2025-10-08 20:21:41
🪨 Rocks on train tracks strand 900 Machu Picchu tourists amid protest
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/17/rocks-on-train-tracks-strand-900-machu-picchu-tourists-amid-protest
🪨 Rocks on train tracks strand 900 Machu Picchu tourists amid protest
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/17/rocks-on-train-tracks-strand-900-machu-picchu-tourists-amid-protest
Photos capture Chicagoans' protest against ICE and Trump's intervention plans (Carolyn Kaster/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/photo-gallery/chicago-protest-photos-ab99f57029057aa9919be802f85876c2?link_source=ta_bluesky_link&taid=68bce7365102e60001ac08a6
http://www.memeorandum.com/250907/p3#a250907p3
If at first your protest doesn't succeed, try, try again. But after that you are legally obligated to give up or risk arrest. 😆
Hard to imaging those who are protesting by getting arrested for bogus terrorism laws giving much of a shit if instead they are arrested for protesting too many times.
What a joke. You can't just legally define a false thing as true. Palestine Action are not a terror group, even if you define them as one in law you authoritarian crazed lunatics.
I wish this government would just fuck the hell off. Imagine being more authoritarian and illiberal than the conservative party. 🙄
Police forces will be granted powers to put conditions on repeat protests, the government has announced, a day after nearly 500 protesters were arrested.
RE: #ukpol #protest #authoritarian
„Bereits als in der Schülerzeitung im Vorfeld des Besuchs zu Protest aufgerufen worden war, petzte die Schulleitung bei der #Bundeswehr.
Dann kam das Meme, eine Lehrerin holte Bentik aus dem Unterricht, drohte ihm mit Verweisen und der Schuldirektor wird gegen seinen eigenen Schüler vor Gericht aussagen.“
Protest gegen Bundeswehr an Schulen – Angell Gymnasium in
A coalition of Chicago journalists, news associations, and others sue President Trump and top officials, alleging repeated 1A violations at an ICE facility (Josephine Walker/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/10/06/dhs-ice-journalists-sue-protest-violence
Republicans post fake image of Oregon protest - using photos of South America (Robert Mackey/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/06/oregon-republicans-protest-photo-south-america
http://www.memeorandum.com/251006/p173#a251006p173
As a plane & space buff with engineering qualifications and piloting experience, I'm a big fan, in theory, of aerospace stuff... but I fully support these protestors - https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/575302/arrests-as-protesters-tar…
Tens of thousands of demonstrators surged down 16th Street toward the White House on Saturday.
It was the city’s first major organized protest since Trump declared a state of emergency and unleashed federal troops onto its streets.
Banners waved and voices rose in unison at the
“We Are All D.C.” march,
a massive show of resistance led by a coalition that included
Free DC, defenders of local self-rule,
Democracy Forward,
and the American Civil Libert…
'No Kings' Unveils a Big New Trump Protest, and the Stakes Couldn't Be Higher (Tim Dickinson/Rolling Stone)
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-no-kings-2-protest-october-ice-military-1235423204/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250908/p79#a250908p79
First ever concert at The Big House in Ann Arbor, ~100k people paid to see him. Somehow the first time I ever heard of him. https://beige.party/@RickiTarr/115334715720568365
The cops and the government suggest that tomorrow's protest against the proscription of Palestine Action should be postponed because a crazy person done some murders.
The home secretary says
“If the point of protest is to stand up for something and persuade other people that you are right, then I think this is entirely the wrong way to go about it, but that is on their conscience.”
That is not the point of the protest. The point of the protest is to show that the proscription of a non violent protest organization under terrorism laws is ridiculous and unenforceable as well as being a massive waste of police and court time.
Delaying the protest would harm that demonstration. The police are over stretched and can't enforce this stupid counter-productive proscription without compromising their duty elsewhere.
Demonstrating that is the point of the protest, and police saying "We are too stretched to arrest all these demonstrators" just reinforces that point all the more.
