Occupy San Francisco by Thomas Hawk
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Israel is holding more than 5000 Palestinians in its prisons. 200 of them are children. The report by The Palestinian Prisoners Society says there are also 15 women among the prisoners. The group says Palestinian prisoners are subjected to torture and maltreatment in Israeli jails, with 1,400 of them suffering …
Minneapolis, Minnesota November 25, 2014 around 6pm The march was around 2000 people. Some marchers crossed over into the southbound traffic, which was at a standstill, and walked through the cars. Around 20 protesters walked down the ramp to I-35 to consider marching down the interstate highway. The rest of …
Minneapolis Minnesota December 4 2014 This protest and march was in response to several unarmed people of color being killed by law enforcement in the United States recently and the subsequent lack of charges or punishment for the police involved. The most recent was Eric Garner who was wrestled to …
Minneapolis, Minnesota December 13, 2014 Around 1000 people gathered in downtown Minneapolis for Million March Minnesota, a rally and protest against deaths of people of color at the hands of police. The crowd listened to speakers at Government Plaza, and a good number of them marched through the streets to …
Melbourne Refugee and asylum seeker rights rally Saturday 27 July 2013, to protest both the Rudd Labor Government new proposal for assessment and resettlement of asylum seekers in Papua New Guinea, and the Liberal Party’s hard line stand to use the military to turn back the boats. Both Labor and …
This was the first ever migrant camp, opened in 1947. It closed in 1971 after having processed over 300,000 migrants. Some migrants had come back to visit while I was there, but I did not ask what they mean by processed. From wikipedia. via Flickr http://flic.kr/p/5bjqr7
The Refugee Action Collective organised a march and protest on Saturday 2 April 2011 against children in immigration detention outside the Melbourne Immigration Transit Accommodation at Camp Road, Broadmeadows. Despite Labor’s October announcement that all children would be released from detention, there are still more than 1,000 children locked up …
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"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." Martin Luther King My mom and I went to a peace rally yesterday and this is the sign we held. http://ift.tt/1B8jggp ___________________ Check out Chris Hedges’ blog today: The Treason of the Intellectuals – http://ift.tt/1B8jggs… via …