Greenlanders protest US plans for annexation.

(And may I ask, how is this ”UNEXPECTED”?)
https://youtube.com/watch?v=3ZSM3UHlVss
#greenland #protest #trump #usa

My favourite proposed demonstration against Musk & Tesla is this:

Enter a Tesla dealership, engage the dealer(s) in an extended discussion of the car (& EVs more generally, perhaps), maybe even take the car for a test drive;

then after wasting an hour or so politely inform them that you're going away to think about it;

Rinse and repeat;

Tie them up in a way they can hardly complain about, but stops them actually selling any cars....

Sounds like a good weekend project?

The anti-Elon Musk protest outside the Tesla dealership in San Francisco today and every Saturday. Slow the video down to read the signs.

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