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Photo taken at a protest rally in front of the presidential residence, the Grassalkovich Palace in Bratislava. HDR created from a single image, shot with a Canon 450D with a Sigma 10-20mm lens.
btw.. this is my number 100 photo on flickr :)
An anti-lockdown protest at Queen's Park April 25 attracted about 200 who claimed measures to control the spread of COVID-19 are an infringement of freedom.
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.
Please forgive me for having uploaded the Nelson Mandela Memorial photos first. But I felt this was a worthy exception to today now. I didn't see the protest until I had uploaded them.
PCS trade union members outside the Museum of Liverpool protesting over their not getting a cost of living payment from National Musuems Liverpool like so many other public servants have.
I spotted this guy on my walk around London on February 28th, 2020.
I've never attended a protest. My life and right to exist have never been threatened by the powers that be. If there was a checklist of privileges, I'd be able to tick almost every box. White, male, able-bodied, heterosexual, English-speaking, born in Canada, born into an upper-middle-class family, etc. But more and more, I've come to realize the need to protest.
To paraphrase Barack Obama, progress isn't always straightforward. Sometimes we take a giant leap backward for every few paces forward. In America right now, the Supreme Court has decided to strike down Roe vs. Wade, because they believe that women are second-class citizens.
They believe that women are second-class citizens.
They believe that women are second-class citizens.
They believe that women are second-class citizens.
In a year that's already been hard to believe (Omicron shattering records; Putin invading Ukraine; horrible inflation), Republicans have gained a victory in trying to bring America back to the stone age. And you know what? They'll succeed. They've already succeeded in disenfranchising Black people in parts of the South of their voting rights...rights that they only had for a handful of decades. They've been gerrymandering for a while. They are taking a bit-by-bit approach to take away the rights of people they don't like, rather than doing it in one big, obvious move, and that is what the Nazis did to the Jews in the years leading up to the Holocaust. It wasn't a matter of throwing open the doors to Auschwitz on opening day and telling the Jews to quit their jobs and get on the trains. The Jews had been stripped of their rights, resources, and dignity for years leading up to that point. They were deliberately weakened. Just like the Republicans are trying to do to everyone who isn't a rich white man.
It all begs the question of who the enemy is. More and more, I'm seeing that it's not so much a fixed category of people who are the enemy. It's people in power who abuse it to deliberately cause harm to segments of the population (Hitler), or who want to enrich themselves at the expense of the masses (Trump) and who want to hold onto that power forever (Putin). Authoritarians. And inconveniently, such people have historically landed all over the political spectrum.
The protestor in this picture wants to ban disposable plastics. While I think disposable plastics have some uses that (thus far) haven't been satisfactorily (I said satisfactorily) replaced by alternatives (i.e., for sanitary purposes), I do think massively reducing the amount of plastic that gets produced -- by a combination of less demand and more regulation -- is a good thing for our environment. And the environment is more important than jobs.
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Thursday, on the eve of the inauguration, this group of protesters marched on the streets of WDC. The police largely expedited the safe movement of this group through the streets.
02.27.2022 A girl holds a flag in solidarity with the people of Ukraine in Times Square New York, on February 27, 2022.
I looked up at my dolly shelf, and this is what I saw. Apparently, Nico found out that Tuesday may be leaving Vegas soon, and is none too pleased with me about it.
a protester has advanced about 50m beyond the first row of protesters to aim his slingshot at police further down the road.
Schoolkids protest. Apparantly they organized themselves through MSN. Good enough for a headline. If they had organized it by phone it would not have been. The result was protest in quite a number of different cities around the country.
Protest in Berlin
Stop the genocide in Syria
May 28 29 2019
Photographs taken on my vacation in Berlin
Photographs of my author
14 individuals protesting Arizona's controversial immigration law handcuffed themselves together and laid down in the street outside the Federal Detention Center.