#massprotests — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #massprotests, aggregated by home.social.
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#usa #israel #iran : #warofaggression / #allegationofespionage / #deathpenalty / #opposition / #repression
„Iran on April 25 executed a man for carrying out a “mission” on behalf of Israel’s spy agency during #massprotests in January, the judiciary reported. (…)
Since March 19, the Iranian authorities have executed 9 men on charges linked to the protests.
Iran is the world’s 2nd most prolific user of the death penalty after China according to (…) Amnesty International.“https://www.straitstimes.com/world/middle-east/iran-executes-man-over-mission-for-israels-spy-agency
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#usa #israel #iran : #warofaggression / #allegationofespionage / #deathpenalty / #opposition / #repression
„Iran on April 25 executed a man for carrying out a “mission” on behalf of Israel’s spy agency during #massprotests in January, the judiciary reported. (…)
Since March 19, the Iranian authorities have executed 9 men on charges linked to the protests.
Iran is the world’s 2nd most prolific user of the death penalty after China according to (…) Amnesty International.“https://www.straitstimes.com/world/middle-east/iran-executes-man-over-mission-for-israels-spy-agency
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#usa #israel #iran : #warofaggression / #allegationofespionage / #deathpenalty / #opposition / #repression
„Iran on April 25 executed a man for carrying out a “mission” on behalf of Israel’s spy agency during #massprotests in January, the judiciary reported. (…)
Since March 19, the Iranian authorities have executed 9 men on charges linked to the protests.
Iran is the world’s 2nd most prolific user of the death penalty after China according to (…) Amnesty International.“https://www.straitstimes.com/world/middle-east/iran-executes-man-over-mission-for-israels-spy-agency
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#usa #israel #iran : #warofaggression / #allegationofespionage / #deathpenalty / #opposition / #repression
„Iran on April 25 executed a man for carrying out a “mission” on behalf of Israel’s spy agency during #massprotests in January, the judiciary reported. (…)
Since March 19, the Iranian authorities have executed 9 men on charges linked to the protests.
Iran is the world’s 2nd most prolific user of the death penalty after China according to (…) Amnesty International.“https://www.straitstimes.com/world/middle-east/iran-executes-man-over-mission-for-israels-spy-agency
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"The mass protests are only the beginning of an expanding movement against the Trump regime. But for this movement to go forward, the demonstrations must be critically evaluated and placed within the context of the overall political situation. The danger is that, without the articulation of a clear perspective, the enormous popular impulse of opposition will be dissipated."
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/10/21/ebcl-o21.html
#USPol #USA #NoKings #MassProtests #Protest #TrumpRegime #Trump #Republicans #Democrats #Oligarchy #Capitalism #Resistance #WorkingClass #Socialism #SEP
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What #Authoritarians May Learn About #Censorship From #Nepal’s #Protests
by Charlie Campbell
Updated: Sep 10, 2025 10:07 AM ETExcerpt: "An eerie calm returned to Nepal on Wednesday after an army-enforced curfew paused two days of anti-government protests that had convulsed the capital Kathmandu and other cities, with predominantly young demonstrators burning tires, ransacking ministries, and invading politicians’ homes so that the occupants had to be airlifted to safety.
"At least 22 people lost their lives and hundreds more were injured by security forces in the carnage, which was ostensibly sparked by state attempts to block access to social media but in truth reflect an explosion of long bottled-up rage against political corruption and widespread inequality in the Himalayan nation of 30 million.
"The banning of 26 social-media platforms including Facebook, YouTube, and X was officially due to the companies’ failure to register and submit to government oversight, though protesters attributed the move as an attempt to block the crescendo of online complaints from young people furious at the #LuxuriousLifestyles enjoyed by children of the #PoliticalElite, so-called '#NepoKids.'
"The disparity between what ordinary Nepalis experience and what they saw flaunted online prompted calls last week for #MassProtests — calls which only mushroomed following the hamfisted social-media ban. Even after that prohibition was lifted on Tuesday, and the resignations of Prime Minister Khadga Prasad Sharma Oli and Home Minister Ramesh Lekhak, the unrest escalated.
