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Protests and riots sprung up across the U.S. this week following the death of George Floyd, a black man suffocated by a police officer during an arrest in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on Monday.
Around 7 p.m., a protest began in Oklahoma City at the intersection of NW 23rd & Classen. Chants of "NO JUSTICE. NO PEACE." filled the air as hundreds of protesters circled the road to block traffic. Dozens of police officers arrived. Arrests were made. I took as many photos as I could.
Much of the early portion of the protest was peaceful. I couldn't see anyone fighting until police arrived to clear the intersection. Around 9 p.m., protesters started marching toward toward the Plaza District and eventually marched to the Oklahoma City Police Department Headquarters, 700 Colcord, and eventually dispersed from the area at about midnight.
Photo by Nathan Poppe
A group of Romanians protested the use of cyanide in gold mining operations in Romania. For several hours on a brisk spring day, they gathered in front of mine company investor John Paulson, hedge fund manager, investor, and held up banners and passed out flyers.
The protest was part of a larger international movement against the Romanian government’s controversial decision to allow a Canadian firm to build Europe’s largest opencast gold mine.
Environmentalists and activists are warning that the mine, if opened, would lead to the destruction of four mountain peaks and three villages. Terrible as that would be, their greatest fear is the planned use of cyanide, a highly toxic substance, that is required for the mining process—12,000 tons of it each year.
The fear is well grounded in recent history. In 2000, a cyanide spill near the town of Baia Mare, Romania, occurred when a dam containing toxic mining waste burst, releasing 100 tons of cyanide-contaminated waste water into the Lapus, the Somes, as well as the Tisza and Danube rivers.
Considered the worst environmental disaster since the Chernobyl nuclear leak in 1986, the poisoning of the river Tisza resulted in the destruction of the river's entire ecosystem in a matter of days, everything from microbes to otters, according to the BBC.
16 February 2007
"We want from USA to cancel article 140 from Iraqi Constitution."
Article 140 states, "First: The executive authority shall undertake the necessary steps to complete the
implementation of the requirements of all subparagraphs of Article 58 of the
Transitional Administrative Law.
"Second: The responsibility placed upon the executive branch of the Iraqi
Transitional Government stipulated in Article 58 of the Transitional
Administrative Law shall extend and continue to the executive authority elected
in accordance with this Constitution, provided that it accomplishes completely
(normalization and census and concludes with a referendum in Kirkuk and other
disputed territories to determine the will of their citizens), by a date not to exceed
the 31st of December 2007."
The goal of the article is to reverse some of the forced arabization of Kurdistan that took place under the previous government.
I don't know what issue these protestors have with the article, but they clearly feel that Kirkuk is their home.
A protest in Amsterdam.
Generic library image from Devon & Cornwall Police and use is authorised by the media, but must include a copyright credit to the Force.
Dziś rano aktywistki i aktywiści Greenpeace pojawili się przed siedzibą PGE z ośmiometrowym transparentem na którym znalazła się przerobiona reklama koncernu z hasłem – Mamy energię do negowania kryzysu klimatycznego. Akcja jest komentarzem do oficjalnej odpowiedzi spółki córki PGE – PGE GiEK – na pozew klimatyczny fundacji Greenpeace, w której największy niszczyciel klimatu w Polsce zaprzecza naukowemu konsensusowi w sprawie zmiany klimatu. Aktywistki i aktywiści domagają się od prezesa PGE Wojciecha Dąbrowskiego wzięcia odpowiedzialności za strategię całej grupy PGE i pilnego wyznaczenia daty odejścia PGE od węgla na rok 2030.
Foto: Max Zieliński / Greenpeace
Protesters gathered on the Haigis Mall of the University of Massachusetts to mourn the death of New Jersey state police officer, Philip Lamonoco, and protest the lecture, “The Great Western Massachusetts Sedition Trial: 20 years later” that took place at the Isenberg School of Management on Thursday, November 12, 2009. The lecture, originally planned to include Ray Luc Levasseur, former leader of the United Freedom Front, was forced to continue without Levasseur because of the U.S. parole board’s decision to not allow him to cross state lines as part of his parole restrictions.
Photo credit Chelsea Dugan / The Amherst Wire
20170516 Lydia Cacho, Témoris Greko, Carmen Aristegui, Jorge Meléndez encabezaron una protesta frente a la secretaria de gobernación por el asesinato del periodista Javier Valdez Cárdenas, seguidos de decenas de personas consternadas ante la difícil situación que vive la libertad de expresión en México pues en lo que va del 2017 han sido asesinados seis representantes de los medios de comunicación, sin mencionar las distintas agresiones que se vuelven cada vez más cotidianas en un país que se ha convertido en el más peligroso del continente Americano para ejercer esta tan necesaria profesión.
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Protestors picnicing on Ludgate Hill during the Occupy London protest on Saturday, 15 October, 2011.
Kimani Gray Protest on Church Ave between E55th st Nostrand Ave. and in Brooklyn, NY on March 13, 2013.
More discussions with police. He is almost cracking a smile here and I think this is when he was just about to let us through.
Wives of United Auto Workers picketing at John Deere Plant. Quad Cities, Iowa. ca1950.
Source: State Historical Society of Iowa, Iowa City
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