You know what police and government? You could just not persecute non violent protestors as terrorists. That'd solve your over-stretched police resources problem in one stroke!
#palestineAction #ukpol #protest
Fascism is once again rising across the world, creeping in through surveillance capitalism, mass data harvesting, chat control laws, UK-style age verification, and endless new tools of digital censorship presented as safety.
Freedoms vanish piece by piece through biometric borders, predictive policing, restrictions on protest, voter suppression, book bans, and the relentless spread of authoritarian policies disguised as order. What seemed impossible a decade ago is now routine.
T…
Russische Journalistin Owsjannikowa zum "ausländischen Agenten" erklärt
Russische Behörden haben die durch ihren Anti-Kriegs-Protest im russischen Staatsfernsehen bekanntgewordene und inzwischen ins Ausland geflohene Journalistin Marina Owsjannikowa zum "ausländischen Agenten" erklärt. Das meldete die russische staatliche Nachrichtenagentur Tass unter Berufung auf das Justizministerium.
Mit der Bez…
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Missouri Dems Hold Sit-In for 100 Hours to Protest GOP Assault on Democracy | Common Dreams
https://www.commondreams.org/news/missouri-congressional-map
Nationwide protest: Stand up for Gaza
National protests on October 12 mark two years of Israel's genocide. They will demand Labor sanctions Israel, ends the two-way arms trade and expels the Israeli ambassador.
More locations added:
Saturday October 11
- Cavanbah (Byron Bay)
2pm: Railway Park
- Blue Mountains
12pm-1pm, Katoomba Steet, underneath the old library
Sunday October 12
- Albany
11am, Albany Peace Park
- Armidale
Nepal social media ban sparks protests, dozens injured https://therecord.media/nepal-social-media-ban-protests
Former Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) immunizations chief
Dr. Demetre Daskalakis said Sunday that
he’s concerned with the direction the agency is going and worried about public health going forward.
Daskalakis, who served as director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases,
submitted his resignation from the CDC on Wednesday in protest following the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) removing CDC Director Susan Mona…
Email: the US Tennis Association requested broadcasters to censor any possible protests or other reactions to Trump's presence at Sunday's US Open men's final (Ben Rothenberg/Bounces)
https://www.benrothenberg…
Just now, from a friend in Gaza:
“The Israeli minister of defence just announced that the operation has begun. The announcement is from 15 minutes ago. He said that they ordered a high building in Gaza to evacuate (it's a tower) and this is the beginning of the operation. He also says that the operation will escalate and will be intensified
The tower that they will target is about 1.5 km away from us.”
We must stop this.
Get out onto the streets. Protest. Do some…
Another Red Line demo in Amsterdam today - in line with the Genocide Convention, protesters will demand more action by Dutch government against Israel. I'll be there.
https://nos.nl/l/2585235
Shein opens a store in Paris, its first physical outlet, on the top floor of the historic BHV Marais department store, as politicians and retailers protest it (Jenny Che/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-…
👀 Browsing Onondaga 'LakeBack' protest shades arrival of Seneca Chief with history of harm (https://centralcurrent.org/onondaga-lakeback-protest-shades-arrival-of-seneca-chief-with-history-of-harm/).
The influence of Political trust on the acceptance of Violence
Mario Villagran
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04352 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.04352
Ukrainian students to protest Navalny widow's appearance at Edinburgh literary festival over her Ukraine views: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/20/ukrainian-students-to-protest-navalny.html
Reminder from the last protest.
✅ 54 Anti-Trump Protest Sign Ideas for the No Kings Protest
https://open.substack.com/pub/wildingout/p/54-anti-trump-protest-sign-ideas
And no, I'm not promoting liberal "pacifism."