" 'The government in Nepal was trying to use those new social-media regulations to prevent the very thing that happened,;' says Michael Kugelman, a D.C.-based South Asia analyst. 'So it completely backfired.'
"The power of social media to foment popular protest is no stranger to Asia, where the internet has been a key driver of popular uprisings that toppled governments in Sri Lanka in 2022 and Bangladesh in 2024, and continue to roil Indonesia today. But it’s a phenomenon that first came to light in the 2010 Arab Spring, when a series of anti-government protests swept the Middle East and North Africa that were predominately organized online.
"Most notably, and in a clear augury of Nepal today, efforts during the #ArabSpring to block social-media access simply cut a head of the hydra: highlighting the state’s blatant disregard for freedom of speech and assembly, vindicating the protesters’ complaints, and widening sympathy for their demands.
"Little wonder authoritarian states were spurred by the Arab Spring into enacting draconian internet controls. Across Nepal’s northern frontier, #China’s Great Firewall became the poster child for tightly regulated online space. Not only does the #GreatFirewall block undesirable external information but also weeds out and proscribes politically sensitive domestic content."
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What #Authoritarians May Learn About #Censorship From #Nepal’s #Protests
by Charlie Campbell
Updated: Sep 10, 2025 10:07 AM ETExcerpt: "An eerie calm returned to Nepal on Wednesday after an army-enforced curfew paused two days of anti-government protests that had convulsed the capital Kathmandu and other cities, with predominantly young demonstrators burning tires, ransacking ministries, and invading politicians’ homes so that the occupants had to be airlifted to safety.
"At least 22 people lost their lives and hundreds more were injured by security forces in the carnage, which was ostensibly sparked by state attempts to block access to social media but in truth reflect an explosion of long bottled-up rage against political corruption and widespread inequality in the Himalayan nation of 30 million.
"The banning of 26 social-media platforms including Facebook, YouTube, and X was officially due to the companies’ failure to register and submit to government oversight, though protesters attributed the move as an attempt to block the crescendo of online complaints from young people furious at the #LuxuriousLifestyles enjoyed by children of the #PoliticalElite, so-called '#NepoKids.'
"The disparity between what ordinary Nepalis experience and what they saw flaunted online prompted calls last week for #MassProtests — calls which only mushroomed following the hamfisted social-media ban. Even after that prohibition was lifted on Tuesday, and the resignations of Prime Minister Khadga Prasad Sharma Oli and Home Minister Ramesh Lekhak, the unrest escalated.
" 'The government in Nepal was trying to use those new social-media regulations to prevent the very thing that happened,;' says Michael Kugelman, a D.C.-based South Asia analyst. 'So it completely backfired.'
"The power of social media to foment popular protest is no stranger to Asia, where the internet has been a key driver of popular uprisings that toppled governments in Sri Lanka in 2022 and Bangladesh in 2024, and continue to roil Indonesia today. But it’s a phenomenon that first came to light in the 2010 Arab Spring, when a series of anti-government protests swept the Middle East and North Africa that were predominately organized online.
"Most notably, and in a clear augury of Nepal today, efforts during the #ArabSpring to block social-media access simply cut a head of the hydra: highlighting the state’s blatant disregard for freedom of speech and assembly, vindicating the protesters’ complaints, and widening sympathy for their demands.
"Little wonder authoritarian states were spurred by the Arab Spring into enacting draconian internet controls. Across Nepal’s northern frontier, #China’s Great Firewall became the poster child for tightly regulated online space. Not only does the #GreatFirewall block undesirable external information but also weeds out and proscribes politically sensitive domestic content."
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What #Authoritarians May Learn About #Censorship From #Nepal’s #Protests
by Charlie Campbell
Updated: Sep 10, 2025 10:07 AM ETExcerpt: "An eerie calm returned to Nepal on Wednesday after an army-enforced curfew paused two days of anti-government protests that had convulsed the capital Kathmandu and other cities, with predominantly young demonstrators burning tires, ransacking ministries, and invading politicians’ homes so that the occupants had to be airlifted to safety.
"At least 22 people lost their lives and hundreds more were injured by security forces in the carnage, which was ostensibly sparked by state attempts to block access to social media but in truth reflect an explosion of long bottled-up rage against political corruption and widespread inequality in the Himalayan nation of 30 million.
