Tag: Protest
Erica Garner’s father, Eric, died on July 17th after being put in an unauthorized chokehold by the NYPD. She says that she’s gone to the Staten Island location of the incident and laid down twice a week ever since. Garner’s daughter tells the Daily News: I felt his spirit when I was walking down to […]
Sex workers and lovers of fun are combining forces to protest the UK’s egregious new pornography laws. Calling the planned demonstration #PornProtest, organizers say the event will climax with a mass face-sit-in where: demonstrators will simulate sex acts with each other and sing along to Monty Python’s ‘Sit On My Face.’ The new laws ban strangulation, whipping and […]
For one group of New York students, a peaceful show of solidarity with Eric Garner turned into an important act of civil disobedience after the Department of Education banned a march planned on Tuesday. DNAinfo reports that students and faculty at the East Side Community High School had organized a march during school hours, to […]
Protests demanding justice for Eric Garner moved throughout the city for a second day with a reported 223 people being arrested as demonstrators shut down transportation networks and blocked roadways. ANIMAL captured footage of one of those arrests, at at 10:39 PM in Times Square. Marchers had blocked the intersection of 7th Avenue and 42nd Street. […]
While many Americans tuned into watch the annual tree lighting at Rockefeller Center, just blocks away, demonstrators marched through the streets of New York to protest a Staten Island jury’s decision not to indict NYPD Officer Daniel Pantaleo for the death of Eric Garner. The protesters demanded justice not just for Garner, who died as […]
Anger over the grand jury decision to not indict Officer Darren Wilson continues, with New Yorkers joining a national walk out protest. Gathering in Union Square and Times Square, workers and students left their classes and jobs at 12:01 PM Monday in a national demonstration organized around the hashtag #HandsUpWalkOut. The time was significant, as […]
Around 5 PM on Wednesday, members of the activist group Gulf Ultra Luxury Faction (G.U.L.F.) unfurled a 40-foot banner on the Guggenheim Museum’s rotunda. The banner said, “Stop Labor Abuse” and “Countdown to Guggenheim Abu Dhabi.” The activists were highlighting the growing concern for workers building the latest branch of the Guggenheim in Abu Dhabi, who many […]
The St. Petersburg-based artist who nailed his scrotum to the ground at Red Square last year, just pulled a Van Gogh as part of a new political protest in Moscow. Petr Pavlensky climbed the wall of a psychiatric institution on Sunday and proceeded to cut off his earlobe. Pavlensky was taken to a hospital by police and […]
Hong Kong police took chainsaws and sledgehammers to barricades set up by pro-democracy demonstrators today. The New York Times reports that the barricades were largely symbolic, but the dismantling by authorities has prompted protesters to build stronger ones out of bamboo, trash cans, bus stop signs and other available materials. Reports say that crackdowns prompted […]
As the “Polite Revolution” continues in Hong Kong, protesters are finding that their phones are being infected with malware. It isn’t clear who’s behind the attack but experts say the sophistication of the virus leads them to believe it was deployed by the Chinese government. The protests began September 22nd, when a rare mass demonstration […]
