A sewing machine did away with ten tailors. ibid.
The spiritual master and head of state in Tibet is the Dalai Lama ... Even though the Dalai Lama is a man of peace, he speaks good English and is recognised for his statesmanship. He was refused an audience with Queen Elizabeth of Great Britain. However, the British Royal Family who have members that are active Freemasons greeted the leader of the murdering Communist Chinese government with a full state ceremony. Chris Everard, Illuminati II
The Free Tibet campaign is a worldwide movement of volunteers who wish to highlight the illegal killings and imprisonment of Tibetan people. The Free Tibet campaign displayed flags during the state visit of the Chinese premier in London. The Free Tibet flags were confiscated by British police officers. The peaceful protesters were often arrested and dragged away for no apparent reason; some were even assaulted and beaten by British police officers. ibid.
Thousands of protesters peacefully gathered in Seattle, Washington, to protest the World Trade Organisation, which was meeting in the city.
The police violently engaged the crowds using chemical and conventional weapons.
Hundreds were arrested and injured for peacefully exercising their rights to assembly and free speech. United We Fall, Press for Truth 2010, caption
They have a dream to dominate the world. ibid.
Real freedoms are eaten up a little at a time. While government controls are slipped on. While the real power is collected into a few hands. ibid.
They create order out of the chaos. ibid.
On the same day similar marches took place all over the world: more than half a million people took to the streets in over a dozen countries ... Paris 2015: the protesters are demanding that world leaders actually reach a deal this time – a global agreement to slash carbon dioxide emissions in the coming decades. Iain Stewart, Planet Oil: The Treasure That Conquered the World III ***** BBC 2015
Those protests would bring down a dictatorship that lasted 23 years. Ben Ali fled the country. The Tunisian revolution spread and prompted a wave of uprisings that became known as the Arab Spring. Richard Bilton, Wikileaks: The Secret Life of a Superpower I, BBC 2012
The marches on Washington were up to 5,000,000/1,000,000. Green & Siegel, The Weather Underground, Brian Flanaghan, 2002
Outside Broadcasting House the demonstrators pressed closer to the entrance, pushing back the wooden barriers that the BBC security men had placed in front of the doors. A crowd of some two hundred protesters had now formed, listening on their radios to a news programme that discussed the events unfolding below the BBC’s windows. J G Ballard, Millennium People p154
Five minutes later it was all over. As the riot police manhandled us through the lobby we learned that the assault on The World Today had failed. Long before our arrival, the entire production team had moved to a secure studio in the basement. The police snatch squads had entered Broadcasting House through a side door in Portland Place. They were waiting for us, truncheons warm and at the ready, and made short work of any protesters lost in the mazelike corridors. We were roughly rounded up and ejected from the building, and the Corporation resumed its historic task of beguiling the middle classes. ibid. p156
Meanwhile, small confrontations loomed. Quietly and stealthily, the barricades were going up in Chelsea Marina. The lull in police activity after the Hammersmith murder had given the residents time to organize their defences. The bailiffs’ attempt to seize the Turners’ home was a threat to every property on the estate. As in the past, we all agreed, the police were doing the dirty work for a ruthless venture capitalism that perpetuated the class system in order to divide the opposition and preserve its own privileges. ibid. p216
Never before have we seen anything like it in Lebanon. Never before have we seen anything like it in the Arab world.
Almost a third of the population of Lebanon was there; they walked many miles through the city to Martyrs’ Square, they arrived by bus from the far north and from Sidon in the south, most of them young, many of them children.
This was not just a game of power. Nor was it, per se, a democratic revolution. It was an insurrection by the people against the lies and corruption of government as well as the foreign control they have lived under for so many decades.
Yes, they wanted the Syrian army out – they are leaving anyway – but they also wanted President Lahoud of Lebanon to resign. They wanted no more compliant Lebanese governments led by weak old men; and most of them – to tell from the lapel badges they wore – were demanding the truth about the murder of the former premier Rafik Hariri on 14 February.
There was an ocean of Lebanese banners. And never before had those flags, used with such cynicism and so much derision in the past, appeared so magnificent. It wasn’t just the green cedar tree in the centre – always so refreshing after the black stars and governessy eagles that grace the flags of so many Arab regimes – but the fact that it was raised in protest at dishonesty and murder. It was the young of Lebanon, so often courted by the elderly and guilty men of this country, who were using their flag to get rid of them.
Up in the palace at Baabda, President Lahoud and his entourage seem as isolated from their country’s mood as the Americans and their appointees in the Baghdad ‘green zone’ do from Iraq’s tragedy. Indeed, from the Baabda ‘green zone’, there had emerged one of those spectacularly inappropriate statements that only exiled presidents usually make. ‘Any small firecracker could lead to a catastrophe,’ President Lahoud said.
But what did this mean? Was it a threat? A warning? Did he know something the Lebanese did not? Or was he merely showing his concern for the million who want him to step down – or, in the words of Lebanon’s now-returned opposition leader Walid Jumblatt, to leave with the Syrians.
But no, it turned out he feared that Hariri’s murderers might throw a hand-grenade into the crowd. ‘What will become of our children?’ he asked.
But it was for their children that so many hundreds of thousands of Lebanese protested yesterday. And one could not fail to notice so many hopeful aspects of their demonstration. They were happy and smiling and laughing; some even brought picnics or marched to trumpets and drums. Robert Fisk, article March 2005, ‘The People Make a Stand Over the Lies of Lebanon’
In the west of London a group of people occupied a piece of derelict land in an effort to highlight the pressing global issues of land rights and a lack of sustainability in our modern societies. Grasp the Nettle, 2014
‘It’s a bit ironic really having an eco-village and getting our water from the Jet garage.’ ibid.
‘We have built the delux shower – bucket on a string.’ ibid.
‘There’s thirty of us who live here but two hundred who like this place.’ ibid.
‘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 have 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