‘Today up to 100,000 people took to the streets of Rangoon.’ ibid. news
‘They beat them up and dragged them on to trucks.’ ibid. witness
‘We’ve seen amazing scenes of defiance on the streets of Rangoon today.’ ibid. BBC news
‘Soldiers beat up and arrested the monks.’ ibid. witness
They are shooting. ibid.
The monks were gone. Only the students were left in the street. Just like 1988. And military trucks were going round the city to chase them down. ibid.
‘For over 12 years the Grass Roots organisation of peace activists known as Code Pink have shaken up the Washington establishment with countless anti-war demonstrations in front of DC’s top politicians and policy makers.’ Cody Snell, cited Abby Martin, Breaking the Set: Cuba I II III, RT 25-27.02.15
‘150 members of the group … their reasons for coming here [Cuba] are as diverse as the activists themselves.’ ibid.
The power of the people can be greater than the corporate-ocracy. Abby Martin, Breaking the Set: One Last Time, RT 28.02.15
27 February, Madrid: Protesters clash with security forces over eviction. ibid.
Rebuilding Gaza could take 100 years if Israel keeps blockage, says Oxfam: Aid agency urges Israel to allow more steel and concrete into the Palestinian territory – and for Hamas to use material to build homes and tunnels. ibid. The Telegraph online article
Walmart’s also been described as an economic deathstar, destroying everything in its path, leaving behind nothing more than an homogenous wasteland. ibid.
Monsanto cannot be trusted. It’s time that we as consumers become conscious and critical thinkers. ibid.
Hillary Clinton is not just a wolf in sheep’s clothing, she’s an unabashed hawk. ibid.
There is no right to protest in the West Bank. Abby Martin, The Empire Files: Silencing Palestine: Prison & Repression, 2017
Israel responded with unspeakable repression: it deployed around 80,000 combat soldiers to crush the uprising of more than half a million Palestinians across the territories … An iron-fist policy of breaking the bones of Palestinians at protests: this was implemented by the army on a massive scale. ibid.
Throwing rocks: the majority of those arrested for this offence are children. ibid.
100 years ago Britain’s greatest national event was stopped in its tracks by a very public, very shocking and ultimately fatal act of protest. At the height of the 1913 Epsom Derby in front of thousands of spectators a lone figure walked into the path of the galloping horses. Clare Balding’s Secrets of a Suffragette, Channel 4 2018
This led in 1903 to the founding of the Women’s Social and Political Union. The WSPU advocated more direct action to agitate for the vote. ibid.
Militant Suffragists’ Outrages: Window Breaking, Arson And Wilful Destruction: Fire Losses Upwards Of £380,000: When, however, the breaking of windows gave place in the early part of last year to the burning of churches, private houses, football, cricket, golf and racecourse stands, the mutilation of works of art, and the placing of bombs in or near public buildings, the offences if less numerous became at once infinitely more serious and dangerous, the losses through incendiarism being already estimated at some £384,000. ibid. The Morning Post article 13th July 1913
Suffragette militancy was now seen as a real threat to society. ibid.
One of the government’s biggest problems was dealing with the militants once they were imprisoned. In the lead up to the First World War the government imprisoned more than 1,000 militant Suffragettes … The government’s response was brutal – force-feeding. ibid.
It started with one woman’s act of defiance. Challenging one of the world’s most oppressive regimes by refusing to wear her hijab. Others soon followed. This is the story of women risking their freedom by taking on the rulers of Iran. Iran Unveiled: Taking on the Ayatollahs, ITV 2022
Women are at the forefront of unprecedented opposition to Iran’s ruling clerics after forty years in power. They face a brutal crackdown. ibid.
The White Wednesdays campaign is gaining momentum. ibid.
One by one the Iranian authorities have silenced most of the women protesters of Revolution Street. ibid.
