Posts Tagged ‘protesting’

Thousands Of Farmers In India Blockade Highways Protesting New Agricultural Laws

NEW DELHI (AP) — Thousands of protesting Indian farmers blockaded highways across the country for several hours Saturday to press their demands for the repeal of new agricultural laws that have led to months of massive protests. The protesters used tractors, trucks and even boulders to blockade the roads. They carried banners and flags denouncing […]

Activist rabbi Arthur Waskow, 87- still protesting, still getting arrested

On the day after the 2020 US presidential election, Rabbi Arthur Waskow gingerly mounted a small wooden stage at Philadelphia’s Independence Mall to address dozens of activists concerned that Donald Trump was trying to halt the counting of legally cast ballots. At 87, the activist rabbi, who has been at the forefront of Jewish social […]

International Support Continues for Protesting Farmers in India

On 5 January, British MP Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi wrote a letter to Boris Johnson urging him to convey to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi the “heartfelt anxieties” of MPs’ constituents (many emanating from Punjab) regarding the treatment of protesting farmers in India. The letter was signed by more than 100 MPs and Lords and had […]

Protesting is Democratic Until it Turns Violent

Across the world, we watched in disbelief as the news unfolded, and took in live video of the protesters, as they breached the Congress of the United States of America. From Azerbaijan, I held my hand to my face, and called for my daughter to witness the news. She is grown up now – aware […]

Police use force to disperse hundreds protesting murder in Israeli Arab city

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Turkish police clash with students protesting Erdogan-appointed university chief

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India’s Capital Surrounded by 65,000 Protesting Farmers

An estimated 65,000 farmers gathered on the outskirts of India’s national capital, New Delhi, on Tuesday to protest three new agricultural laws they say undermine their labor rights, the Times of India reported. Tens of thousands of farmers have traveled to New Delhi since November 25 to participate in the protests, setting up camp on […]

Iran summons EU envoys for protesting reporter’s hanging

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RSS affiliate backs protesting farmers, says new Acts only favour companies

In fact “these people ( the bureaucrats ) have even made the Prime Minister give wrong statements about the Acts,” says leader of  BKS.  It shows how the State functions and ruling politicians have to toe the line and sell it to the public. It bulldozes any dissent, even if it is from its own […]

Professor fired for protesting statue of leader whose troops killed Jews

A Jewish journalism professor says he was fired from a Ukrainian university for his opposition to a statue honoring a militia leader whose troops killed Jews in pogroms. The case is a rare example of real-life implications stemming from the heated debate in Ukraine on nationalist memory that has stayed for the most part in […]

Pope Francis Criticizes Groups Protesting COVID Lockdowns, Calls for New Political and Economic Systems

Pope Francis in a New York Times op-ed on Thanksgiving Day criticized groups that protested coronavirus lockdown restrictions, as Americans gathered to celebrate the holiday. He praised those governments making “great efforts” to protect people from the virus and criticized “exceptions.” He then criticized groups that protested the restrictions and appeared to dismiss the idea […]

Why the Muslim world is protesting against France

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White South Africans finally have Enough, Begin Protesting over Farm Murder but Blacks Counter Protest

Home » Africa, Crimes » White South Africans finally have Enough, Begin Protesting over Farm Murder but Blacks Counter Protest     Tensions ran high as two groups of protesters squared off after a young white farmer was killed in South Africa. The case has reignited the decades-old conflict surrounding land ownership in the country. […]

Kamala Harris: ‘Let’s Not Stop Protesting’ — ‘Let’s Not Stop Speaking Up and Shouting When Necessary’

Wednesday, during a one-on-one interview with MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow, Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA), the vice-presidential nominee for the Democratic Party, called on activism, even in the form of protests and shouting “when necessary.” The junior California U.S. Senator laid out what she saw to be on the line, arguing that is the motivation for her […]

Greek police fire tear gas at migrants protesting after blaze at Europe’s largest refugee center

    Clashes erupted and police fired tear gas as a large crowd of migrants protested on the Greek island of Lesbos after Moria (or better said Mordor) rapefugee center, the largest in Europe, burnt down earlier this week. The blaze at the severely overcrowded camp, which was initially designed to accommodate about 2,200, left […]

Many thousands of Belarus citizens protesting over the elections & alleged fraud – brutal crackdown

“Protesting election fraud in Belarus For the past two days, tens of thousands of Belarusians flooded the streets of Minsk to continue pressuring for new elections.This is a culminated response to the August 9th elections, where far-right authoritarian incumbent Aleksandr Lukashenko claimed to win the election by 80+% of the vote. Citizens and election officials […]

Protesting Germans Revolt Against ‘Muzzle’ Facemasks And Pandemic Restrictions, by Tyler Durden

STRAIGHT LINE LOGIC Well at least one nationality still has the capacity for righteous outrage. Too bad it’s not the US. From Tyler Durden at zereohedge.com: Thousands of Germans took to the streets of Berlin on Saturday to protest the country’s coronavirus measures – including wearing facemasks – which the protesters refer to as a […]

Why are Jews protesting China’s Uighur genocide louder than Muslims?

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Protesting is not enough

This year’s commemoration of Al Nakba was especially tragic.  As Israeli occupation soldiers and military snipers killed over sixty Palestinian protestors in Gaza, Zionists were beaming outside the new US embassy in Jerusalem, the crowning moment of President Trump’s imperial hubris.  Social media  buzzed with photos of the smiling colonizers’ faces next to the newly-minted […]

I Live In Gaza. I Want You To Know Why We’re Protesting.

Intimaa Alsdudi 19-05-2018 | 11:27 Zaheyya, 70 years old and tired after a long walk from Saladin Road to the “no-go” zone, looked among the huge crowd of protesters for a place to rest as she carried a Palestinian flag and her embroidered bag over her shoulder. When I approached Zaheyya on Monday and asked […]

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