Home > Keywords > Actions > Demos-Actions

Demos-Actions

  • Protesters Pay Tribute to Fallen Troops
    25 October 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
    1 comment

    WASHINGTON - A small group of war protesters paid tribute to the troops who died in Iraq by setting up more than 1,100 flag-draped cardboard coffins in front of the Lincoln Memorial on Saturday.
    The coffins stretched halfway down each side of the reflecting pool. At 1 p.m., members of the Iraq War Memorial Coalition read the names of the people who were killed and then played taps.
    Pat Elder, who helped organize the event, said the 75-member coalition was formed two weeks ago by people (…)

  • Marchers demand Iraq withdrawal
    19 October 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    Thousands of protesters, including the grieving parents of killed soldiers, have marched in London to demand the removal of British troops from Iraq.
    Up to 100,000 people joined in the rally at Trafalgar Square, organisers the Stop The War Coalition said.
    Police estimated about 20,000 people took part.
    Rose Gentle, whose soldier son Gordon was killed in Iraq, said: "It’s time for Tony Blair to pull the troops out, innocent people are getting killed."
    ’Government to blame’
    She (…)

  • Thousands of Britons Protest War in Iraq
    18 October 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
    2 comments

    by TIM ELFRINK
    Thousands of anti-war and anti-globalization activists marched through central London and filled Trafalgar Square on Sunday to protest the U.S.-led coalition’s presence in Iraq.
    The march marked the culmination of the third European Social Forum - three days of speeches, workshops and debates largely dominated by Iraq and the U.S. presidential election.
    Marchers carried signs reading World’s No. 1 Terrorist’’ over a picture of President Bush. British Prime Minister Tony (…)

  • An exhibition of Iraq war
    13 October 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
    1 comment

    An exhibit that speaks directly to our hearts and reminds us of the human cost of war.
    by Mary Ellen McNish
    Over 1,000 pairs of empty combat boots tagged with the names of U.S. soldiers who died in the Iraq war ­ will be displayed, together with a 24-foot “wall” of names and incidents identifying Iraqi civilian deaths.
    The Eyes Wide Open exhibition is a multimedia journey through the words, images, and sounds of the Iraq war. Visitors move through a vivid memorial to the war’s soldier (…)

  • Infamous ‘Miami Model’ of Protest Clampdown, Coming to a Town Near You
    9 June 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Christopher Getzan
    The News Standard http://newstandardnews.net/content/?action=show_item&itemid=488
    Jun 8 - When thousands of demonstrators converged in Miami last November to protest the latest round of negotiations over a Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA), city authorities dreaded a repeat of the failed police response that allowed activists to hobble the 1999 World Trade Organization ministerial in Seattle.
    Before the activists arrived in Miami last year, police warned (…)

  • G8 : Open Wounds
    15 April 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    From an outside perspective, Genoa is still very much linked to the bloody G8 summit from 2001. In the following interview, which was conducted by the publishers of "Genoa etc." [www.etc-publications.com], Enrica Bartesaghi talks about her project to support the victims of the G8 summit in correlation with the city’s transformation into the European Capital of Culture.
    How do you remember the G8-meeting?
    Genoa and the G8 was, and still is, an open wound for me both as a mother and as an (…)

  • Demonstrate Globally, Organize Locally
    22 March 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    Future Hope column
    It was a definite "up" to be on the streets of Manhattan yesterday with 100,000 or so sisters and brothers marching for peace, justice and a new world, knowing that, as it turned out, upwards of 2 million of us were demonstrating together around the U.S. and the world. Our movement needs days like March 20th, 2004.
    And we will need an even bigger and more powerful "World Says No to Bush" international day of action on August 29th, the day before the opening of the (…)