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“On the evening of May 4, 1886, a tragedy of international significance unfolded in Chicago’s Haymarket produce district. An outdoor meeting had been hastily organized by anarchist activists to protest the violent death of workers during a labor lockout the previous day in another area of the city.
Spectators gathered in the street as speakers addressed political, social and labor issues from atop a freight wagon from the adjacent factory. When approximately 175 policemen approached with an order to disperse the meeting, a dynamite bomb was thrown into their ranks.
The identity and affiliation of the person who threw the bomb have never been determined; this anonymous act had many victims. From the blast and panic that followed, seven policemen and at least four civilian bystanders lost their lives, but the victims of the incident were not limited to those who died as a direct result of the bombing. In the aftermath, those who organized and spoke at the meeting – and others who held unpopular political viewpoints – were arrested, unfairly tried and, in some cases, sentenced to death even though none could be tied to the bombing itself.
Meeting organizers George Engel and Adolf Fisher along with speakers August Spies and Albert Parsons were put to death by hanging. Activist Louis Lingg died violently in jail prior to his scheduled execution. Meeting speaker Samuel Fielden, and activists Oscar Neebe and Michael Schwab were sentenced to prison, but later pardoned in 1893 bu Illinois Governor John Peter Altgeld, citing the injustices of their trial.
Over the years, the site of the Haymarket bombing has become a powerful symbol for a diverse cross-section of people, ideals and movements. Its significance touches on the issues of free speech, the right of public assembly, organized labor, the fight for the eight hour work day, law enforcement, justice, anarchy and the right of every human being to pursue an equitable and prosperous life. For all, it is a poignant lesson in the rewards and consequences inherent in such human pursuits..”
The rally and march were in protest of a federal appeals court ruling earlier this week that Kamehameha Schools' practice of giving admissions preference to students of Hawaiian blood violates federal civil rights laws, first passed in 1866, barring private institutions from discriminating on the basis of race. -Honolulu Advertiser
On June 6, 2020, about 175 historical ships from the so-called 'brown fleet' gathered near the fortress island 'Pampus' to protest against the lack of government aid in the corona crisis. According to the skippers - the fleet has about 400 ships in total - many bankruptcies are imminent in their sector due to the corona crisis. In the summer months, the money is earned on vacation and other trips that with the partial corona-lockdown could not continue. The bankruptcies also threaten to remove a piece of history from the Frisian and Dutch waters.
A photo that gives new meaning to the Dutch saying "voor Pampus liggen".
This aerial photo was taken using an M.Zuiko 40-150mm lens @40mm.
#FlickrFriday #black
My form of protest is to *not* participate in “Black Friday”. Large corporations and big box stores will not get my patronage. When I was still teaching (not yet retired from teaching), I used to go to small specialty shops and buy my coworkers ornaments for their trees or trinkets.
Fort Lauderdale is a city in the U.S. state of Florida, 25 miles (40 km) north of Miami. It is the county seat of Broward County. As of the 2019 census, the city has an estimated population of 182,437. Fort Lauderdale is a principal city of the Miami metropolitan area, which was home to an estimated 6,198,782 people in 2018.
The city is a popular tourist destination, with an average year-round temperature of 75.5 °F (24.2 °C) and 3,000 hours of sunshine per year. Greater Fort Lauderdale which takes in all of Broward County hosted 12 million visitors in 2012, including 2.8 million international visitors. The city and county in 2012 collected $43.9 million from the 5% hotel tax it charges, after hotels in the area recorded an occupancy rate for the year of 72.7 percent and an average daily rate of $114.48. The district has 561 hotels and motels comprising nearly 35,000 rooms. Forty six cruise ships sailed from Port Everglades in 2012. Greater Fort Lauderdale has over 4,000 restaurants, 63 golf courses, 12 shopping malls, 16 museums, 132 nightclubs, 278 parkland campsites, and 100 marinas housing 45,000 resident yachts.
