Tens of Thousands Gather in London to Show Solidarity with Ukraine

THE GUARDIAN: Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, says people of British capital stand ‘shoulder to shoulder with Ukraine in its darkest hour’

Demonstrators wave Ukrainian national flags during the ‘London stands with Ukraine’ protest march. Photograph: Justin Tallis/AFP/Getty
Tens of thousands of people have gathered in central London to express solidarity with the people of Ukraine, with the consensus among the vast crowd being that the embattled country would prevail in the war against Russia.

After the rallying call by Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, for people everywhere to protest against the bloodshed by taking to the streets, Trafalgar Square was transformed into a sea of yellow and blue.

The London mayor, Sadiq Khan, who organised the march, said Ukraine had endured “unimaginable pain and suffering” over the past month. Khan, who acted after Zelenskiy’s call for global support, said London stood “shoulder to shoulder with Ukraine in its darkest hour”.

On their route through London, demonstrators marched beneath Yoko Ono’s Imagine Peace message on a huge electronic billboard in Piccadilly, many waving the yellow and blue of the Ukrainian flag as they passed. » | Mark Townsend, Home affairs editor | Saturday, March 26, 2022

Germany: Thousands Attend ‘Merkel Must Go’ Demo in Berlin

Several thousand anti-refugee protesters congregated for the third ‘Merkel must go’ rally outside Berlin Hauptbahnhof on Saturday.

Damascus Demonstration: To Hell with Freedom, We Want an Islamic Caliphate and Weapons | The Internet - September 14, 2012

Neonazi-Demo in D[eutschland]: 100 randalierende Linke verhaftet
KRONEN ZEITUNG: Bei einem Neonazi-Aufmarsch in Göppingen im deutschen Baden-Württemberg ist es am Samstag zu gewaltsamen Ausschreitungen von Gegendemonstranten gekommen. Die Polizei nahm rund 100 Menschen aus dem linken Spektrum fest. Ihnen wird zur Last gelegt, Polizisten mit Steinen und Feuerwerkskörpern beworfen sowie Beamte geschlagen und nach ihnen getreten zu haben.

Am Nachmittag hatte sich der Neonazi-Demonstrationszug von rund 150 sogenannten nationalen Sozialisten in Gang gesetzt. Die Stadt Göppingen [E] hatte zuvor versucht, den Aufmarsch gerichtlich verbieten zu lassen, war damit aber gescheitert. Am späten Nachmittag ging die rechte Demonstration dann mit einer Kundgebung zu Ende. » | AG/red | Samstag, 06. Oktober 2012

HANNOVERSCHE ALLGEMEINE: Ausschreitungen am Rande von Neonazi-Demo in Göppingen: Bei einem Neonazi-Aufmarsch ist es am Samstag im baden-württembergischen Göppingen zu gewalttätigen Auseinandersetzungen zwischen Gegendemonstranten und der Polizei gekommen. » | dpa | Samstag, 06. Oktober 2012

Demonstration in Kairo für verhafteten Blogger

Militärführung Ablenkung von Verantwortung für blutige Zusammenstösse vorgeworfen
NZZ ONLINE: Mehr als 3000 Personen sind in der ägyptischen Hauptstadt Kairo aus Protest gegen die Festnahme eines prominenten Bloggers auf die Strasse gegangen. Bei der friedlichen Demonstration forderten sie am Montag die Freilassung des Aktivisten Alaa Abdel Fatah. » | sda/ddp | Dienstag o1. November 2011

Pastor Terry Jones to Appeal Ruling in Dearborn
DETROIT FREE PRESS: The Rev. Terry Jones is to file an appeal today in Wayne County Circuit Court over a Dearborn court's decision against him last week that thwarted his plans to protest outside the Islamic Center of America in Dearborn, an attorney said Monday.

"It was a clear violation of the First Amendment's right to free speech," said Richard Thompson, president and chief counsel for the Ann Arbor-based Thomas More Law Center, which is representing Jones.

Jones, the Florida pastor who ordered the burning of a Quran last month, was to protest Friday outside the mosque in Dearborn, but Wayne County prosecutors filed an unusual complaint against him, saying he would breach the peace if he rallied. » | Niraj Warikoo, Detroit Free Press Staff Writer | Tuesday, April 26, 2011

Anti-BNP Protest Divides Muslims at Swansea Mosque
SOUTH WALES EVENING POST: MUSLIMS clashed outside a Swansea mosque over a demonstration against Koran burning.

