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In 1943 Gauleiter Paul Giesler spoke at the Ludwig Maximilian university.
Imagine the scene, the middle of WW2, nazi flags everywhere, high ranking nazis who could have you shot for even the slightest insult or 'defeatist' comment, many of the students actually wearing Wehrmacht uniform as they are also active soldiers.
When Giesler, a nasty piece of work, started talking about the female students, saying they shouldn't really waste time in school but concentrate on being mothers and give the fuhrer a few sons, how they weren't suitable for studying and if they couldn't find a husband because they were too ugly, he could find a few of his men to do the deed, the students were shocked and appalled.
But even in this nazi society, at a nazi indoctrinated institution, surrounded by nazis, having grown up in a time when the idea that women should indeed just be housewives and not study were actually quite common even among non-nazis, even in this situation, the students protested.
They started shouting, booing, disagreeing.
And even when Police officers with truncheons entered the hall and started wacking people, the students still would not be silenced.
And not just the girls who were forced to sit on the balcony, but also the male students sitting downstairs, many of whom in wehrmacht uniform, conscripted into the Wehrmacht.
The Gauleiter was forced to end his speech early and leave.
This public and dangerous protest encouraged members of one of Germany's most famous resistance groups die Weiße Rose to continue their work with renewed passion.
This story which sadly is mostly unknown, deserves some extra attention these days.
I find it very interesting that in 1943, in Nazi Germany, at an university students who had been living in a Nazi society and been bombarded by Nazi propaganda for over a decade, since their childhood, protested against a sexist Nazi speech.
Two subjects that somehow are way too relatable than they should be today.
A time when words like Nazism, feminism, rude and vulgar politicians, patriarchy, protesting, not taking the younger generation seriously, free speech, etc, etc, are again in the news in unexpected ways.
Disclaimer; I got the pictures from the movie 'Die weiße Rose' (1982) as there are none of the actual event.
This superb movie was made in the 1980s and tells the story of the German resistance group of the same name, not to be confused with the also very good 'Sophie Scholl - Die letzten Tage' (2005).
I highly advice you to go watch both these movies, the 1980s one first.
Although it is not my habit to promote illegal behaviour, I think the times we live in make it important to hear these stories and see the movies, no matter how you do it.
So check out youtube.
Black Lives Matter protestors and public artworks around the Statehouse & Capitol Square - downtown Columbus,OH.
This is Bert in protest mode. When in places with too much temptation he's in a harness on a flexi lead. Which is normally ok but every now and then it needs a protest. Queue five minutes of circling with the evil lead in mouth!
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Pensions protest in London, June 2011
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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Protesto de egípcios pró-Morsi, em Paris, nas imediações do Pompidou. 13/10/2013
Pro-Morsi Protest in Paris France
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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.
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I try to avoid politics and other potentially divisive subjects in this comic, but in this case I must make my views heard.
Octopodes are not the enemy. They are a part of the 99%, fighting with the majority, and would prefer not to represent the opposition. Please leave behind the anti-cephalopod imagery of the past, embrace your fellow beings, and focus your energies together for a better future!
Protest in Berlin
Stop the genocide in Syria
May 28 29 2019
Photographs taken on my vacation in Berlin
Photographs of my author
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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a protester has advanced about 50m beyond the first row of protesters to aim his slingshot at police further down the road.
Why must good people suffer , why must the innocent die - for reasons which are illogical and for purposes which will only ultimately benefit the chosen few !
Chile student protests point to deep discontent
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-14487555
Chile students clash with police in Santiago
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Chile Protest Photos
Farmers' protest against the government, Frankfurt, 11.01.2024
According to the police, around 500 farmers took part in the protest meeting. 600 tractors were counted, but not all of their drivers were at the meeting. There were also some photographers and cameramen from television and a trade unionist. No Antifa, "Querdenker" or neo-Nazis. But I wasn't there the whole time.
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.
Thousands of acres of southern Ohio farmland are being gobbled up by unsightly fields of solar panels.
Doing some illustrations for a mate's magazine article about the cuts protest in London.
Had a go at photoshop, still need summet wrote on the sign though
Flying the flag at the Des Moines March against Muslim Ban and Anti-Immigrant Orders.
More images of Iowa protests can be seen in this album.