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I took this at a protest march earlier today by the local Chinese community, which was called: "Proud of Olympics, Proud of China, No Separation, No Distortion" - interestingly, this was billed as a "non-political" show of support.
Hmmm...."no separation"? Alex Salmond might suggest that was more than a little political.
It was a very peaceful march (other than some heated words and finger pointing at one point) and the marchers (largely students) were very pleasant.
As for keeping politics out of sport (specifically the Olympics), I'm afraid that ship sailed long ago. Let's review, we've had: Hitler using the 1936 games as a show of Aryan supremacy (or at least...so he hoped until Jesse Owens came along); Black power salutes at the 1968 Mexico games; An American boycott of the 1980 Moscow games; A Russion boycott of the 1984 Los Angeles games...and those are just the ones that leap to mind. Wasn't there an "interesting" water polo match between Russia and Hungary...just after Russia had invaded? If politics isn't involved, why aren't the athletes competing as individuals...rather than on behalf of their nation?
China also didn't seem to take the view that politics should be kept out of sport, when they boycotted the 1954 games, because Taiwan participated.
As for the "Olympic ideal"...oh puhleeeze! It used to be about amateurs taking part for the love of the sport (albeit with one eye on a possible professional career afterwards). Now it's about making vast sums of cash...and (in many cases) figuring out how to pass a drugs test...when you are actually taking performance enhancing drugs.
The students today were exercising their right to freedom of speech. Personally, I don't agree with their arguments in this case, but I absolutely support their right to make them peacefully.
They complained about "media bias". Do they also complain about media bias in China? Is it bias they object to...or simply bias that doesn't favour the position of the Chinese government?
Would they support the right of pro-independence Tibetans to organise and protest peacefully? If not, why not?
The students today exercised a basic human right. China was granted the Olympics on the basis of making promises to improve human rights and to allow freedom of movement for the international press. They seem to have forgotten that part of the deal.
Protest in the ethnically cleansed city of Prijedor. Marchers walk with backpacks with the names and ages of children killed in the genocide. The protest was granted on the condition they didn't say the word "genocide". In the center of the town the backpacks were set down to spell out "GENOCID?".
Photos of the 20th Anniversary of the closing of Serb-Run concentration camps in northwest Bosnia near the town of Prijedor.
Photos by Claire Noone, Peace Fellow for the Advocacy Project in Bosnia-Herzegovina, 2012
Students protest the police response to the 2014 Blarney Blowout celebration.
Photo by Justin Surgent
American Life League and Stop Planned Parenthood International participate in the National Day of Protest on Saturday, August 22, 2015 at a proposed Planned Parenthood facility in Washington, D.C.
Thousands joined the march in Melbourne on Friday April 10, shutting down the centre of the city for hours.
A Kashmiri protester shouts pro-freedom and pro-Pakistan slogans during the joint funeral procession of Bilal Ahmed Dar and two rebels in the village of Narwara, some 40 Kilometers (25 miles) southwest of Srinagar, India, Tuesday, June 19, 2007. Thousands of people marched in Indian-controlled Kashmir Tuesday protesting the killing of 17-year-old Bilal Ahmed Dar by government forces, who locals claim had no ties to militant groups. The teen was killed along with two rebels Monday in a gun battle between police and suspected Kashmiri rebels in the village of Chewdara. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)
'Protesters in Moscow', my illustration for Kommersant newspaper, Газета "Коммерсантъ", №235 (4776), 15.12.2011, kommersant.ru/doc/1838518
jyotikapoorau@gmail.com.......Pro-Myanmar Democracy activists from various organizations hold posters & banners as they stage a protest With Their Various Demands. in New Delhi,
photo Jyoti Kapoor
01/10/07
Obama protesters/supporters in Downtown Phoenix, near 3rd Street and Washington. Obama will speak at the VFW convention this morning.
On April 15th 2009, many frustrated citizens protested the fiscal policy of the current administration. This protest took place in Oceanside Ca.
Protest in the ethnically cleansed city of Prijedor. Marchers walk with backpacks with the names and ages of children killed in the genocide. The protest was granted on the condition they didn't say the word "genocide". In the center of the town the backpacks were set down to spell out "GENOCID?".
Photos of the 20th Anniversary of the closing of Serb-Run concentration camps in northwest Bosnia near the town of Prijedor.
Photos by Claire Noone, Peace Fellow for the Advocacy Project in Bosnia-Herzegovina, 2012
Activists hold the 'Stop Bush banner' outside the Police minister's office demanding the right to protest during APEC.
Generic library image from Devon & Cornwall Police and use is authorised by the media, but must include a copyright credit to the Force.
Protest at Ministry of Justice in Kasumigaseki, Tokyo against requiring Non-Japanese people to submit fingerprints and portrait photo everytime for Japan immigration.
Protesters gather outside of the Albuquerque Journal on the evening of Feb. 8, 2018, in protest against a recent political cartoon that was published in the paper.
Encountered this silent protest-demonstration by chance....as body-painted participants made their way through crowded streets expressing their beliefs and raising conciousness on current issues like education, pro-life, corruption, gas pipeline projects and environmental issues among others. It was after 5:00 pm on a beautiful day so I had a very nice light to work with, no flash used.
About 60 protestors showed up at Landsbanki, and delivered a resignation letter to the bank’s CEO. Words by Paul Fontaine, photos by Art Bicnick
These pictures are from the die-in protest over the large number of trans women of color being murder and the lack of action to stop the violence.
Protesters dressed as handmaids from Margaret Atwood’s 1985 novel “The Handmaid’s Tale” rally against U.S. Vice President Mike Pence shortly before the arrival of the Vice President at Denver Marriott Tech Center in Colorado, USA-Oct26 2017.
Encountered this silent protest by chance....as body-painted participants made their way through crowded streets expressing their beliefs and raising conciousness on current issues like education, pro-life, corruption, gas pipeline projects and environmental issues among others. It was after 5:00 pm on a beautiful day so I had a very nice light to work with, no flash used.