#protest
My friend found this in a german magazine.
Translation: When the political stage becomes a kindergarten, it must inform an adult.
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San Francisco Chinatown’s First Demonstration, 1968.
Adopting the tactics of the civil rights movement, 200 demonstrators marched through Chinatown to a rally at Portsmouth Square. They criticized the Chinatown establishment for promoting tourism instead of resolving social problems in the community, and they called for reforms in the areas of education, employment, health, housing, youth, senior citizens, and immigration. (Photographs by Harry Jew; courtesy of CHSA collection.)
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Corky Lee has captured images of some of the most vivid and defining moments in APA history. His photo of a Chinese-American man bleeding from the forehead and being hauled away by the police wound up on the front page of The New York Post. It inspired 20,000 Chinese Americans in New York to protest police brutality in 1975.
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Burmese protest at San Gabriel Municipal Park. Photo by Mike Sergieff.
Lawyer Frank R. Oo speaks to group of approximately 350 Burmese who gathered at San Gabriel Municipal Park to demonstrate against Burma’s brutal military dictatorship. Photograph dated August 14, 1988.
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Vincent Chin Protest
The murder of Vincent Chin and the subsequent sentence of his attackers (probation and a fine) brought Asian Americans together in protest and supported the growing realization that they could be a more effective political force if they worked together. (Courtesy of Helen Zia)
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New York City protest of the racist and sexist images in Miss Saigon, April 1991. The photograph of “My Sister” is of a Vietnamese National Liberation Front fighter from the Vietnam War era. Photo by Corky Lee.
Miss Saigon is a Broadway musical about the romance between an American GI and a Vietnamese bar girl in Saigon during the Vietnam War. Originally, Jonathan Pryce and Keith Burns, white actors playing Eurasian/Asian characters, wore eye prostheses and bronzing cream to make themselves look more Asian. From April 1989 to May 1990, nearly 100 shows were produced under the agreement between Equity and the League of American Theaters and Producers. 33 of the shows, with 504 roles, had no ethnic minority actors and 12 other productions had only one or two ethnic actors.
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London Reportback: On International Women’s Day hundreds of feminists joined Sisters Uncut outside New Scotland Yard and Charing Cross police station to protest the MET police’s severe role in violence against women. The protest occurred on the one year anniversary of the Sarah Everard vigil at Clapham Common which was violently attacked by police just days after an officer was arrested for the murder of Sarah. Once the march reached Charing Cross the crowd set off 1000 rape alarms as a symbolic act condemning the police’s sexual violence.
The police in the UK have for a long time used their power and influence to allow an environment of misogyny and violence, half the police forces in the UK are being investigated for abusing their powers for sexual gain. UK spycops have been documented getting into sexual relationships with activists ultimately to arrest them, sometimes police have even had children with the women they’ve been lying to for years. We’ve seen on protests and when handling supposed suspects that police can get away with various levels of assualt and reports against them get buried by superiors.
We withdraw our consent, we will not be governed by people who won’t keep us safe.
(edit: radfems can go away, Sisters Uncut is an openly trans inclusive group that frequently works with trans activist groups in London against male violence and transmisogyny. if you attended their march you’d find out you have many trans siblings desperate to help fight against sexual violence, disproportionate police power and rampant male violence, this group and the protest attendants simply would not humour the belief that trans people are predatory or a threat.)