"The banning of 26 social-media platforms including Facebook, YouTube, and X was officially due to the companies’ failure to register and submit to government oversight, though protesters attributed the move as an attempt to block the crescendo of online complaints from young people furious at the #LuxuriousLifestyles enjoyed by children of the #PoliticalElite, so-called '#NepoKids.'
"The disparity between what ordinary Nepalis experience and what they saw flaunted online prompted calls last week for #MassProtests — calls which only mushroomed following the hamfisted social-media ban. Even after that prohibition was lifted on Tuesday, and the resignations of Prime Minister Khadga Prasad Sharma Oli and Home Minister Ramesh Lekhak, the unrest escalated.
" 'The government in Nepal was trying to use those new social-media regulations to prevent the very thing that happened,;' says Michael Kugelman, a D.C.-based South Asia analyst. 'So it completely backfired.'
"The power of social media to foment popular protest is no stranger to Asia, where the internet has been a key driver of popular uprisings that toppled governments in Sri Lanka in 2022 and Bangladesh in 2024, and continue to roil Indonesia today. But it’s a phenomenon that first came to light in the 2010 Arab Spring, when a series of anti-government protests swept the Middle East and North Africa that were predominately organized online.
"Most notably, and in a clear augury of Nepal today, efforts during the #ArabSpring to block social-media access simply cut a head of the hydra: highlighting the state’s blatant disregard for freedom of speech and assembly, vindicating the protesters’ complaints, and widening sympathy for their demands.
"Little wonder authoritarian states were spurred by the Arab Spring into enacting draconian internet controls. Across Nepal’s northern frontier, #China’s Great Firewall became the poster child for tightly regulated online space. Not only does the #GreatFirewall block undesirable external information but also weeds out and proscribes politically sensitive domestic content."
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What #Authoritarians May Learn About #Censorship From #Nepal’s #Protests
by Charlie Campbell
Updated: Sep 10, 2025 10:07 AM ETExcerpt: "An eerie calm returned to Nepal on Wednesday after an army-enforced curfew paused two days of anti-government protests that had convulsed the capital Kathmandu and other cities, with predominantly young demonstrators burning tires, ransacking ministries, and invading politicians’ homes so that the occupants had to be airlifted to safety.
"At least 22 people lost their lives and hundreds more were injured by security forces in the carnage, which was ostensibly sparked by state attempts to block access to social media but in truth reflect an explosion of long bottled-up rage against political corruption and widespread inequality in the Himalayan nation of 30 million.
"The banning of 26 social-media platforms including Facebook, YouTube, and X was officially due to the companies’ failure to register and submit to government oversight, though protesters attributed the move as an attempt to block the crescendo of online complaints from young people furious at the #LuxuriousLifestyles enjoyed by children of the #PoliticalElite, so-called '#NepoKids.'
"The disparity between what ordinary Nepalis experience and what they saw flaunted online prompted calls last week for #MassProtests — calls which only mushroomed following the hamfisted social-media ban. Even after that prohibition was lifted on Tuesday, and the resignations of Prime Minister Khadga Prasad Sharma Oli and Home Minister Ramesh Lekhak, the unrest escalated.
" 'The government in Nepal was trying to use those new social-media regulations to prevent the very thing that happened,;' says Michael Kugelman, a D.C.-based South Asia analyst. 'So it completely backfired.'
"The power of social media to foment popular protest is no stranger to Asia, where the internet has been a key driver of popular uprisings that toppled governments in Sri Lanka in 2022 and Bangladesh in 2024, and continue to roil Indonesia today. But it’s a phenomenon that first came to light in the 2010 Arab Spring, when a series of anti-government protests swept the Middle East and North Africa that were predominately organized online.
"Most notably, and in a clear augury of Nepal today, efforts during the #ArabSpring to block social-media access simply cut a head of the hydra: highlighting the state’s blatant disregard for freedom of speech and assembly, vindicating the protesters’ complaints, and widening sympathy for their demands.