What had begun as the 1969 Springbok tour had now suddenly become a battleground in the world-wide anti-Apartheid struggle. The World Against Apartheid: Have You Heard From Johannesburg? II Fair Play
The [Australian rugby tour] protesters had planned a campaign of non-violence and civil disobedience, but as the tour continued they were met with increasingly violent attacks from frustrated rugby fans and heavy-handed police. ibid.
The ill-fated tour moved on to New Zealand. ibid.
As the All Black headed for South Africa the protests spilled over into the Montreal Olympics. ibid.
People need to be on the streets. We need to protest against everything that’s going on. This country is being run on behalf of the wealthy; it’s not being run on behalf of the people. Mick Lynch
CND has its biggest rally ever: two hundred thousand marched in London; another six hundred thousand in Germany. 1983: The Brink of Apocalypse, Channel 4 2008
Montreal 2012: A student strike in opposition to a tuition hike rocked the streets of the city for over six months … The numbers on the streets would reach over 100,000. Police routinely clubbed students and their allies. Street Politics 101, 2013
The students would take over the streets … ibid.
Quebec: Over 200,000 people filled the streets of the city. ibid.
Before the tents, the pepper-spraying, the evictions, and all those memes, Occupy Wall Street was a disparate group of activists roaming around north Manhattan. They felt cheated that American politics had become so bloated with corporate money that something had to give. Free the Network, short 30.45, 2012
Vigilante group Anonymous had thrown its weight behind the movement early on. ibid.
Freedom towers: these independent Wi-Fi sources can be seen beaming out free, secure internet. ibid.
‘Fucking this internet. Let’s build our own.’ ibid.
The year since the 2008 collapse have been marked by demonstrations around the world … In some countries the struggle went much further. Meltdown: The Secret History of the Financial Global Collapse III: Paying the Price, CBC 2011
In 1969 homosexual acts were illegal in every state except Illinois. That summer New York City police raided the Stonewall Inn, a popular gay bar in Greenwich Village. Few photographs of the raid and riots that followed exist. American Experience: Stonewall Uprising, PBS 2019
Something snapped – what? This is not right. ibid. dude
That’s what it was – it was a war. ibid. dude #2
The whole house of cards that was the system of oppression of gay people began to crumble. ibid. dude #3
What no-one foresaw was how a protest within the H blocks of the Maze prison would ignite the Republican political project. The government had stopped treating jailed Republicans like prisoners of war. In protest, cells were covered in excrement, blankets replace prison uniform, and prisoners began to go on hunger strike. The Troubles: A Secret History III, BBC 2019
Sands was put forward as an independent candidate in the by-election in Fermanagh, South Tyrone … and died on Day 66 of his strike. ibid.
Ten men had starved to death before the protest ended. ibid.
Just over a year ago a handful of people decided that it was time to do something radical about the climate crisis. Calling themselves Extinction Rebellion, their plan is to cause so much disruption that they force real change. Now there are tens of thousands of rebels committed to using the peaceful or controversial approach. Inside Extinction Rebellion: Martyrs or Maniacs? Channel 5 2020
‘Incompetent middle-class self-indulgent people who want to show us how to live our lives.’ ibid. Andrew Boulton, Sky news
A mass leaderless movement of rookie rebels attempted to raise the stakes by illegally blocking roads and gluing themselves to buildings. ibid.
This place and these women have one heck of a history. 40 years ago these three Welsh sisters [Brinkworths] were making a real ruckus here. Hitting headlines around the globe. Taking on Reagan, Thatcher and anyone else who got in their way. This is the story of the housewives from the Rhonda who risked it all to change the world. Mothers, Missiles and the American President, BBC 2022
There were protests against nuclear power throughout the world. In the public’s imagination it was transformed from something good to something bad. Much of the anger was turned on the nuclear scientists. It emerged they had deliberately concealed many of the risks and uncertainties they had discovered. Adam Curtis, Pandora’s Box VI: A is for Atom, BBC 1992