Worshippers at the mosque accused the demonstrators, who came from outside the city, of being hot-headed publicity seekers who came to Swansea to cause trouble.

But the 20 or so demonstrators — a group called the Ummah of Muhammad — said it was wrong for Muslims to keep silent about any violation of their holy book, and unfurled banners urging Muslims to rise up against "the crusaders".

There were heated arguments outside the St Helen's Road mosque before police boxed the marchers in front of the nearby Rowlands Exchange and Mart store.

One of the protesters, Abu Abdul-Malik, of Cardiff, said the demonstration was about the burning of the Koran in America last month, and a similar alleged incident in Swansea.

BNP Assembly candidate Sion Owens, of Caerphilly Avenue, Bonymaen, Swansea, was charged with a public order offence earlier this month in connection with the incident. The case was subsequently dropped in Swansea Magistrates Court, but the prosecution said inquiries would continue.

Mr Abdul-Malik, 27, said: "We should not remain silent when the Koran is being desecrated. » | Richard Youle | Saturday, April 23, 2011

Dr. Max: Demonstrieren für Dummies
Von Anzeige erstatten bis Wasserwerfer: Dr. Max gibt in seiner Videokolumne 10 Tipps für die nächste Demonstration. Nicht nur für Anfänger | 16.02.2011

Spain's Gays and Lesbians to Stage 'Kiss-in' During Pope's Visit
THE GUARDIAN: Organisers use Facebook to form 'queer kissing flashmob' in front of Barcelona's cathedral on Sunday

Pope Benedict XVI will be confronted by a homosexual 'kissing flashmob' this Sunday in Spain. Photograph: The Guardian
Spanish gays and lesbians will welcome Pope Benedict XVI to their country at the weekend with a massive homosexual kiss-in to be staged in front of Barcelona's cathedral.

Organisers have invited gays and lesbians from around Spain to congregate in Barcelona during the papal visit on Sunday to form what, on their Facebook page, they call a "queer kissing flashmob".

The plan is for participants to meet at the city's gothic cathedral and start kissing as soon as the pope steps out of the building at 10am.

"No placards, no flags, no shouting and no slogans. Only kissing allowed," the Facebook page reads.

"When Benedict XVI passes in front of us we will kiss, man-to-man and woman-to-woman," Marylene Carole, one of the organisers, told the Spanish news agency EFE.

A whistle or horn will mark the beginning of a two-minute period during which couples are expected to maintain mouth-to-mouth contact. "Once the kiss is over we will go on our way as if nothing had happened," she said. >>> Giles Tremlett in Madrid | Wednesday, November 03, 2010

Obamas Gegner rühmen Martin Luther King
WELT ONLINE: In Washington demonstrierten 300.000 konservative Amerikaner für die nationale Ehre, die politischen Ziele aber blieben vage.

Zwanzig Stunden saß Ron im Bus. Zwanzig schlauchende Stunden auf dem Weg von Iowa im mittleren Westen nach Washington DC an der Ostküste. „Glenn Beck hat Recht“, begründet der Endfünfziger seine strapaziöse Reise: „Wir müssen selbst etwas tun, damit unser Land wieder in die Spur kommt.“

Glenn Beck, das ist der konservative Talkshow-Star des Fernsehsenders Fox, und während der auf einer Parkband nahe dem Lincoln-Memorial verschnaufende Ron mit unaufgeregter Stimme Probleme der USA erläutert, zerstreut sich um uns eine gewaltige Menschenmenge in Richtung Innenstadt. Von 300.000 Protestlern, gar von einer halben Million, die hier mit dem Ziel einer „Wiederherstellung der Ehre“ zusammenkamen, sprach Beck. Damit mag er recht gehabt haben. Unklar blieb dafür, wodurch die amerikanische Ehre abhanden gekommen sein soll. >>> Von Ansgar Graw | Sonntag, 29. August 2010

Bradford: Smoke Bombs Thrown at English Defence League Protest
THE GUARDIAN: More than 1,600 officers on horseback and in riot gear pen in 700 activists, including BNP members and soccer thugs

EDL supporters and police clash in Bradford. Photograph: The Guardian
Far-right activists threw smoke bombs and missiles and fought with the police as trouble flared in a protest organised by the English Defence League.

