MANILA, Philippines – Former President Corazon Aquino, who swept away a dictator with a "people power" revolt and then sustained democracy by fighting off seven coup attempts in six years, died on Saturday, her son said. She was 76.
The uprising she led in 1986 ended the repressive 20-year regime of Ferdinand Marcos and inspired nonviolent protests across the globe, including those that ended Communist rule in eastern Europe.
But she struggled in office to meet high public expectations. Her land redistribution program fell short of ending economic domination by the landed elite, including her own family. Her leadership, especially in social and economic reform, was often indecisive, leaving many of her closest allies disillusioned by the end of her term.
Still, the bespectacled, smiling woman in her trademark yellow dress remained beloved in the Philippines, where she was affectionately referred to as "Tita (Auntie) Cory."
"She was headstrong and single-minded in one goal, and that was to remove all vestiges of an entrenched dictatorship," Raul C. Pangalangan, former dean of the Law School at the University of the Philippines, said earlier this month. "We all owe her in a big way."
Her son, Sen. Benigno "Noynoy" Aquino III, said his mother died at 3:18 a.m. Saturday (1918 GMT Friday).
Aquino was diagnosed with advanced colon cancer last year and confined to a Manila hospital for more than a month. Her son said the cancer had spread to other organs and she was too weak to continue her chemotherapy.
Supporters have been holding daily prayers for Aquino in churches in Manila and throughout the country for a month. Masses were scheduled for later Saturday, and yellow ribbons were tied on trees around her neighborhood in Quezon city.
President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, who is on an official visit to the United States, said in a statement that "the entire nation is mourning" Aquino's demise. Arroyo declared a period of national mourning and announced a state funeral would be held for the late president.
TV stations on Saturday were running footage of Aquino's years together with prayers while her former aides and supporters offered condolences.
"Today our country has lost a mother," said former President Joseph Estrada, calling Aquino "a woman of both strength and graciousness."
Even the exiled Communist Party founder Jose Maria Sison, whom Aquino freed from jail in 1986, paid tribute from the Netherlands.
Aquino's unlikely rise began in 1983 when her husband, opposition leader Benigno "Ninoy" Aquino Jr., was assassinated on the tarmac of Manila's international airport as he returned from exile in the United States to challenge Marcos, his longtime adversary.
The killing enraged many Filipinos and unleashed a broad-based opposition movement atat thrust Aquino into the role of national leader.
"I don't know anything about the presidency," she declared in 1985, a year before she agreed to run against Marcos, uniting the fractious opposition, the business community, and later the armed forces to drive the dictator out.
Maria Corazon Cojuangco was born on Jan. 25, 1933, into a wealthy, politically powerful family in Paniqui, about 75 miles (120 kilometers) north of Manila.
She attended private school in Manila and earned a degree in French from the College of Mount St. Vincent in New York. In 1954 she married Ninoy Aquino, the fiercely ambitious scion of another political family. He rose from provincial governor to senator and finally opposition leader.
Marcos, elected president in 1965, declared martial law in 1972 to avoid term limits. He abolished the Congress and jailed Aquino's husband and thousands of opponents, journalists and activists without charges. Aquino became her husband's political stand-in, confidant, message carrier and spokeswoman.
A military tribunal sentenced her husband to death for alleged links to communist rebels but, under pressure from U.S. President Jimmy Carter, Marcos allowed him to leave in May 1980 for heart surgery in the U.S.
It was the start of a three-year exile. With her husband at Harvard University holding court with fellow exiles, academics, journalists and visitors from Manila, Aquino was the quiet homemaker, raising their five children and serving tea. Away from the hurly-burly of Philippine politics, she described the period as the best of their marriage.
The halcyon days ended when her husband decided to return to regroup the opposition. While she and the children remained in Boston, he flew to Manila, where he was shot as he descended the stairs from the plane.
The government blamed a suspected communist rebel, but subsequent investigations pointed to a soldier who was escorting him from the plane on Aug. 21, 1983.
Aquino heard of the assassination in a phone call from a Japanese journalist. She recalled gathering the children and, as a deeply religious woman, praying for strength.
"During Ninoy's incarceration and before my presidency, I used to ask why it had always to be us to make the sacrifice," she said in a 2007 interview with The Philippine Star newspaper. "And then, when Ninoy died, I would say, 'Why does it have to be me now?' It seemed like we were always the sacrificial lamb."
She returned to the Philippines three days later. One week after that, she led the largest funeral procession Manila had seen. Crowd estimates ranged as high as 2 million.
With public opposition mounting against Marcos, he stunned the nation in November 1985 by calling a snap election in a bid to shore up his mandate. The opposition, including then Manila Archbishop Cardinal Jaime L. Sin, urged Aquino to run.
After a fierce campaign, the vote was held on Feb. 7, 1986. The National Assembly declared Marcos the winner, but journalists, foreign observers and church leaders alleged massive fraud.
With the result in dispute, a group of military officers mutinied against Marcos on Feb. 22 and holed up with a small force in a military camp in Manila.