Fort Lauderdale is named after a series of forts built by the United States during the Second Seminole War. The forts took their name from Major William Lauderdale (1782–1838), younger brother of Lieutenant Colonel James Lauderdale. William Lauderdale was the commander of the detachment of soldiers who built the first fort. However, development of the city did not begin until 50 years after the forts were abandoned at the end of the conflict. Three forts named "Fort Lauderdale" were constructed; the first was at the fork of the New River, the second at Tarpon Bend on the New River between the Colee Hammock and Rio Vista neighborhoods, and the third near the site of the Bahia Mar Marina.
The area in which the city of Fort Lauderdale would later be founded was inhabited for more than two thousand years by the Tequesta Indians. Contact with Spanish explorers in the 16th century proved disastrous for the Tequesta, as the Europeans unwittingly brought with them diseases, such as smallpox, to which the native populations possessed no resistance. For the Tequesta, disease, coupled with continuing conflict with their Calusa neighbors, contributed greatly to their decline over the next two centuries. By 1763, there were only a few Tequesta left in Florida, and most of them were evacuated to Cuba when the Spanish ceded Florida to the British in 1763, under the terms of the Treaty of Paris (1763), which ended the Seven Years' War. Although control of the area changed between Spain, the United Kingdom, the United States, and the Confederate States of America, it remained largely undeveloped until the 20th century.
The Fort Lauderdale area was known as the "New River Settlement" before the 20th century. In the 1830s there were approximately 70 settlers living along the New River. William Cooley, the local Justice of the Peace, was a farmer and wrecker, who traded with the Seminole Indians. On January 6, 1836, while Cooley was leading an attempt to salvage a wrecked ship, a band of Seminoles attacked his farm, killing his wife and children, and the children's tutor. The other farms in the settlement were not attacked, but all the white residents in the area abandoned the settlement, fleeing first to the Cape Florida Lighthouse on Key Biscayne, and then to Key West.
The first United States stockade named Fort Lauderdale was built in 1838, and subsequently was a site of fighting during the Second Seminole War. The fort was abandoned in 1842, after the end of the war, and the area remained virtually unpopulated until the 1890s. It was not until Frank Stranahan arrived in the area in 1893 to operate a ferry across the New River, and the Florida East Coast Railroad's completion of a route through the area in 1896, that any organized development began. The city was incorporated in 1911, and in 1915 was designated the county seat of newly formed Broward County.
Fort Lauderdale's first major development began in the 1920s, during the Florida land boom of the 1920s. The 1926 Miami Hurricane and the Great Depression of the 1930s caused a great deal of economic dislocation. In July 1935, an African-American man named Rubin Stacy was accused of robbing a white woman at knife point. He was arrested and being transported to a Miami jail when police were run off the road by a mob. A group of 100 white men proceeded to hang Stacy from a tree near the scene of his alleged robbery. His body was riddled with some twenty bullets. The murder was subsequently used by the press in Nazi Germany to discredit US critiques of its own persecution of Jews, Communists, and Catholics.
When World War II began, Fort Lauderdale became a major US base, with a Naval Air Station to train pilots, radar operators, and fire control, operators. A Coast Guard base at Port Everglades was also established.
On July 4, 1961, African Americans started a series of protests, wade-ins, at beaches that were off-limits to them, to protest "the failure of the county to build a road to the Negro beach". On July 11, 1962, a verdict by Ted Cabot went against the city's policy of racial segregation of public beaches.
Today, Fort Lauderdale is a major yachting center, one of the nation's largest tourist destinations, and the center of a metropolitan division with 1.8 million people.
Credit for the data above is given to the following website:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Lauderdale,_Florida
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Gorgeous protesters taking part in Somaliland demo, London, 22.02.2012.
