Persuasion is clearly a sort of demonstration, since we are most fully persuaded when we consider a thing to have been demonstrated. Aristotle
Despite the killings the demonstrations continued. Back at the barracks the soldiers were becoming increasingly angry at what had happened, and when their officer tried to force them back on to the streets again, they let their feelings known. The Russian Revolution in Colour, Channel 5 2015
The exuberant chaos of local activities was magnified many times over by the unrelenting mania of the national demonstrations. Counter-marches are unique, in that no one’s sure where they’re going, as it depends on the last-minute arrangements of the fascists and the police. So every single person amongst the thousands who attend, as they arrive asks the nearest person ‘what’s happening?’ Mark Steel, Reasons to be Cheerful
Most spectacularly, the 1985 Gay Pride march was led by a contingent of miners. So on a glorious day in July, a procession wound through Central London that must have left onlookers startled. Round the corner came the banners, the winding wheels, the portraits of Scargill and A J Cook, the legions of miners and the ompah pah pah of the band. ibid.
Huge anti-war demonstrations were held in sixty countries. The Iraq War I: Regime Change, BBC 2013
In London about one million people took to the streets. ibid.
These fences run like great ribbons across the islands. And the bases themselves cut swathes across Okinawa. But all around them are people with this continuing demonstration, this continuing resistance. John Pilger, The Coming War on China ***** 2016
Vietnam was, and still is, the only question that can mobilise the masses. Grin Without a Cat aka The Base of the Air is Red, Paul Verges, 1977
Saint-Nazaire May 1st 1967: End of the longest strike of the post-war in Sud-Aviation. ibid.
1967: We feel we had a real movement. ibid. striker
On April 11th 1968 Rudi was gravely wounded by gunfire while he cycled in a Berlin street. He’d written, We Must Revolutionise Revolutionaries. ibid.
Paris 1962 Metro Charonne: A new attitude in the demonstrations, more aggressive, born from a real need of striking back. ibid.
This is where the New Left was born. ibid.
It’s a struggle between rich and poor. ibid. Douglas Bravo
May 68 and all that: For me, May 68 happened in the Boulevard Saint-Michel. ibid.
But never has this authentic courage, this everyday courage, which consists of sacrificing your personality completely to become effective. ibid.
Indeed, we have occupied the Sorbonne. ibid.
Paris Latin Quarter May 6th: At once the State reveals its oppressive side; the one that stays more or less hidden in everyday life. ibid.
The occupation of the Latin Quarter went fine until 8 p.m. It was the police that set off the incidents attacking us with chlorine grenade-launchers. ibid.
Birth of a legend. Birth of an image. ibid.
It’s always the same scene: a few blows and then they arrest them. ibid.
That time showed us that street violence does not lead automatically to political change. ibid.
In Latin America a whole generation of political fighters would end up under fascist regimes. ibid.
They want a change: political and economic. ibid.
In Saint-Etienne, however, the CGT strikers shunned by their comrades from the other two unions take to counter-attack and attack the CRS with stones, screws and iron bars. ibid. Newsreel October 1948
Anyway, history wasn’t being written in Avignon that summer; it was being written in Prague.’ ibid. striker
In Prague, the archives of the Gestapo were thrown into the streets. ibid. French newsreel
The first Soviet tank that entered Free Prague carried the number 23. It was the same tank, now a monument, that was surrounded by other Russian tanks in August 1968. ibid. commentator
Dubcek goes to Moscow and finds another Brezhnev who threatens with military invasion and ‘normalization’. ibid.
What are you doing in Prague? And you call yourself a communist. ibid. demonstrator to man in tank
Student demonstration, May 68, quickly repressed the Mexican way. Two hundred dead, and the game opened in a pacified capital. ibid. commentator
Sunday March 17th London: These people believe world politics are in a mess … All want to bring about a radical social and political change … They claim to be a world-wide rebellion of youth. World in Action: The Demonstration, ITV 1968
‘I shan’t be at all surprised it there’s violence today.’ ibid. radical member of Manchester delegation
A thousand London policeman will be on crowd control duty. ibid.
‘All demonstrations do some good.’ ibid. bus inspector
3.45 at St Pauls. Canon Collins leads a different kind of protest against the [Vietnam] war. ibid.
A foggy day in a small town in Northern Ireland, a town awaiting the arrival of five thousand civil rights marchers. Such visits usually have one ending – the marchers attacked by their enemies, the Protestant extremists and the police intervening. World in Action: All Change at Newry! ITV 1969
On Saturday male and female homosexuals converged on Hyde Park for an open-air rock concert, the climax of Gay Pride week. Stonewall 79 marked the tenth anniversary of the Stonewall riot in New York. World in Action: Gay Pride, ITV 1979
Homosexuals still complain of discrimination. ibid.
You now have to seek police permission to hold a demonstration within eleven hundred yards of parliament. Dispatches: Stealing Away Your Freedom, Channel 4 2009
The lights are out all over Egypt. The Square, opening scene, 2013
Egypt was living without dignity. Injustice existed everywhere. Before the revolution I lived from one job to the next. I started working when I was eight years old. ibid. Ahmed
They forced us to live for 30 years under emergency law. ibid.
We will go down and demand our fundamental human rights. ibid. protester
We have taken Tahrir Square! … The entire nation erupted at once. ibid.
When Mubarak stepped down the armed forces took over the country’s affairs. They swore to God to meet the people’s demands. So the people went home. And nothing happened. ibid.
So we went back to the square. ibid.
They arrest people and take them to the museum. ibid.
The battle is in the images; the battle is in the stories. ibid.
The Muslim Brotherhood started shouting, ‘Islamic rule! Islamic rule!’ … The Brotherhood began to use the Square to negotiate with the Army. They’re not calling for the people’s demands but for their political demands. ibid.
They were firing live bullets at us … People were falling one by one. ibid.
Even the doctors are dying. ibid.
We’re stuck between a rock and a hard place. ibid.
Winter 2012-13: Two years after the start of the revolution President Morsi gave himself unchecked powers. Tensions rise between the Brotherhood and the revolutionaries. ibid.
Religion is the biggest problem we face in this next phase. ibid. Ahmed
The people demand the fall of the regime! ibid. Square protest
Revolution is a culture of the people. ibid. Ahmed
This could be the largest demonstration seen in the history of the world. ibid.
Ahmed and Khalid continue to fight for an alternative to Military or Brotherhood rule. ibid.
This is my country. And this is the way it’s been for more than 40 years. I only remember a few weeks when things were any different. In 1988 I was just a little boy. But that’s when everybody in Burma got into the streets. They’d had enough of military rulers. They wanted change. It was the students who led the demonstrations … At the end of the day 3,000 people were killed in the streets. And it was all over. Burma VJ: Reporting From a Closed Country ***** protester 2008
We have no more people to die. ibid.
I feel the world is forgetting about us. ibid.
I followed very close and saw them throw the demonstrator on the truck. ibid.
The movement is bigger and bigger. ibid.
The whole world must know that the monks are on strike. ibid. head of monks
The monks protected the reporters. ibid.
Today up to 100,000 people took to the streets of Rangoon. ibid. news