Left: Rally at the place de la République in Paris on 15 November 2015 (Credit: Citron / CC-BY-SA-3.0). Right: Protest at the place de la République in Paris on 28 May 2024 (Credit: Geoffroy VAN DER HASSELT / AFP). My very first post on this...
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For completely nonsensical reasons, the state of Georgia is charging 61 people at the Cop City protests with racketeering charges under RICO laws. The irony of using a charge intended.
People attend a march in tribute to Nahel, a 17-year-old teenager killed by a French police officer during a traffic stop, in Nanterre, Paris, on June 29, 2023. The slogan.
Handout photo issued by Just Stop Oil of two protesters who have thrown tinned soup at Vincent Van Gogh's famous 1888 work Sunflowers at the National Gallery in London, Friday Oct. 14, 2022. The group Just Stop Oil, which wants the British government to halt...
Pro-choice demonstrators gather outside the house of US Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito in Alexandria, Virginia, on May 9, 2022. - The US Senate will vote on May 11 on.
Greg Sargent has a good interview with Mike Konczal about the latter's new book (I interviewed him for the LGM podcast as well). I thought this tidbit was especially important:.
Reverend J. Ostermann of New York, executive director of the Committee for Catholic Refugees from Germany, stands at a microphone of radio station CFCF at an anti-Nazi rally of the German-Canadian League at the Montreal Forum in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. (By Conrad Poirier - This...
People take part in a rally on April 29, 2015 at Union Square in New York, held in solidarity with demonstrators in Baltimore, Maryland demanding justice for an African-American man.
ONATE-JANE BERNARD/JOURNal Estevan Arellano, director of the Onate Center in Alcalde, shows how much of the foot and ankle was removed from a sculpture of Spanish settler Juan De Onate.
One of the real heroic acts of the modern age was when Bree Newsome (now Bree Newsome Bass) climbed the flag pole at the South Carolina statehouse to take the down the Treason in Defense of Slavery flag. That act really started the modern era...
Protesters yell at a line of police officers at State and 35th streets, about 3 miles south of the Loop, where police set up a blockade on Sunday, May 31,.
( AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana) Running an effective protest is hard. These are organisms with lives of their own. No one can really full plan an action. As we have.