"Little wonder authoritarian states were spurred by the Arab Spring into enacting draconian internet controls. Across Nepal’s northern frontier, #China’s Great Firewall became the poster child for tightly regulated online space. Not only does the #GreatFirewall block undesirable external information but also weeds out and proscribes politically sensitive domestic content."
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What #Authoritarians May Learn About #Censorship From #Nepal’s #Protests
by Charlie Campbell
Updated: Sep 10, 2025 10:07 AM ETExcerpt: "An eerie calm returned to Nepal on Wednesday after an army-enforced curfew paused two days of anti-government protests that had convulsed the capital Kathmandu and other cities, with predominantly young demonstrators burning tires, ransacking ministries, and invading politicians’ homes so that the occupants had to be airlifted to safety.
"At least 22 people lost their lives and hundreds more were injured by security forces in the carnage, which was ostensibly sparked by state attempts to block access to social media but in truth reflect an explosion of long bottled-up rage against political corruption and widespread inequality in the Himalayan nation of 30 million.
"The banning of 26 social-media platforms including Facebook, YouTube, and X was officially due to the companies’ failure to register and submit to government oversight, though protesters attributed the move as an attempt to block the crescendo of online complaints from young people furious at the #LuxuriousLifestyles enjoyed by children of the #PoliticalElite, so-called '#NepoKids.'
"The disparity between what ordinary Nepalis experience and what they saw flaunted online prompted calls last week for #MassProtests — calls which only mushroomed following the hamfisted social-media ban. Even after that prohibition was lifted on Tuesday, and the resignations of Prime Minister Khadga Prasad Sharma Oli and Home Minister Ramesh Lekhak, the unrest escalated.
" 'The government in Nepal was trying to use those new social-media regulations to prevent the very thing that happened,;' says Michael Kugelman, a D.C.-based South Asia analyst. 'So it completely backfired.'
"The power of social media to foment popular protest is no stranger to Asia, where the internet has been a key driver of popular uprisings that toppled governments in Sri Lanka in 2022 and Bangladesh in 2024, and continue to roil Indonesia today. But it’s a phenomenon that first came to light in the 2010 Arab Spring, when a series of anti-government protests swept the Middle East and North Africa that were predominately organized online.
"Most notably, and in a clear augury of Nepal today, efforts during the #ArabSpring to block social-media access simply cut a head of the hydra: highlighting the state’s blatant disregard for freedom of speech and assembly, vindicating the protesters’ complaints, and widening sympathy for their demands.
"Little wonder authoritarian states were spurred by the Arab Spring into enacting draconian internet controls. Across Nepal’s northern frontier, #China’s Great Firewall became the poster child for tightly regulated online space. Not only does the #GreatFirewall block undesirable external information but also weeds out and proscribes politically sensitive domestic content."
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#nokings #us #trump #nationalguard #protests #massprotests #texas
“No arrests, no graffiti,” the mayor said. He said the National Guard, mobilized by Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas, had not taken part in security efforts. “I don’t even know where the Guard is,” Mr. Whitmire said. “We don’t need them."https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06/14/us/protests-news?smid=nytcore-android-share
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What is in the current #escalation move of the #Trump #Junta the right way to react now?
A) Strictly peaceful #MassProtests that should (at best) spill over to the whole country.
[requires mobilizing millions of people]
and/or
B) Attacking Trumps invading force with (military style) #strategy and clever (also violent) #tactics to profoundly defeat the attempt to establish a #dictatorship in the #US by force, before it can take off.
[requires winning the (first) battle]
and/or
C) Other
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On June 6, veterans are taking to the streets across the USA to protest the Trump administration's cuts. @TheConversationUS looks at their history of mass mobilization, which dates back centuries. "They are powerful messengers, and their actions in the past have helped secure back pay and pensions for veterans, a Social Security and welfare system for U.S. civilians, and foreign policy changes to end wars abroad," writes Jamie Rowen, an associate professor of legal studies and political science at UMass Amherst.