Bricks and bottles and smoke bombs were thrown at anti-racist supporters and police as around 700 EDL activists – including known football hooligans and BNP members – held a "static protest" in Bradford city centre. Mounted officers and others in riot gear were attacked as they pushed the EDL into a penned area. Skirmishes continued as EDL speakers addressed the crowd and there was more violence as its supporters were put back on coaches.

More than 1,600 officers from 13 forces were involved in the police operation amid fears the demonstration would descend into violence. Police said there had been five arrests.

The EDL, which has held demonstrations in towns and cities across the country over the past 12 months, had predicted that thousands of its supporters would turn out in Bradford for what was dubbed "the big one", but police said there were around 700 people.

Earlier in the afternoon coachloads of EDL activists had chanted "Allah, Allah who the fuck is Allah?" and "Muslim bombers off our streets". >>> Matthew Taylor and Martin Wainwright | Saturday, August 28, 2010

THE GUARDIAN: English Defence League demonstration in Bradford sees minor clashes: Bottles and stones thrown as police separate EDL from anti-fascist groups in Yorkshire city >>> Amy Fallon | Saturday, September 28, 2010

Bradford Braces for English Defence League Protest
GUARDIAN VIDEO: Filmmaker Navdeep Singh Kandola speaks to members of the Muslim and Sikh communities in advance of an English Defence League demonstration this weekend

Watch video here
EDL Bradford

Belgium: New Radical Group To Protest Against European Oppression
EUROPE NEWS: A new Muslim organization, Muslim Rise, has sprung up in Belgium to organize a protest against the upcoming veil ban. The organization also invited well-known British radical Anjem Choudary. I wouldn't be surprised if this is Sharia4Belgium redux, and/or another attempt by Choudary to set up his organization in Belgium.



Though they say they will have a peaceful demonstration against "the kuffar", their role models are anything but. Khalid Ibn Waleed, Salahedinne Al Ayoubi, Mehmet Fatih are conquerors, and Omar Al Mokhtar was a Libyan resistance fighter against the Italian occupation. >>> | Monday, May 17, 2010

GAZET VAN ANTWERPEN: Moslims gaan betogen - "Verbod nikab is naaktheid tegenover Allah" >>>

White Supremacists’ Rally Sparks Violent Clashes in Los Angeles
MAIL ON SUNDAY: A white supremacist group rallied against illegal immigration in Los Angeles city centre yesterday as hundreds of counter-protesters gathered in a tense standoff that resulted [in] several arrests, thrown rocks and police in riot gear.

Police officers stood between the white supremacists and counter-demonstrators on the south lawn of Los Angeles' City Hall, where about 50 members of the National Socialist Movement waved American flags and swastika banners for about an hour.

Five people, all of them counter-protesters, were arrested at the demonstration.

The white supremacists, many of them wearing flack helmets and black military fatigue uniforms, shouted 'Sieg Heil' before each of their speakers took the podium to taunt counter-protesters with racial, anti-Semitic and misogynistic epithets.

'We will meet you head on,' one of the white supremacists warned the crowd from behind several phalanxes of police in riot gear.

Members of the Detroit-based group said they picked the location for their rally because of Los Angeles' large immigrant population. They accused some of the immigrants of stealing jobs and committing crimes. >>> Daily Mail Reporter | Sunday, April 18, 2010

TV Union Plans BNP Question Time Protest
THE INDEPENDENT: The TV technicians' union today attacked the BBC's decision to invite BNP leader Nick Griffin on to Question Time and pledged to join a demonstration against the recording of the programme.

Bectu said it would support any of its members who refused to work on the programme, which will be transmitted on October 22.

General secretary Gerry Morrissey said: "We believe there should be no media coverage of the BNP and I have raised this issue with the director general, Mark Thompson. >>> Alan Jones, Press Association | Monday, September 28, 2009

Related – BBC – Viewpoint:
Who's afraid of the BNP? >>> | Monday, September 28, 2009

Frankreichs Richter mobilisieren gegen Justizministerin: Hunderte demonstrieren in Paris
NZZ Online: Frankreichs Justizministerin Rachida Dati gerät wegen angeblich übertriebener Selbstdarstellung und mangelnder Kompetenz zunehmend unter Druck. Die Richtergewerkschaften riefen am Donnerstag zu einem landesweiten Aktionstag gegen die Ministerin auf.