> All this is not to say that violence should not be part of a revolutionary movement, as liberals tend to assert. Liberalism sometimes recognizes this paradox and resolves it by pushing for their image of “non-violent” resistance. Violence can't solve problems, they assert, there is only protest. Revolutionary change always produces “bad” results (they tend to lack any analysis as to why other than “violence bad”), therefore incremental change is preferable. The thing that liberals don't understand, perhaps they refuse to understand, is that there is necessarily a continuum from protest to insurrection.
October 3, 2025.
Park Police tore down FLARE encampment at 5:00 AM this morning.
Protest at Union Station, Washington, DC this evening 5:00 PM
https://youtube.com/shorts/t8qtpbQS6Kk?si=mEb3bypUIOQN2iJ5
An oil pipeline company is suing #Greenpeace for protesting in #NorthDakota
Letter: Defend the right to speak out and protest | Bismarck Tribune
Arizonans Protest State’s Largest Utility Abandoning Clean Energy Commitments - Inside Climate News
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/04092025/arizona-public-service-clean-energy-roll-back-protest/
250 international media outlets protest Gaza journalist deaths,
‘At the rate journalists are being killed in Gaza by the Israeli army, there will soon be no-one left to keep you informed,’ says Reporters Without Borders, amid front-page protest
https://www.
It's fascinating to see the difference between how those who actually honor their oath to defend the #constitution are treated compared to the way the #fascists in Federal office are. Yet the #GOPCongress
It's fascinating to see the difference between how those who actually honor their oath to defend the #constitution are treated compared to the way the #fascists in Federal office are. Yet the #GOPCongress
#fedihilfe was ist der Neon-Tierprotest und was der Protest gegen den Neon-Tier-Protest (beides am Wochenende auf dem Pariser Platz)?
#fedihilfe was ist der Neon-Tierprotest und was der Protest gegen den Neon-Tier-Protest (beides am Wochenende auf dem Pariser Platz)?
Reporters Without Borders says 250 outlets in 70 countries staged a front page protest highlighting the killing of 200 journalists in Israel's war on Gaza (Al Jazeera)
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/9/1/more-than-…
Schouderklopjes bij pro-Palestinademonstratie voor Joodse medebetogers. ‘Nu zijn we één groep, bewust zichtbaar’ https://www.
Protest at Sites Supplying Israel’s F-35 Fighter Jets – Arms Embargo Now!
https://palestinecampaign.org/events/protest-at-sites-supplying-israels-f-35-fighter-jets-arms-embargo-now/
Habe mich gefreut, heute in der #UniBielefeld diese Plakate zu sehen.
Die Demo ist am 5.11. ab 13 Uhr vor dem Landtag in #Düsseldorf.
Vorsicht: Der QR-Code führt zu Whatsapp.
#SchlussverkaufBildung
Protest wirkt
#spreadshirt
Good thread commenting on union input to the Barcelona protest, from @…:
#unions #Barcelona #Palestine
Federal agents knock down elderly couple during Portland protest (Gosia Wozniacka/Oregonian)
https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2025/10/federal-agents-knock-down-elderly-couple-during-portland-protest.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251004/p77#a251004p77
Maybe this sort of experience will mean the Gardaí will become a little less tolerant of the far right.
https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025/10/21/citywest-hotel-protest-public-order-gardai-at-scene/
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https://www.noz.de/lokales/osnabrueck/artikel/afd-stammtisch-im-parkhaus-rink-protest-in-osnabrueck-angekuendigt-49184682
Die Wirtin sieht bei der AfD keine Ausgrenzung? Dann ist sie wohl taub und bli…
Chicago journalists sue Trump over "extreme brutality" at ICE protests (Josephine Walker/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/10/06/dhs-ice-journalists-sue-protest-violence
http://www.memeorandum.com/251006/p95#a251006p95
Military trans ban suit marches on, despite protest by feds
https://www.courthousenews.com/military-trans-ban-suit-marches-on-despite-protest-by-feds/
this starts slow but I think gets pretty good.