#Veterans #USProtests #MassProtests #USMilitary #TrumpAdministration #History @histodons
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VicwFOi1Xhc
Gov. #JBPritzker blasts #GNP Republicans and 'do-nothing Democrats', and calls for #MassProtests
Sleazy DNC sycophant MSNBC isn't going to air the part of the speech about 'do-nothing Democrats' , so here's the whole 30 minute speech below, and you can listen to as much as you want ⬇️
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEjMzfv1gXg&pp=ygUNRGVtb2NyYWN5IG5vdw%3D%3D
#MassProtests #SouthKorea 🇰🇷 : Korean President Revokes Martial Law
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These #ceasefire rallies in support of Palestinians in #Gaza (and the #WestBank) have been, hands down, the most successfully sustained #MassProtests I've ever witnessed on this continent. Individual events have occasionally been bigger—the massive #StopTheWar effort in 2003, a handful of climate rallies, the annual #InvasionDay march—and there are protests that have been sustained much longer (nothing comes close to the multi-decade #AboriginalTentEmbassy), but I've never seen weekly rallies of this size sustained for anything like this long (>5 months and counting).
As I understand it, it is not just here on #Gadigal land in Sydney either, but similar events have been held weekly (or close to it) in most capital cities, with myriad further protests beyond that.
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#Activism #Left #MassProtests #Revolution: "The lessons that Bevins’s defeated protesters offer at the end of If We Burn bear repeating: plan for the day after; progress isn’t inevitable, and a better world doesn’t automatically emerge from protest; hierarchy isn’t an enemy; if you reject representation, someone else will represent you; cultural visibility and political power are separate things; power rushes to fill a void. Surprisingly, many of these interviewees are convinced that the past decade was just the beginning. That’s something the defeated often tell themselves, but in truth it’s hard to see world politics calming down. Some hanker after the old parties, but attempts to synthesise the best of both worlds – ‘networked Leninism’, in Rodrigo Nunes’s half-joking phrase – might be a better way."
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n03/james-butler/a-circular-motion
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Polls show mass opposition to #Biden’s support for #Israel’s genocide in #Gaza among US workers and youth - World Socialist Web Site
#GazaGenocide #GlobalProtests #MassProtests #StopWarInGaza! #CeasefireNOW!
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Polls show mass opposition to #Biden’s support for #Israel’s genocide in #Gaza among US workers and youth - World Socialist Web Site
#GazaGenocide #GlobalProtests #MassProtests #StopWarInGaza! #CeasefireNOW!
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Polls show mass opposition to #Biden’s support for #Israel’s genocide in #Gaza among US workers and youth - World Socialist Web Site
#GazaGenocide #GlobalProtests #MassProtests #StopWarInGaza! #CeasefireNOW!
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Polls show mass opposition to #Biden’s support for #Israel’s genocide in #Gaza among US workers and youth - World Socialist Web Site
#GazaGenocide #GlobalProtests #MassProtests #StopWarInGaza! #CeasefireNOW!
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Why the Mass Protest Decade of 2010-2020 Left Us with a ‘Missing Revolution’
The 'missing revolution' is reason enough to interrogate the fizz and the fury behind people pouring onto the streets. It is time to ask some tough questions about why so little changed, if there was so much heat and noise. Seema Chishti reviews Vincent Bevin's If We Burn.
#BookReview #MassProtests #ArabSpring #bookstodon #books #history #histodon
https://thewire.in/books/mass-protest-decade-vincent-bevins-book-review
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CW: Frequently overlooked context in #Gaza 1/12
An important piece of context for the current escalation of conflict in #IsraelPalestine that I've rarely seen mentioned in mainstream reporting concerns the #GreatMarchOfReturn, a series of large (and largely peaceful) weekly protests in #Gaza near the border fence that were sustained through most of #2018 and #2019, and which were met with enormous amounts of sustained lethal violence by the #Israeli armed forces. The #MassProtests each Friday were attended by crowds ranging in size from 10,000 to 50,000, many of them children and teens (more than 50% of Gaza's population is under the age of 18). Participants were regularly targeted by Israeli Defence Force (IDF) snipers using a combination of live ammunition, rubber bullets and tear gas canisters (the latter typically fired directly at protesters), and even some tank rounds. Over time, hundreds of #Palestinians were killed and many thousands seriously wounded.
The original idea for the demonstration was for hundreds of thousands of unarmed Palestinians to peacefully walk up to the fence, take down a section, then cross a few kilometres into the land beyond, where they would set up a temporary tent city.
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