In Paris demonstrierten mehrere Hundert Richter und Rechtsanwälte in ihren Roben vor dem Justizministerium. Auf Transparenten forderten sie «Respekt für die Justiz».

Ein ehemaliger Berater der Ministerin sagte der Zeitung «Libération» vom Donnerstag, Dati sei «mehr daran interessiert, auf Zeitschriftentiteln zu erscheinen, als daran, sich in ihre Themen einzuarbeiten». >>> sda/dpa | 24. Oktober 2008

LE POINT: La fronde des magistrats met Rachida Dati sous haute pression

"Les magistrats ont des états d'âme parce qu'ils veulent être reconnus, entendus." La phrase a été lâchée mercredi à Bordeaux par Rachida Dati. Justement pour être "reconnue" et "entendue", la profession, à l'appel de l'Union syndicale des magistrats (USM, syndicat majoritaire) et du Syndicat de la magistrature (SM) organisait jeudi une grande journée d'action nationale contre la politique de la garde des Sceaux.

Plusieurs milliers de magistrats, rejoints par des avocats, se sont ainsi rassemblés en milieu de journée sur les marches de plusieurs palais de justice. A Paris, robes noires et robes rouges, hermine et décorations en évidence, ils se sont pressés sous des banderoles et affichettes demandant "respect pour la justice" ou clamant "justice bafouée, démocratie en danger". "Je suis là pour montrer que le pouvoir judiciaire est bafoué par la Chancellerie. La démocratie est en danger", a expliqué Françoise Froment, présidente de chambre et membre du SM. "La justice spectacle n'est pas la justice de la société", protestait quant à lui l'avocat pénaliste Benoît Chabert. >>> Par Charlotte Chaffanjon (avec agence) | 23/24.10.2008

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What the Turkish Papers Are Saying about the ‘Pro-Köln’ Demo: ‘500 Detained in Anti-Islam Congress Protest in Germany’
HÜRRIYET: Violent protests by leftists forced the cancellation of a far-right rally against the influence of Islam in Europe and prompted the detention of 500 people, German authorities said Sunday.

The street battles came on the sidelines of a two-day congress organized by right-wing extremists on the purportedly growing dominance of Europe’s Muslim minority and the construction of one of Europe’s largest mosques here.

The clashes that ran into the night Saturday overshadowed a peaceful protest by tens of thousands of people against the "anti-Islamification" congress, police chief Klaus Steffenhagen told reporters.

Carrying banners reading "We are Cologne -- Get rid of the Nazis!" protesters gathered outside the citys [sic] landmark cathedral to oppose the congress organized by the local far-right group Pro-Koeln (For Cologne).

Organizers said about 40,000 people turned out for the demonstration for peaceful coexistence between Muslims and non-Muslims in Europe, an event backed by the German government and authorities in this western city.

Meanwhile, around 150 bars in Cologne stopped selling Pro-Koeln members the local Koelsch beer with some taxi and bus drivers also refusing to transport delegates to the congress.

One hotel even cancelled bookings made by "undesirables".

A leading figure in the Greens party, Volker Beck, welcomed the "victory of civil society against the far-right".

Pro-Koeln had begun two days of seminars Friday during which about 300 participants from across Europe denounced a Muslim "immigrant invasion" on the continent.

Earlier Saturday, police banned an outdoor rally organized by far-right adherents in Cologne just as it was about to begin, following the clashes with a violent fringe of counter-protesters.

Steffenhagen said the left-wing extremists hurled Molotov cocktails, stones and fireworks and tore down security barricades.

"This was not a protest but was unbridled violence against our police force and those who wanted to demonstrate peacefully in Cologne," he said.

Some 3,000 police officers were deployed and used truncheons and water hoses to fend off violent "anti-fascist" leftist activists.

Pro-Koeln has five elected local councilors and is chasing other official positions in the region.

Cologne, on the River Rhine, is famous for its Gothic twin-spired Roman Catholic cathedral -- a UNESCO world heritage site that survived Allied air raids during World War Two. [Source: HÜRRIYET] | September 21, 2008

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