The baby boomers want an end to the Vietnam War and they take their protest to the streets. America: The Story of the US: Millennium, History 2010
1970: There’s been thousands of anti-Vietnam war protests. Kent State University, Ohio: the National Guard are ordered in to control five hundred protesting students. Television is here watching. Four students are shot dead. ibid.
After tens of protesters were killed and many more were arrested the regime succeeded in putting down the uprising. Frontline: Saudi Arabia Uncovered, PBS 2017
The Peasants’ Revolt – the greatest uprising in the history of medieval England. Robert Bartlett, The Plantagenets III, BBC 2014
Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation, are people who want crops without ploughing the ground; they want rain without thunder and lightning; they want the ocean without the roar of its many waters. The struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Frederick Douglass
Thousands took to the streets in protests against the apparent insanity of the arms race. The End of the World: A Horizon Guide, BBC 2011
40,000 people gather on the streets of Seattle to protest against the WTO. The 90s: The Decade that Connected Us s1e6: The Countdown, National Geographic 2014
The SMASH EDO Campaign has no formal structure and as such has no leaders or organisers. On the Verge, PSTV 2008
Earl Dodge Osborne became EDO Aircraft ... By 1947 EDO Aircraft had become the EDO Corporation and for the next five decades continued to produce military equipment and weapon systems. In 2003, with the war on terror thriving, the Corporation bought out the defence manufacturers Emblem and took over production at their factory in Brighton, England. ibid.
We had this factory in our backyard that was producing the munitions and various weapons that were being used in Iraq. ibid.
After months of continuous pressure the factory and Sussex Police strike back. ibid.
Right from the beginning we were extensively filmed. ibid.
What was originally a law that was designed to protect people from stalkers became basically a charter for corporations to get a form of PF by marshal law outside their premises. ibid.
Whilst the court papers are served, Sussex Police begin to enforce the injunction. ibid.
Then it was just open season for them; any excuse to arrest anyone. ibid.
We won: the injunction case was overturned. ibid.
With the collapse of the injunction a huge victory party was held at the factory. The court case was a major financial and PR disaster for EDO ... The company had spent over a million pounds trying to create an exclusion zone around their factory. During the court case EDO were cross-examined about their complicity in war crimes and by the end of the proceedings only two defendants were left to challenge the misuse of the harassment law. As evidence of collusion between the company and police emerged the courts were forced to scrap the injunction. ibid.
The police have refused to investigate themselves as to whether they colluded with the company. ibid.
April 2007: A delegation from Palestine joins one of the weekly noise demos. They see where some of the weapons used to maintain the occupation are manufactured. ibid.
The infamous karaoke demo ends with five arrests and the karaoke machine seized. ibid.
It’s now got to the point when some mornings Paul Hills has to ‘smash EDO’ just to get into work. ibid.
Stop the SPP Rally Toronto, Canada 16th February 2008. The Nation’s Deathbed, PSTV 2008
Social networking sites like Facebook, MySpace and MeetUp have become a central tool for activists. Ibid
This first line of riot cops they didn’t have any gas masks ... Most of them had a white patch on their shoulder ... Stood there I would say for about an hour and a half to two hours ... A shift change ... These guys had a red patch on the shoulder ... The third shift change of riot police ... The intimidating factor has been stepped up by police. ibid.
In 1969 nearly one hundred Native American activists seize Alcatraz ... They hold the island for nearly two years. Alcatraz: Defying the Rock, PBS 2005
The spiritual master and head of state in Tibet is the Dalai Lama ... Even though the Dalai Lama is a man of peace, he speaks good English and is recognised for his statesmanship. He was refused an audience with Queen Elizabeth of Great Britain. However, the British Royal Family who have members that are active Freemasons greeted the leader of the murdering Communist Chinese government with a full state ceremony. Chris Everard, Illuminati II
The Free Tibet campaign is a worldwide movement of volunteers who wish to highlight the illegal killings and imprisonment of Tibetan people. The Free Tibet campaign displayed flags during the state visit of the Chinese premier in London. The Free Tibet flags were confiscated by British police officers. The peaceful protesters were often arrested and dragged away for no apparent reason; some were even assaulted and beaten by British police officers. ibid.
Thousands of protesters peacefully gathered in Seattle, Washington, to protest the World Trade Organisation, which was meeting in the city.
The police violently engaged the crowds using chemical and conventional weapons.
Hundreds were arrested and injured for peacefully exercising their rights to assembly and free speech. United We Fall, Press for Truth 2010, caption
They have a dream to dominate the world. ibid.
Real freedoms are eaten up a little at a time. While government controls are slipped on. While the real power is collected into a few hands. ibid.
They create order out of the chaos. ibid.
On the same day similar marches took place all over the world: more than half a million people took to the streets in over a dozen countries ... Paris 2015: the protesters are demanding that world leaders actually reach a deal this time – a global agreement to slash carbon dioxide emissions in the coming decades. Iain Stewart, Planet Oil: The Treasure That Conquered the World III ***** BBC 2015
Those protests would bring down a dictatorship that lasted 23 years. Ben Ali fled the country. The Tunisian revolution spread and prompted a wave of uprisings that became known as the Arab Spring. Richard Bilton, Wikileaks: The Secret Life of a Superpower I, BBC 2012
You may have heard of the Earth Liberation Front: the Attorney General himself says it’s a domestic terrorist organisation; the FBI says it is one of the most dangerous groups in the country. The ELF has claimed responsibility for more than two-dozen acts of eco-terrorism. If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front, news, 2011
This thing is complex … no-one got hurt. ibid. Daniel
I protested constantly … I wrote hundreds of protest letters. ibid.
There is this new kind of protest … people would call it sabotage or monkeywrenching. ibid.
In the months after the Ranger Station fires there was a split within the environmental movement. ibid.
Six of Daniel’s co-defendants have appeared in court to accept plea-deals; in exchange for reduced sentences they’ve agreed to testify in the government’s case against the remaining defendants. ibid.
In 1999 tens of thousands of people converged on Seattle to protest the WTO and its effect on the environment and labor … The police responded with force to clear the streets. ibid.
This is my country. And this is the way it’s been for more than 40 years. I only remember a few weeks when things were any different. In 1988 I was just a little boy. But that’s when everybody in Burma got into the streets. They’d had enough of military rulers. They wanted change. It was the students who led the demonstrations … At the end of the day 3,000 people were killed in the streets. And it was all over. Burma VJ: Reporting From a Closed Country ***** 2008
We have no more people to die. ibid.
I feel the world is forgetting about us. ibid.
I followed very close and saw them throw the demonstrator on the truck. ibid.
The movement is bigger and bigger. ibid.
‘The whole world must know that the monks are on strike.’ ibid. head of monks
The monks protected the reporters. ibid.