Over 100,000 demonstrators rally in Belgrade for massive protest against corruption in Serbian government. @CNN reports:

https://flip.it/9odNBU

"Live blog: International demonstrations ignite for Long COVID Awareness Day"

https://thesicktimes.org/2025/03/15/international-demonstrations-ignite-for-long-covid-awareness-day/

"Demonstrations for International Long COVID Awareness Day have sparked around the globe. Whether raising awareness about the disease in public or from their homes, people with Long COVID and their allies have raised their voices to demand recognition, research, treatments, support, and prevention of COVID-19 …"

#Serbia today. 800,000 people protesting corruption.

This is how it's done @USA, wake up.

“No #democracy movement has ever failed when it was able to mobilize at least 3.5 % of the population to #protest over a sustained period At that scale, most soldiers have no desire to suppress protesters. Why? Because the crowd includes family members, friends, coworkers, and neighbors. With a population of 327 million, the U.S. would need to mobilize about 11.5 million people to assert popular, democratic power on the government.”

3.5%

https://bigthink.com/the-present/the-3-5-percent-solution/

HT https://bsky.app/profile/im-mark-aylward.bsky.social/post/3lkcmoxgozc2n

There are SO MANY protests taking place in Washington DC these days, but I haven't heard of any that are specifically in opposition to the United States interfering with the sovereignty of Canada, Greenland, and/or Panama. I feel compelled to publicly express strong opposition to the idea of our government invading, annexing, or threatening countries that have done nothing to harm us. Does anyone in Washington DC know of any suitable protests?

it's #WorldDayAgainstCyberCensorship and did you know that you can help keep people safer—people like freedom fighters, political dissidents, journalists, and regular people simply seeking medical information or services, like abortions, HRT, sex ed, therapy, or psychiatric medications—by becoming a @torproject Snowflake?

you can even run it in your browser or on your phone via @guardianproject's Orbot app

here's an explainer by @eff:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/10/snowflake-makes-it-easy-anyone-fight-censorship

Here's a song I just wrote:

The UK Crime and Policing Bill will create a vast facial recognition database of over 55 million driving licences and ban face coverings at protest

This would be the biggest biometric database ever created in the UK for policing.

With other rights groups, we're telling politicians to stop the expansion of police surveillance powers

Read the joint briefing

#SafetyNotSurveillance

As Liberty have pointed out, yesterday Labour revived a Tory policy as part of the new Crime & Policing Bill; there is a revival of the attempt to ban face-coverings at protests, which, would seem to me, to be a classic case of a technological shift driving policy.

In the past, the police would have to identify a 'person of interest' catch them & ask them to remove their mask, now with facial recognition technology they need to forbid mask wearing.

#protest #politics

https://action.libertyhumanrights.org.uk/page/167409/petition/1

This is not a popular opinion, but I have come to believe that social movements do not ultimately bring systematic change. Not be a contrarian, but I think it takes the right individual that sparks the final measure that brings about real, fundamental change. Let me give some examples.

Martin Luther King, Jr. I know he didn't do it on his own, but he was a singular force, and that is authentic.

From fiction:

Gabriel Bell from the famous Star Trek: DS9 two-parter, "Past Tense" and the Bell Riots. Yes, he also very much did not do it on his own, but he was a force to be reckoned with.

John Sheridan from Babylon 5. He also did not do it on his own, he had both an immediate crew and an extended crew, but he was hands on and even died only to come back and finish the job. He ultimately made the decisions that changed history.

I know how generic I sound. I know I seem like I lack faith in the collective. Well, having lived with severe disability for 27 years, yes, I do lack faith in people at large. I know what you are willing to do to me when no one else is watching. I know it takes a single soul, the right person who possesses the qualities that the collective claims to be in favor of, but they are never actually capable of those moral values, not personally, they are not. It will take one leader to bring change. The group cannot do it.

Top o' the mornin' to ya! ️

NYT: Pro-Palestinian activists vandalise Trump’s Turnberry golf course

The Palestine Action group spray painted the clubhouse and gates and dug up the lawns, in protest over the US president’s plans for Gaza

Archived non-paywall
https://archive.is/waEZK

Original
https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/trump-turnberry-golf-course-vandalised-palestine-action-hd6tfz9lm

Perhaps not unsurprisingly, climate activists seem to have take the view that if they're going to be locked up for protracted periods for peaceful protest, why not commit criminal damage (sabotage) that might cause more disruption & likely will not carry much worse sentences if caught....

Whether this accelerates into a major campaign or remains spasmodic remains to be seen but the logic of 'might as well be hung for a sheep as for a lamb' has a long pedigree.

#protest
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/mar/08/a-new-phase-why-climate-activists-are-turning-to-sabotage-instead-of-protest

Both Reuters and PBS are livestreaming #StandUpForScience

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eemj-ggRdxo #Protest

Jesse Welles is bringing the light into this time of menace #protest #music #resist https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQLWpPy_1eo