How to Protest The Trump Regime Like The Civil Rights Movement by Offline with Jon Favreau
#uspol
"Lesen ist nicht nur die Erfüllung einer Erwartung, sondern auch Protest." (Marcel Reich-Ranicki)
[via https://ub.hsu-hh.de/go/moinmoin]
"Anti-semitism is fuelled by conspiracism, ethnonationalism and sheer ignorance, and occurs in a context of rising political violence across many democracies, itself driven by a range of motivations.
"The horror in Manchester will be used by those who want to poison community relations and restrict legitimate forms of democratic protest and speech, already menaced."
Sieben Millionen demonstrieren in den USA gegen Trumps autoritäre Politik – und der Präsident beschwichtigt lächelnd: „Das ist ein Witz.“ Die Republikaner wünschen sich Eskalation, bekommen aber eine friedliche Massenbewegung. Trump erreicht, was die Demokraten nicht schafften: Er vereint die Opposition. @…
The #NixOS moderation team resigns "effective immediately, in protest of the Steering Committee’s ongoing pattern of attempting to interfere with moderation team operation, membership and specific moderation decisions."
'There is no protest without music': WMass singers bring songs of dissent to the people
https://www.masslive.com/westernmass/2025/09/there-is-no-prote…
35-year-old former U.S. Army sergeant, Bajun “Baji” Mavalwalla II,
faces up to six years in prison
for protesting against ICE deportations
in what legal experts are calling a test case for the
Trump administration’s attempts to criminalize and punish dissent.
Mavalwalla was arrested and charged with “conspiracy to impede or injure officers”
after he was identified in a video taken at the protest and shared on Instagram.
Mavalwalla, who survived a ro…
U.S. Open Orders Broadcasters to Censor Reactions to Trump (Ben Rothenberg/Bounces)
https://www.benrothenberg.com/p/us-open-donald-trump-mens-final-attendance-visit-appearance-censorship-tv-booing-protest-jannik-sinner-carlos-alcaraz
http://www.memeorandum.com/250906/p39#a250906p39
Thousands in Slovakia protest Fico's Russian-friendly stance, economic policies: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/17/thousands-in-slovakia-protest-ficos.html
To continue this...
> Any protest that is unwilling to continue to escalate along that continuum can simply be ignored or crushed, if authorities are willing to escalate far enough. The thing that insurrectionary partisans tend to not understand is that the capacity for escalation is not the same as actual escalation. Not only are these not equivalent, but escalation that precedes capacity building impairs existing insurrectionary capacity. Escalation, who escalates and on what grounds, is actually a critical element of how the revolutionary conversation unfolds. (This dialog where Andor's revolutionary representation and historical accuracy excels.)
I've gone into much more depth in the past about this, specific to #FiftyFiftyOne/#50501Movement and the need to make sure they have the capacity to escalate. (To be 100% clear, the capacity to escalate and actual escalation are not the same thing.)
https://kolektiva.social/@Hex/115405456381131686
CPJ says Mario Guevara was deported early Friday to his native El Salvador, after spending months in custody following his arrest while covering a protest (Liam Reilly/CNN)
http://www.cnn.com/2025/10/03/media/mario-guevara-journalist-deported-ice-el-salv…
Alarm after FBI arrests US army veteran for ‘conspiracy’ over protest against Ice | Trump administration | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/02/fbi-arrest-us-army-veteran-ice-protest
Using language about “rioters” at federal facilities, the Trump administration is fast-tracking the rule changes
— which critics say DHS could use as a pretext to go after protesters wearing frog costumes or making a racket on the streets of Chicago and Portland, Oregon.
The new regulations could empower the ⚠️Federal Protective Service,
a little-known police force under DHS tasked with securing federal facilities,
to pursue more arrests outside of federal property it…
In the UK, you can now get arrested under the Terrorist Act for wearing a T-shirt against Israel's ongoing genocide in Gaza.
