INSPIRING MOMENT: “A Change Is Gonna Come” performed by Lauren Baker during Week 48 of peaceful protest outside the ICE facility in Burlington, MA
Absolutely beautiful. Thank you, Lauren Baker, for using your voice to uplift and inspire moments like this matter. 💙
#BlueCrew #ProudBlue #KeepShowingUp #PeacefulProtest #ICE #AbolishICE
#SilencingDissent: The Crackdown on #PeacefulProtest in #Europe
In our recently published Rule of Law report, Liberties’ members reported an increase in restrictions on the right to peaceful protest in all countries.
by Flore du Teilleul
April 10, 2025
"The right to peaceful protest is essential to our democracies, allowing people to come together with a unified voice to support or oppose key issues. It serves as a powerful mechanism for individuals to hold their governments to account and is often the last resort when prior messages go unheard. However, politicians often perceive this right as a threat, especially when force of numbers demonstrates support for an issue.
"In our recently published Rule of Law report, Liberties’ members reported an increase in restrictions on the right to peaceful protest in all countries - from bans on individual protests to the disproportionate use of force by the police and legislative changes. A widespread trend emerged of restricted #ProPalestine protests and #EnvironmentalDefenders receiving particularly harsh penalties.
Bans on Protests
"Restrictions on various protest movements justified on public safety grounds were documented in many member states. In #Germany, the Berlin Assembly Authorities implemented a temporary blanket ban targeting pro-Palestine demonstrations. Initially, the ban targeted celebrations of the mass murder and pro-Hamas demonstrations but later extended to all pro-Palestinian protests. Similarly, in #Latvia, an unregistered #FreePalestine movement protest was banned after an assessment by the state security service that the event would, among other risks, harm the country’s international interests.
"The #Estonian police banned a protest in support of Palestinians, which was later declared unlawful by the administrative court. In #Hungary, Prime Minister #ViktorOrbán publicly prejudiced support for Palestinians by linking it with #terrorism, equating solidarity with civilians victims to threats to the public order. As the fifteen attempts to organise protests were successively banned, the government and the Prime Minister re-asserted their power by deciding what can be demonstrated for, namely, topics in line with their political interests."
Read more:
https://www.liberties.eu/en/stories/rule-of-law-2025-protests/45384
#Sweden #Belgium #Netherlands #Estonia #ExtinctionRebellion #EnvironmentalDefenders #CriminalizingProtest #EnvironmentalActivists #FreePalestine #GazaGenocide #HumanRights #RightToProtest #ACAB #Europe #WorldPol #EuroPol
In our recently published Rule of Law report, Liberties’ members reported an increase in restrictions on the right to peaceful protest in all countries - from bans on individual protests to the disproportionate use of force by the police and legislative changes.
PLEASE BOOST! #NOKINGS PROTEST
Millions of people will take to the streets for the #NOKINGS PROTEST on Saturday, March 28. In fact, more than 2,540 events are already planned in all 50 states!
Last June, 3 million of us came together for the first #NOKINGS. Then, 7 million in October. And now, March 28 is on track to be the largest #NOKINGS mobilization yet—and the largest nonviolent demonstration in U.S. history.
We need to keep building this pro-democracy movement until we reach a tipping point when the people of the United States grow more powerful than Trump and MAGA authoritarianism.
According to decades of research on non-violent civil resistance movements, NO GOVERNMENT HAS EVER WITHSTOOD A CHALLENGE WHEN 3.5% OF ITS POPULATION MOBILIZES AGAINST IT IN A SUSTAINED WAY. In the US, 3.5% means approximately 12 million people.
Your presence with us is vital! Please join a #NOKINGS protest in your area! For more information please visit the following:
www.mobilize.us
www.Indivisible.org
#Protest #Democracy #MoveOn #Indivisible #Activism #Resist #USA #Resistance #Peace #Pax #Solidarity #NoICE #NoKings #Rally #PeacefulProtest
Australia politics live: Muslim groups call for apology after police disrupt prayer at Sydney protest; Turnbull says Liberals ‘in a terrible state’
#Sydney #police action was 'corporal punishment of peaceful community', #Greens say.
The Greens said the police action amounted to “summary physical punishment against legitimate and #peacefulprotest”.
#SueHigginson, Greens MP and the party’s spokesperson for #justice, said it was “corporal punishment against a peaceful community” caused by the “inflammatory actions” of #ChrisMinns.
She said she would be referring the “wildly inappropriate” police actions to the law enforcement conduct commission.
“A lawful and peaceful public assembly was set upon with state violence because arbitrary and excessive special powers were granted to the police, via a rushed regulation made on a Saturday, with no good cause and in defiance our implied constitutional rights to engage in political expression.
I saw with my own eyes something I had hoped to never see, but the video footage that is spreading across social media is all the evidence that any of us need to see the descent of NSW into a police state. We saw people of the #Muslim faith who were #praying set upon, dragged, assaulted and thrown to the ground. We saw dozens of armed police charging at peaceful members of our community.
Charging horses, #chemicalweapons, unprovoked #assault and #severe #policeviolence. These should never be the tools of law enforcement and their presence on #Sydney streets must be a wake-up call to all of us.”
Texas Protesters against Dan Crenshaw Defend the First Amendment as Police Retreat at his Town Hall
Texas protesters lawfully challenged Dan Crenshaw’s record. Police tried to move them. Calm resistance and constitutional knowledge forced authorities to back down.
#authoritarianism #CivilLiberties #DanCrenshaw #DemocracyInAction #FirstAmendment #FreeSpeech #ICEAtrocities #KnowYourRights #peacefulProtest #policeAccountability #PoliticalDissent #ProtestRights #texasPolitics #TexasProtest #TrumpAdministration https://wp.me/p1OjMZ-oFY
I wasn’t there, but I’m proud of the Minnesotans who were. They unselfishly and heroically sacrificed their dildos to protest the human-rights abuses that the trump admin is inflicting on America, particularly on Minnesota.
Video on the insta:
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DUd8txOjmDM/?igsh=MXZtNTNydnpoZTE3Yw==
#OperationDildo #OperationDildoBlitz #Ice #iceout #minnesota #Minneapolis #MNastodon #HumanRights #resist #ImpeachNoem #ImpeachTrump #dildo #PeacefulProtest #RainingDicks #PhucIce
193K likes, 9,208 comments - jolly_good_ginger on February 7, 2026: "Operation Dildo Blitz was a raging success. The dildos were brought by @fearandloathingclosertotheedge Some were purchased from @smittenkittenmn and 500 were donated by @likeakitten_llc".
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