Tagged with "Protest"
‘Nobody Won’: New Documentary Examines How A Peaceful Protest Against Racism Exploded Into Violence
TORONTO, ONTARIO — It started as a peaceful protest. It could have stayed peaceful. It didn’t even have to be a protest.
In February 1969, hundreds of students at Montreal’s Sir George Williams University barricaded themselves inside the computer room, located on the ninth floor of the school, to protest the lack of responsiveness from the university about a racially-charged complaint. Ten months earlier, black students had accused a biology professor, Perry Anderson, of racial discrimination. The students wanted a hearing; the hearing never happened. Frustrated with the inaction of the institution, students held a peaceful protest in the computer lab.
How Ferguson Changed Once The Media Went Home
Sunday marks the one-year anniversary of Michael Brown’s death at Officer Darren Wilson’s hands in Ferguson — the spark that ignited a national movement of protest against police violence and white supremacy. One year later, that movement is nowhere near finished. The cameras may have left, but dynamic grassroots programs are changing Ferguson while no one is watching.
Pro-choice activists make history twenty three years today
As pro-democracy protests exploded over the weekend in Hong Kong, Instagram users in China are finding they can’t access their accounts after the government blocked access the photo-sharing site Monday.
Ferguson faith leaders take to streets, march with protestors.
Students at a Pennsylvania high school were allegedly threatened with suspension to stop them from protesting the state’s Governor.
Thousands of Ukrainians are protesting in the streets of Kyiv.
Watch the protest here.
Thousands of tech activists are protesting around the world today.