Paul Laverty is to be charged under section 13 of the Terrorist Act for wearing a T-shirt with the words: “Genocide in Palestine, time to take Action”, thought to show support for activist group Palestine Action, proscribed as a terrorist organisation by the UK Labour government for painting fighter jets in a protest.
Pissed-off Fans Flooded the Twin Peaks Reddit With AI Slop To Protest Its AI Policies https://www.404media.co/pissed-off-fans-flooded-the-twin-peaks-reddit-with-ai-slop-to-protest-its-ai-policies/
Yay! As they should be.
https://social.chinwag.org/@guardian_bot/115250902295604090
guardian_bot@chinwag.org - Police officer charged with assault after Hannah Thomas injured at pro-Palestine protest in Sydney
The #brutal #stupidity of the #StephenMillerAdminstration is hard to top. And Miller certainly knows how to #manipulateTrump
The #brutal #stupidity of the #StephenMillerAdminstration is hard to top. And Miller certainly knows how to #manipulateTrump
Get Ready for Bad Bunny's Explosive Super Bowl Trump Protest (Adrian Carrasquillo/The Bulwark)
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/get-ready-for-bad-bunnys-explosive-super-bowl-trump-protest
http://www.memeorandum.com/251003/p59#a251003p59
Learn "No Kings Here" protest song from Tom Paxton (@TomPaxtonMusic) and Cathy Fink for October 18, 2025 "No Kings" rally
https://social.trom.tf/display/dbc8dc44-1168-e10e-cd17-e3d333145274
Evanston, Illinois Mayor Daniel Biss says what he has seen of federal immigration raids amounts to an “invasion from our own federal government.”
His office is now launching investigations into reports of federal agents brutalizing and threatening community members.
“They appear to have just started beating people up for no reason,”
Biss says.
“If that was anybody except for a federal agent, they would be under arrest.”
In Chicago, thousands protest against threat of ICE, National Guard deployment (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/chicago-thousands-protest-against-threat-ice-national-guard-deployment-2025-09-01/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250902/p1#a250902p1
Donbas on the brink of an explosion: Moscow alarmed by rising protest sentiment in occupied areas amid water shortages: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/01/donbas-on-the-brink-of.html
Today
12pm Sunday 12th October
Civic Square, Canberra
Nationwide protest: Stand up for Gaza
https://www.greenleft.org.au/2025/1438/news/nationwide-protest-stand-gaza
At Bay Area protest, a second pastor is shot by federal agents with a pepper round
https://religionnews.com/2025/10/24/at-bay-area-protest-a-second-pastor-is-shot-by-federal-agents-with-a-pepper-round/
Spanish-language journalist Mario Guevara faces imminent deportation after being in the US for 20 years; he was arrested while covering a Georgia rally in June (Dan Raby/CBS News)
https://www.cbsnews.com/atlanta/news/mario-guevara-protest-arres…
Man pleads guilty to throwing Molotov cocktail at deputies during LA immigration protest (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/immigration-protest-guilty-plea-d40835511a87fe9c5360160325cd6345
http://www.memeorandum.com/251002/p105#a251002p105
The date is set for the next big protest.
Saturday, October 18th.
https://NoKings.org
Comment your events.
https://
Alarm after FBI arrests US army veteran for 'conspiracy' over protest against Ice (Aaron Glantz/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/02/fbi-arrest-us-army-veteran-ice-protest
http://www.memeorandum.com/250902/p13#a250902p13
Trump orders takedown of longtime protest tent at White House (Ashleigh Fields/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5489497-trump-orders-takedown-peace-vigil-white-house/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250905/p126#a250905p126
Mario Guevara, the Spanish-language journalist arrested while filming a Georgia protest in June, is set to be deported to El Salvador on Friday (WABE)
https://www.wabe.org/family-says-atlanta-journalist-mario-guevara-will-be-deported-tomorrow/
SANTA BARBARA — On Labor Day, Monday, September 1, at 11:00 a.m., community members will gather at De La Guerra Plaza in Santa Barbara as part of a nationwide day of protest to honor working people and stand strong against billionaire exploitation and corporate domination.