Over the following three days, hundreds of thousands of Filipinos responded to a call by the Roman Catholic Church to jam the broad highway in front of the camp to prevent an attack by Marcos forces.
On the third day, against the advice of her security detail, Aquino appeared at the rally alongside the mutineers, led by Defense Minister Juan Ponce Enrile and Lt. Gen. Fidel Ramos, the military vice chief of staff and Marcos' cousin.
From a makeshift platform, she declared: "For the first time in the history of the world, a civilian population has been called to defend the military."
The military chiefs pledged their loyalty to Aquino and charged that Marcos had won the election by fraud.
U.S. President Ronald Reagan, a longtime supporter of Marcos, called on him to resign. "Attempts to prolong the life of the present regime by violence are futile," the White House said. American officials offered to fly Marcos out of the Philippines.
On Feb. 25, Marcos and his family went to the U.S.-run Clark Air Base outside Manila and flew to Hawaii, where he died three years later.
The same day, Aquino was sworn in as the Philippines' first female leader.
Over time, the euphoria fizzled as the public became impatient and Aquino more defensive as she struggled to navigate treacherous political waters and build alliances to push her agenda.
"People used to compare me to the ideal president, but he doesn't exist and never existed. He has never lived," she said in the 2007 Philippine Star interview.
The right attacked her for making overtures to communist rebels and the left, for protecting the interests of wealthy landowners.
Aquino signed an agrarian reform bill that virtually exempted large plantations like her family's sugar plantation from being distributed to landless farmers.
When farmers protested outside the Malacanang Presidential Palace on Jan. 22, 1987, troops opened fire, killing 13 and wounding 100.
The bloodshed scuttled talks with communist rebels, who had galvanized opposition to Marcos but weren't satisfied with Aquino either.
As recently as 2004, at least seven workers were killed in clashes with police and soldiers at the family's plantation, Hacienda Luisita, over its refusal to distribute its land.
Aquino also attempted to negotiate with Muslim separatists in the southern Philippines, but made little progress.
Behind the public image of the frail, vulnerable widow, Aquino was an iron-willed woman who dismissed criticism as the carping of jealous rivals. She knew she had to act tough to earn respect in the Philippines' macho culture.
"When I am just with a few close friends, I tell them, 'OK, you don't like me? Look at the alternatives,' and that shuts them up," she told America's NBC television in a 1987 interview.
Her term was punctuated by repeated coup attempts — most staged by the same clique of officers who had risen up against Marcos and felt they had been denied their fair share of power. The most serious attempt came in December 1989 when only a flyover by U.S. jets prevented mutinous troops from toppling her.
Leery of damaging relations with the United States, Aquino tried in vain to block a historic Senate vote to force the U.S. out of its two major bases in the Philippines.
In the end, the U.S. Air Force pulled out of Clark Air Base in 1991 after the eruption of Mount Pinatubo forced its evacuation and left it heavily damaged. The last American vessel left Subic Bay Naval Base in November 1992.
After stepping down in 1992, Aquino remained active in social and political causes.
Until diagnosed with colon cancer in March 2008, she joined rallies calling for the resignation of President Arroyo over allegations of vote-rigging and corruption.
She kept her distance from another famous widow, flamboyant former first lady Imelda Marcos, who was allowed to return to the Philippines in 1991.
Marcos has called Aquino a usurper and dictator, though she later led prayers for Aquino in July 2009 when the latter was hospitalized. The two never made peace.
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.' "
Black Lives Matter protestors and public artworks around the Statehouse & Capitol Square - downtown Columbus,OH.
I need a film scanner. Until then, this is all I can show you from the shots taken today at the students' manifestation (weapon used: a full-manual Minolta X-700). home developed.
Black Lives Matter protestors and public artworks around the Statehouse & Capitol Square - downtown Columbus,OH.
Bewoners van de Rotterdamse wijk Overschie hangen dinsdag vuile lakens op voor het gebouw van de Tweede Kamer in Den Haag. Ze protesteren daarmee tegen de snelheidsverhoging op de A13, waardoor de lucht in hun wijk een stuk viezer is geworden. Ook zullen ze 3000 handtekeningen aanbieden om hun protest kracht bij te zetten.
I stumbled upon this protest against the re-election of President Joseph Kabila in Trafalgar Square, December 10. Police were clearing the area of protesters blocking the roads around the square.
Always enjoy shooting a protest, even on vacation. From what I can tell this protest pertained to immigration-related legislation being considered in the Alþingi, Iceland's parliament.
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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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.
A bit of journalism about journalism (the rights and freedom thereof)... Stumbled upon this street protest in Berlin on a recent trip, and thought BW might fit the 'reportage' nature of the shot/
Massive protests in the city today against the new Queensland Premier Campbell Newman. He got in with a promise of 'Can Do' but it turns out what he can do, has done, is slash about 15.000 jobs so far in the public service, mainly from the Health Department, nursing, doctors and ambulance staff, Disability and community services, Education, Firefighting. And so on. There is a lot of anger in the community, understandably. Typical action for a Liberal party politician I think. (yes, the $20 sticker on this man's t-shirt indicates that he is selling the shirts too! )