Protestierende fordern bei einem Lesemarathon vor dem Parlament die Umsetzung der UN-Behindertenrechtskonvention. Konkret: mehr Barrierefreiheit im Alltag, die Auflösung von Sonderschulen und einen besseren Zugang zum Arbeitsmarkt für behinderte Menschen. #protest #parlament #inklusion #radiofm4
“We have the hats, we have the tinsel boas, we have bubbles. They [right-wing activists] are on Twitter going, ‘we’re at another Tesla Takedown, and they’re dancing with bubbles.’ It really defuses the whole thing.”
Tesla Takedown Protesters Are Hitting Musk Where It Hurts: His Bottom Line https://truthout.org/articles/tesla-takedown-protesters-are-hitting-musk-where-it-hurts-his-bottom-line/
"There is no political victory on any issue that’s possible if you dispose of people most affected by those issues. They’re just simply not possible. ... what does it mean to build #solidarity with other people? It means to share those struggles because they are already shared whether we acknowledge them or not." -- Shane Burley to @MsKellyMHayes https://truthout.org/audio/how-to-fight-fascism-in-a-captured-state/
#activism #LGBTQIA+ #trans #immigration #fascism #protest #politics #USpol #antisemitism
In the latest in Academic complicity with Israel's Genocide against the Palestinian people, New York University School of Law has just barred 31 pro-Palestine law school students from campus facilities and demanded that they sign away their right to protest in exchange for being allowed to return. If the students don’t renounce their right to protest on campus, they will be unable to sit for final exams.
#palestine #FreePalestine #FreeSpeechMatters #university #students #protest
https://theintercept.com/2025/05/03/nyu-law-students-protests-gaza-palestine-israel/
What do you do when Trump is getting on your last nerve?
Time to burn some sage! (safely!)
Featured:
“Not Enough Sage in the World”
Protesters seek to "End Gun Violence," telling President Trump, "We are the Granddaughters of the Witches You Weren't Able to Burn," and "Not Enough Sage in the World"
#activistart #photography witches #sage #protest #mastoart #mastodonart #chrisboese #boesegalleries
@TwraSun #Protest könne man nicht verbieten, sagt ausgerechnet #Linnemann von der #CDU. Keine Pointe.
Demonstranten verstoren toespraak minister tijdens nationale viering Bevrijdingsdag
https://nieuwsjunkies.nl/artikel/15KD
11:30 | RTL Nieuws
#5mei #Brekelmans #Protest #Bevrijd #Toespraak
Anti-protest law modified
High Court loosens restrictions on demonstrations
May 2025
No government likes protests. They demonstrate, all too visibly, that the public – or a part of them at least – is not happy with them or the status quo. Depending on the degree of despotism, demonstrations are controlled or in the worst of countries, banned altogether. China has an extremely restrictive policy backed up by a massive and all pervasive surveillance system making protests all but impossible. Gulf states are also highly restrictive.
Demonstrations are often how change happens. Britain has many examples throughout its history of protest bringing change. Wat Tyler and the plight of the poor (serfs); the Poll Tax riots in 1381 and 1970; the Prayer Book rebellion; the Iraq War protest and of course the Suffragettes. There are many more examples. They do not necessarily bring about immediate change. They do show to politicians and others the depth of feeling that people have about their cause.
The last Conservative government was no different to others in disliking protests. What upset them the most were the climate protests. Just Stop Oil and other groups such as Extinction Rebellion, engaged in a series of eye-catching protests which shone a light on the government’s failure (in their eyes) to do enough to stop fossil fuel extraction.
Suella Braverman, then the Home Secretary resented these protests and introduced the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act in 2022 in an attempt to seriously curtail them. Controversially they introduced a change in the threshold wording from ‘serious disruption’ to ‘more than minor’. This was done by using a statutory instrument not after proper debate in the House of Commons. This had the effect of almost banning all protests.
Successful challenge
Liberty and other groups successfully challenged this in the courts and the new Labour government decided to appeal. This seems to demonstrate that the dislike of protest is not a party political matter: governments just do not like challenge. Last week (May 2) the Appeal Court ruled that ‘serious’ is not ‘more than minor’ and said that the anti-protest laws were introduced unlawfully. The regulations gave police almost unlimited powers to prevent protests taking place. Many were arrested using these powers.
The protests which so upset the previous government concerned fossil fuels. The fossil fuel industry is extremely powerful and well-funded. Several of the various think tanks based in and around 55 Tufton Street are thought to be funded by them. These include: The Tax Payers Alliance; Civitas; Adam Smith Institute; Global Warming Policy Foundation; Centre for Policy Studies and the Institute of Economic Affairs. Their funding is opaque but is thought to be mainly from fossil fuel companies such as the Koch corporation in the USA among others. They have frequent access to the media being interviewed on various BBC and commercial stations without ever being asked ‘who funds you?’ Their opinions often appear in newspaper columns. They employ large numbers of lobbyists and enjoy close contact with ministers and civil servants. They claim to be influential in forming policies to suit their interests. It was admitted by Rishi Sunak when he was prime minister that the Policy Exchange – another of these think tanks funded by Exxon Mobil – had drafted the anti-protest legislation.