Across the country, workers, students, parents, and neighbors are rising up to demand dignity, justice, and investment in people
— not billionaire empires.
The Santa Barbara event will include protest song…
Two high school students detained and ‘assaulted’ by ICE agents when they joined a protest in Chicago, officials say | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/chicago-little-village-protest-students-detained-b2851710.html
DOJ Indicts Kat Abughazaleh After Protest at Illinois ICE Facility (Oriana Gonzšlez/NOTUS)
https://www.notus.org/immigration/doj-indicts-kat-abughazaleh-ice-protest
http://www.memeorandum.com/251029/p95#a251029p95
A coalition of patriotic groups is again leading a day of mass demonstrations across the US to protest against the Trump authoritarian onslaught.
The coalition spearheaded a previous attempt #NoKings protest day in June,
drawing millions to the streets to speak out against Trumpism on the same day Trump held a military parade in Washington.
Today JD Vance is predictably holding a military…
Working Americans are set to take to the streets this Labor Day
with over 1,000 “Workers Over Billionaires” rallies and protests planned nationwide.
The mobilizations, spearheaded by the "Mayday Strong Coalition" of national, state, and local labor and community organizations,
will protest what organizers call a “billionaire agenda”
that is suppressing the labor movement,
attacking workers' rights,
and burdening families across the country…
Indonesia's Leader Says He Will Bow to Some Protester Demands After Riots (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/world/asia/indonesia-protest-politicians-ransack-loot.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250831/p69#a250831p69
Former Republican strategist and operative Rick Wilson
called out Bob Kennedy as a
“heroin addict, sex addict, anti-vaccination lunatic and aspiring architect of millions of deaths”
who’s dedicated to replacing real scientists with “radical eugenicists.”
And why would Kennedy be doing this?
Dr. Demetre Daskalakis
— one of the top scientists and physicians who quit the CDC in protest over the anticipated replacementof Dr. Susan Monarez with an anti-vax cra…
ICE purposefully rammed their vehicle into a protestor’s truck in California.
In Chicago, federal agents tear gassed local police during a protest.
This is what happens when a wannabe dictator is running the country.
This is why millions of Americans peacefully stood up to defend our rights in the No Kings protests.
Peaceful protest is not a crime. It’s the foundation of our democracy.
I’m Fred Wellman
—Army combat veteran, entrepreneur, dad, MeidasTouch …
"Attack on Free Speech": Journalist Mario Guevara Deported After Covering Anti-Trump Protest (Democracy Now)
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/10/3/mario_guevara_deportation_freedom_of_press
http://www.memeorandum.com/251003/p129#a251003p129
“The President has sent agents here to create chaos and riots in Portland,
to induce a reaction,
to induce protests,
to induce conflicts.
His goal is to make Portland look like what he’s been describing it as,”
Oregon’s junior senator,
Jeff Merkley said.
“He wants to induce a violent exchange.
Let us not grant him that wish.
Let us be the force of orderly, peaceful protest.”
Angry constituents confront Congress on immigration, Medicaid cuts and Gaza (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/summer-town-halls-politicians-trump-medicaid-immigration-gaza-protest-rcna227315
http://www.memeorandum.com/250830/p7#a250830p7
“The billionaire agenda,
the corruption we’re seeing,
is changing the way government is functioning.
It’s leading to real-time and impactful ramifications for regular people,”
said Lisa Gilbert, co-president of Public Citizen.
“The gutting of Medicaid,
all the firings we’ve seen of federal workers,
the ravaging of families through Ice raids.
It’s just all coming together to cause people to stand up and say,
‘we are the people of this c…
Massive CDC walkout erupts amid internal chaos (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/08/28/cdc-walkout-protest-resignations-rfk-hhs
http://www.memeorandum.com/250828/p120#a250828p120