Here’s a good selection of photos from Day One of the Republican Convention protests in Milwaukee.
Photo: Michael Izquierdo/WTTW News
Milwaukee RNC Protests
Category: Direct Action
Campus Uprisings Support Palestine
Reports from Various Campuses – April 28, 2024 – click here
Nothing like Spring to bring out student activism. So mote it ever be!
2024 sees a wave of protest of the genocidal Israeli attack on Gaza. Like the anti-Apartheid movement in the 1980s, the key demand is that Universities and their various billion-dollar endowments divest from criminal regimes.
The tactics are classic Occupy (and also echo the “shanty-towns” of the Apartheid protests) – set up a highly visible, round-the-clock encampment and let the authorities create your publicity.
With an ineptitude matched only by the Republican Congressional Caucus, administrators at one campus after another have blundered into confrontations that spotlight the protests.
A challenge for these protests – dealing with anti-Semitism – never far from the surface in American politics.
Personally, when I (a goy) am involved in protests of Israel’s policies, I take my lead from Jewish Voice for Peace.
Photo – Columbia University – by Lev Radin/Crooked.com
Jewish Voice For Peace Demands Gaza Ceasefire
Protesters calling for a ceasefire in Gaza and an end to the Israel-Hamas conflict look down on fellow protestors occupying the rotunda of the Cannon House office building on Capitol Hill. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters)
October 18, 2023 – The group Jewish Voice for Peace is holding a sit-in inside the Cannon House Office Building in DC. The group claims “over 350 are inside, including two dozen rabbis.”
The group chanted “Ceasefire!” and held signs reading, “Jews say ceasefire now!” The refused to leave “until Congress calls for a ceasefire in Gaza.”
Demonstrations are not allowed inside U.S. congressional buildings.
Jewish Voice for Peace activists, among other protesters, were arrested during a demonstration outside the White House on Monday.
Thanks to Nicole Darrah/Yahoo News for details.
Activist Photos from Luke Hauser
Photos of direct actions and other convergences by Luke Hauser from circa 2000-2015.
Includes Occupy, Black Lives Matter, peace and anti-war actions, climate justice, immigrant rights, and more.
Click here for index of actions.
Over 1000 Arrested in Russian AntiWar Protests
Over 1000 people were arrested on the day Putin announced widespread conscription and a broadening of the war against Ukraine.
Photo Getty News Service – September 2022
Russians Resist Ukraine Invasion – 7500 arrests
UPDATE (March 6) – UK Guardian now reports over 7500 arrests throughout Russian – click here for full UKG report.
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Click here for original Feb 24 story
(February 24) The UK Guardian reports 1700 arrests in the Russian Federation in protest of Putin’s invasion of the Ukraine. Pjotr Sauer and Andrew Roth report from Moscow:
“Vladimir Putin has said there is broad public support for the invasion of Ukraine that he announced just before dawn on Thursday morning. But by evening, thousands of people in cities across Russia had defied police threats to take to central squares and protest against the military campaign.
“Police had made at least 1,702 arrest in 53 Russian cities as of Thursday evening, according to the OVD-Info monitor, as they cracked down on the unsanctioned protests. Most of the arrests were made in Moscow and St Petersburg, where the crowds were largest.”
Image: Moscow protester, February 2022 – by Konstantin Zavrazhin