Protest is crucial to enable the ordinary person to make their voice heard. As with the arms industry we highlighted in a previous post, governments are dominated by commercial concerns, the need for growth and the enormous power and influence of companies and their army of lobbyists. Around £2bn per annum is spent by firms on this activity. It is welcome news that the Appeal Court has ruled against the government and its ‘draconian’ anti-protest legislation.
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Pro-Palestine student activists at #Cambridge #University disrupted their own graduation ceremony in #protest over the university's ties to #Israel.
NYU Demands Law Students Renounce Protests or Be Barred from Sitting Final Exams
After being banned from campus buildings following peaceful sit-ins, students said the disciplinary processes broke from school policies.
https://theintercept.com/2025/05/03/nyu-law-students-protests-gaza-palestine-israel/
#FightAbleism #Ableismus #WfbM #Inklusion #Lüneburg #Protest
„Wenn Parallelwelten wie Förderschulen, Werkstätte für Behinderte, Heime gefördert und aufrechterhalten werden, ist das keine Inklusion, sondern Segregation. Diese Sonderwelten verstoßen gegen unsere Grundrecht aus der UN-Behindertenkonvention. Darin ist explizit eine Deinstitutionalisierung, hin zur Ermöglichung von selbstbestimmt leben, zum Beispiel mit persönlicher Assistenz. Es gibt durchaus auch im Einzelfall gute Initiativen bei den Organisationen der Behindertenhilfe. Das ändert am strukturellen Ableismus, den wir anprangern, jedoch nichts. Nichts über uns ohne uns! Weg mit Parallel-Welten.“ erklärte Cécile Lecomte, eine an der Aktion beteiligte Rollstuhlfahrerin. Die Veranstaltung selbst auf dem Marktplatz war nicht barrierefrei, kritisieren die Aktivist*innen weiter.
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Media coverage of the Lake Forest Park MayDay protests. I’d said I was pretty sure my belated photo count was low, probably quite low, because they always are - and it was. This is like 3% of LFP’s population and a big deal.
From: @www.shorelineareanews.com
https://www.shorelineareanews.com/2025/05/400-protest-in-lake-forest-park-on-may.html
Ongebroken verzet,
Francisco van Jole
Ik bleef deze week stilstaan bij het beeld dat zijn titel zoveel eer aandoet. Je ziet een persoon op blote voeten, die gevangen heeft gezeten in een kamp, een doek om zijn lijf. Hij staat rechtop maar is uitgemergeld, lichamelijk verzwakt en kijkt naar de hemel, de plek waar hoop zich verzamelt als er op aarde geen plek meer voor is.
THE KENT STATE MASSACRE
It is May 4, 1970 - minutes after the Ohio National Guard opened fire on a peaceful antiwar protest at Kent State University. A horrified Mary Ann Vecchio crouches over the body of Jeffrey Miller.
That’s me on the right with a white arm band. I am watching a freaked-out fellow art student jumping in the blood of Jeffrey Miller.
Four were killed and nine wounded, protesting against the invasion of Cambodia. Days later came massacres at Augusta GA and Jackson State MS.
The shootings at Kent were choreographed at the highest levels of government. Inflammatory comments by President Nixon and Governor Rhodes of Ohio provided a framework for the shootings. Actions reeking of the work of agent provocateurs preceded the murders. In the May 4 protest was an armed FBI agent - photographed holding a gun.
For 55 years, there has been a diligent cover up of the events by politicians of both capitalist parties. KSU has attempted to airbrush the mass anti-war movement of thousands of students out of existence.
Official May 4 commemorations were placed in the hands of Stephanie Danes Smith, a former top official of the CIA - testimony to the moral bankruptcy of the KSU admin. Former “radicals” of SDS, having carved out careers as “experts” and “survivors,” have embraced Smith - a sad testimony to failed ultra-left/liberal politics.
Now, Trump officials are again making inflammatory statements and threatening students with the National Guard. Like Nixon, they believe that deporting, jailing or killing some students will put an end to the anti-war protests. They are doomed to failure.
Those of us who went through the experience of building the Vietnam antiwar movement learned this: when millions of people join in direct action in the streets, we have enormous power.
The most important way to prevent state violence is to build a mass, independent defense of civil liberties.
Together with the Vietnamese people, we defeated the war makers in Southeast Asia.
We can and must do it again.
Stop the assaults on democratic rights!
End the genocide in Gaza!
War machine off campus!
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#KentState #students #demonstration #protest #freespeech #massacre #vietnam #cambodia #antiwar #solidarity
#May4 #Alewitz #RedSquare