Surprisingly, there is a video - www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxJHNsH3yeU on youtube related to this event .
students, curious onlookers
until someone handed them
a sign and a crisp $20 bill
so they joined the festivities
and chanted the catchy phrases
and glared at the men in blue
who seemed cautiously amused
by such a ragtag ensemble
of suburban undergrads
who had paused on their way
to pizza and pitchers of golden
lager at a nearby pub:
Storm the Bastille,
one shouted, Down with
Tyrants, Start the Revolution,
raising his beer koozie
in a solemn toast, adding,
I should like to be
in the gutter by nightfall.
The very beautiful Protester Falls in the Byron Bay Hinterland
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The message was simple enough but the question is who was listening.
This women had her protest set up out the New South Wales State Government office.
Only a few passersby stopped to listen to her but the politicians chose to ignore her pleas.
Sydney.
New South Wales.
Australia.
Protesters disrupt a meeting with fascist figures at a university, as they protest for the end of the genocide in Gaza and the establishment of an arms embargo on Israel.
I am protesting. I am wearing this Just Because demo to protest time zones. I read that Fameshed was opening at noon. Where I live it is now 1pm. Yes, I could have realized that it's noon SLT, but I am still going to protest time zones. I think with some clever scripting it should be possible for those in the eastern US to get in early and get our shopping done. Come on scripters, make this happen! In the meantime, I'm wearing a demo until (checks watch) 3pm.
Running to Protest took over the Brooklyn Bridge this morning for Breonna Taylor and all the beautiful humans lost.
In a small village on National Highway 1, very near the Line of Control, between Drass and Kargil the villagers were in the middle of a sit down protest.
The reason for this was that they had been stopped from farming on the land behind their village as it was too close to the LIne of Control and therefore rather dangerous. They were not happy so they just all sat down on the highway, the main link between Srinagar and Leh. An official was summoned all the way from Srinagar, many hours away.
We were all stuck there until he arrived with his entourage. He talked to the villagers and within 10 minutes they all got up and let the traffic through.
& Vaccine Protest, 3rd Street Promenade, Santa Monica, California
Ecclesiastes 5:6
Do not let your mouth lead you into sin. And do not protest to the temple messenger, “My vow was a mistake.” Why should God be angry at what you say and destroy the work of your hands?
I've had an aversion to street photography thinking that I was intruding on someone's privacy, but I decided to give it a try. The small Sony is perfect for this.
This is my little protest of the current issue affecting Flickr users. This week I noticed I was not seeing all of my contacts' recent uploads, nor were they seeing mine. I notified Flickr staff who said it is a known problem and the engineers are working on a long-term fix. They also said they didn't know how long it would take. Good grief, sharing photos is the heart and soul of Flickr!
They were able to "rebuild" my Activity Feed so it is currently showing my contacts' uploads. Fingers crossed it stays that way and they can fix the site-wide problem ASAP.
ETA: I'm still not getting all of the new uploads in my Activity Feed. I'm having to go look individually. : (
CC Rainbow Game: Blue
Watching protesters infront of Harrow Central Mosque in the distance.
Stop the Islamisation of Europe called for a demonstration outside Harrow Mosque in North West London to coincide with evening prayers on Friday September 11th. The protest was also being promoted by the English Defence League who have repeatedly clashed with Muslims and Anti-fascists in recent months. A counter demonstration was called by Unite Against Fascism.
About 1000 counter demonstrators gathered to protect the Mosque during the afternoon. Police ordered Stop the Islamisation of Europe to call of the protest to prevent violence.
A small group (less than 20) of English Defence League protesters were chased from the area by the counter demonstrators and were escorted away by the Police.
Frustrated elements of the crowd then turned on the Police resulting in a few skirmishes with bottles, stones and firecrackers being thrown. Other sections of the protesters eventually restrained these elements and by about 7.30 in the evening the crowd had started to disperse.
There were 10 arrests reported.
For footage of the protest by videojournalist Jason Parkinson see current.com/12s1m4c
She was sitting on the music truck, illuminated by a giant disco ball in the back. Glitter in her hair, beat in her heart - she was going with the flow. The day turned into night and the first protest march against G20 ended like the rest should have been - in peace.